Codenames

msh210

20:00

yeah, probably pistol

Rubiksmoose

Red: Potion (2)

Avi

spell

John Dvorak

there's darts the game, dart the ammo, dart as in run...

Avi

mercurcy

root

PiIsNot3

Why MERCURY?

ROOT seems more obvious

Avi

20:00

let's do that then

PiIsNot3

I wonder what the last clue for “Pupil” is

John Dvorak

any decent potion contains TAP water

PiIsNot3

Wait, don’t type anything yet, I was just thinking

Avi

:x john pls

PiIsNot3

OK, I’ll play SPELL since that seems the most obvious

SPELL

Shiro

20:02

SPELL is Red

PiIsNot3

@Avi Can you explain why MERCURY?

Avi

uhhhh, it's a chemical

John Dvorak

dodged a bullet

Avi

liquid too

PiIsNot3

OK, I guess that could work

But don’t play it!

Avi

20:03

but I'm thinking root, because roots

of plants, are put into potions

PiIsNot3

Yeah, roots are typically used for brewing potions

Avi

like, herbal magic and stuff

PiIsNot3

OK, if you don’t see anything better in the next five seconds, I’m gonna play ROOT

Avi

go for it

PiIsNot3

ROOT

Shiro

20:03

ROOT is Red

PiIsNot3

OK, we’re good

Avi

[pass]

Shiro

PiIsNot3

But I’m still bothered that we didn’t get the last one for “Pupil”

What could it have been?

Avi

BEAR with it

John Dvorak

20:05

My plan: pistol, maybe code

Avi

do clues have to be a single word?

user58

Single word or dictionary phrase, or proper noun.

...actual name of/or actual thing.

(Thinking......)

John Dvorak

I've seen movie titles as clues, IIRC

msh210

@JohnDvorak why code

John Dvorak

Dart is a programming language

msh210

20:08

@JohnDvorak ah! didn't know that

John Dvorak

JVM-based, if I remeber correctly

msh210

Is it capitalized as Dart? Because the clue was.

John Dvorak

It is, yes

msh210

Dunno whether we should make anything of that

user58

(Thinking.....)

Blue: Shoulder (2)

msh210

20:13

belt, as in a car

bear, the verb

John Dvorak

BRB, act on your accord @msh210

msh210

I dunno guns at all, is a pistol borne on the shoulder?

I tend to think not, I suspect a pistol is a smaller gun

And you can TAP someone on the shoulder

I think I like belt and tap best. If they R in BRB is not an underestimate, then I'll await a second opinion.

John Dvorak

I'm back

msh210

Whaddaya think?

John Dvorak

I"m not sure of pistol because a dart gun isn't usually called as such even it looks like that

tapping on the shoulder seems good

a pistol is a handheld gun

msh210

20:17

@JohnDvorak oh, okay. So tap and...

John Dvorak

belt seems like a stretch

msh210

Stateside at least, the thing you wear in a car is called a shoulder belt, and a lap belt. ... I think.

John Dvorak

bear, as in bear on a shoulder?

I'm okay with tap first

msh210

yeah, that's what I thought (bear the verb) but idk if belt is better

tap

Shiro

TAP is Blue

John Dvorak

20:19

We also have Dart pending

msh210

okay, let's do bear

right

John Dvorak

go for it

msh210

bear

Shiro

BEAR is Blue

John Dvorak

nice

msh210

20:20

and?

John Dvorak

dart gun? Dart the language?

Avi

@PiIsNot3 You're right, this is stress-inducing

3

PiIsNot3

@Avi Check the tags and starred messages :)

John Dvorak

Since a dart gun isn't normally called "pistol" I'm tempted for code -> pistol

msh210

is user58 a programmer, or someone who'd know the language name? I'd never heard of it, myself AFAIR

John Dvorak

20:22

I think so, yes

CODE

Shiro

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

msh210

okay

PiIsNot3

Yes!

Shiro

msh210

oh drat

John Dvorak

20:22

wel... that resolves it

Avi

ok now we just have to

get a good hint

PiIsNot3

OK, now we hope there’s a solid connection between the two clues remaining

Avi

power - solar + battery

inaccessible - mercury/atlantis

PiIsNot3

But what if it’s something like ATLANTIS and BUFFALO? What then?

Avi

draw - pistol from your belt

if it is, we're dead

ghost buffalo - Native

PiIsNot3

20:24

Let’s hope that “Pupil” clue we didn’t guess is still on there

Avi

ghost pupil?

John Dvorak

@Avi transparent(2)

PiIsNot3

Does a PARACHUTE have a pupil?

msh210

@PiIsNot3 HAGIMI

John Dvorak

no, but a pupil can have a parachute

Avi

20:25

ghost buffalo is native - native americans used to hunt buffalo, many native americans are ghosts now

Rubiksmoose

(thinking)

Avi

blame Andrew Jackson for that

msh210

(Hagimi, the famous buffalo of Atlantis.)

PiIsNot3

@msh210 I would NEVER have been able to guess that if that were the case

Avi

^

msh210

20:26

@PiIsNot3 naturally not, I just made it up

Avi

XD

PiIsNot3

@msh210 Darn, got baited

Avi

parachute + mercury = LANDER

pistol + ghost = causal

PiIsNot3

”Extinct” might be better for GHOST and BUFFALO

Avi

nice

user58

20:27

Bison aren't extinct.

PiIsNot3

Or “Dead”

Avi

they're nearly extinct

to the point I've never seen one

msh210

@Avi I've never seen you.

Avi

@msh210 Neither I you

user58

...I might've seen you, I just wouldn't have known it.

Avi

20:28

Fortunately I am not a species.

msh210

@Avi Well, I am nearly extinct. There's only one of me left.

Rubiksmoose

Red: AIRDROP (2)

Avi

parachute for sure

PiIsNot3

Yep, but don’t play anything yet

msh210

@user58 good point

Avi

20:29

would you airdrop batteries as supplies

or would you airdrop a lander to mercury

i'd lean towards the first one

PiIsNot3

Why AIRDROP in all caps though?

Avi

because all his hints are in all caps?

John Dvorak

Mercury doesn't have air

Avi

ohhhh, good catch

user58

John's not on your team.

PiIsNot3

20:30

You can airdrop PISTOLs i.e. weaponry, but I believe PISTOL is Blue

Avi

all his hints are NOT in all caps

there is some significance to it

Mercury is normally capitalized

PiIsNot3

For some reason, I keep thinking about those really steep water slides you see at resorts

Avi

so is Atlantis

PiIsNot3

Like, for instance, ATLANTIS

Avi

let's do parachute first?

John Dvorak

20:32

You know, those rope ladders that helicopters use to drop things off of look awfully like belts...

Avi

then discuss

PiIsNot3

The all caps makes me suspicious that the two words don’t both use the same meaning of airdrop

Avi

@JohnDvorak >:x

msh210

@JohnDvorak lol

PiIsNot3

Yep, go ahead and play PARACHUTE

Avi

20:33

PARACHUTE

Shiro

PARACHUTE is Red

Rubiksmoose

!board

Avi

ok so

Shiro

John Dvorak

"airdrop" could also literally mean "drop of (liquefied) air"

PiIsNot3

20:33

I’d say the only viable candidates at this point are MERCURY and ATLANTIS

MERCURY for, as you said, space rovers

Avi

battery, pistol, belt, atlantis, day, ghost, buffalo, mercury

PiIsNot3

ATLANTIS for the steep water slide

Avi

if a ghost gives you the drop

it gives you a jumpscare?

PiIsNot3

But then what is AIR doing then?

Avi

air for parachute?

John Dvorak

20:34

first you jumpscare, then airdrop

PiIsNot3

Oh, you’re saying it’s actually two clues in one?

Avi

john pls :x

it's possible, though only if they have such unrelated meanings

PiIsNot3

@JohnDvorak Seriously, Avi isn’t doing it anymore, I think you should stop too

John Dvorak

the "air" is to distinguish it from drops of buffalo sauce

sorry

PiIsNot3

AIR and DROP... but I don’t see anything related to DROP

Besides, of course, the steep water slide at ATLANTIS

Avi

20:35

drop the pistol!

hands in the AIR!

would be super ironic if it were blue though

PiIsNot3

@Avi I strongly suspect PISTOL is Blue based on past discussion

Avi

he could've done airDROP if he wanted atlantis though, right?

or AirDROP

PiIsNot3

Has any space agency airdropped things on Mercury?

Avi

no

it's way too close to the sun for comfort

user58

@Avi I'm fairly sure that'd be illegal.

Avi

20:37

sadness

PiIsNot3

I’m reeeeaaaally tempted to just go with ATLANTIS cause I don’t see anything better, but I still don’t know if it’s a valid connection or not

John Dvorak

Unless there's a company name that uses that capitalization

PiIsNot3

The only AirDrop I know of is Apple’s

Avi

oooh

is there an airdrop battery charger

or something

or is it some kind of other service

John Dvorak

those wireless earphones, you mean?

PiIsNot3

20:38

But nothing on here directly connects to that or Apple, besides maybe BATTERY because of the battery throttling issue

But then ATLANTIS is a more solid connection

Avi

but "flying" would be battery + parachute

let's go with atlantis then

PiIsNot3

Wait not yet

Avi

if pistol is red, I'm gonna die of laughter

PiIsNot3

Don’t play anything please

Avi

uhhh

PiIsNot3

20:39

”Flying” would’ve also clued GHOST

Avi

don't trees have something called "Dead drops"

PiIsNot3

Not really from the air though

Avi

some haunted areas

fair enough

Rubiksmoose

I wish @user58 and I could have a room together where we could share our joint panic attacks.

PiIsNot3

Have we exhausted all possibilities?

Avi

20:40

battery, pistol, belt, atlantis, day, ghost, buffalo, mercury
battery no, because air?

user58

AAAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHH

Avi

pistol no, because blue

PiIsNot3

Don’t see a tenuous connection to DAY, BUFFALO, or BELT

user58

...that's a scream, not laughter

Avi

belt no, because no dropping

belt is to sing out a tune, or an implement to keep pants up

PiIsNot3

20:41

GHOST probably too far away to consider seriously

PISTOL is probably Blue, so we skip that

Avi

buffalos don't fly

i hope buffalos don't fly*

PiIsNot3

So that leaves BATTERY, ATLANTIS, MERCURY

John Dvorak

Usually SMs communicate via OTS. I suppose you could use it for smalltalk (and therefore obscure when clue permissions are being negotiated as a side bonus)

Rubiksmoose

@JohnDvorak OTS?

user58

OneTimeSecret

John Dvorak

20:42

one-time secret

Avi

mercury has no Air

Rubiksmoose

Ahhh

PiIsNot3

The connection we have for BATTERY is a fair degree removed from the clue

Avi

AHHHHH

i bet he's panicking because he forgot that planets other than earth have no air

let's go with atlantis

PiIsNot3

Sigh, I’m gonna regret this so much

Play ATLANTIS

Rubiksmoose

20:43

not to encourage or disade but don't pay any attention to the timing, it was not significant.

Avi

watch as it's blue

ATLANTIS

Shiro

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

PiIsNot3

Drat

Shiro

Avi

Tragic, but hopefully pistol is red

PiIsNot3

20:44

GG all around

user58

Blue: Gun (1)

PiIsNot3

They have a clue

Avi

XD

John Dvorak

GG

PiIsNot3

Yep, called it :)

msh210

20:44

hmm

What is it?

Avi

a m i s t e r e

PiIsNot3

Of course it’s DAY, are you dumb?

Avi

ye

John Dvorak

hey, no swearwords!

PISTOL

msh210

day

Shiro

20:45

PISTOL is Blue

PiIsNot3

GGs

Avi

GG

msh210

yeah gg

PiIsNot3

Can someone pull up the final board?

Avi

!finalboard

user58

20:45

!finalboard

Shiro

PiIsNot3

Oh, it was BATTERY!

Avi

what

user58

265324139

TAP, GREEN, PISTOL, CHICK, PIN, MOON, BEAR, SHADOW, PENGUIN.

Okay, I'm not really seeing anything jumping out at me "poles" = BEAR + PENGUIN + MOON? but tenuous. Could always go easy with "bird" = CHICKS + PENGUIN as a starter but I'd like to clue more than 2.

Ah, well, couldn't think of anything and it was taking a long time, sooo...

(gives "bird" clue)

PENGUIN down. CHICK down.

Remaining words: TAP, GREEN, PISTOL, PIN, MOON, BEAR, SHADOW.

"eclipse" = MOON + SHADOW

(gives "eclipse" clue)

Avi

airdrop has nothing to do with battery

except random iphone thing

Rubiksmoose

20:46

265324139

Sound Battery Parachute Center Root Limousine Spell Battery Eye

Went with hopefully an easy one first,

HONK (2) = SOUND + LIMO

which doesn't look like it has any false positives...And they got it!

PUPIL (3) = EYE + CENTER + SPELL

The last one is a stretch but like spelling in school

Thank goodness they know the pupil doesn't have color....

Noooo don't choose green...

YESSSS...Noooo...

Dang, I don't have a good one for a big group, not going unlimited

POTION (2) = SPELL + ROOT

Avi

terminal velocity

Rubiksmoose

@Avi I mean I had to work with what I was given. The connection I imagined was tenous. Airdropping batteries (the only other thing that would be dropped would be guns and I was hoping that you realised that was blue). And the Apple thing which I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but I hoped it brought to mind electronics.

PiIsNot3

You can parachute in a lot of things you know :)

If it weren’t for the discussions on PISTOL we might’ve went for that

Avi

battery + parachute hmmmm

user58

So, no, I don't code, for one thing.

Avi

20:48

velocity?

nah, airdrop was the best hint

Rubiksmoose

Terminal is the only other clue I could think of, but I thought you would miss parachute.

PiIsNot3

Cessna, perhaps?

user58

Also, terminal would clue PISTOL in a way.

Avi

cessna

Rubiksmoose

@user58 and ghost on a stretch

PiIsNot3

20:49

Runs on a battery, and you can parachute out of one

Avi

so sad that green was blue though

it should've been the assassination square

PiIsNot3

@Rubiksmoose What was the third for “Pupil”?

Rubiksmoose

What I was really hoping was that @user58 would have cleared PISTOL and then I would have tried GI JOE

John Dvorak

@user58 well clued

PiIsNot3

Oh wait I see it

user58

20:49

@Rubiksmoose It wasn't for lack of trying :P

Avi

what do you see? I don't see it

Rubiksmoose

@user58 The one time I was really cheering for your team to get it lol

@PiIsNot3 spell ing

PiIsNot3

Ah I see

I think Avi actually got that connection

user58

Yeah, sometimes you just need the other team to knock out a word that's interfering.

Avi

i get all the connections

Rubiksmoose

20:50

@PiIsNot3 Yeah Avi got it right away lol

Avi

then i proceed to second guess myself

PiIsNot3

But then we went for GREEN, which we said was for irises but could also mean “newbie” i.e. a student that’s learning

Rubiksmoose

It was a stretch of course, but I was hoping to get a bit of a lead because I knew the parachute/battery thing was going to be tricky.

Avi

green + battery = environment

PiIsNot3

@Avi Solar

Or no, Panels

John Dvorak

20:51

charged

Rubiksmoose

@Avi Except Green was Blue lol

Avi

solar is better, I think

John Dvorak

I like solar better though

Avi

sadness

msh210

@Avi Mercury

PiIsNot3

20:52

@JohnDvorak Can also clue DAY

John Dvorak

solar power then

Rubiksmoose

Also yeah, I've never played this over text before, but I would ignore any kind of hint you might see in my capitalisation. I would consider that mild cheating unless the word is supposed to be (or can be) capitalised like that.

It was purely accidental in this case

Sorry about that.

PiIsNot3

@Rubiksmoose Hey it’s OK, that was a pretty tough last pair to clue anyway :)

Avi

next time I wanna SM

Rubiksmoose

:) Thanks. I had a lot of fun. And about a million heart attacks.

John Dvorak

20:54

0/

Avi

O/

Rubiksmoose

o/

msh210

0/

Rubiksmoose

I hope I'm not chosen as SM because I may have to drop out.

user58

I have to drop off for a bit, I think. I might be able to play from my phone.

@Rubiksmoose So use o/ instead, or 0/

Jun 11 '18 at 21:38, by Mithrandir

BTW, quick guide to waving: O/ is "I can SM", o/ is "I can play but not SM", and 0/ is "I can play and can SM if needed, but prefer not to SM"

Rubiksmoose

20:55

@user58 will that edit work or new line?

ah thanks!

user58

it's a purely social convention so edit is fine

Rubiksmoose

And here I was thinking that people were being zany and fun with their waves.

;)

Avi

\o is goodbye

o/ O/ and 0/ are hi

msh210

% is a percent sign

PiIsNot3

o/

Avi

20:57

% is hi-bye

PiIsNot3

Sorry, my connection dropped off all of a sudden

Avi

or, an overly enthusiastic hi

PiIsNot3

/o/ \o\ is the wave

msh210

\O/ putting your hands in the AIR because of a PISTOL. . . or falling into a funnel

Avi

o/ ing so hard you % into the next person over

John Dvorak

20:58

o/\o is a hi-five

PiIsNot3

@JohnDvorak Or a fish’s head seen from above

@user58 Can we set up another game?

msh210

o// is waving, if you have both arms growing out of one side of your body

John Dvorak

(oOOo) is a jumping spider on the ceiling

Avi

O_

slap

PiIsNot3

//o is someone who doesn’t know how comments are supposed to be used

Avi

20:59

spoders die!

msh210

oooooooooooooo is the right stuff

John Dvorak

(ÖÖ) would be a wolf spider

PiIsNot3

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