Codenames

I'm not sure I understand what you just said. In what possible way would "taking hints from the words themselves" be like cheating, as ... well ... isn't that sort of the point?

boboquack

incesterror21

Yes, that's what I should do. But usually I have to deal with a single word

Wen1now

Should we not get a spymaster to do the picture uploading?

boboquack

And yes, I'm back

Hey Incest I think we should have done GHOST

incesterror21

@boboquack How come?

boboquack

8:37 AM

'Haunted'

Rubio

Oooh, Gareth!

boboquack

Oh hi @Gareth!

ffao

I'm really out of ideas, so...

boboquack

Come to join the RED team and level out numbers?

Wen1now

Hi!

ffao

8:37 AM

BLUE: inn, 1

bah

HOTEL

Chest

That might be because our team is really bad

incesterror21

No doubt

ffao

8:37 AM

Hotel is blue, how surprising :P

Wen1now

Let's NOT pass

Sid

Wait, we have one more try.

Wen1now

We can still have another shot at laser

Sid

Right, @number Yes, what did we have for laser?

Wen1now

shot and lab

numbermaniac

8:38 AM

shot and lab were our options

though maybe tap???

and ghost

ghost is danger.

oh yes, and ghost

hi @boboquack @Rubio

8:38 AM

maybe I should start 'helping' red team

numbermaniac

why ghost?

rip

Wen1now

No, sorry, that was sarcasm

numbermaniac

alright

Sid

No, not ghost, that is. Should we go for Shot or Lab?

Or tap?

Gareth McCaughan

I have never played Codenames in a chat room before and am still getting my head around how it works. I can join whichever team has fewer players if you like, but it may be a while before I'm any use.

Wen1now

8:39 AM

I thought shot immediately

Rubio

RED: Rubio*, boboquack, incesterror21, Gareth

Wen1now

so shot probs

numbermaniac

yeah ok shot

SHOT

ffao

Rubio and Gareth in red, we can do this boys

Wen1now

could laser be trip?

ffao

8:40 AM

Shot is blue!

Red turn

YES!

Yay!

Yeah!

Good job, guys.

8:41 AM

Red's turn, then?

Rubio

yup. one moment or 3 please

boboquack

I reckon incest and gareth since rubio clued the haunted haight walking tour, ghost is a good option

WDY(a)T?

Gareth McCaughan

seems plausible

numbermaniac

never seen that acronym before, wow

Wen1now

What's incest?

numbermaniac

8:42 AM

@incesterror21

Gareth McCaughan

he surely wouldn't have given that clue if it were a blue word

Try google from home

Oh I got it

@GarethMcCaughan Ya

Ok let's try this.

RED: Captain Ahab (2)

Gareth McCaughan

8:42 AM

but obv put ghost last unless clearly indicated by R's new clue too

Wen1now

see if you guys can get the assassin

boboquack

...?

Gareth McCaughan

well, whale seems a given

ffao

I heard if you guys pick the assassin you win

incesterror21

yes, agreed

ffao

8:42 AM

you should try that

boboquack

Who is Captain Ahab?

incesterror21

Let's pick the whale assassin

boboquack

@ffao :D

Gareth McCaughan

(in case anyone isn't familiar, Captain Ahab is from Melville's Moby-Dick)

boboquack

Ah

Wen1now

8:43 AM

same with trip, captain ahab loved going on business trips

Gareth McCaughan

(a long novel about a guy obsessed with chasing a giant whale)

boboquack

I only know Ishmael

Wen1now

He carried around a horseshoe

boboquack

@GarethMcCaughan (cough, cough) A book first!

Wen1now

In his trunk

Gareth McCaughan

8:43 AM

@boboquack I remember it being used as an example of how punctuation is important. Imagine that it started "Call me, Ishmael."

incesterror21

Let's get the whale before Ahab gets it!

numbermaniac

ok that's enough

boboquack

@GarethMcCaughan :D

@incesterror21 I'm fine with that

Gareth McCaughan

so, anyway, what other things are likely? WAVE has obvious maritime associations and at any rate R probably wouldn't have made the clue if WAVE were blue.

boboquack

Ya

Gareth McCaughan

8:44 AM

I don't remember whether there are trunks and chests in Moby-Dick; I bet there are but don't think they're particularly plot-point-y.

incesterror21

Did Ahab go nuts?

boboquack

OK, guess whale?

Gareth McCaughan

He was for sure a bit of a nut.

incesterror21

Whale+

Gareth McCaughan

I think guessing whale is safe, but what after that?

numbermaniac

8:45 AM

You guys must be having a whale of a time

incesterror21

For little a whale

boboquack

@GarethMcCaughan I'll guess it then (we can talk later)

WHALE

Rubio

WHALE is a RED word ✔

numbermaniac

That was a fast response Rubio wow

Gareth McCaughan

I expect he had it ready-typed and waiting for him to press enter.

ffao

8:46 AM

he had probably typed that before they guessed

Gareth McCaughan

Since he knew we were planning to make that guess

incesterror21

I think wave is a fair shot

numbermaniac

Presumably yeah

boboquack

Now, WAVE seems alright, but what about ynfre? (look back)

incesterror21

We had ghost right?

boboquack

8:47 AM

Are we more confident with GHOST or WHALE?

Gareth McCaughan

WAVE and NUT seem like the obvious next choices. (Perhaps incesterror21 was saying NUT as a joke, but it's actually somewhat plausible)

you mean GHOST or WAVE, right?

incesterror21

haunted seems pretty obvious

boboquack

GHOST, then?

incesterror21

+

boboquack

(tehn out of tehn for spelling)

Gareth McCaughan

8:48 AM

someone explain to me why we didn't guess GHOST last time?

boboquack

I wasn't there

And incest didn't choose to guess it

Gareth McCaughan

fair enough, I guess

boboquack

All in favour of GHOST say aye.

Aye

incesterror21

aye

Gareth McCaughan

aye (though I'd be just as happy with WAVE and almost as happy with NUT)

incesterror21

8:49 AM

@GarethMcCaughan It's new to me that clues can consist of several words. So I'm having troubles to use them tbh

GHOST

Rubio

GHOST is a RED word ✔

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, I didn't know (or had forgotten) that they could. Did someone say something specifically about titles?

incesterror21

Someone had to do to it

Gareth McCaughan

OK, shall we guess WAVE too? Or for that matter NUT?

incesterror21

I'm leaning towards wave

numbermaniac

8:50 AM

@Wen1now GHOST is the other word I was thinking was Red's :p

Sid

Waves are blue, if you guys know..

Rubio

Deus noted that proper nouns can be used, and offered "Pride and Prejudice" as an example.

I ran with it.

Wen1now

@numbermaniac Nice

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, lovers of whale puns might enjoy unsongbook.com; give it a few chapters to decide whether you like it.

(It is very odd, and surely not for everybody.)

incesterror21

So next one?

Wen1now

8:53 AM

Btw team blue, do you want to keep thinking about triangle?

Gareth McCaughan

so anyway, my guess is WAVE is 75% red 25% neutral and NUT is 60% red 35% neutral 5% blue.

if you see what I mean

boboquack

Hmm... OK

I say alright...

incesterror21

Wave is good since Ahab is a Captain

numbermaniac

@Wen1now good idea

boboquack

(but I'm not going to guess)

Wen1now

8:54 AM

What about assassin percentages?

Gareth McCaughan

any objections to wave from Team Red?

incesterror21

Britannia rule the waves, if you would do it @GarethMcCaughan

Gareth McCaughan

ok

red guess: WAVE

Rubio

WAVE is a BLUE word :(

ffao

Sid was right, waves are indeed blue

Gareth McCaughan

8:54 AM

bugger

Red's turn ends.

Yay!

Hehe..

Not possible

so I say NUT for next time

though nut with the nutmost confidence

Rubio

8:55 AM

groan

numbermaniac

ha

Sid

See, you guys should listen to me..

Gareth McCaughan

@Sid no, we really shouldn't

incesterror21

You nutter

Wen1now

Listening to us is a good choice

Sid

8:55 AM

Right, latest image?

Rubio

4 hours ago, by Deusovi

@Rubio Either a single word, a dictionary phrase ("ice cream" is okay, but not "red fruit"), or a proper noun ("New York", "Sharknado", "Pride and Prejudice")

^^ btw

numbermaniac

@ffao clue plox

ffao

give me a few moments please

numbermaniac

👍

incesterror21

~~(Y)~~

Too bad

Wen1now

8:58 AM