Codenames

I don't see anything more plausible than mint, root, cotton. Mint is maybe marginally less likely because mint=blue makes a red clue of "kitchen" a little less likely, so I'd guess it last.

Rubio

sounds good. RED it is.

Sconibulus

I agree with that train of though

Gareth McCaughan

so shall we begin with cotton?

dcfyj

1:29 PM

All these caps are making me think of the sorting hat

Sconibulus

sure, and now stepping away

COTTON

Cotton is Neutral

wat

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1:30 PM

:(

incesterror21

Limousine probably

n_palum

Gareth McCaughan

ok, red is going to win

never mind

n_palum

ANCIENT (2)

Sp3000

Atlantis/Dinosaur?

dcfyj

1:31 PM

@GarethMcCaughan hmm, maybe.

Gareth McCaughan

ancient garments develop holes

incesterror21

@Sp3000 Oh right, now that sounds better

Go guess the two

n_palum

Stop that Gareth

Gareth McCaughan

shan't

Rubio

dinosaur, ~~gareth~~ ~~rubio~~ himalayas, atlantis maybe

Sp3000

1:31 PM

ATLANTIS

n_palum

Atlantis is RED

Sp3000

Hmm I considered but aren't as sure about Himalayas tbh

incesterror21

Himalaya is still there as far as I know

Rubio

dino next then

Sp3000

DINOSAUR

n_palum

1:32 PM

Dinosaur is also RED

Sp3000

Woo

incesterror21

It makes we want to guess genious for some reason

But let's better not do that

n_palum

Sp3000

I feel like unfathomable might have been for water/atlantis after all, but I'm not sure. I'd probably pass

Rubio

did we miss a clue earlier? i didn't scroll back

incesterror21

1:33 PM

I'd pass for there are only 2 left

Even if we guessed 1 right, we'd have to wait one more round anway

yeah i'd say pass

PASS

You're up dc

VEHICLE (UNLIMITED)

@Rubio The clues were MUSIC (3) [which we think were dance/flute/box], UNFATHOMABLE (2), KITCHEN (2) [which we think were plate/water] and ANCIENT (2)

n_palum

1:34 PM

Oh snap

dcfyj

hehe

incesterror21

Alright I'll be off

Good luck team!

Gareth McCaughan

ok. so, @Sconibulus when you return, here's how it is. We have 4 things to find. COTTON turned out to be a big mistake so we have 3 left over from PLANTS; presumably mint and root and the gods only know what else. Plus VEHICLE which surely means limousine at least

dcfyj

later

Gareth McCaughan

bye @incesterror21

Sp3000

1:37 PM

Gareth could probably start guessing some leftovers methinks :P

Gareth McCaughan

I don't see any very plausible other candidates for "vehicle". So we can either pick cotton, root, limousine and hope Red are unable to link whatever their remaining two spies are; or we can guess at something else that might possibly have been clued by "plant"

I could, but my teammate should be back very soon and am content to think aloud while we await his return. Let me know if that's annoying to anyone else.

n_palum

He gave you unlimited, that doesn't mean you have to guess the board, but you can

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum I know.

Sp3000

Oh right, didn't realise Scon had left for a bit, sorry

Sconibulus

sorry, I'm back now

dcfyj

1:38 PM

I don't see why you'd guess cotton when it's already revealed though

Gareth McCaughan

I said cotton but meant mint, sorry.

Sconibulus

the last plant might be Heart?

Gareth McCaughan

why?

artichokes?

heartwood?

Sconibulus

artichoke hearts, heartwood, the plum I mentioned earlier, I think there's heart lettuce too

it's my least likely, but if we need a fourth guess

Gareth McCaughan

ok, so how about this? guess mint/root/limousine in some order and then maybe heart

Sconibulus

1:41 PM

yeah, that was my thought

blue guess: MINT

MINT is a blue word

blue guess: ROOT

OOPS

Yep blue

1:42 PM

blue guess: LIMOUSINE

dcfyj

LIMOUSINE is a blue word

Gareth McCaughan

wait

n_palum

Also blue

Gareth McCaughan

was root confirmed blue?

n_palum

I confirmed it

Gareth McCaughan

1:42 PM

or was n_palum's earlier comment just confirming mint?

ok

dcfyj

it was, I accidentally edit my previous post

Gareth McCaughan

ah

ok. so we now have two of our three for "plants", and one for "vehicle". we have one left to guess and red have two. shall we take a punt on HEART, @Sconibulus?

(I think I think we should, but am not very sure)

Sconibulus

2 words is dangerous, I'd rather guess, although let's look over in case there's a better guess than heart

Gareth McCaughan

blue guess: HEART

dcfyj

HEART is a blue word! We WIN!

Gareth McCaughan

1:43 PM

oops

Oh wow

phew

BAH

Nice :)

mwahahaha

going unlimited was a good choice mehtinks

n_palum

1:44 PM

Lucky Scon pulled heart out

Gareth McCaughan

(I submitted that before noticing Sc. had said we should look through the words again. still, can't argue with success)

n_palum

unlimited just let them go back on the plants

Sconibulus

Yay!

Gareth McCaughan

I'd wondered briefly about heart too

dcfyj

exactly

I didn't even see cotton

n_palum

1:44 PM

I was going to clue WRESTLING (2) next

Gareth McCaughan

though I wouldn't have had the courage to try it if Sc. hadn't suggested it independently, I think

dcfyj

My plants were mint, root, and heart

Sp3000

So... which ones were intended by UNFATHOMABLE again?

n_palum

Which would've hopefully got ARM and PIN to finish.

dcfyj

@n_palum ooh nice

n_palum

1:45 PM

@Sp3000 Atlantis and Dinosaurs....

Gareth McCaughan

A fathom is a measure of length or, more usually, depth, about 2m in size.
To fathom something is to determine its depths.
So something unfathomable is something too deep to measure.
I have no idea where BOX came from but I think Team Red got lucky :-).

dcfyj

That's what I thought

Sp3000

Dinosaurs?

Gareth McCaughan

Full fathom five thy father lies; / Of his bones are coral made; / Those are pearls that were his eyes; / Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange. (Something like that, anyway. My memory is unreliable.)

Sconibulus

...Dinosaurs are unfathomable?

n_palum

1:45 PM

Music was BOX

Sconibulus

Box was music I thought

Gareth McCaughan

No idea why dinosaurs would be unfathomable

Sconibulus

I assumed it was Atlantis and Hole

Gareth McCaughan

I'd have been wondering about GENIUS and, er, HEART. As well as WATER and HOLE

n_palum

When incest kept talking Himalayas I was freaking out

Sconibulus

1:46 PM

I don't like Water, because Fathoms were almost exclusively used to measure Water depth

Rubio

heh

I said Himalayas for ancient

Sconibulus

like, I thought it might be an explicit warning that Water was Assassin

dcfyj

@n_palum lol I know I was like, please guess it!

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, on the one hand water is exactly what is fathomable; on the other hand it's the right kind of thing to talk about being unfathomable (if extra-deep)

Sp3000

I believe that was Rubio actually :P but I don't think we'd have actually guessed it

Gareth McCaughan

1:47 PM

so anyway, 'nother?

Rubio

(well ... they are ancient..)

Sp3000

Sure

n_palum

I wasn't thinking of the unexplorable part of the definition but rather the hard to comprehend part

E.g dinosaurs we may know about, but we can't comprehend what it would be like to actually be with them

Rubio

"extinct" would have been a safer clue

n_palum

Yeah, that's why I did Ancient after..

Sconibulus

1:48 PM

What's hard to comprehend about dinosaurs? They're like dragon myths without the firespitting

dcfyj

lol

Gareth McCaughan

so, new game. "The question is, who is to be master -- that's all"

n_palum

If you passed on heart I think we had it

dcfyj

I really wanted to clue plants earlier, but that pesky water was hanging around :P

n_palum

New masters, who wants it

Sp3000

1:49 PM

I wouldn't mind trying master once before I sleep

Gareth McCaughan

ok, Sp3000 for one spymaster

Sconibulus

I'll try? Never done it before

n_palum

Same teams, just put a new master per team?

Gareth McCaughan

Sconibulus for the other

dcfyj

It's fun, you have to really consider the board with your clues though

Gareth McCaughan

1:49 PM

same teams seems OK with me

dcfyj

Fine by me

n_palum

7565486

Gareth McCaughan

Team Red: Sconibulus*, n_palum, incesterror21, Rubio

n_palum

Random number

Gareth McCaughan

oops no

n_palum

1:50 PM

That is not at all right

Gareth McCaughan

Team Red: Sp3000*, n_palum, incesterror, Rubio

Team Blue: Sconibulus*, Gareth McCaughan, dcfyj

n_palum

Also incest is gone

Sp3000

I was going to ask if we wanted to PGP the seed but I guess we can trust people here :P (right?)

Gareth McCaughan

d'oh, so he is. well, never mind, we'll keep his seat warm

n_palum

@Sp3000 I think we're just honor system-ing

Gareth McCaughan

1:50 PM

The only effect of cheating would be to remove all fun from the game.

dcfyj

I might need to leave here soon, not sure

n_palum

I just pulled a number for you, that's all

Sp3000

Sure :) that works

Sconibulus

@n_palum Nurse at top left, Press at bottom right?

oh, wait, oops

n_palum

Yep

I just opened it to pull a screen shot to start, but one of the masters needs to do it from then on

Sconibulus

1:51 PM

we click on the boxes to see what they are I guess?

n_palum

If you click spymaster top right, you'll reveal it all

dcfyj

@Sconibulus click the spymaster button

n_palum

If you click them individually you'll reveal one

Sconibulus

Ahh, cool

thanks

n_palum

If they're already revealed and you click again they'll turn green

Gareth McCaughan

1:52 PM

so does that red line at the left mean red starts?

n_palum

I had one open with the revealed board, and one open that I was getting snippets from

Yes, it means they have the 9

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan huh, hadn't noticed that. The ones with more spies start

Mithrandir

(if you need me, ping me - I'm not going to be paying active attention at the moment)

n_palum

Thanks Mith

Sp3000

Apparently I was looking at the wrong board because a leading space was present

n_palum

1:53 PM

Yeah spaces mess up the seed

Gareth McCaughan

wow, that's good software engineering

dcfyj

odd seeding

you'd think it would only take digits lol

Rubio

heh. you wanna see weird, keep typing 9 as seed digits

dcfyj

Yeah, it stops changing pretty quickly

Gareth McCaughan

bloody hell

n_palum

1:54 PM

The dead face

Anyhoo, Sp you're up

Sp3000

Hmmm

REVIVE (3)

Sconibulus

dcfyj

Keep in mind the number should reflect the amount of words that your clue relates to on the board, not how many you want it to relate to.

Rubio

(sometime later this week) - "imgur is full of grids of words, we're shutting down the service until we find out what is going on"

Gareth McCaughan

"terrorist activity is suspected"

dcfyj

1:57 PM

He's using puu.sh

n_palum

@dcfyj Not necessarily

dcfyj

@n_palum That's how deusovi explained it

Rubio

nurse, wake, life seem likely to me

n_palum

Hmm I like nurse/wake, with wake a little more

Life is probable too.

Stretches are spring (back to life) or press (as in CPR)

dcfyj

Snowman works too :P

n_palum

1:59 PM

Oh gosh, ya know, you're right

dcfyj

lol

n_palum

@Rubio I'm good with nurse/life/wake any order

Rubio

I think I like WAKE, NURSE, LIFE in that order

n_palum

WAKE

Sp3000

WAKE is red

n_palum

1:59 PM

NURSE

Sp3000

NURSE is red

n_palum

LIFE

Sp3000

LIFE is also red

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