Codenames

Hosch250

03:01

!who

PiIsNot3

!who

Shiro

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

Hosch250

Oh, sorry! Thought I was waiting on red team

blue: Warrant(2)

El'endia Starman

Y'all hear owls or was that just me?

COURT. Maybe HAM?

caird coinheringaahing

Thief maybe?

El'endia Starman

03:03

(Cops serve warrants -> cops == pigs == ham.)

caird coinheringaahing

But Court and Thief would be just "Crime"

El'endia Starman

Ah, that might be better, yes.

DJMcMayhem

Ooh!

caird coinheringaahing

Or maybe Trial?

DJMcMayhem

!join

Shiro

03:04

Hi DJMcMayhem, you'll be joining team red!

RED: PiIsNot3, John Dvorak, ElizB, DJMcMayhem

DJMcMayhem

!who

Shiro

Blue currently has 3 guesses remaining.

caird coinheringaahing

I definitely like Court, but I might be double guessing myself on Theif

El'endia Starman

COURT

Shiro

COURT is Red
What were you thinking?
It is now Red's turn

El'endia Starman

03:05

whaaaattt

caird coinheringaahing

...what?

Hosch, you do know that we're Blue, right? :P

PiIsNot3

@Hosch250 Save that to yourself :)

DJMcMayhem

Nothing to see here

You can't say that!

Hosch250

Oh, sorry.

PiIsNot3

We have a tradition around here to keep a private log while the game is ongoing

caird coinheringaahing

03:06

Even after the word has been guessed?

El'endia Starman

yep

DJMcMayhem

@cairdcoinheringaahing Adding extra detail to a clue? Definitely not

El'endia Starman

SMs can't (or rather, shouldn't) give any information beyond the clues.

caird coinheringaahing

Despite it having literally no intended meaning towards any clue?

Hosch250

OK, thought it was OK after the guess. I'm keeping a log too.

El'endia Starman

03:07

Anyway, I'm thinking SUIT for blue suits, i.e. cops. THIEF is looking pretty decent too.

DJMcMayhem

Oh, I slightly misunderstood what was said afterwards. But still

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah, Thief is looking much better now

To warrant means to deserve right?

El'endia Starman

That's another meaning, yeah.

PiIsNot3

Red: Stream (2)

DJMcMayhem

A stream of chocolate.

Yummmm

John Dvorak

03:11

huh...

DJMcMayhem

(completely kidding of course)

El'endia Starman

You joke but Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

caird coinheringaahing

There's a famous stream in Africa where if you put your hand in it, you take it out holding a fully cooked ham

DJMcMayhem

I don't see a single word that makes sense

ElizB

sharks stream through the water?

that's the closest I got

John Dvorak

03:14

thumb = thumbnail = video = stream? Super-tenuous

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, I'm trying to think of other meanings of "stream"

John Dvorak

ham = amateur radio

ElizB

streamers at a stadium?

John Dvorak

Maybe there's a context in which belt = stream

bomb should be safe because ellipsoid

DJMcMayhem

How many did you guess from that?

ElizB

03:17

unless we already guessed all the ellipsoid words

John Dvorak

two out of two

DJMcMayhem

Ball and Saturn I'm assuming

ElizB

yeah

John Dvorak

but all three spheres were equally likely to get guessed

DJMcMayhem

PASS like crossing over a stream?

John Dvorak

03:19

pann would be my best bet so far

El'endia Starman

[looks at keyboard] 'S' and 'N' aren't even close to each other.

unless...

You're using Dvorak??

Hosch250

Dvorak!

John Dvorak

Look at my name and look at the keyboard gain :P

caird coinheringaahing

Obligatory XKCD

El'endia Starman

Yes! :D

So John is a spider using Dvorak. Makes total sense.

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ElizB

03:21

I guess pass is good. I honestly don't really have a good idea

DJMcMayhem

I guess BEARs could fish out of a river? I'm grasping for straws now

John Dvorak

They can

PiIsNot3

@El'endiaStarman Aaaaand another one for the lorebook

El'endia Starman

Y'all have to guess at least one word though.

John Dvorak

pass, not [pass]

DJMcMayhem

03:23

@El'endiaStarman pass is a word :P

ElizB

pass

Shiro

PASS is Blue
Oh, dear.
It is now Blue's turn

El'endia Starman

oh lol that's right

Shiro

El'endia Starman

sweet lol

Hosch250

03:24

blue: Huitzilopochtli(1)

John Dvorak

what?

DJMcMayhem

!who

PiIsNot3

@Hosch250 Resend

El'endia Starman

Makes up for the one we donated to Red.

Shiro

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

DJMcMayhem

03:24

Edits don't work

caird coinheringaahing

Aztec

Hosch250

blue: Huitzilopochtli(1)

El'endia Starman

That's straight up Aztec. No other option.

caird coinheringaahing

For sure

John Dvorak

could be a straight up sneeze

El'endia Starman

03:25

Why not both?

DJMcMayhem

@JohnDvorak Depends on the keyboard layout

caird coinheringaahing

@El'endiaStarman Do you want to guess, or should I?

El'endia Starman

The Aztec people just had persistent hay fever.

AZTEC

Shiro

AZTEC is Blue

John Dvorak

I mean, phonetically

caird coinheringaahing

03:26

@DJMcMayhem For QWERTY, HUIT are all similarly placed, but Z is way out

So what do we have left?

El'endia Starman

Let's go for one of the WARRANT (2) words?

caird coinheringaahing

Thief?

El'endia Starman

Or try for BEAR from the hypothermia (3) clue.

caird coinheringaahing

I like Thief more than Bear

El'endia Starman

THIEF*

Oops

THIEF

Shiro

03:27

THIEF is Red
Oh, dear.
It is now Red's turn

El'endia Starman

shoot

Shiro

caird coinheringaahing

Besides, if Suit and Bear are both Blue, then Hosch could always clue Furry

El'endia Starman

hah, point

DJMcMayhem

What a bizarre game

El'endia Starman

03:27

Wow. No yellow words yet!

caird coinheringaahing

I'm wondering if Hosch knows what a Warrant is at this point :P

El'endia Starman

lol

John Dvorak

Maybe he's clearing out obstacles for the killer clue?

caird coinheringaahing

Here comes bvhucioj;aosjinvadcnafsd (5) based on the last clue :P

4

El'endia Starman

hahahaha

@JohnDvorak Now that's meta!

caird coinheringaahing

03:30

@JohnDvorak Variant: you can only clue words for the other team, unless you think you can get all your words with one clue. If you don't get the win in that one turn, you lose

John Dvorak

Poe's law. You can never distinguish a crappy clue for the opponent from an imperfect clue for you own.

3

Hosch250

I'm dying laughing over here.

PiIsNot3

Red: Panda (0)

John Dvorak

Pandas aren't bears. Now, what the heck does that mean for our clue? :P

DJMcMayhem

Pi... That doesn't help at all. We weren't going to guess bear, you should give us a positive association to go off of

caird coinheringaahing

03:36

If my biology is up to scratch, Pandas are not made of chocolate

John Dvorak

shh... he's going for the killer clue next turn

caird coinheringaahing

On the other hand, I think I may need to do more research on that topic :P

DJMcMayhem

I have literally no idea what to guess. SHARK I suppose?

John Dvorak

Or we should just look for stufff that are like pandas, but not pandas

like, dog + shark

which could have been "predator", but let's assume our SM missed that somehow :P

and Africa because not-panda by region

Anything better than the three?

DJMcMayhem

> I have literally no idea what to guess.

ElizB

03:40

i don't know what to suggest at this point either

John Dvorak

or just bomb because backlog

and then the animals

ElizB

okay lol

DJMcMayhem

I guess I like shark because it's one we mentioned

John Dvorak

true

SHARK

Shiro

SHARK is Red

DJMcMayhem

03:41

More than bomb, since presumably we have two spheroids

John Dvorak

true. Bomb is likely yellow.

DOG

Shiro

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

El'endia Starman

Yellow!!!

John Dvorak

not bad

caird coinheringaahing

@Shiro Only some of them. Chocolate Labs would like to disagree

Hosch250

03:42

blue: Prison guard(2)

El'endia Starman

LOCK and CLUB?

caird coinheringaahing

Lock and Club

El'endia Starman

BELT?

caird coinheringaahing

I don't like it as much as the other two

El'endia Starman

LOCK and CLUB it is then. Yea/nay?

And then BEAR if those work.

caird coinheringaahing

03:43

Yea

El'endia Starman

LOCK

Shiro

LOCK is Blue

El'endia Starman

CLUB

Shiro

CLUB is Blue

El'endia Starman

BEAR

caird coinheringaahing

03:44

Finally

Shiro

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

El'endia Starman

woooo

Shiro

John Dvorak

I was hoping for a bear ass

caird coinheringaahing

We got through a turn \o/

El'endia Starman

03:44

\o/

caird coinheringaahing

@JohnDvorak Obligatory XKCD

John Dvorak

Not really. I was talking about the black word.

El'endia Starman

@cairdcoinheringaahing I've used that on my coworkers a couple times. >:)

John Dvorak

so... bomb next?

nah. Africa?

DJMcMayhem

Depending on the clue

John Dvorak

03:46

Hoping for a 2

Or a 1 that could refer to one of them, and therefore we shouldn't guess that one

PiIsNot3

Red: Jammed (2)

John Dvorak

oooh

DJMcMayhem

THUMB

John Dvorak

lock

DJMcMayhem

LOCK is blue :P

John Dvorak

03:48

drat

old board

belts can jam

caird coinheringaahing

Ham-flavoured Jam is surprisingly good

John Dvorak

thumb works, too

DJMcMayhem

Let's open with that

John Dvorak

THUMB

Shiro

THUMB is Red

John Dvorak

03:50

nice

DJMcMayhem

BELT is a possibility

John Dvorak

is "jammed back" how you call the ailment?

DJMcMayhem

I don't see something better

ElizB

me either I'm just totally lost at this point haha

John Dvorak

BELT

Shiro

03:51

BELT is Red

John Dvorak

nice!

DJMcMayhem

phew

El'endia Starman

gg

caird coinheringaahing

:(

Hosch250

Sorry for the misplaced warrant clue, guys. GG!

PiIsNot3

03:51

I'm so sorry about "Panda (0)," I thought you guys were gonna guess BEAR

Hosch250

209161302

Blue: Aztec, Pass, Bear, Snowman, Lock, Club, Cold, Ketchup, Root

Hypothermia(4): Pass, Bear, Snowman, Cold
 -- Maybe suit? Got Hospital (red)

Got: Cold, Snowman

---

Watchman: Lock, Club, Pass
 -- No: bomb, thief, dog.

Plants: Root, Ketchup
 -- No: Chocolate, too dangerous.

Cards: Club, Pass
 -- Maybe suit, shark, court, too dangerous

Personal protection: lock, club
 -- Maybe thief, dog

> didn't the Donner Party die in the Donner Pass because of Hypothermia?
I was hoping you'd guess it, LOL

El'endia Starman

We got close at the end though!

PiIsNot3

2019-11-25, 6:24 PM

Here goes an evening game!

RED: PiIsNot3, John Dvorak, ElizB
BLUE: Hosch250, El'endia Starman
BLUE goes first!

Seed: 209161302
Red: THUMB, SATURN, SHARK, BALL, BELT, COURT, THIEF, HOSPITAL
Blue: CLUB, COLD, BEAR, SNOWMAN, KETCHUP, AZTEC, LOCK, PASS, ROOT
Yellow: SUIT, AFRICA, BOMB, DOG, BACK, HAM, STADIUM
Black: CHOCOLATE (…but I like dark chocolate!)

Immediate thoughts:
BALL + COURT can be some sort of organized sport. Not “Basketball” because of PASS. Not “Tennis” because of CLUB.

El'endia Starman

!finalboard

ElizB

gg

Shiro

03:52

PiIsNot3

Speaking of snatching victory from the jaws of victory, I gotta go watch me some basketball. Thanks for the games!

\o

Hosch250

Bed time here! I'd love to practice this more sometime later!

caird coinheringaahing

Wow, all three animals were different colours

El'endia Starman

Hilarious that my Willy Wonka mention had potential to make Red guess the assassin.

Not bad for a first time SMing, Hosch!

o\

user58

19:13

0/

PiIsNot3

19:35

o/

Hosch250

19:51

o/

Hosch250

20:18

I'm here through 4:30, BTW, and then I have a hard stop.

DJMcMayhem

@Hosch250 What time zone?

user58

4:30 what timezone...?

Hosch250

Central Standard Time (sorry!).

You guys must be programmers :)

Basically 2 more hours.

user58

Nah, I'm not... but time zones are a pain.

DJMcMayhem

Don't think I'll be able to play before then unfortunately

user58

20:19

I'm here until 11PM, roughly... so about 40 minutes.

Hosch250

OK. I'm at work, but not really anything to do.

user58

s/here/available to start a game

Hosch250

After that, I have to take off to take delivery of a new pet horse.

DJMcMayhem

I'd normally be at work right now, but I got snowed in lol

We got 20 inches in the last 24 hours

Hosch250

@DJMcMayhem That's coming our way tomorrow! I took the day off, since Thurs and Fri are company holidays and I've nothing to do anyway.

ElizB

20:29

@/

I saw the snowstorm, by the time it gets to me it's gonna be a ton of rain.... which sucks for travel

Hosch250

Not as bad as snow.

Rain runs off (unless you get enough to be flooded), snow is a physical barrier. And if it's wet snow, your car wheels literally turn into snowballs, like a snowman.

PiIsNot3

Forecast over here in the Bay Area says it'll rain in a few hours

ElizB

yeah but where i'm going it might be snowing

going from Albany to Rochester

Hosch250

@ElizB Yikes. Good luck!

That's the worst combo possible.

ElizB

it's somewhat between rain and snow i'm not sure which

Hosch250

20:32

Where it's icy under the rain and your wheels get a little of the snowball effect. Super super slippery.

ElizB

yeah, i'm debating whether to go this weekend or a different one to visit family

user58

It hasn't snowed here in years and I'm hoping that continues.

Let's get a show of hands again?

0/

Hosch250

o/

PiIsNot3

o/

DJMcMayhem

> Don't think I'll be able to play before then unfortunately

ElizB

20:34

@/

DJMcMayhem

Ehhh, o/

PiIsNot3

!newgame user58, ElizB, Hosch250, PiIsNot3, DJMcMayhem

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem

BLUE: ElizB, PiIsNot3

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/54kb797x1vffax4v8q2ptxbfi7y0w6h
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/csbmrzs2lyzggchoftca3f4x1khf7io

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.

PiIsNot3

Oh, someone needs to move to Red

Shiro

BLUE goes first!

DJMcMayhem

20:35

@PiIsNot3 We've got an odd number of players

So if someone moved to red it would just be lopsided the other way

Hosch250

Shared the game with a bunch of friends. We might get some more.

PiIsNot3

@DJMcMayhem But just in case you need to leave, someone can cover for you :)

Hosch250

I can move. I don't mind.

Just, how?

PiIsNot3

!leavered Hosch250

Shiro

BLUE: ElizB, PiIsNot3

Hosch250

20:37

!join

Shiro

Hi Hosch250, you'll be joining team red!

PiIsNot3

!joinred Hosch250

DJMcMayhem

@PiIsNot3 Oh, another piece of lore for you: I'm always leaving games to go make coffee :P

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem, Hosch250, Hosch250

DJMcMayhem

Oh my

user58

20:37

!leave Hosch250

PiIsNot3

@DJMcMayhem Added to the lorebook :)

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem, Hosch250

DJMcMayhem

Not only do we have Hoshch250, we also have Hosch250!

user58

!joinblue Hosch250

Shiro

BLUE: ElizB, PiIsNot3, Hosch250

user58

20:37

!teams

DJMcMayhem

Now he's on both teams...

Hosch250

Fine by me!

user58

!help

Shiro

Hello! I'm Shiro, a bot to help with the game Codenames. To see the rules and a list of commands that you can use, see this answer on Puzzling Meta. Have fun!

PiIsNot3

...what is going on with Shiro

user58

20:38

!teams

Hosch250

I can help both teams guess and be neutral :D

Shiro

RED team: user58, DJMcMayhem, Hosch250

Hosch250

!leavered

PiIsNot3

@Hosch250 I think just !leave

Hosch250

!leave

user58

20:38

...why isn't Shiro working

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem

DJMcMayhem

But which color will he leave?

Hosch250

There I go. I left red.

user58

!teams

Shiro

RED team: user58, DJMcMayhem

PiIsNot3

20:39

@user58 We cloned Hosch, and now Shiro feels regretful

Shiro

BLUE team: ElizB, PiIsNot3

Hosch250

!joinblue

DJMcMayhem

@user58 Shiro has done everything we've requested of her.

Hosch250

!join

PiIsNot3

!joinblue Hosch250

DJMcMayhem

20:39

It's just that the instructions are a mess

Shiro

Hi Hosch250, you'll be joining team red!

Hosch250

AHHHH!

PiIsNot3

Darn it

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem

user58

okay everybody stop

!leavered Hosch250

Shiro

20:39

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem

user58

!teams

DJMcMayhem

Let's just stick with the teams Shiro assigned. I'm OK being the only one on red, I won't need to leave

user58

....Shiro?

!teams

Shiro

RED team: user58, DJMcMayhem

PiIsNot3

Sorry y'all, got a bit too keyboard happy

Shiro

20:40

BLUE team: ElizB, PiIsNot3

user58

!joinblue Hosch250

okay

that should be working now

Hosch250

We had to do something until ElizB gave us the clue anyway.

DJMcMayhem

!teams

Shiro

RED team: user58, DJMcMayhem

BLUE team: ElizB, PiIsNot3, Hosch250

DJMcMayhem

OK, it did work

user58

20:45

@Eliz

ElizB

working on it :)

Blue: BUCKINGHAM PALACE (2)

PiIsNot3

!board

Shiro

user58

PiIsNot3

Does anyone else not see an image?

OK, let's see here...

QUEEN is obvious

Hosch250

20:49

Knight?

PiIsNot3

Hmm, maybe

Rubiksmoose

!join

Shiro

Hi Rubiksmoose, you'll be joining team red!

PiIsNot3

But QUEEN + KNIGHT could've been better clued by "Chess"

Shiro

RED: user58, DJMcMayhem, Rubiksmoose

PiIsNot3

20:50

Does the rose symbolize Buckingham Palace?

Hosch250

Well, BP never had a revolution (yet...).

@PiIsNot3 Was that around during the war of the roses?

DJMcMayhem

Ping me when red's up

Hosch250

Or are they still descended from that guy?

PiIsNot3

I don't know, I remember studying this a few years back but don't recall any of the details

Hosch250

I was under the impression that line died out when Richard was killed.

PiIsNot3

20:51

And anyway I think there's much better clues to clue QUEEN + ROSE than "Buckingham Palace"

Hosch250

Haha, Jack + Rose + Giant could be Titanic.

PiIsNot3

A couple stretchy ones: GIANT because the palace is huge? TUBE for the London reference?

Hosch250

Whip.

PiIsNot3

Hmm, right now I'm thinking QUEEN >> KNIGHT > ROSE > GIANT ~ TUBE

Hosch250

Like, the lead members of parliament.

They have the whip.

PiIsNot3

20:54

@Hosch250 That's not in Buckingham Palace though, right?

The palace is the royal residence IIRC

Hosch250

Well, I guess not.

It's kind of related to the "government" theme of it, though.

PiIsNot3

Perhaps...

What are you OK with?

Hosch250

Just throwing things out there.

I mean, it's not any more distant than Tube.

I think it is down there, though.

I like your order.

PiIsNot3

OK, hopefully KNIGHT wasn't an oversight...

QUEEN

Shiro

QUEEN is Blue

PiIsNot3

20:56

KNIGHT

Shiro

KNIGHT is Red
What were you thinking?
It is now Red's turn

PiIsNot3

..yep

Hosch250

@DJMcMayhem

user58

Red: burns (3)

Rubiksmoose

@DJMcMayhem

DJMcMayhem

20:57

DRAGON

STAR

Metaphorically, a revolution burns?

Rubiksmoose

CRASH? ("crash and burn" being a common phrase around me)

DJMcMayhem

I like that one the least

Ooh, yeah that's good

Rubiksmoose

Though the tense seems important here. "BURNs"

DJMcMayhem

Another thing that comes to mind (that I'm almost positive it isn't, but I'll throw it out there anyway) is that JACK Daniels burns in your throat

El'endia Starman

Burns is a character in the Simpsons.

Rubiksmoose

20:59

Did we have both DRAGON and KNIGHT?

(we'll find out of course lol)

DJMcMayhem

Well we haven't guessed DRAGON yet, so we don't know

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