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11:00 PM

I wonder whether Rubio will be on soon...

frothing

@humn Rabid

yup

Sorry! :P

why sorry? i still get to play , or is this like Monopoly where ....

11:01 PM

For shooting it down so quickly

You're bankrupt (JK)

even in chess I'd rather lose with a flurry than after waiting a lot

Red circle

Round?

Nope

Are your two clues for the same word, D?

11:04 PM

No

They could be, but they aren't in this case

silly (serious clue, though)

Contact

Ridiculous

nope... think i'm starting to catch on

...never mind

11:05 PM

@humn Good!

"...never mind" = "not contact"?

At least it's not like 'the game with no rules'

yeah

should silly be on the board? thanks

So @humn, can you think of any of Deus' clues' answers?

11:08 PM

working on it... liked your "red" for Russian

(hope to get better at roundabout clues, mine is just a synonym)

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=why+are+firetrucks+red

perhaps most popular Yes song -- google agrees -- go ahead and cheat

Not Adele?

:P

that would've been a better clue.

I'm terrible at non-classical music

11:13 PM

@Deusovi , rondeau? (classical enough for you, boboquack?)

Nope

@humn You should say contact, until I give up

(never mind)

(if you think you have the solution)

this is pretty confusing :p

11:15 PM

Oh hey, it's Rand!

'Allo!

hi

al'Thor? (silly attack on boboquack's R word)

Contact :P

I probably haven't got time right now to engage properly in this, but I may lurk and drop a bold clue occasionally.

11:17 PM

@humn rand

@humn No contact at all. I have zero idea what you mean.

lucky guess

;-)

some kind of access, uh i forgot

Contact?

11:19 PM

(does that mean you know my word? or boboquack's?)

(yours)

so i say it?

No, not yet

Not yet!

@humn No!

First we wait to see if bobo can guess it.

11:19 PM

Give Boboquack chances to guess. When they give up, Rand says it

If not, a contacter is allowed to have a go.

if he's wrong, nothing happens

if he's right, Boboquack has to give up another letter

If the contacter gets it right, bobo gives us another letter.

:D All the ninjas

thanks, now i see what happened when you said "contact," Deusovi

11:20 PM

@Deusovi Nice interweaving there ;-)

Can ninjas weave?

@Randal'Thor How else do they make black fabric?

@boboquack They buy it from the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Ratchet? (humn)

no(pe)

......

Not yet, I haven't given up :P

OK, I give up now

@Rand?

11:23 PM

Well, I'm not very confident about my guess.

Anyone else have a contact?

Nope

@humn Random?

touche! (on your part)

Boboquack defending RE

random was what?

11:24 PM

and that's what happens when you successfully make contact

"silly"??

5 mins ago, by humn

some kind of access, uh i forgot

random access memory

the answer to Humn's "some kind of access" clue

@humn Random Access Neural Interface was what I was thinking of.

11:25 PM

LOL I'm too slow for this

And the obscurity of that reference was what made me doubt my guess.

Alright, my "Russian" clue is gone - it was "Roulette"

the other one still stands

Oh.

good one, D

Jonathan, just make up easy clues!

@D recycle?

11:25 PM

so "Red circle" answer starts with re?

Yes, it does

@Deusovi Oh dear, I hope you haven't found a new pastime for when puzzling gets too boring.

and no, it's not recycle

I wouldn't guess it was

:/

@Deusovi Flags for self-harm

11:26 PM

@JonathanAllan Maybe it's ... red circle.

:-P

@Randal'Thor Don't worry, puzzling could never get boring for me. (Also, no, I would never even consider it)

is that some symbol in the US?

Any room owners here (knowing the answer)? Please delete perhaps most popular Yes song -- whew thanks!

@JonathanAllan I'm AUS, so I don't have any advantage on the UK...

Red circle in these quarters is a Target store

11:27 PM

@humn What was the answer?

Roundabout

Red circle is a stop light for me

Or brakes

well I think I know silly

oh no

I cant spell

LOL

@JonathanAllan Oh hey, I took a closer look at your avatar and realised it's not just a mushroom!

what value of R were you using, Jonathan?

11:28 PM

So many SE users with mushroom avatars.

I thought it was a bag of chips until I looked up where he was from and saw it too.

@Randal'Thor Well, it's not just a mushroom.

there is a guy holding it and he is melting into the universe (was achieved with deepdreamgenerator)

More clues for me? Please?

again?

@humn Recurrence?

Recur

11:30 PM

Change of direction (contacted by humn, Deusovi)

@Randal'Thor Reverse

@boboquack neither

Sight, sight

@humn Possible contact (but maybe too broad)

@Deusovi contact

11:30 PM

@boboquack Nope.

@Deusovi Resight

Nope

@Randal'Thor Reversal?

@boboquack -1

@Deusovi contact

@Deusovi Revision

11:32 PM

yeah, that's it

Yay!

@Deusovi Aww. I was thinking recite.

@humn Redo

Nice one, though, either way.

@boboquack not yet

11:33 PM

Green, for 4% of people

@Deusovi Red

yeah

:-D

(I was just gonna say "green" but worried that people wouldn't get it)

The 4% gave it away for me

11:33 PM

@Deusovi I would've.

But then it's kind of an inside joke.

Green, perhaps could've worked

Someone who doesn't know you might not have.

@humn Retry

@boboquack , same to you, as in nope

Briefly show on air, once more (contact by Rand)

11:34 PM

@Deusovi Rescreen

nope

@Deusovi Replay

also no

@Deusovi Possible contact?

(wrong game show)

11:35 PM

!?

NSFW

~~:35514488 , funlovingnly naughty possible contact~~

@Randal'Thor Rugby?

It's RE

Oh yes

11:36 PM

@boboquack Doesn't begin with RE.

Just looks like a sports club

@humn How do you strikethrough in chat?

@boboquack --- like this ---

(without the spaces)

oops, RE takes out silly

What's been contacted so far?

11:37 PM

@humn Unstarred. What was it?

my "briefly..." clue, tentatively

Oh hummmmmmn LOL

risible

was it ridiculous?

oh risible :p

one my 2 $20000000 words.. RE took out the other: rugulose

11:38 PM

@Deusovi And humn's "again?".

it's RE

I give up on again then

@boboquack Sure?

@Randal'Thor Yep

@humn Repetition / repetitive.

11:39 PM

nope/nope

Darn.

but you exemplified it!

so why did again go?

@humn What then?

@JonathanAllan Incorrect contact.

redundant

11:40 PM

@JonathanAllan Because I gave up and rand guessed wrong

@humn Oh, huh.

oh so I dont get a chance to contact if someone else does?

Only if you said "contact" before the defender gave up

oh

@JonathanAllan In the original face-to-face version of this game, contacting is done by both contacter and contactee speaking simultaneously.

So once contact has been made, whether right or wrong, the word is known.

11:41 PM

I cant even keep track of all the guesses and what they are for

NSFW - redirection?

I think I have trouble judging the difficulty of clues. Mine are usually either too easy or nobody gets them.

@boboquack -1

Yep, that's the tough part of this game

Or redirection for the first one.

(change of direction)

contact on Change of direction

11:42 PM

reorientation @rand

for the first one

contact on Change

@boboquack Nope.

@Randal'Thor What about redirection for that one?

Reduction?

@boboquack -1

Also, what do you think of my edit to note contacts? ------------->

Late edits can only be done by mods, which reduces its usability.

I think Deusovi and I have been the only blues in here?

@Randal'Thor Yes, I think that's good

11:45 PM

likely FAQ: should we all be owners so we can star/unstar our own clues?

@humn Define "we all".

When someone becomes a 'regular' player, they can be made RO.

I don't mind not being an owner if others don't mind starring/unstarring my clues

But someone who's just dropped in here and not taken part so far ... meh, not much point ROing them.

no problem

@humn You can still help star other people's clues anyway

Or at least 20 of them

11:47 PM

@boboquack Oh right, the starring limit!

I'd forgotten about that.

safe so far

Has anyone hit it in here yet?

I give up on Change

(Also, does it still apply to mods?)

Not me

11:47 PM

Yep

Alright, my guess for "change" was RETURN

New stars in 13 minutes!

Not sure I should make a clue (yes this is a clue)

@boboquack 12

@Deusovi -1

@humn Contact

@humn, you had a contact for change?

11:48 PM

@humn Reconsideration?

not reconsideration

Rethought

Rethink

Reclusive

neither

is Change of direction ready for a guess?

@humn Yes, bobo gave up.

reroute?

11:49 PM

Nope.

You were all in the wrong ballpark.

It was meant to be REFRACTION.

right on!

why not reflection, though? That'd work too

sure

@Deusovi Yeah, maybe too broad. "Slight change of direction" might have been better.

(not reclusive, boboquack)

11:50 PM

Or even (s)light change of direction :-D

good one

was red circle snagged?

Are there any more contacts to note?

No, it wasn't snagged

@humn, did you have one on NSFW or did you withdraw it?

Give up on the air one

11:51 PM

it wasn't RE after all... ribald

Rand, your guess for "briefly"?

resists making joke related to humn's early withdrawal on NSFW

@Deusovi Reboot?

No D:

It was read

like re-ad

yeah!

How does that work?

11:53 PM

ad(vert(isement))

Hmph.

Back soon after walkies

Return

@humn Recalcitrant

New ideas going round

NSFW-renegade?

11:54 PM

@boboquack Nope.

@Randal'Thor revisionism

Condenser

@boboquack , not recalcitrant

@boboquack -1

Golf like Randall

11:59 PM

Do any of you know any chord progressions to get from C# minor to E minor without going through E major? I'm a bit stuck with making a composition for a puzzle sound nice.

@Deusovi Not an XKCD-related joke? There's thousands of comics to go through!

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