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17:00
(I know it wouldn't take long, just joking :P )
Glass seems plausible?
So GPR didn't say Unlimited. That means there are an infinite number of words linked to MAGICIAN. Good luck guessing them all!
Glass?
Crossed my mind
cricket -> hatch, good?
buahahaa
17:00
@Rubio What are you talking about?
if not, we're screwed
mirrors and various escapes from things
CRICKET
HEY NO CHANGING CLUES, CHEATING, WE DEMAND OUR FREE WORD ;)
CRICKET is blue
17:01
!board
@Rubio ?
Chair seems likely
why Chair?
do you think we've gotten all of our hatch clues?
@dcfyj I changed it from to unlimited.
17:01
I'll have fun reading the transcript when blue learns what they've been missing
I feel like I've seen something to do with a chair for magicians
sshhh
@Deusovi no
a hatch might cover a hole
oh, sure. let's try that
17:02
true
objections?
do we have any ideas for mage first?
waiting
magician, not mage
very different
is squarehatching a shading mechanism?
17:02
@Deusovi Didn't feel like typing it out
@Sconibulus that's crosshatching
oh, ok
@Sconibulus no idea
then I like hole
sure
HOLE
17:03
HOLE is blue
finally! that word was clued WITH. EVERY. CLUE. and clued well I might add. poor GPR.
outside chance of grass->thatch->hatch
With every clue?
well, two of our clues have been the same
in case deck or hole was lucky
17:03
!board
I thought about it for Solitary, but CELL+ALIEN was better
@Deusovi You never mentioned it.
The Magicians is partially about the Crown of Fillory, but I don't think that's our clue
@GentlePurpleRain That's because I did
17:04
^
plus, I didn't quite see how it fit solitary
"Throw him in solitary." or, "Throw him in the hole."
...Nope, never heard that.
I have
Magician->Conductor via Fantasia maybe?
I have. ;)
17:05
or they both wave wands
sure, why not
I dunno
The thought had occurred to me too
go for conductor?
eh, we're probably screwed, I don't care
CONDUCTOR
Sid
Sid
blue..
17:06
whoa
lol
"Solitary confinement is colloquially referred to in American English as ... "the hole"... . - Wikipedia.
I'm still thinking chair for some reason
!board
sure, go for it, why not
17:07
any objections @Sconibulus?
the only other option I see is point
I don't like it much
like, misdirection or something
Could be a lot of them, really
but I don't like anything much
17:09
point (misdirection), wake (from being put to sleep), chair (I don't know...), dwarf (assistant (sometimes))
not dwarf
the magician, the dwarves, and the burglar were the party in The Hobbit
magician? I don't think gandalf was called that
plus they're both fantasy staples, it's one of the ones I like better than average
that word is BUGLE you know
17:10
pff
@Rubio ?
a joke implying you misread "bugle" as "burglar"
ah
well. as BURGLE, but yes
17:11
So... verdict?
not a clue
guess a random word?
since we're screwed either way?
man. no neutrals hit this game, at 1 left for each. that's kinda awesome.
we've all either been Very Right or Very Wrong.
We have equal odds of hit red, blue, or black
!board
17:13
I like WAKE and POINT the best, to be honest
Better chance of hitting red. 2 red left. 1 blue. 1 black. 7 yellow.
1 red left.
@GentlePurpleRain 1 red
I don't like Wake, probably like Crown best
17:13
You've been very stuck on this two red thing lol
I forgot to mark one off on my master.
Why CROWN?
Point seems a bit above-average
I'm not super fond of point
I'm thinking wake or (I still have zero clue why) chair
either we're all idiots, or one of us is going to have an "I-told-you-so" moment after the game
Scon, why CROWN?
17:15
a few reasons, fantasy has kings and crowns and royal magicians, Magician is a Tarot Card I think, which has a crowns suit, only connection I had for Chair was The Silver Chair, and the guy in the chair was Crown Prince
@Deusovi I'm leaning toward choice A (including me). :P
also the aformentioned Fillory
none of the connections are good, but there are enough bad connections it's my favorite
alright, whatever. go for it, I guess
CROWN
CROWN is yellow
17:15
welp
Sid
Sid
phew
I'm still thinking it's chair for some reason, really wish I knew why lol
For a minute there, I thought you might have it...
hush, not over yet
Sid
Sid
17:16
Me too. I am almost sweating now
OK, Sid, bring it home.
Might want to ping them so they come back :P
Ping whom?
red team
nah. we'll just straight up guess a word, and see how it goes. ;)
17:17
that would be funny
I wish there was a good way to "no-comment"
i'm not even sure @BusinessCat is here
Sid
Sid
Red: rose, 1
every rose has its thorn
I am indeed
17:18
lol I easily see 2 for rose
...I have no idea what you're going for with that clue
!board
yeah that was not the best clue.
Sadly neither do I
17:18
Bring it home gpr! :P
dwarf roses are a thing. glass roses are a thing. and roses have pointy thorns.
I'd say wake but it would be rise not rose
squares have interchangeable Rose and Colins
so. for them to all be thinking Blue might win it, it'd have to be one of CHAIR or POINT for blue's last
pff
yeah, neither of you should've said that we might win it
17:20
which nobody should have said, but whatever
because that can happen now. :/
I'd have gone with POINT if left to myself here
You're right. I figured it was a shoo-in, but I guess I made an ASS out of U and ME...
That's why I told you to hush :P It's possible for the last clue to be misinterpreted
and I still like POINT more than the other options.
Sid
Sid
17:22
I am off for supper. You guys can shout at me after the game if we lose.
Yeah I guess so
@dcfyj If anything, I benefitted you.
POINT
@Sconibulus so when are you going to put up your puzzle?
Sid
Sid
17:22
... lol
welp.
Sid
Sid
(and I am sorry)
I think the last red was wake
How not to clue a last word 101.
17:22
ROSE probably should have been ARISE.
Sid
Sid
It was WAKE
@dcfyj I actually did it a minute or two after I sent you the thanks email
I was right haha
Or SUNRISE, or MORNING.
@Sconibulus ah ok
17:23
or FUNERAL
He was thinking a wake as in funeral haha
or SLEEP
Sid
Sid
I forgot that Rise=wake and not Rose. I absolutely forgot that Rose was a flower
or ... man
So, "The hole" is totally a term for solitary confinement.
17:23
okay, GPR, time for you to explain things
I thought Glass was the likeliest
rose was not the best choice for that
Rose-Colored Glasses esp.
Sid
Sid
Glass was assassin
!finalboard
17:24
When I did HATCH the first time, I was blanking on the "egg" meaning of the word. I was only thinking about a "door" hatch. DECK + HOLE
Wake could maybe have been lumped into Mediterranean Sea too
@GentlePurpleRain >.<
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Ah. I'd've used TRAPDOOR for that.
17:24
to me hatch first and foremost means egg
The second time, I missed the "nuthatch" converstation. It was supposed to be DECK, HOLE, CRICKET.
Sid
Sid
This game was the classic example of how not to clue (1). \
Really? You double-clued words?
lol
We all thought you were separately cluing from your original HATCH.
17:25
I take full responsibility for this game. My team won in spite of me.
Or at least, partially separate.
I avoid double-cluing unless I see they're not going the right way at all
@Deusovi in fairness, I didn't. ;)
Yeah, probably not the best choice.
17:25
@Deusovi I thought the Hatch (2) and (3) was just adding a word to it
Ah. I didn't, because that would waste the first clue
Sid double-clued WAVE, which was a little bit of a waste
and if you wanted to pick up only one word, then you could try to combo it with something else, not words that have already been given
Also, I had shrunk my window, so CONDUCTOR was showing as CONDUCT. That's why I clued MAGICIAN -> code of CONDUCT.
oh wow.
17:26
Ha!
ah
Overall, a big fail for me.
I didn't even know it did that
Yeah, that didn't go so well lol
Somehow we won that
I actually thought of CONDUCTOR via wand myself, I thought it was clever
17:27
Like I said, in spite of me.
POINT was always a stretch, and I knew that.
Sid
Sid
y\how did you get bottle btw?
Point is a terrible word to have
WE guessed bottle for Fairy
@Sid Legend of Zelda
I assume you intended ANGEL+WAVE

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