Codenames

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

PiIsNot3

I’ve never seen both teams struggle this much in a game before

MilesZew

Yea

Avi

10:09 PM

ok, so "screen"

is to "separate"

like drug screening

or bomb screening at the airport

PiIsNot3

Doesn’t that usage mean “scanning”? No mention of separation anywhere

Avi

and parachute is involved in rocket separation

in reentry

we should do parachute first

PiIsNot3

PARACHUTE seems more likely, but it also works for “Dump” as well

Avi

then whatever the clue gives, then [pass]

or maybe just whatever the clue gives - you're right that it might be "dump" as well

xd

PiIsNot3

@Avi Maybe, depends on if we can find good connections between the clues that we already have

Avi

10:10 PM

which were: Ozone Hole, Separation?

PiIsNot3

Cause at this point there has to be overlap between clues now

Avi

was there another one

PiIsNot3

We missed 2 from “Ozone hole,” 2 from “Travels,” and all 3 from “Separation”

Avi

ah, Travels

John Dvorak

Red: Filter(3)

Avi

10:12 PM

looks like it's screen

PiIsNot3

Maybe CAR was an “Ozone hole” word?

Avi

and cloak

of course - planes and cars cause damage to ozone layer

PiIsNot3

SPRING water is filtered water

Avi

oooh, nice

PiIsNot3

I’m thinking about radiators that used CFCs

Avi

10:12 PM

spring > screen > cloak?

PiIsNot3

Maybe FILE was a “Travels” word as in “a file of our travels”

Avi

mining pollution?

Rubiksmoose

I'm out for now, probably longer than this game will take.

Good luck team.

Avi

let's go with spring screen cloak

and see what happens from there

PiIsNot3

I have no idea what “Separation” could be for though

Avi

10:13 PM

cloak/screen

DJMcMayhem

@Rubiksmoose Thanks, we could use it :P

PiIsNot3

I like SCREEN first, then we’ll discuss about the rest

Avi

ok

PiIsNot3

Playing SCREEN

SCREEN

Shiro

SCREEN is Red

PiIsNot3

10:14 PM

Oh boy, that could’ve ended badly for Blue if they went for that

Avi

Mining dumping = pollution

kids take dumps

PiIsNot3

@Avi “Dump” was a Blue clue

Avi

yeah - avoid mining

mining does cause ozone pollution though, I think

PiIsNot3

Maybe your theory about CLIFF being for “Separation” is right

Avi

we can try it

PiIsNot3

10:16 PM

Since it could be talking about a metaphorical cliff between two noncooperating parties

yeah

OK, let’s try it

Playing CLIFF

Playing CLIFF

CLIFF

10:16 PM

(You go ahead lol)

Shiro

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

Avi

oof

Shiro

Avi

looks like we go spring/cloak

PiIsNot3

SPRING, CLOAK, and then what?

Avi

10:17 PM

we get a clue

X (unlimited)

El'endia Starman

Me: "I should go check on the Codenames room"
Room tab: (333 messages)
Me: HOLY GUACAMOLE

Avi

Yeah, we started a game, but we're all confused

MilesZew

Yep

DJMcMayhem

!leave Rubiksmoose

Shiro

BLUE: user58, MilesZew, DJMcMayhem

Avi

10:18 PM

Both SMs are probably half asleep, and I don't blame them

PiIsNot3

Literally none of our ideas have worked out

Hopefully someone will get assassin and put this game out of its misery

Avi

XD (<- that means yes)

DJMcMayhem

@PiIsNot3 You can shoot for that if you like :P

user58

Blue: drone (unlimited)

MilesZew

;)

ROBOT?

Avi

10:19 PM

nani

Yep

Ill go for it?

Sure

ROBOT

ROBOT is Blue

10:20 PM

I don't see something more obvious related to drone, so I suspect that "unlimited" is a clue for "your old guesses are good" (except for screen obviously)

PiIsNot3

Now pick a Yellow for consistency purposes please thnx

DJMcMayhem

So I'm feeling good about date (and maybe chest?)

Avi

can we fill up the board without hitting the assassin

:o

MilesZew

Ok, lets try date

DJMcMayhem

DATE

Shiro

10:21 PM

DATE is Blue

DJMcMayhem

!board

Shiro

PiIsNot3

@Avi No because there will always be at least one clue from the losing team not revealed

Avi

congrats you proved my conjecture

DJMcMayhem

Perhaps mine for drone?

(drones are ants, ants dig?)

I'm grasping at straws

MilesZew

10:22 PM

Possibly

DJMcMayhem

Although tbf, most of the ants that dig are not drones

MilesZew

Maybe chest?

DJMcMayhem

I'm feeling like chest is pretty good.

MilesZew

or spring

DJMcMayhem

What's the connection for spring?

MilesZew

10:23 PM

dump might have been jump typo

IDK

DJMcMayhem

There's a good three letters between D and J, I doubt it lol

@MilesZew Let's go for it

Avi

dump
jump

user58

"dump" was not a typo.

MilesZew

ok

DJMcMayhem

Actually one other thought

PiIsNot3

10:24 PM

@DJMcMayhem No there isn’t, at least not in your name :P

MilesZew

lets go chest

DJMcMayhem

It's tenuous, but date seems related to dance (getting dumped at a dance?)

I like chest more still

PiIsNot3

Agh, I have no idea what is going on anymore in this game

MilesZew

Maybe Chest > dance ?

DJMcMayhem

If you feel that way, we should go for chest

CHEST

Shiro

10:25 PM

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

Avi

Maybe parachute > cloak > dance > mine > paste > torch > chest > spring > parachute?

Shiro

MilesZew

my bad

PiIsNot3

This game is driving me nuts I tell ya

DJMcMayhem

One more bystander left lol

MilesZew

10:26 PM

Probably was dance

PiIsNot3

OK, so SPRING seems like a safe bet for “Filter”

Avi

ok, so cloak and spring

spring definitely

PiIsNot3

CLOAK for “Ozone hole” and “Travels,” maybe “Filter” too

Avi

so now just connect the last two words and we are good

PiIsNot3

PARACHUTE can very well be “Separation”

Avi

10:27 PM

or just give a (1)

PiIsNot3

But let’s see what JD does for us

Avi

Paratrooper isn't a legal clue right

because parachute is on the board

user58

It would be a legal clue.

PiIsNot3

@Avi No, I think it’s legal

Avi

weird

PiIsNot3

10:28 PM

You can’t have “parachute” itself in the clue, but “paratrooper” is fine

John Dvorak

Red: Gold(unlimited)

Avi

mine

spring

cloak

PiIsNot3

Oh hmm MINE is now on our radar

Remind me what our previous clues were with enumerations?

Avi

uhhh, no idea

PiIsNot3

”Ozone hole” (3)
“Travels” (5)
“Separation” (3)
“Filter” (3)

I think

Avi

10:29 PM

Red: Ozone hole(3)

Red: Travels(5)

red: Separation(3)

Red: Filter(3)

Red: Gold(unlimited)

that's all of them

PiIsNot3

The enumerations add up to more than the number of words we actually have

Avi

definitely some repeats

but like, you can filter gold from rivers

separate it from the earth

mining tears apart the land

PiIsNot3

Wanna play MINE first, since that seems like a safe bet?

Avi

yeah

PiIsNot3

Playing MINE

MINE

Shiro

10:31 PM

MINE is Red

!board

!board

there is no gold dance, gold paste, or golden torch

golden parachutes sound like a ridiculous luxury

PiIsNot3

Maybe we can narrow down our options by figuring out what they can’t be

Hang on, switching devices

Avi

10:32 PM

ok, what were blues clues?

DJMcMayhem

A TV show with Steve

Avi

Blue: Tour de France (3)
was probably alps, cycle, europe

Blue: dump (3) - kids take a dump, pastedump

parachutes dump goods

PiIsNot3

KID was Yellow though

Avi

Blue: conscious (unlimited) was a bit weird, was probably hitting wake

Conscious dating is an approach to dating though

PiIsNot3

I have no idea which words correspond to which clues angmore

Avi

10:34 PM

Robots could be conscious as well, but I think they missed it that time

PiIsNot3

OK I have to speed things up, play SPRING first?

Avi

Blue: drone (unlimited)
hit robot

and mayyybe something else

and, that's it

PiIsNot3

You play our words I’m on mobile and might misspell

Avi

so what we're left with is:

Paste, Dance, Torch, Parachute, Cloak, Spring

out of which, Parachute and Paste are probably theirs

and Cloak/Spring are probably ours

PiIsNot3

Im feeling best about SPRING

Mayeb PARACHUTE is ours though because of “Separation”

Unless there’s already three of those words on the board rn

Avi

10:36 PM

none of their other words fits "dump"

Playing Spring

SPRING

Shiro

SPRING is Red

PiIsNot3

Do any Blue clues fit CLOAK?

Avi

not that I can tell

MilesZew

!board

Avi

It's either yellow or red

user58

10:38 PM

!board

Shiro

Avi

or, black OvO

PiIsNot3

DANCE is likely Blue because of “Drone” (referring to bee dances)

Avi

ahh, true

do parachutes travel - yes

do parachutes separate from you - not really, but you use them when separating from a plane

PiIsNot3

But as you said, to parachute something in is to dump it off

Avi

10:39 PM

do they filter - no

and, why gold?

gold is only because JD was confident that we had the other two in the bag?

PiIsNot3

Probably...

Avi

how about this

PiIsNot3

You’d think having five clues would make guessing easier for us

Avi

if we lose, I'll take responsibility, but for now, we guess Cloak

PiIsNot3

Does PASTE work for Blue?

How about TORCH?

Avi

10:40 PM

paste dump

torch is probably the assassin

PiIsNot3

Ah true

Avi

doesn't fit ANY clues at all

PiIsNot3

Probably

Avi

honestly, at this point, there's not much we can do

PiIsNot3

OK, I think I like CLOAK over PARACHUTE

Let’s just get this game over with...

Avi

10:42 PM

says goodbye to life

Playing Cloak

CLOAK

CLOAK is Red

\o\

/o/

gg

You had three filters and three separations. Do the math.

PiIsNot3

10:43 PM

|o|

DJMcMayhem

!finalboard

PiIsNot3

What a mess of a game

@DJMcMayhem

/o\

10:43 PM

@DJMcMayhem let them think for a moment

MilesZew

0/

user58

210925152

ROBOT, PARACHUTE, DANCE, CYCLE, EUROPE, WAKE, ALPS, DATE.

"battle of britain" - EUROPE, DATE, PARACHUTE. Hits red PLANE.

"romance" - DATE, DANCE

"tour de france" - CYCLE, ALPS, EUROPE

This is a bit of a hard board for both sides.

(gives "Tour de France" clue)

CYCLE down.

Now to see if anyone knows that the TDF goes through the ALPS...

Rubiks suggests ALPS, whee.

"Does it go through the Alps?" - it does indeed, although I suppose not everybody has a cycling coach pressuring them to watch the TDF

DJMcMayhem

@JohnDvorak They just got it though

Avi

dance and parachute were blue wat

paste dump not at all?

user58

@Avi What's a paste dump?

Avi

10:44 PM

same thing as a screen/file dump

except, for text

John Dvorak

You had three filters and three separations. Filters separate things. There was no basis for any other kind of separation.

El'endia Starman

I'll be honest, I thought the Tour de France didn't go through the Alps. Be glad I wasn't on your team. :P

user58

I don't know what a screen or file dump is either.

Avi

basically take a big thing on the clipboard, save it to pastebin, and share the link

screen - take a screenshot, paste it to some file sharer, and share the link

user58

@El'endiaStarman It did! There was even a stage there this year that ended early, IIRC

John Dvorak

10:45 PM

screen dump = like screenshot, except ugly

MilesZew

a dump file is a snapshot of a process

Avi

file - take a file, put it in some file hoster, and share the link

John Dvorak

file dump = copy/paste the contents of a file. Say, a 500mB log file.

user58

*shrugs* I'm not an especially technical person, I don't know all the technical terms for stuff

PiIsNot3

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/…

Avi

10:46 PM

your clipboard probably can't hold 500MB

John Dvorak

It's not even a technical term.

user58

waiting for John's log dump

John Dvorak

Pretty sure "log dump" is a phrase you see quite often around in here

user58

;)

John Dvorak

It's 500MB. My clipboard can't hold that much.

Next game, User58 v me.
First this time.
Red words; File, Antarctica, Cloak, Mine, Plane, Car, Screen, Spring, Hotel
Black: Torch

Seeing a lot of technology on my side, and far less on blue side.

Non-tech stuff is rather diverse, unfortunately.
Robot's going to get in the way, too.
Parachute, too.
Looking at Antarctica gives me the idea: Ozone hole. Gives Cloak, Antarctica, Screen. Playing.
Cloak is loose, but I see nothing tighter.
I've just realized my guesser is Avi. No matter, Pi has also arrived to be on my side just in time.

PiIsNot3

10:48 PM

Anyway I really have to go now, overstayed far too long

\o

John Dvorak

No. Read the log.

You can go then.

... or at least copy it to a notebook to read later

PiIsNot3

Sheesh no need to be so bitter man, it was a clusterfuck for both sides :)

user58

anyway, it's now approaching 1AM here. night \o

John Dvorak

It was indeed

Do read it though, even if later ;)

PiIsNot3

I looked through it, hence the “bitter” comment

user58

10:51 PM

Unfortunately, murder is illegal where I live as well.

El'endia Starman

Oh, the unfathomable tears of ~~sadness~~ frustration!

John Dvorak

Trust me, you'd also be bitter if your team committed to guessing two words and then spend 30 minutes debating whether they should ;)

PiIsNot3

Nah, I’d be wondering if my clue wasn’t specific enough

I can’t fault other people for thinking differently than me anyhow, as long as what they’re thinking makes sense

John Dvorak

If the team has 3 words left to go, an unlimited clue means there's exactly one match.

El'endia Starman

It's interesting how much of this game relies on assumptions regarding how SMs and players play.

user58

10:56 PM

I'm still re-learning the specific quirks of each player. For instance, Avi doesn't know pop culture. ;)

El'endia Starman

E.g. it'd also be possible to give a (2) clue for three words and let your team get the third from a previous clue.

user58

You'd think that after playing against John so many times I'd be familiar with how he clues, but... apparently not.

John Dvorak

I was considering Drill for Mine + Spring. Pretty sure it would have only confused my team further, thoug.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

As soon as I get home from work, you guys are done. I guess I can wait until the weekend

user58

....I might be convinced to be a player for one more game but only if I'm not the only one on my team, so that I can safely nod off in the middle

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

10:59 PM

No, you should probably get some sleep

El'endia Starman

@user58 As someone who frequently falls asleep in their chair at night when they should go to bed, I'm telling you: get off the computer and go to bed. :)

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I'm having dinner in 45 minutes anyway

I probably have to wait to spymaster like i wanted to yesterday anyway

Avi

"gold is only because JD was confident that we had the other two in the bag?" - And I apologize for thinking that you listing two words and me cluing the third one means that those three are what you should guess.

yup

MilesZew

Ping me if anyone's up for another game

(it's 3pm for me)

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

@MilesZew o/

like I said, dinner in 39 minutes, but I can play

ping me if one starts before that

If nothing, I'll ping after dinner when I'm done folding laundry

MilesZew

11:10 PM

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus ok, sounds good