Contact - 2017-06-13 (page 2 of 6)

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6:00 PM

contact 5

indeed, I contact it as well

PAWNS, of course

I'm only trying to contact, but I can't make clues

6: Let's Go Fly a Kite need

never heard of that

6:04 PM

where's Gareth when you need him, hehe

I know where the italicized part is from, but I can only think of one p word in relation to it.

only one is good, isn't it?

0 or 2+ would be a problem

I guess contact 6...

6': Final word in 6's source

6'': Half the cost for 6

Pile 'em on :)

6'': PENNY?

6:07 PM

Contact 6?

6': PLEASE?

just guesses

pass 6

penny is actually a very good guess

If I knew how much the cost was worth for 6'' I would know what half is lol

even though I have no idea what Rubio is talking about

6: poppins?

6:08 PM

--

6'': PENNY ✔

contact 2

6 is not POPPINS

6' is not PLEASE

Contact 2

@n_palum, your guess for 6?

6:09 PM

Oh mine was also Poppins

oi.

Guess some random p word

6: PAPER

^

in preference one that relates to kites

and I'll just give you 6', it's POPPINS

6:10 PM

I thought that might be the case lol I forgot to contact it though

should have saved it for 6'

I figured one of those two would figure it out :)

guess not. oh well.

5. It's right

You'll probably not get 11 as I think it's unfair, so I'll go ahead and say it's palum

Hello.

6:11 PM

'lo

hey Jan

...1: PALUM

@Sid

@dcfyj why "not"?

I don't get 11, why not palum

Correct!

just to have an "n" word and make it misleading

6:12 PM

oh well then

that's not unfair - it doesn't refer to anything that I wouldn't be able to get but other people would

it's just a bad clue

:P

6: Not tubers

potatoes?

11: Couple

oh but I put the "not" in there and everything, how'd you guess it?!

6:13 PM

(though I thought they were)

11: PAIR

9: PPPE

@n_palum PEN, PINEAPPLE, APPLE, PEN is presumably what you're misremembering

@Rubio lol potato was the first thing I thought of haha

@Rubio wait, that was right?

Sorry. 6: ✔

6:14 PM

11: yes

11: before

34: It's what the Internet is for.

11: PRE-

34: PORN, obviously

@Deusovi no

22: where I live

(you remembered the number this time!)

6:14 PM

34 ✔

I did!

lol no 9

contact 22

contact 22

tentatively

for 22, is looking at their profile allowed (because it's not Google) or banned (because "Googling" is meant to be generally "looking things up")

It's not allowed

6:15 PM

@Deusovi why obviously...

lol

@n_palum "the internet is for porn" is a song, and Rubio's used that clue before

then pass 22

PRAGUE?

too late :P

d'oh.

Ooo

6:16 PM

Prague is correct

ah, alright, that wasn't my guess anyway

nobody starred my 11 :(

Deusovi defending P R

and it still lives

11: PREPARE

6:16 PM

1: Raptor without an operating system

11: no

really? huh

hehe

I'm curious, what was your guess?

pppe - purple plum people eater

6:17 PM

If 2 is alive, uncontact 2..

lol

2 is dead - what was your guess Sid?

@JanDvorak I was going to guess POLAND. I've got a terrible memory.

PATCH for 2?

2 was PIXAR

6:18 PM

gah, should've gotten 2

@Deusovi well, close :-D

3 is also dead, it was POTASSIUM and I'm very disappointed in all of you

Ah. Duh.

That might make sense If I could see the clue lol

...I'm disappointed in myself too

6:18 PM

@Rubio and 4?

4 I'm going to reserve for another game. it is dead

@MikeQ does 5 live?

Yes

oh, duh

contact 5

6:19 PM

I'm never getting Rubio's chemical references

5 is the PRICE

22: a bunch of threads

...uncontact 5 :)

5 PRICE ✔

11 wasn't PRE ?

6:19 PM

nope

5,280,000: Many-footed travelers

PRE isn't a word anyhow

lol?

I've got an idea for 11, but it is very tentative

big number: PEDESTRIANS/PEDES or something of that nature

6:20 PM

what are pedes?

5,280,000: Nay. It begins with PR.

feet?

contact 11.

@KritixiLithos the thing that would make the clue work like I think it works

oh right, we're on PR now

pass 11

contact 11

6:21 PM

contact 11

aww

gah

too late lithos and mike

PREHISTORIC, maybe?

sadly no

No! Gah....

6:21 PM

Tentative contact on Mike's clue

what was your guess mike?

was it PRO?

PRIOR? Too late though...

pro? no, it was prior

oh well, I thought PRO as in prosauropod

6:22 PM

Ah, *smacks head again

I don't see how pro means before

these were creatures that roamed before the sauropods

like their ancestors

too bad mike didn't contact a few seconds earlier

@KritixiLithos never heard pro used that way, but either that's a prefix, not a word

mike, you sure that clue number is correct?

Yes

6:23 PM

Prokaryota = before eukaryota?

11: A westly appearance

... No. Prokaryotes are basically bacteria.

2: Food, kind of

3: Edible knot

contact 3

6:25 PM

dunno, pass 3

3 - PRETZEL

I'll contact 5280000 because maybe I'm misremembering

3 PRETZEL ✔

...

nice

6:25 PM

I am deeply ashamed.

haha nice

What happened! :)

Deusovi defending P R O

Deusovi, beaten by pretzels!

11 dies: pretty

5280000 dies, @ffao what was your guess? :)

6:26 PM

2 lives.

1 dies, was [os]PREY

my guess started with PRO, so clearly it was wrong :P

but 5280000 is a thousand miles

Boy, this WiFi is pretty bad. You'd expect stable connection from something five meters awaywith a line of sight

lol

11 was PRETENDERS (500 miles + 500 more) = 1000 miles = 5280 feet x 1000

@Rubio I was thinking of raptors as in dromaeosaurs :/

6:27 PM

good lord.

I got the 1000 miles, but no idea how you get PRETENDERS

11: I object!

I had 1000 miles, I even thought of the song, and I even knew they were the pretenders, but the clue doesn't mean that

Because they would walk 500 miles and walk 500 more, just to be the man who falls down at your door

that made me sad. :)

6:27 PM

5: Where I'm from

ohh they're the people who made that song

They are not

?

The Proclaimers wrote that song

I would walk 500 miles - The Proclaimers

314159: ugh I'm so tilted

6:28 PM

As a great man once said, "I'm dumb"

and proclaimers was my guess

contact?

um

I'm also dumb, and half asleep

shh

that one: PRODUCT

@Deusovi Go home, you're drunk.

6:29 PM

how is it product?

Contact 314159

if that's what it is

pi symbol

dunno about the actual clue part

1: You break it, someone else pays for it?

0.5.0: Version this

6:31 PM

Can someone star 5

11 was not starred, again

3. Lifter intake

contact 11.

I'm... gonna go for a bit. Sorry.

Not feeling very well.

Word was PROSECUTOR, which dc probably got.

Get better, or rested, or both.

6:33 PM

@Deusovi I didn't actually

My word was protest

I think 2 and 3 may be the same. PROTEIN?

heh. I thought your word was prosecution dcfyj, but not strong enough to contact

@Deusovi Take Care. Don't strain yourself.

And, I'm back. This time with a signal I would expect. I feel like someone from Google deserves a flogging.

2 is PROCESSED

1 is PROMISE

6:34 PM

5 was Programming Puzzles and Code Golf

314159 is PROTRACTOR

Oh, I thought 5 was Professional Cat Land

@betseg ???

how is that PROTRACTOR at all?

it measures tilt? :P

well, no, it measures angles

6:37 PM

Tilted = On an angle

Also it spans pi

180 degrees

and the number should be a small, single (or at most double) digit reference number unless it's intended to convey meaning, which I suppose pi ~= half-circle but you clued 10000 pi

or whatever number that is

100000 pi

Don't mislead your fellow players too :)

So who defends now?

You?

Suppose so, if nobody objects. I was nowhere near the clue though.

6:41 PM

who forced the last letter?

Mike did

Oh yeah. That was me

Mike Q did. so go for it

Mike defending: C

2. This

6:45 PM

2 CONTACT

correct!

8: You might say this to a dinosaur

8 CLEVER GIRL?

Mhm

4: Something lucky

6:48 PM

4 CHARM?

Not what I was thinking

--

4 CLOVER

Yes, CLOVER

16: not left

16 CENTER?

No, that seems unlikely

16 CONSERVATIVE?

6:56 PM

No to both.

16 CONSUMED?

Remind me: who's supposed to be the next defender once a game ends? The person who clued the right word, or the person who contacted and guessed that word from the clue?

(writing a detailed ruleset for meta)

@MikeQ nope

The one who clued the correct word

Good, that's what I thought.

42. US President

6:58 PM

That's how I ended up defending and apparently boring everyone

42 CLINTON

Correct!

1. not the current US President

Oh, I have a lot of funny answers for that one

2: Word coined by current US president

contact 2 (sigh)

7:00 PM

(sorry :P)

contact 2.

(just observing, trying to understand what it's all about)

Wait, lol, did people leave just after I entered?

Dunno

Mike disappeared I guess

7:17 PM

@MikeQ ping ping

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