Contact

4 is dead; was GROOK (though in Danish I think it's GRUK). By a chap called Piet Hein. Examples: "The road to wisdom? / Well, it's plain / And simple to express: / Err, / and err, / and err again / But less / and less / and less."

Rubio

contact 8

Gareth McCaughan

1 is dead; was GRAVITON.

boboquack

Contact 8

Sconibulus

pass 8

Gareth McCaughan

9:24 PM

contact 8 @MikeQ

Rubio

2: 1 of 7

boboquack

Gruesome

Gareth McCaughan

oh, did Mike get ut?

it?

Rubio

8 - GRUESOME

Sconibulus

Sconibulus was defending GRUE

Mike Q

9:24 PM

8 GRUESOME ✔

Gareth McCaughan

ah

Sconibulus

I forgot gruesome was a word :)

Mike Q

Oh. Uh...

boboquack

7 Gru?

Sconibulus

no, it was close enough

I forogt it was a word when I was picking

Mike Q

9:25 PM

Okay, here's a really bad one

Mike defending C

Sconibulus

2 was Grumpy

7 had a couple guesses, but none I loved yet

Rubio

well that's a ringing endorsement ;)

Gareth McCaughan

"It is pitch dark and after the year 2000. If you proceed you are likely to be eaten by a bleen."

(see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction)

ffao

I would argue grue and gruesome are slightly different, but the game wouldn't last for much longer anyway

Gareth McCaughan

(for one of the two things that's referring to)

Rubio

9:26 PM

bleen? ew.

n_palum

@boboquack Yeah

Rubio

1: Stand of trees

Gareth McCaughan

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_(monster) for the more familiar other

boboquack

Contact 1

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1 @Rubio

Sconibulus

9:27 PM

isn't the origin of gruesome the archaic word grue?

meaning like fright or something?

Gareth McCaughan

I believe so.

Rubio

1': Strand of trees

Mike Q

1' CONIFEROUS ?

Rubio

1' no

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio I was going to do exactly that but decided not to

boboquack

9:27 PM

Contact 1'

ffao

I actually looked for the etymology of gruesome and didn't find that reference

Mike Q

1' CYPRESS?

ffao

comment retracted then

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1' @Rubio of course

boboquack

8: .stackexchange.com

Mike Q

9:28 PM

8 CHAT

1' no

8 cot

contact 1

*correct

Pass 1

9:28 PM

OED sez gruesome is from a verb "grue" (meaning to be afraid etc.)

Copse

1: Copse

1: COPSE ✔

Mike defending: C O

Rubio

1' stands too

Gareth McCaughan

9:29 PM

you mean strands

Rubio

well. yes. I almost made that joke but decided not to

1'': 1' of books??

Sconibulus

contact 1'

contact 1''??

2: for og go t

3. Laser-like

contact 3

9:31 PM

contact 3

Sconibulus

contact 2

Mike Q

oh

pass 2

5: Sneaky

welp

2: Correction

9:32 PM

2 CORRECT ✔✔

Gareth McCaughan

that was quick

Rubio

oh dear.

Gareth McCaughan

1' was obv CORPSE

3 was COHERENT

mystified by 1'' at present

Mike Q

Strand of trees = corpse?

Sconibulus

5 was COVERT

Mike Q

9:32 PM

...Oh. Because it's Stand + r

Sconibulus

1'' I think is CORPUS?

Rubio

stand of trees is copse. stRand of trees is coRpse

^

oh, of course

1'' is CORPUS, yes

9:33 PM

@boboquack you're up

Sconibulus

yay, I got every clue that game :)

Rubio

nice ;)

Sconibulus

on that note, time to go hom

Rubio

okay ...

Gareth McCaughan

I hop your trip hom is nic.

Rubio

9:34 PM

*goes hom *

boboquack

boboquack defending C

Gareth McCaughan

hm, hoom

@boboquack I thought we just had that one :-)

Rubio

ugh. too many C rounds lately

Mike Q

--

boboquack

I can redo…

ffao

9:34 PM

it's always P or C

2. 299792458

100: ...

contact 100

@ffao It's P/C gone mad, I tell you.

contact 100 @Rubio

Rubio

12: ...

Mike Q

9:35 PM

1: i monster

:299792458 message?

contact 12

contact 2

contact 12 @Rubio

contact 2

9:35 PM

contact 2

Rubio

we're all having a little too much fun :)

Gareth McCaughan

@boboquack 299792458 is not (at least not in this case) a message number

boboquack

12 contact?

Rubio

4: What that is for

ffao

contact 12

boboquack

9:37 PM

Pass 2

2: C

2 is c

yup

(the speed of light)

(it's the speed of light in metres per second)

boboquack

9:37 PM

Oh

Gareth McCaughan

(note that that's the exact value, and is how the metre is actually defined these days)

boboquack

boboquack defending CH

Rubio

100 dies immediately, because ...

Gareth McCaughan

... it was also C

Deusovi

100 was also C

Mike Q

9:38 PM

1 dies (CYCLOPS)

Deusovi

as in the Roman numeral

Gareth McCaughan

as was 12 unless it was CARBON

Rubio

and 12 is now dead,

✔

Deusovi

@GarethMcCaughan no, it still dies

Rubio

4 also dies, it was (C is for) COOKIE

Mike Q

9:38 PM

I thought 12 was C (hex 12)

Gareth McCaughan

oh, I wasn't saying it might live, I was saying it wasn't necessarily just C

@MikeQ oh, what a nice coinkidink

Rubio

Indeed. I never noticed that.

1: Spicy sausage

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1 @Rubio

boboquack

Chorizo

Gareth McCaughan

2. Made square and small for best fit

Rubio

9:39 PM

3: Barenaked lady's treat

1: ✔

4: What 'the pink stuff' tastes like

Gareth McCaughan

1. Responsible for a large pentahedron

4 chilli?

4 no

contact 1

3 chilli?

9:41 PM

3 no

keep trying ;)

Gareth McCaughan

I will give @boboquack a bit of help and say that 1 and 2 are also not CHILLI

(someone star 1?)

boboquack

1 chicken itza?

Rubio

4': Eating it might make you need 'the pink stuff'

Gareth McCaughan

1 is not CHICKEN ITZA.

contact 4' I guess

Mike Q

6: Partita

Rubio

9:43 PM

omg.

Pass 1

@Deusovi 1?

CHEOPS

yup

(the Great Pyramid)

ffao

I appreciate Mike Q's sense of humor

boboquack

9:44 PM

Meh, don't know one pharaoh from the next

Mike Q

Everyone knows that the more you recite a joke, the better it gets, right?

Rubio

Of course!

boboquack

boboquack defending CHA

ffao

and the pyramid in Mexico is in Chichen Itza, as far as I can remember

Rubio

but I liked CHICKEN there

It made me grin

so..

3 dies, it was (GODIVA'S) CHOCOLATE

4 lives

Mike Q

9:45 PM

6 lives

Rubio

4' dies - @gareth ?

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio I guessed 4' was CHILLI

Of course it was. :)

6 Cha (Cha Cha)?

6 No

9:46 PM

contact 6 @MikeQ maybe

boboquack

Pass 6

Gareth McCaughan

1. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions

oops

Rubio

3: Some are of fire

oops

Deusovi

contact 1.

boboquack

Chaos 1a

Deusovi

9:47 PM

(rather than 1:)

Gareth McCaughan

anyway my guess is that 6 may be CHACONNE (not a synonym but one possible partita movement)

Mike Q

6 CHAMBER MUSIC ✘

Gareth McCaughan

ah

sorry

anyway, 1 was indeed CHAOS

Jan Dvorak

contact 3

boboquack

3 Chimney?

Rubio

9:48 PM

3 no

CHA

Oops

we're on CHA

5: "Purity" enforcement garment

Gareth McCaughan

oh, 2 is dead; it was CHI

Deusovi

9:49 PM

pff

I love that clue

Gareth McCaughan

(because "chi squared" is a statistic used as a measure of (ill-)fit between things, you see)

pff [2]

contact 5

contact 5 @MikeQ

contact 5

1: My Starbucks crave

boboquack

9:49 PM

Pass 5

5: CHASTITY BELT

5 CHASTITY BELT

5 CHASTITY BELT ✔

boboquack defending CHAM

Deusovi

Wait, really?

Rubio

9:50 PM

5: Wilt

Deusovi

That was a quick pass.

Contact 5

Rubio

1 dies, was CHAI

3 dies, whoever wanna guess?

Gareth McCaughan

wouldn't it be nice if there were a geographical region of, say, the US or Europe, shaped roughly like a band running across the place, in which the rate of fornication and adultery was notably low? We could call it the Chastity Belt.

Mike Q

3 CHARIOTS

Rubio

4 dies, anyone?

3: ✔

Jan Dvorak

9:51 PM

11: wine once a year

Mike Q

4 CHAPSTICK?

Rubio

4 no