Contact

Jonathan Allan

01:00

never heard of it :)

Deusovi

5: It's under people's graves

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan :) Oh you guys lol

Silenus

6: Backwards feline finds it silent

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TACIT

n_palum

6: Mythological pit

Silenus

01:01

Yes

@n_palum contact

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum TARTARUS

Jonathan Allan

how long do contacts stand?

n_palum

Yea

Gareth McCaughan

@JonathanAllan For ever.

Until the sun cools.

Or until the clue is guessed or busted.

Whichever comes first.

Deusovi

Or the game ends.

Gareth McCaughan

01:02

I consider that to bust all clues.

(Because the prefix they have to have is now [actual solution] [end-of-word marker]

)

Deusovi

ah, fair enough

ffao

4: 1729, after Ramanujan

Jonathan Allan

contact 4

Gareth McCaughan

@ffao TAXICAB NUMBER

Jonathan Allan

yup ^

ffao

01:03

yep

Jonathan Allan

FYI still got open contact on 2

Deusovi

nobody has my clue? it's not THAT hard

Gareth McCaughan

yow, what was 2?

ffao

what is 2? I can't see the starboard

Jonathan Allan

2 was "classifications"

Gareth McCaughan

01:04

2 was TAXONOMIES

n_palum

That's been guessed

Gareth McCaughan

if it was classifications

Deusovi

that was solved

Jonathan Allan

oh :/

seriously, I have issues following this game!!

Gareth McCaughan

we all do. It gets better with time

ffao

01:05

I unfortunately have no clue on 5

n_palum

1: Fib

Jonathan Allan

oh it was guessed too quickly for me to notice then :/

Deusovi

That's why we use stars

Silenus

@n_palum contact

Jonathan Allan

contact 1

I don't think it even hit the board - I thought it wasn't being used :)

Silenus

01:06

2: Mos Eisley world

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TATOOINE or maybe there's a double T

Silenus

Yes

Jonathan Allan

that is for 2?

Gareth McCaughan

yes

@n_palum I don't suppose your fib is a TALL TALE or merely a TALE?

Jonathan Allan

unstarred

n_palum

01:07

I was going for TALL TALE yes

Gareth McCaughan

phew

Jonathan Allan

I had tale ok

Silenus

3: mensa

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi d'oh, it's another home isn't it? TAB.

@Silenus TABLE

Silenus

Yes

Deusovi

01:09

gah, yep

Silenus

4: Tinker __ Solider Spy

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TAILOR

Jonathan Allan

contact 4

Silenus

Yes

Jonathan Allan

yep

Gareth McCaughan

01:10

(I was thinking of using that earlier when we were at TIN but wanted to find a way to make it harder and didn't think of anything good)

Deusovi

Translation of a French curse

Gareth McCaughan

(I suppose I could have gone for "first of Le Carre title" or something)

Jonathan Allan

no open clues?

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi maybe TABERNACLE (that would be specifically Canadian French)?

Jonathan Allan

oh Deu's unnumbered one only?

Deusovi

01:11

yep! and I thought it was regional but wasn't sure

Gareth McCaughan

@JonathanAllan yup, that's the only open one

Silenus

5: A ∨ ~A, for example

Gareth McCaughan

@Se

oops

@Silenus TAUTOLOGY

Silenus

Yes

6: coccyx

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TAILBONE

Deusovi

01:13

Contact

Silenus

Yes

n_palum

Dang

Silenus

7: Hey, Mr. _________ ___, play a song for me / I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TAMBOURINE MAN (er, I'm not sure whether it's spelt without the U in American English)

Silenus

Yes

n_palum

01:15

3: Odd part collects water (4)

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum TARP short for TARPAULIN.

n_palum

mhm

Deusovi

("collects water" does not mean TARP)

Gareth McCaughan

though if we had only T not TA I'd have thought TRAP a more likely anagram with the same def.

Silenus

8: Totem and _____

Gareth McCaughan

01:16

@Silenus TABOO, I think. (Freud?)

Silenus

Yes

Jonathan Allan

8: The Bayeux ________, strictly speaking is not one.

Gareth McCaughan

@JonathanAllan TAPESTRY.

Jonathan Allan

✔

8: Team dedicated to single job

Silenus

9: What a person is born as, according to empiricists

Gareth McCaughan

01:18

@Silenus TABULA RASA

Silenus

Yes

Gareth McCaughan

(curiously also the title of a piece by a composer I named in the last game of Contact)

ffao

contacting 8

Deusovi

13: Holiday two days before the end of June

8 was solved

Gareth McCaughan

8 was not solved

ffao

01:20

9: Product being resold on occasion of its 20th anniversary

Gareth McCaughan

9 was solved

Deusovi

ohh, new 8

Gareth McCaughan

you may have missed it because it wasn't boldfaced

Deusovi

yeah

Jonathan Allan

sorry

n_palum

01:20

I think contact on 9

Gareth McCaughan

@JonathanAllan perhaps your team is a TASK FORCE with or without the space.

Jonathan Allan

✔

with I think

Silenus

10: Travels faster than the speed of light, according to some

Deusovi

contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TACHYON

Silenus

01:21

Yes

Jonathan Allan

10 contact

Gareth McCaughan

or TARDIS

Jonathan Allan

I had tacheyon

oh T.A.R.D.I.S. nice too

Gareth McCaughan

I suspect 9 is something I've heard about and will feel stupid for not getting, but: pass. @n_palum what is your guess?

n_palum

TAMAGACHI? (spelling may be off)

Deusovi

01:23

TAMAGOTCHI is the spelling

ffao

tamagotchi was the word, yes

n_palum

Ohh well yeah that's what I mean

Gareth McCaughan

I'm pretty sure I hadn't in fact heard about that. Not so annoying.

Gareth defending: T A N

n_palum

Toy from 90s

ffao

really? it was all the craze when I was a kid

n_palum

01:24

Gareth's old/from UK

;)

Deusovi

mine was TAU DAY (6/28, hoping to get you with an American date format)

xnor

1. Someone thirsty

Gareth McCaughan

ah, nice. I'm aware of it but didn't think of it. It's ... not exactly a holiday, though.

@xnor TANTALUS

xnor

yup

Deusovi

Maybe not to you. :P

n_palum

01:25

Lol

Deusovi

(Yeah, not really. Only in the sense that Talk Like a Pirate day is.)

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum For the avoidance of doubt, it's not that I hadn't heard of tamagotchi but that I hadn't heard it was being re-released.

I am, however, old. And in the UK.

n_palum

Ohh fair enough - I didn't either just kinda guessing TA - 90s toy

Silenus

2: A well-sunned man's digression

n_palum

It's okay Gareth you're still a wizard of some kind

xnor

01:26

@Silenus contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TANGRAM, perhaps?

Silenus

-1

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, I was thinking diversion rather than digression, and anyway it doesn't explain the "man's" part.

Deusovi

20: E█e█e██ (some parts of this clue have been censored, because why not?)

n_palum

4: Torment

Gareth McCaughan

01:27

@Deusovi perhaps TANTALUM

@n_palum TANTALIZE

Deusovi

yep

xnor

@n_palum contact

n_palum

Yeah

Deusovi

Contact 2

Silenus

3: Astronauts drank it

Gareth McCaughan

01:28

I have a vague notion that TANGUY is a word; I don't suppose it happens to be the answer to @Silenus's 2?

xnor

@Silenus contact

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus TANGO

or maybe TANG

one of those soft drinks with that sort of name

Silenus

Not TANGUY (nice artist, though).

n_palum

5: East African country

Silenus

TANG is correct.

Deusovi

01:28

Contact 5

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum TANZANIA, perhaps.

n_palum

Yessir

Gareth McCaughan

d'oh, obv 2 is TANGENT; sorry @Silenus for taking so long.

Silenus

Correct

n_palum

3: Help color yourself

xnor

01:30

@n_palum contact

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally @Deusovi was there any particular purpose to the censorship other than making the clue a little trickier?

Deusovi

nah

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum could be just TAN

n_palum

Nupe

Deusovi

I was just hoping that "element" wouldn't spring immediately to mind if I removed all the consonants :P

xnor

01:31

i was guessing tan, i'm out

n_palum

It's hard tbh

I only know because my girlfriend just bought them

Deusovi

Using Pokémon would be unfair, right?

n_palum

and I thought it was a cool name

Potentially - I think that's Gareth's call

Deusovi

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Gareth's not familiar with them

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi using Pokemon would be a very effective way to win since I don't know anything about 'em. Other than that, so I understand, it is obligatory to catch them all.

@Deusovi FWIW "element" was my instant thought on seeing just the vowels. Whether luck or judgement, I don't know.

Deusovi

01:33

Actually, it's not obligatory! The main character of the anime has only caught 42, out of the ~700 species in the games

n_palum

Lmao

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi Thanks for that. I was just being ploddingly pedantic about the slogan (of course).

n_palum

7: Japanese Dagger

Also star 3?

ffao

it must be said that the main character of the anime is a fairly sloppy trainer

Silenus

4: A Police man's lovemaking style

Deusovi

01:34

(I understood that - was just making a followup joke / amusing observation)

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi yup, understood

n_palum

Oh dear Sil

xnor

@Silenus contact??

Deusovi

13: Raccoon

Silenus

Today we explore the ribald.

Gareth McCaughan

01:35

@Silenus "lovemaking style" suggests TANTRIC though if that's the answer I don't understand the clue. (I have a guess at the outline of how it works but lack the necessary knowledge.)

Jonathan Allan

@xnor if you guessed the same as I would I would aslo say "??"

xnor

i was thinking TANTRIC

Jonathan Allan

yes tantric too, but only got half of it

Gareth McCaughan

TANTRIC SEX then, perhaps?

but wait, @JonathanAllan, it's Silenus's clue, not yours

Jonathan Allan

yes that was my guess

not saying it's right ofc.

ffao

01:37

contacting 13

Silenus

TANTRIC is correct. Sting, a member of the band the Police, is rumored to practice it.

xnor

contact 13

Jonathan Allan

@Silenus oh right

Gareth McCaughan

@Silenus That was my guess at the outline of how it worked, but curiously enough I am not familiar with the details of Sting's love life.

(my actual guess was that maybe it was the title of one of his songs or something like that)

ffao

we have found a gap in Gareth's knowledge! we should make more clues about celebrities' love lives

Gareth McCaughan

01:38

anyway, everyone other than me has figured out 13 so I need to think about that a bit.

meh, nope. Passing on 13. @xnor @ffao please expose my ignorance.

ffao

tanuki?

xnor

tanuki

Deusovi

yep!

Jonathan Allan

I gave up on 13 straight away

a what now?

Gareth McCaughan

someone want to explain? is it a kind of raccoon or a character in some anime or what?

n_palum

01:39

Is it reeeally a raccoon though

Gareth McCaughan

Gareth defending: T A N T

ffao

an animal similar to a raccoon

Deusovi

Tanuki are Japanese raccoon dogs

Jonathan Allan

oh it's a species?

Sconibulus

it's a japanese raccoon spirit thing with magic balls

Deusovi

01:40

...I mean, they're actual animals that exist

n_palum

^^ Scon lmao

Deusovi

there's a lot of mythology about them being tricksters

Sconibulus

you can become one in Super Mario Bros 3 :)

Deusovi

that too

n_palum

And then in Mario there is the Tanooki suit where you get the ability to fly

Dunno why they spelled it differently though

Dagger stands

Jonathan Allan

01:41

lol such bizarre knowledge, it's great!

Deusovi

43: Equivalent

Gareth McCaughan

fair enough. Not to be confused with tenuki, which if I remember correctly is the equivalent in go of what chessplayers call a Zwischenzug.

xnor

@Deusovi contact

Silenus

@Deusovi contact

Sconibulus

contact on 7

Gareth McCaughan

01:41

@Deusovi pass 43

n_palum

3 Busts

Deusovi

woo, got his word

n_palum

TANCEUTICALS

xnor

@GarethMcCaughan i thought it was a play not in the current area of action

Deusovi

go for it, you two

Alconja

01:41

also contact on 43

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum TANCEUTICALS? Is that a word?

n_palum

Yea

Gareth McCaughan

I mean I guess it's a combination of TAN and PHARMACEUTICALS but really?

Ecch.

Silenus

@xnor, you're first to guess.

n_palum

It's gross I know

Told you it was hard/not fair

They're self tanners

Gareth McCaughan

01:42

anyway, obscurity doesn't make things unfair. Not as such.

n_palum

Anyone know my Dagger one?

Also people have to actual say Gareth's word

Gareth McCaughan

@xnor @Silenus @Alconja come on and put me out of my misery with 43

Silenus

TANTAMOUNT

Alconja

^

Gareth McCaughan

and TANTAMOUNT is in fact my word. Well done @Deusovi

Deusovi

01:43

woo!

Gareth McCaughan

and no I don't know @n_palum's dagger one, at least so far as I can currently think.

Jonathan Allan

I'd best never make a clue :D

n_palum

TANTO

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum Fair enough. Not something I'd come across. So today I learned TANTO and TANUKI and some other ridiculous things from earlier that I've already forgotten. I suppose this is a slightly generalized use of the word "learned".

n_palum

You've "encountered" new words

Jonathan Allan

01:45

@n_palum tanto is what

n_palum

Oddly enough those were both Japanese things, best brush up ;)

ffao

a dagger

n_palum

@JonathanAllan my older clue for Japanese dagger

Jonathan Allan

ah the dagger thanks

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum Yeah, whole dictionaries could be filled with Japanese words I don't know. In fact, they have.

Sconibulus

01:46

I know that because of Nethack :)

Deusovi

I think they're called Japanese dictionaries.

n_palum

It's quite a common term in a lot of games with blade weapons to be fair

Gareth McCaughan

I have never encountered a tanto in nethack.

ffao

seems like we could only beat gareth with Japanese words

Gareth McCaughan

I guess it depends on what you play as.

Deusovi

01:47

Not just Japanese words!

Sconibulus

if your class is Samurai, certain weapons are renamed

Deusovi

Japanese words and celebrities' sex lives!

Gareth McCaughan

yeah

n_palum

Don't forget Pokemon

Gareth McCaughan

Please note that I got the celebrity's-sex-life one.

n_palum

01:47

You guessed it

By outsmarting the clue

ffao

well, we didn't beat Gareth with Pokemon because we didn't try

Gareth McCaughan

It counts just as much if you guess it.

n_palum

It was deemed unfair :P

ffao

Not sure he would have guessed "tangela" though

Gareth McCaughan

I know what a tangelo is. I don't know what a tangela is.

Deusovi

01:48

I was actually gonna do "tangrowth", because that's easier to clue

It's a Pokemon.

Gareth McCaughan

well, of course it is.

n_palum

Hahaha

Gareth McCaughan

Pretty much any shortish more or less pronounceable string of letters is the name of at least one Pokemon, right?

n_palum

Tangelo != Tangela in the slightest

Deusovi

Yeah, probably.

ffao

01:49

that's their goal at least

Gareth McCaughan

Computer programmers will recognize this as the design process of the C++ committee: feed a random stream of tokens into the parser, and as soon as you find something that doesn't parse, give it a meaning in the next iteration of the C++ standard.

n_palum

xD

Anyways, Night all!

ffao

night

Gareth McCaughan

night!

Deusovi

Night!

Gareth McCaughan

01:53

I am also off -- it's well past my bedtime. By which I mean "about an hour before I usually actually get to bed".

ffao

also going out for dinner

Mistah Figgins

02:31

is there a game going?

Deusovi

02:48

@MistahFiggins Nope, you missed one about an hour ago

Mistah Figgins

:(

Techidiot

03:25

@GarethMcCaughan Wow! You deserve to be called as a Guru of knowledge tag

Just saw you cluing for UPANISHADS. Impressive.

Sp3000

09:49

Bit late, but I sure missed out on a lot of JP fun :P (or maybe I should just sneak some in for the future...)

Gareth McCaughan

10:30

@Techidiot Thanks. But my knowledge is supersuperficial in lots of cases and this is one. I can tell you that the Upanishads are Hindu scriptures, but I couldn't tell you how many pages they take up, or whether they are actually divided into individual things each of which is one Upanishad and how many if so, or whether they're poetry or prose, or whether they're mostly narrative or theoretical treatise or hymns of praise or what, or whether they were written before or after [...continues]

... the Bhagavad-Gita (say), or anything about what's in them. I have the vague notion that Oppenheimer's quotation "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" (which he said after the first nuclear weapon test) was from the Upanishads. I had the even vaguer notion that T S Eliot quotes them in "The Waste Land", but actually it seems more likely it's Buddhist texts he quotes. I think an actual guru would know more of those things than I do.

Gareth McCaughan

10:47

incidentally @Techidiot: speaking of Hindu theology, I discovered to my delight a little while ago that there's a guy called RAHMAN who wrote some music for the BATMAN movies. I never thought of anything actually clever to do with the spoonerism, though.

manshu

10:57

How to play contact?

user278208

@manshu:

user278208

Mar 31 at 16:35, by Deusovi

CONTACT RULES

The defender is thinking of a secret word. They reveal the first letter of it (and will later be forced to reveal more).
Their goal is to last as long as they can by "defending" against people guessing the word.

Everyone else in the game is an "attacker".
They give clues to words starting with the revealed parts of the word. For instance, if the defender has given up COM so far, clues may be for COMPUTER or COMA.
(Clues can be *anything*, not just crossword-style clues. For instance, I once used "This" for CONTACT, then followed it up with "Thris" for CONTRACT.)

manshu

Please be the defender first.

I'll attack

user278208

@GarethMcCaughan @Sp3000 One contact game ?

Techidiot

@GarethMcCaughan Oh, he is a magician.

He can do wonders with music.

He has worked on another upcoming movie "Sachin:A Billion Dreams" which might be his another masterpiece. (The movie is based on Sachin Tendulkar, I assume you know him)

manshu

11:06

O_O

I saw that trailer.

Techidiot

Nice. I am waiting for the movie :)

manshu

Great it was.

Techidiot

Might be kind of documentary though. Not sure

manshu

Yeah, Sachin never acts though. So can't really say anything about his acting

user278208

11:18

@Techidiot A contact ?

Techidiot

I am in if we have players here

user278208

@Techidiot, @manshu and @Well yeah, total three is here. Let's start

manshu

(thumbs up)

Techidiot

@manshu Are you familiar with the game?

manshu

never played it...Just read the rules

Techidiot

11:23

I think it will be better if we wait for a couple of more players. That will help you out without knowing how it works.

I will be right back in some time

user278208

I have played it before (offlne), so @Techidiot defend ?

Techidiot

(I'll be back in a while) Coffee.

Gareth McCaughan

11:44

@Techidiot Interesting. I don't know anything about his music -- I just liked the brahman/atman -> rahman/batman thing :-).

@Techidiot I had heard of Tendulkar and had the vague idea he might be a great cricketer. It turns out he is. Beyond that, I know as much about him as I do about the Upanishads :-).

(I'm not up for a game of Contact right now, I'm afraid. Just passing through.)

n_palum

11:56

@Techidiot 1000% agree

Techidiot

@n_palum 1000% about? Rahman ?

n_palum

haha no about the Gareth being a guru of knowledge

Techidiot

Oh yes.

@GarethMcCaughan I assumed you know about cricket as you have caught a few of my clues about it. Anyways, doesn't removes the cricket-knowledge tag from your list of expertise ;)

n_palum

12:21

Hmm.. The people that asked about a game disappeared..

I was/am a little skeptical of Well Yeah.

Techidiot

/am for the record. :D

n_palum

Haha they were very quick to jump in again having been a user for one day

Techidiot

And hence.. I went to have a coffee break ..

Didn't wanted to repeat history

Apr 5 at 15:32, by Techidiot

@Rubio @dcfyj As I said, that was on purpose. I am out now.

n_palum

Ahh clever

dcfyj

Yeah, I was thinking it was him since he found chat on day 1 and conveniently had "played contact offline". It was rather suspicious

n_palum

12:26

Well we didn't start a game with him this time

dcfyj

true

Techidiot

Used mathjax on day one :D

dcfyj

Did he?

Techidiot

Profile.

n_palum

Lol

dcfyj

12:27

Ah didn't notice it had mathjax in it

Just flagged his post (since his profile was still viable) so the overseers can have a look see

user278208

12:49

@Techidiot Um well...the coffee break is o'er, eh ? (And what is the history ? I dunno anythong)

Techidiot

@Wellyeah Its just that, I am bad with helping new players in contact. So, was waiting for people to join in.

n_palum

Well the new guy left anyway

user278208

@n_palum Well, yeah.

n_palum

13:44

@Wellyeah It's unlikely a game starts up through you asking - considering you've abandoned games in the past or broken rules.

user278208

@n_palum Why ? I am a brand new user, of course.

n_palum

Oh of course, my bad.

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