Codenames

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RED goes first!

user58

... @Avi - DON'T GUESS UNLESS I GIVE YOU AN EXPLICIT GO-AHEAD.

Just to make that clear.

Avi

8:07 PM

I'll leave the guessing to you

Rubiksmoose

Red: STRUCTURE (4)

El'endia Starman

Oooh, hot out the gate.

user58

THEATER, WELL, SCHOOL, BRIDGE

What do you think, @Avi?

Avi

looks good to me

user58

Okay, so I'm going with those.

THEATER

Shiro

8:13 PM

THEATER is Red

WELL

WELL is Red

SCHOOL

SCHOOL is Red

BRIDGE

8:14 PM

BRIDGE is Red

Avi

THEATER FIGURE made with MAPLE plays the SHADOW ORGAN WELL in a CONCERT, wearing one SOCK of COTTON, at the right FORK of RAY BOW street, where a NINJA STRIKE on an ICE CREAM parlor resulted in absconding away with a PLATE of confectionery across the BRIDGE, where the perpetrators ran into a LION trained in a SCHOOL in EGYPT; unfortunately, they were only taught OPERA and how to WORM a KIWI through a pass guarded by a CAT into a SUB.

[pass]

Nice clue.

Wow, nice.

8:15 PM

hopefully we don't get (8)en by them

El'endia Starman

I wonder if it's even possible to have an (8) clue given the possible words for Codenames.

Avi

sure

ALIVE (8)

or maybe ORGANIC (8)

Ray is alive, worm is alive, cat is alive, ninja is alive, maple is alive, lion is alive

that's 6

kiwi is organic, ice cream could be organic

user58

I think I've given a (7) once.

Avi

so all the living things + all the things that were once alive = 8 on this board itself

El'endia Starman

@user58 Wow, nice. How many did your team get?

user58

8:19 PM

I don't remember, to be honest

Avi

not 7, then?

John Dvorak

Blue: Underground(3)

user58

It wasn't online, so no handy transcript ;)

El'endia Starman

WORM and SUB for sure, maybe SHADOW?

Avi

pats El'endia on the shoulder there there

El'endia Starman

8:21 PM

Oh right, I'm playing solo. Okay then!

Avi

@user58 Oh, this can be played offline? nice

El'endia Starman

@Avi Yeah, I have a physical version.

WORM

Shiro

WORM is Blue

user58

Codenames (board game)

Codenames is a 2015 card game for 4–8 players designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games. Two teams compete by each having a Spymaster give one word clues which can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team. In the 2–3 player variant, one Spymaster gives clues to the other player or players. In 2016 Codenames won the Spiel des Jahres award for the best board game of the year. == Rules == Codenames is a game of guessing which code names (words) in a set are related to a hint-word...

El'endia Starman

SUB

Shiro

8:22 PM

SUB is Blue

PiIsNot3

!join

Shiro

Hi PiIsNot3, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: John Dvorak, El'endia Starman, PiIsNot3

Avi

hi fives @PiIsNot3

good luck

PiIsNot3

I’ll be around for one game, then I’ll dash

!board

El'endia Starman

I see several other possibilities for "underground" but none I like as much as SHADOW.

Shiro

8:23 PM

El'endia Starman

@PiIsNot3 Clue is UNDERGROUND (3) and I already got WORM and SUB. Think of playing SHADOW.

PiIsNot3

What else are we thinking about besides SHADOW?

El'endia Starman

Other possibilities that are tenuous are NINJA, EGYPT, MAPLE, ORGAN.

PiIsNot3

I can see NINJA and EGYPT, why MAPLE and ORGAN?

Avi

the underground organ trade?

maple roots?

El'endia Starman

8:25 PM

And maybe KIWI since that's from "the land down under". That would be hilarious.

user58

AVI HUSH

Avi

yes

PiIsNot3

Not underground though

I feel like SHADOW is the most likely candidate, all the others are somewhat more tenuous than that one

El'endia Starman

New Zealand is technically underground relative to where I am...

But yeah, I don't like the other options.

SHADOW

Shiro

SHADOW is Blue

El'endia Starman

8:26 PM

awesome

Good

[PASS]

[pass]

!who

8:27 PM

!whomstdve

Shiro

We are currently waiting for a clue from the Red spymaster.

PiIsNot3

!board

Shiro

El'endia Starman

Why would you do !board when it's literally four messages up.

Avi

cause pi wants to see the !board duh

and pi wants to see the !board RIGHT NOW

PiIsNot3

8:29 PM

@El'endiaStarman It wasn’t showing up for me for some reason

Rubiksmoose

Red: UNDERWEAR (3)

user58

*sigh*

Avi

sock, cotton?

maybe some slang that I don't know

John Dvorak

!who

El'endia Starman

@Rubiksmoose You're red.

Shiro

8:30 PM

Red currently has 4 guesses remaining.

Rubiksmoose

@El'endiaStarman :P

John Dvorak

Huh...

El'endia Starman

...the color doesn't matter?

Rubiksmoose

oh, huh

Avi

nani

did egypt have underwear

user58

8:31 PM

To be clear: @Rubiks, that clue is in fact for red words and not blue words, correct?

Rubiksmoose

@user58 Correct.

user58

I like COTTON, ORGAN, and SOCK.

Avi

organ why

I also considered it to be fair

user58

...underwear.

Avi

underwear?

user58

8:32 PM

Underwear.

Avi

I guess

go for it, but organ last

user58

Fine. COTTON > SOCK > ORGAN.

COTTON

COTTON is Red

SOCK

SOCK is Red

8:33 PM

ORGAN

ORGAN is Red

Whee.

[pass]

welp

8:33 PM

Nice.

El'endia Starman

we're doomed so doomed

Won't go down without a fight though!

PiIsNot3

At least we aren’t taking half an hour to guess anymore

El'endia Starman

hehehe

To be fair, those were hard clues.

Avi

good clues

I was thinking that underwear goes on your figure

so like, Calvin Klein underwear models show off their figure

and/or other underwear models

but it's organ, go figure

user58

If it was SOCK, COTTON, and FIGURE, it likely would have been "model".

John Dvorak

8:36 PM

Blue: Nile(2)

Avi

o.o

PiIsNot3

Obv the Nile is in EGYPT

There can be a FORK in a river, which the Nile is

What else? CAT for the Egypt reference? Is there an opera involving the Nile?

El'endia Starman

EGYPT, definitely.

PiIsNot3

Also the (2) makes me worried

Let’s play EGYPT first then

El'endia Starman

The Nile has a river delta but not a fork, I don't think. Possible that CAT is a follow-on from Egypt, yes.

PiIsNot3

8:38 PM

EGYPT

Shiro

EGYPT is Blue

PiIsNot3

2 is probably not enough to win anyway, so we should probably speed this up

El'endia Starman

OPERA doesn't make sense.

PiIsNot3

Unless Red’s last 2 are super hard to clue together

El'endia Starman

Let's go for CAT.

PiIsNot3

8:39 PM

Sure, playing CAT

CAT

Shiro

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

El'endia Starman

Alright, it's probably FORK then.

first yellow :(

Tentative GG

Ice cream split :o

8:40 PM

Red: DAIRY QUEEN (2)

ice cream for sure

ICE CREAM

ICE CREAM is Red

don't they also sell smoothies

user58

!board

Shiro

8:41 PM

user58

I don't know much about Dairy Queen. I've never been to one, and I don't think any exist in my country.

Avi

they're like

fast food and ice cream

mayyyyybe smoothies

never been to one myself though

just heard about it

user58

Would PLATE be an option, then?

Avi

probably

either that or maple

in which case the clue might've been Flavorful

for Maple (syrup) and Ice cream

or Sugary

user58

ICE CREAM + MAPLE could be clued with, e.g., "sweet".

Avi

8:43 PM

yeah

user58

KIWI is also there, though.

Avi

we can try it

user58

At this point I think PLATE is our best bet.

Avi

actually I'm learning kiwi now

El'endia Starman

I'm honestly not sure what the second word is supposed to be either. I know I'm on the Blue team but still, nothing obvious is jumping out to me either, so it's not just you. :)

Avi

8:43 PM

because kiwi is a flavor of ice cream?

user58

Everything is a flavor of ice cream. I feel like there are better clues for ICE CREAM + KIWI.

Avi

might've done FLAVORING as the hint then x.x

maple isn't a flavor - but kiwi is

e.g. Kiwi smoothie with maple syrup

user58

I could be wrong, but without knowledge of the exact franchise that was clued, I'm leaning PLATE over KIWI.

Avi

fair enough

go for it

user58

PLATE

Shiro

8:45 PM

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

user58

Ah, well.

El'endia Starman

we have a chance

PiIsNot3

@Avi I’m not on your team, but I’ve heard of maple ice cream before but not kiwi ice cream

Avi

huh

El'endia Starman

If DQ comes from New Zealand, that would explain KIWI.

I don't know though.

PiIsNot3

8:46 PM

@El'endiaStarman How will our remaining 4 clues be clued though? That’s the issue

John Dvorak

Blue: Violoncello(3)

PiIsNot3

The (2) made me believe our words are really difficult to group together

Avi

oh, tragic

PiIsNot3

Hmm OK, interesting clue

Rubiksmoose

!whois

El'endia Starman

8:46 PM

BOW for one.

Shiro

Blue currently has 4 guesses remaining.

El'endia Starman

We also have the NILE (2) clue that we missed one from. It'd be possible to win this turn.

CONCERT for two.

PiIsNot3

I’m assuming a violoncello is some kind of string instrument

El'endia Starman

Maybe OPERA for three.

PiIsNot3

So it would have a BOW, yes

El'endia Starman

8:47 PM

Yes it is.

PiIsNot3

And you can probably hear it being played at a CONCERT or an OPERA, yes

STRIKE is a fourth possibility though, because you can strike a note on a string instrument

El'endia Starman

STRIKE is a distant possibility.

Let's play BOW, CONCERT, OPERA first?

PiIsNot3

BOW definitely, I’ll have to think more about CONCERT and OPERA

Playing BOW

BOW

Shiro

BOW is Blue

El'endia Starman

A (violin)cello is a string instrument used in orchestras.

PiIsNot3

8:50 PM

I’m having trouble understanding why our SM would give us a 2 clue before this one though

El'endia Starman

If you've ever seen a PianoGuys music video, that guy (not the pianist) plays a cello.

PiIsNot3

Was there a specific word that needed to be cleared in order for “Violoncello” to work?

El'endia Starman

Maybe just didn't see this connection yet?

Ah, ORGAN maybe, as a musical instrument?

PiIsNot3

Either OPERA or STRIKE were unintended imo

El'endia Starman

Also THEATER as in a music hall.

PiIsNot3

8:52 PM

ORGAN was already found

THEATER too

user58

!board

El'endia Starman

Oh wait, THEATER was found early. I thought ORGAN was recent though?

Shiro

PiIsNot3

@El'endiaStarman ORGAN was before the “Nile” clue

El'endia Starman

Ah, sure enough.

PiIsNot3

8:53 PM

I’m feeling better about CONCERT than OPERA, so I think we should go for CONCERT first

El'endia Starman

I still think that John simply didn't notice the connection until recently.

CONCERT

Shiro

CONCERT is Blue

PiIsNot3

Current order is CONCERT > FORK (for “Nile”) > OPERA ~ STRIKE (one of these was unintended for sure)

El'endia Starman

We also have one word left over for NILE (2).

hey wait

LION for similarity to the Sphinx?

PiIsNot3

@El'endiaStarman If that were the case, then “Pyramid” should’ve been our clue

El'endia Starman

8:54 PM

Yeah, good point.

PiIsNot3

And we already found CAT to be Yellow, so LION was probably unintended as well

Avi

@PiIsNot3 or SPHINX :P

El'endia Starman

Play FORK then?

PiIsNot3

I’m feeling good about FORK, we only have one turn anyway

Playing FORK

FORK

Shiro

FORK is Blue

El'endia Starman

8:55 PM

yusss

OPERA?

I like OPERA more than STRIKE.

PiIsNot3

OPERA or STRIKE now, hmm...

I have a suspicion that OPERA was the unintended word, because CONCERT + OPERA would’ve been really easy to clue after ORGAN and THEATER went down

Instead we got “Nile,” so that leads me to believe OPERA isn’t what we’re looking for

El'endia Starman

Hmm. That's a fair point.

PiIsNot3

Plus, why “Violoncello” when “Music” could’ve done the same job?

El'endia Starman

Because BOW.

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