Codenames - 2019-11-11 (page 3 of 6)

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7:00 PM

!newgame Rubiksmoose, user58, Avi, John Dvorak

RED: user58, John Dvorak

BLUE: Rubiksmoose, Avi

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/mvwflfhlhkxes2aexjovllm2crfsd9j
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/1wuv5gji3no6fa8eh14a5hq9v0d9wsj

Please save the seed somewhere! As a last resort if any of you happens to forget the seed, you can type !recall to get a new link.

RED goes first!

El'endia Starman

!join

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Hi El'endia Starman, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: Rubiksmoose, Avi, El'endia Starman

El'endia Starman

Gotta balance out Avi. ;)

lol

7:01 PM

nooooo

tied up

@El'endiaStarman you're hampering my ability to lose the game

El'endia Starman

Aw shucks, guess I'll go join the other team. :P

...y'know, I'm really tempted to try playing on both teams on purpose.

you could just, you know, switch teams every turn

El'endia Starman

The other players here might get annoyed by that. :)

or just join both teams

or join john

stop him from guessing the assassin

Red: sweet (2)

7:04 PM

CHOCOLATE

CHOCOLATE is Red

MAPLE

MAPLE is Red

[pass]

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7:06 PM

Now Bismarck = Germany, Contract, Cross

o, Nova Scotia you're weeping
I will always hear your name

Spectate = WATCH , GAME, PLAY

Generating words for your SM to clue. Now that's a new one.

nah, just thinking of good ones

I can see how that could be abused

El'endia Starman

7:08 PM

...what's the point of guessing at clues without knowing what words are which colors?

the actual groupings must be a lot tougher since it's taking him a while to clue

uhhhh, it's fun to come up with clues

has the unfortunate downside of providing hints for the other SM too

VENERABLE = WASHINGTON, QUEEN, PRINCESS, CAPITAL

Blue: SKI (2)

TECHNOLOGY = LASER, JET, HELICOPTER, GERMANY, WATCH

tragic

El'endia Starman

JET and POINT?

JET

7:11 PM

JET is Blue

POINT

POINT is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Red's turn

El'endia Starman

wait

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El'endia Starman

Avi, I wasn't done.

7:11 PM

Should we do something to stop guessers from doing the cluers' jobs, however badly? :P

:(

nah, it's fine

El'endia Starman

DIAMOND is another possibility because "black diamond" as a measure of skiing difficulty.

put a limit on it though

we'll do DIAMOND first thing next turn then

El'endia Starman

Coulda done that last turn.

coulda

7:13 PM

Red: Elizabeth (0)

...

so not royals

Not queen then

Perhaps not princess either

Diamond, as a different suit of cards?

DIAMOND

DIAMOND is Red

uhhhhhh

7:15 PM

yay

El'endia Starman

lol, guess not

saved by john

ski through the Forest?

OH

No other suit, so perhaps Game?

found it

El'endia Starman

Ski Free is a well-known game.

7:17 PM

CROSS country skiing

El'endia Starman

oh, that's a good option

OTOH, Elizabethan collar is a thing, so maybe not dog, and therefore calf?

El'endia Starman

See, don't just guess the first thing that comes to mind.

Finding clues like that would be a hell to pull off though

lol

7:18 PM

GAME

GAME is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Blue's turn

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Play also on a backburner

Read: user58(0)

You are not an SM

i know, that's why it's Read, not Red

don't want to accidentally trigger bugs in Shiro

7:19 PM

Blue: FETCH (3)

You accidentally triggered a bug in me

donk

CROSS

CROSS is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Red's turn

whattttt

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El'endia Starman

7:19 PM

!leave

BLUE: Rubiksmoose, Avi

no way

anyways, what do we know

AVI TALK WITH YOUR TEAM.

definitely dog

See what you're done?

El'endia Starman

7:20 PM

I ain't playing with you anymore.

alrighty

join john's team :)

*...sigh*.

@Rubiksmoose ok

See, Avi, you are supposed to play well. And if not that, at least play along with your team's strategy.

I know what was clued this turn, just not what was clued last turn

7:23 PM

Red: leader (3)

Then ask. Or scroll up.

rubiks can probably give an unlimited next turn

by that I mean - I saw the clue (SKI), but I don't know what's associated with it

How is an unlimited going to help somebody with the working memory of one clue?

might be forest

@Avi That doesn't mean you go guess unilaterally.

7:24 PM

true

Oh.

WASHINGTON

Seriously, people are getting quite frustrated with you.

WASHINGTON is Red

Please take a hint from the way other people around here are playing.

Their strategy is not necessarily optimal

talking with teammates is optimal, though

7:26 PM

Princess is more leadery than Calf, and I suppose E wasn't famous before she got queened...

@Avi That doesn't matter. The etiquette remains the same.

Leader's a term from typography. Is it a type of block?

Germany, mayhaps?

GERMANY

GERMANY is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Blue's turn

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Definitely going for DOG, PLAY, MOUTH, FOREST

after whatever current clue does

Blue: GUARD (unlimited)

7:29 PM

WATCH

WATCH is Blue

BLOCK

BLOCK is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Red's turn

what

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7:30 PM

There goes my typography idea

that was literally

a perfect mapping of meaning

;-;

;^;

ooh, capital letter

derp

thanks

I'm also wondering if dogs are natural leaders

well, I was already going to play dog, mouth, play, forest

7:36 PM

Red: lake (unlimited)

so no point hinting for those

LOCH NESS

LOCH NESS is Red

unlimited means I have at least two excess

CAPITAL

CAPITAL is Red

7:36 PM

what

DOG

DOG is Blue
When will you learn?
It is now Blue's turn

why did my SM give a hint in all Capital letters then

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Oops. Not leadery enough.

7:37 PM

Definitely going for DOG, PLAY, MOUTH

Princess next then.

might not be going for forest anymore

guard the queen?

maybe

but eh

OH

LIFEGUARD

probably forest guard as a national ranger or something

mouth, play, life, forest

life, mouth, play, forest

Blue: 007 (2)

LIFE

LIFE is Blue

7:43 PM

MOUTH

MOUTH is Blue

FOREST

FOREST is Yellow (neutral)
It is now Red's turn

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sad

probably going for queen though

I love how Avi just straight up ignores his clues

7:44 PM

Red: Jules Verne (2)

I don't know what 007 means, sorry

NOVEL

NOVEL is Red

@Avi It's one less than 008 and one more than 006.

That's all I could get out of it :(

7:45 PM

I know of 20000 Leagues under the Sea, but submarine's not on the board

@Avi now, if only you had somebody to ask ;)

true

Let's go for backlog.

@El'endiaStarman Do you know what 007 is

PRINCESS

PRINCESS is Red

7:46 PM

gg

or no, it's 1 left

Apologies for overthinking Elisabeth

!board

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1/6th to win, 4/6ths to lose from randomly guessing

I'm thinking, maybe he took one of Da Vinci's flying machines?

On the other hand...

7:48 PM

actually 1/5th to win, 4/5ths to lose, because you can't guess Queen

use your hint :)

Am I going to assume for a second that Avi could get three words correct in one turn?

yeah

nah

[pass]

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definitely going queen

please give some nice hints NOT related to random numbers that I don't know

7:50 PM

Blue: TAG (2)

QUEEN

QUEEN is Blue

LASER

LASER is Blue

and now is where I cry

PLAY

7:50 PM

PLAY is Blue
You are out of guesses. It is now Red's turn

...

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I apologize to my SM

El'endia Starman

...wat.

@El'endiaStarman :P

El'endia Starman

7:51 PM

Shiro, Blue won.

!finalboard

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dammit

@El'endiaStarman Shiro doesn't have anything built in for winning except the assassin.

865783344

DIAMOND, CHOCOLATE, MAPLE, CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, HELICOPTER, NOVEL, LOCH NESS, PRINCESS.

Thoughts: CHOCOLATE + MAPLE = "sweet" or "sugar".

DIAMOND + CAPITAL + WASHINGTON + PRINCESS can be clued with "leader" if the QUEEN gets out of the way.

(gives "sweet" clue)

CHOCOLATE down. MAPLE down. Passed.

Remaining words: DIAMOND, CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, HELICOPTER, NOVEL, LOCH NESS, PRINCESS.

Avi, you talk too much, as you've yourself stated.

Kinda hoping blue knocks out QUEEN for me.

El'endia suggests two words, Avi immediately jumps on them. One correct, one yellow.

865783344

PLAY QUEEN MOUTH DOG HET LIFE WATCH LASER

CALF is the assassin

Yikes, what a mess at first glance.

SECURITY/GUARD = QUEEN + DOG +LASER\

dangit, bloked by PRINCESS and maybe DIAMOND too. BLOCK as well.

We'll go with a small one first and see if Red can clear out some of those for me or hit mine accidentally. I'll find something new if now.

SKI = JET + PLAY

Calm down Avi!

Sigh Black Diamond skiing is definitely a thing. Dangit. Guess I'm lucky Avi was very hasty there, then again had they talked it over they might have done something else as well. We'll never know.

7:52 PM

well... at least I only almost killed us on turn one :P

What was 007 anyways?

@Avi James Bond.

'John gives me a "...". Methinks he's tired of the (0) clues :P" - yup! :P

uhhhh

I was hoping the codename would clue more towards Queen.

7:53 PM

are there books about james bond

and/or movies

....only like a dozen.

All I know about James Bond is "Spy"

Quite a few actually. Over 30 or more years I think.

a good idea then

but unfortunately I don't really watch movies

@JohnDvorak lol

7:55 PM

Out of curiosity, what was the "Fetch" clue, @Rubiks? There's no mention of it in your log.

@user58 Oops! It was DOG+MOUTH+PLAY

ye

that one I got

yup :)

unfortunately the "Ski" was throwing me all over the place

Aha, so not a reference to the PBS Kids gameshow called Fetch, which would've been all those + WATCH

7:56 PM

Ooh, 007 = laser. I didn't catch that one.

does james bond have a laser

@user58 oh dang, that would have been very clever. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with it myself.

shooting at him in one of the movies, yes

@Avi He generally has basically anything you can imagine that shoots, booms, or looks cool on screen.

xD

fair enough

o/

7:57 PM

007 is chained to an operating table and a visible-beam red laser is slowly creeping toward his crotch

D:

FWIW ski was my fault. I missed a bunch of obvious things I should have noticed.

it's all right

everyone misses connections

o/

the only unfortunate thing was that it happened so early in the game

John v Rubiks?

;O

7:58 PM

O/

@Rubiksmoose still better than when I switched from metallic to metal at the last split second, with death as the assassin

I'll see if I can redeem myself this time lol

Death is pretty metal :(

@JohnDvorak hah!

0/

7:59 PM

@El'endiaStarman if you're still around we're starting anew.

El'endia Starman

o/

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