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Sp3000
2:00 AM
(was thinking current one, sorry)
John Dvorak
contact 6
Doorknob
pass 6
John Dvorak
I think it's just a CAP
Sp3000
6 is cloche
AirbusLover
CAP
John Dvorak
2:03 AM
Don't guess if you didn't contact
Doorknob
@Sp3000 that's a new word for me :P
Sp3000
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58.
Sneak; brook; gall; certain payment method; baby animal; finally "get" it; jail; type of wrap
micsthepick
contact 58
contact 53
contact 51
John Dvorak
70
Famous case of a suicide by snake
Sp3000
Contact 70
(56's def is slightly off but... eh close enough)
Doorknob
2:07 AM
uh. 51 creep? 54 credit (card) / cash? 56 comprehend? 57 cell?
Sp3000
51 is creep, but the others aren't right
Doorknob
OH WAIT
creep creek cheek check chick...
Mike Q
contact 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 19, 70
Doorknob
click
ffao
We're still on c? D:
Mike Q
2:10 AM
Yall are still on the first letter after 50 minutes
Sp3000
(yup x6, and now that I think about it "become clear" would have been better for 56)
Doorknob
I'm guessing 58 is "cling" which presumably makes 57 "clink," although I haven't heard that term
Sp3000
Yup x2
Doorknob
ok, pass 70
Sp3000
70 would be Cleopatra I believe
Mike Q
2:11 AM
70 CLEOPATRA ?
John Dvorak
70 ✔️
Doorknob
Defending
C O
John Dvorak
79 was caltrop
74 lives
71 was Cascada
Doorknob
74: consequences?
Sp3000
64.
Down under town down underground
John Dvorak
2:15 AM
74 x
Eric Tressler
14:
!Q -> !P
Mike Q
17
Magazine alternative
Doorknob
14: consequent (its affirming)
Eric Tressler
14 x
Sp3000
Contact 14
Doorknob
2:18 AM
14: consequence?
Eric Tressler
14 x
Doorknob
or conditional?
Eric Tressler
14 is not conditional
Sp3000
80.
Rowing crew's steerer
Eric Tressler
20, 21:
GI Joe bad guy
c80
Mike Q
2:21 AM
contact 20, 21
as4s4hetic
32':
_ 32-e
Eric Tressler
66:
Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl
Doorknob
pass 80
Eric Tressler
80 was coxswain
Sp3000
Yup
Doorknob
2:24 AM
Defending
C O N
Eric Tressler
14 lives
20,21 was Cobra Commander
Mike Q
17 dies (Cosmopolitan)
Eric Tressler
66 was Copacabana
micsthepick
39:
antipro
Doorknob
oh wait, 14: converse
39: con
Eric Tressler
2:25 AM
14 is not converse
micsthepick
39 ✔
John Dvorak
74 dies collateral damage
Doorknob
14: contrapositive?
Eric Tressler
correct
micsthepick
40:
what an anagram is
Eric Tressler
2:27 AM
-
Sp3000
81.
Singular
party scrap
(or circle for denpa singer Nanahira)
Eric Tressler
going to revise that
Mike Q
15.
Small house
16.
Do-not-enter house
Eric Tressler
90, 91:
Large gathering catches fire?
Doorknob
15: condo?
Eric Tressler
2:31 AM
c40?
Mike Q
15 CONDOMINIUM ✔
Eric Tressler
17:
smallest house?
micsthepick
contact 17?
please don't pass 17
unless someone else contacts
uncontact 17 actually
Doorknob
40: confused? idk, like the cryptic thing
micsthepick
40 no
Doorknob
2:34 AM
pass 40
Eric Tressler
is 40 configuration?
micsthepick
you were on the right track I think
40 was convolution
Eric Tressler
ah, well
Mike Q
18.
The policeman is furniture for criminals
Sp3000
Contact 18
Doorknob
2:37 AM
18: constable
Mike Q
18 ✔
19.
Bank robbers practice for force
Eric Tressler
25:
Hold it to speak at a gathering, in Golding's novel
Doorknob
could 90 or 91 be conflagrate?
Sp3000
9.
Emulate Pavlov
Eric Tressler
91 is conflagration
Doorknob
2:39 AM
9: condition
Sp3000
9. Yup
Mike Q
20.
The wizard is an illegal person in the courtroom who is not the defendant or judge
Doorknob
20: conjuror, probably :P
Mike Q
20 ✔
Sp3000
86.
High-density urban landscape phrase (two words)
Mike Q
2:41 AM
21.
Mazel tov!
Eric Tressler
c86
Doorknob
21: congratulation
Mike Q
21 ✔
contact 86
Doorknob
pass 86
Eric Tressler
86 is concrete jungle
Mike Q
2:43 AM
^^
Sp3000
Indeed it is
Doorknob
never heard that one :P
Defending
C O N T
Eric Tressler
17 dies, was CONDOMINIMUM
Mike Q
19 dies (CONSTRAIN), 16 dies (CONDEMNED)
Sp3000
81 goes (CONFETTO)
Eric Tressler
2:44 AM
25 dies, CONCH
30:
Game over
Mike Q
3.
Oft-violated (in scifi) spacetime property
Doorknob
30: continue?
Eric Tressler
correct, with the question mark too!
Doorknob
:P
3: continuity maybe
Mike Q
3 nope
Eric Tressler
2:46 AM
I was going to clue continuity (oft-violated (in sci-fi) storytelling property)
You preempted me
Doorknob
@EricTressler ha :P
Sp3000
10.
Unbroken
Mike Q
contact 10
Eric Tressler
c10
Doorknob
10: continuous
Eric Tressler
2:51 AM
12:
P ^ !P
Sp3000
Yup (I also realise it was technically too broad, but meh)
Mike Q
4.
In prison is the criminal's writing
Doorknob
12: contradiction?
Mike Q
5.
Stuff in a criminal's campsite shelter
6.
Fight for the criminal's exam
Eric Tressler
12 correct
c5
Doorknob
2:52 AM
6: contest
5: content
Mike Q
7.
Criminal lure is a courtroom crime
5 ✔ 6 ✔
Doorknob
7: contempt
Mike Q
7 ✔
Doorknob
4: context?
Mike Q
4 ✔
Eric Tressler
2:55 AM
60:
Principal difficulty in containing zombies
Doorknob
60: contagion
Mike Q
contact 60
Eric Tressler
60 correct
61:
Type of person likely to win a car sometime soon
Mike Q
62.
Infected, or likely to infect
Doorknob
61: contestant?
62: contagious
Eric Tressler
2:56 AM
61 correct
Doorknob
random guess on 3, continuum?
Mike Q
3 yep
Eric Tressler
65:
Houdini, among other things
Doorknob
65: contortionist?
Eric Tressler
correct
66:
A clue specifically to get this word guessed
Doorknob
3:02 AM
... 66 contact?
Eric Tressler
66 is not contact
Mike Q
63.
Tie a Mongol corn, when confused, is many things into one
micsthepick
16:
Australia perhaps
Doorknob
16: continent
Eric Tressler
67:
Unbroken v.2
micsthepick
3:04 AM
16 yes
Sp3000
Contact 63
Mike Q
wait no, delete 63, it doesn't fit
Sp3000
Also forgot to say, but one of my clues from way back was Coober Pedy (underground town in Australia)
Doorknob
67: contiguous?
Eric Tressler
67 correct
68:
Reasonable first step toward dealing with the zombie infestation
Mike Q
3:06 AM
69.
Part of a cooking show about absent footwear
Doorknob
68: containment
Eric Tressler
68 correct
c69
70:
Feeling after "taking care of" the zombies upon finding out some of them had families
Doorknob
pass 69
Eric Tressler
69 is Contessa :-/
Mike Q
69 correcto
Eric Tressler
3:09 AM
Not even a real word, I wish I didn't know that
Doorknob
defending
C O N T R
Mike Q
It's an Italian word @EricTressler
Eric Tressler
both of mine live
Doorknob
66: contrived
Eric Tressler
66 correct
Well...
Mike Q
3:11 AM
contact 70
Doorknob
70: contradictory?
Eric Tressler
70 is not contradictory
micsthepick
99:
items not allowed
Eric Tressler
c99
Doorknob
99: contraband
micsthepick
3:12 AM
yep
as4s4hetic
36:
a conlang that requires sacrifice
Mike Q
100.
Mechanical thingamabob
Eric Tressler
c100
Doorknob
100: contraption
Mike Q
100 ✔
Eric Tressler
3:14 AM
i guess we should make sure..
101:
Black and white
102:
Legal document
Mike Q
contact 101, 102
Doorknob
102: contract
Eric Tressler
correct
Doorknob
36: contribute?
as4s4hetic
36 correct
Eric Tressler
3:16 AM
71:
Public opinion varies on the way the whole zombie thing was handled
Doorknob
71: controversy?
Eric Tressler
71 ✔
Mike Q
103.
Not not negative
Doorknob
I feel really dumb but pass 101
Mike Q
101 Contrast?
Eric Tressler
3:17 AM
✔
Doorknob
oh, I'm an idiot
defending
C O N T R A
Mike Q
103 lives.
Eric Tressler
70 dies, it was CONTRITION
Sp3000
99. ☝️☝️👇👇👈👉👈👉
Eric Tressler
c99
Mike Q
3:18 AM
contact 99
micsthepick
I can't see 99 properly
it's mostly rendering as squares
Doorknob
103: contradiction/contradictory?
Mike Q
103 Nope
Doorknob
I know what 99 is but not how to make it fit >_<
pass 99
Eric Tressler
99 is Contra
Mike Q
3:20 AM
99 Contra
Sp3000
Yup
Doorknob
oh welp
Eric Tressler
@micsthepick it was the konami code in finger emojis
Doorknob
defending
C O N T R A P
micsthepick
18:
doohickey
Doorknob
3:21 AM
18: contraption
Mike Q
103 survives
micsthepick
yes
Eric Tressler
200:
Counterpoint
Doorknob
pass 200
Eric Tressler
200 is contrapunto
Doorknob
3:22 AM
can you guess on your own clue? .-.
was defending
CONTRAPUNTAL
Eric Tressler
i thought the rules change when there's an immediate pass
sorry
Mike Q
103 was Contrapositive (despite the missing definition :D)
Doorknob
@EricTressler oh I don't know either
Sp3000
Yeah I think you're meant to let others guess, and if nobody can get it then you keep making the clue easier (or give the clue "The word X")
Doorknob
@MikeQ oh :P
Eric Tressler
3:23 AM
@Sp3000 Alright, my fault
Sp3000
I mean, the effect is the same, but it's just more interesting to see if anyone else knows the word first :P (I didn't for this one though)
ffao
contrapuntal? o_O
I'm surprised someone other than the defender knew this
Eric Tressler
it's like "the answering tune" in music
Doorknob
@ffao I've seen/heard it used and I wouldn't consider myself particularly well versed in music theory :P
Eric Tressler
That was a good game; nice job, @Doorknob
Doorknob
3:28 AM
thanks! sorry again for disappearing in the middle of it >_<
Eric Tressler
anyone up for one more?
Eric is defending:
F
Doorknob
1:
not a dog
Eric Tressler
is 1 feline? fish? fox?
Doorknob
1 was feline
Eric Tressler
well, I guess this is over
'night
Doorknob
3:38 AM
goodnight!
14 hours later…
micsthepick
6:01 PM
40:
unrestricted
caird coinheringaahing
Contact 40
DJMcMayhem
6:31 PM
Ooh, is a game going on?
John Dvorak
I guess... Eric is technically defending ... and probably not asleep anymore.
Eric Tressler
7:06 PM
Hi there. I can't play right now, sorry
I'll be back around in ~3 hours
3 hours later…
micsthepick
10:22 PM
65440:
...
Eric Tressler
is 40 Free
and for the other one, all I can think of is.. -96. Integer overflow. Nothing that starts with F
it's not a factorial
is 65440 Forty?
ffao
c65440
Eric Tressler
oh, it's a SE #, I guess
ffao
actually it's not
Eric Tressler
Nope, I just went to a room that has been quiet for 74 days
Fibonacci?
@micsthepick are you around?
-
@ffao I pass 65440, because it's going to bother me until someone tells me what it means
five (digits)?
ffao
10:43 PM
65440 (dec) = 0xffa0 (hex)
Eric Tressler
I almost guessed your name, but I checked your SE #. I remember now, I've lost on this clue before
Eric is defending
F L
ffao
I remember mics used it against
someone
, but I didn't know it was you
Eric Tressler
Yeah. My memory is not fantastic
I'm pretty sure I noticed it was very close to 2^16 last time too, so at least I'm predictable.
DJMcMayhem
Ooh I'll join in
67:
No handlebars
@EricTressler @ffao You around right now?
Eric Tressler
I am
DJMcMayhem
10:50 PM
I'll see if I can get some TNB peeps
ffao
I was just mentioned (indirectly) and decided to chime in
caird coinheringaahing
Someone mention Contact? :P
ffao
but I'm more focused on watching games right now
caird coinheringaahing
12
: Bobbing number
micsthepick
back (on mobile)
40 was freeform
Eric Tressler
10:54 PM
I'm still here, I just don't have any idea about these clues yet
DJMcMayhem
68:
Speechless
Eric Tressler
is 68 Flustered or Flummoxed?
DJMcMayhem
No
Just FYI @all, I might randomly leave. Feel free to ping if you need me
flawr
contact 67
(I'm hope I correctly understood the game:)
DJMcMayhem
Hehe
Eric Tressler
10:58 PM
is 68 Floored?
DJMcMayhem
No
Eric Tressler
pass 67
flawr
I now have to reveal my guess for 67, right?
Eric Tressler
yes
flawr
67 is flobots
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