Contact

5 nice

XD

10:14 PM

61 was CAROUSEL, which you might find at JFK International Airport or in fact pretty much any other airport in baggage reclaim/

yeah that's a little indirect ;)

I was trying to think of airport words but nice :P

@Sp3000 I bet you'd have got there soon

^^

I wonder why the CARO/CORO error is so natural a mistake

at least I guess it is a natural mistake given that two of us independently made it

James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind

10:16 PM

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of course maybe it wasn't independent; I may have been unconsciously inspired by Sp's clue

since CORONA and COROLLA are pretty similar

^

Blame ~~Canada~~ Sp3000

I think it was a contracted mistake

or a protracted one

anyway, I need to be AFK for ~10 minutes so someone else should defend next rather than me

10:17 PM

not a contacted one, though

and eventually a retracted one?

I didn't have to retract it because the game ended first

I don't think you can really retract a clue after the game is over

(hmm, ContAcT has retractible clues)

heh

but is it floofy

very

Idea: When using "leTter plEase", use binary instead of unary so that we can request up to 63 letters instead of just 6

10:18 PM

(for what it's worth, the cats my family owned when I was growing up were pretty much @JanDvorak Idea: don't do that.

oops

the first half of that was going to be a remark that the cats I've lived with have all been unfloofy)

but it didn't seem worth boring everyone with, but I failed to delete it completely

though frankly the story of How Gareth Cocked Up A Comment is even more boring

anyway, who's going to defend next?

I'm at the edge of my seat listening

Well if we have no takers I guess I'll go?

go away, or defend?

As in defend, but nice pointing out the ambiguity :P

Sp3000 defending: D

101: ...

10:26 PM

101. DALMATIANS

[absent for ~10min now]

101 ✔️

40: bedroom

contact 40

40. ... den/double?

40 nope nope

10:27 PM

1: not East of Eden

1. ... den?

1: ✔️

40. dream/desk/dress(er)?

40 nope nope nope

2: Ate

10:29 PM

2. DINED?

(or devoured)

2': Ave

2: ✔️ btw

3. drive?

3 no

Hmm pass 40

40 DORMITORY

10:31 PM

40 ✔️

Ah :P

Sp3000 defending: D E

3 lives

3 is totally unfair and I don't care :)

41: Programmer

4: Axe

I can think of one other interpretation for 3 but it doesn't help :/

10:33 PM

It may be more fair this way -

41. debug(ger)/decoder?

41 nope nope

but only slightly ;)

Yeah I'll let you know when I think of words for ate with a T

42: fallen angel

10:35 PM

contact 42

42. Gabr... nope nvm

O_o

1: Showcase of destruction

1. ... demonstration?

1 not exactly

10:37 PM

43: intentional

5: Ace

1. ... Demolition?

43. DELIBERATE

43 ✔️

1 not exactly

contact 1

10:38 PM

1. ... detonation (?)

3: Some whirl

1 no

Pass 42

42 DEMON

42 ✔️

Huh, makes sense but didn't think of them like that

10:39 PM

that was 50/50

Sp3000 defending: D E C

might have been DEVIL too

41 dies, developer

2' dies, it was DETOURING. ate for devouring, ave for detouring. not fair, don't care. :)

I feel silly that I'm not getting Jan's relatively straightforward clues :P

10:40 PM

I think 1 dies

4 and 5 die (deodorant, deft)

1 dies also, it was simply DEMO

I thought "demolition derby"

52: ...

Axe has too many meanings :P

10:41 PM

44: when 10 means 12

52. DECK

52: ✔️

oh my 3 is also dead, it was DERVISH

Shoot what's the word for 44 (didn't think it's start with dec)

1: Customs

>:-)

10:42 PM

Oh, dervish again :P

44. DECIDUODENARY (???) nah doubt it

44 nope

2: Choice

contact 2

2. DECISION

45: rejection

10:44 PM

3. This person is no dummy

contact 45 maybe

2: ✔️

4: Ade

contact 1 perhaps

contact 45 perhaps.

contact 1 maybe

10:45 PM

45. DECLINE/DECLINATION?

45 ✔️

4': Pour ade

5. Opposite of Cantoris

4'. DECANT?

Contact 1 maybe

10:45 PM

4': ✔️

46: tropes can be this

6. Post-1971

Pass 1

1 declarations?

(my guess was simply DECLARE)

10:47 PM

1: DECLARATIONS

Ah, makes sense

Sp3000 defending: D E C I

smartie pants

4 dies, was DECADE

44 dies, 46 dies

5 was DECANI and dies; 6 lives and maybe someone could star it

10:48 PM

2: Like some forests

contact 2

Pass 2

deciduous

bah

60: sound level

10:48 PM

contact 60

DECIDUOUS ✔️

DECIDUOUS is the word

wooo

60. DECIBEL

yeah

10:49 PM

I yield to Gareth if he can, I was about to step away

6 was DECIMAL (I'd have accepted DECIMALIZED) -- 1971 is when the UK switched from pounds, shillings, and pence to decimal currency

Someone used this earlier and I forgot completely

I can, I guess, but if Rubio's going do we still have enough players?

Any guesses on 44 and 46?

44's probably whatever the word for base 12 is

10:50 PM

nope

base 12 is duodecimal

the word for base 12 is DUODECIMAL, but people (or aliens or whatever) who prefer octal might say that in DECIMAL 10 means 12

Helka Homba

DECAHEDRON?

though by 12 they'd mean what we mean by 10 and by 10 they'd mean what we meant by 8

not decimal

December

10:50 PM

Hmm I thought it was that and was surprised when it came up (hence my comment that I didn't think it started with deci)

44 december ✔️

Oh December, nice

ohh

(the Roman year originally started in March, which is why october/november/december and also why leap years have their extra day at the end of February)

so what was 46 (the one about tropes)?

The theory I've heard is that two months were added later, but they were ... July and August, after Julius and Augustus

46 was DECONSTRUCTED

Helka Homba

Is Gareth defending next? I'm still here

to attack

10:54 PM

I can defend next but will only bother if there are actually enough people around for a decent game