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22:00
I see y'all and I'm working on it. Patience :)
ElizB definitely has a tough game ahead of her if she wants to avenge herself.
AFK for 10 mins, don't need to confirm with me to play words, I trust y'all
@PiIsNot3 that's… unwise. :-)
C'mon, what could go wrong?
Red: LOVE (3)
22:03
heart, honey
racket (for the score)
tennis score, that is
oh, club can also be tennis
And I'm not sure a tennis racket is spelled that way.
C'mon, teammates....
Avi
Avi
would help if I could see the board ;(
!leave
RED: ElizB, PiIsNot3, msh210
I've just got 25 minutes, but...
!join
Hi Hosch250, you'll be joining team red!
22:06
RED: ElizB, PiIsNot3, msh210, Hosch250
Buck, perhaps.
Hi DJMcMayhem, you'll be joining team blue!
BLUE: John Dvorak, Rubiksmoose, El'endia Starman
@Hosch250 how
Like, "young buck" as a term for a suitor.
oh, I thought it just meant guy
22:07
Kind of archaic.
Actually, I'm sorry. I don't know why I joined.
!leave
@msh210 Might well in some cases :)
BLUE: John Dvorak, Rubiksmoose, El'endia Starman
I don't have as much time as I thought, so I'll just lurk
You think heart is safe, first?
22:08
Yes.
heart
I mean, feel free to override me. All my games I've gotten honorable mention for getting way off.
HEART is Red
Can you weigh in on the question whether a tennis racket is spelled "racket"?
Yes, it is.
22:09
Oh okay
So whaddaya think?
As far as getting way off goes, most OPERAs are about love stories...
On the table are buck, honey, club, racket
, opera I suppose.
!who put the bomp
Red currently has 3 guesses remaining.
I'd go with tennis, I guess, although I don't play and don't know any of the terms :)
fine, racket?
I like honey tbh.
It's a common expression of love.
22:12
Agree.
!board
Yeah, HONEY looks good
Is there a love wave?
honey
22:13
HONEY is Red
Besides that I don't see any direct connectins
@Hosch250 not that I'm aware
Love OPERA?
@PiIsNot3 we mentioned racket and club as tennis terms, and opera for the subject matter
Love is also a STATE that someone is in.
@msh210 Too generic for my tastes
22:15
Let's not over-think it :)
I dont think tennis was intended
isn't that the point of the game? to overthink everything and lose?
5
@PiIsNot3 so you think opera?
I like OPERA, but there may be a better word I'm missing
"The only winning move is not to guess."
I'm okay with opera.
22:17
@Hosch250 OK with going for OPERA?
Sure.
OPERA
OPERA is Red
Oh phew, this time it was good
!who
Red currently has 1 guesses remaining.
22:18
Nice. :)
[pass]
[pass]
Yeah me for guessing a valid one for once?
@Hosch250 There's always a first for everyone :)
22:21
blue: Summer Olympics(3)
Not platypus, that's an event in the winter Olympics.
POOL
Platypus isn't an event at all. ;)
Yeah I know :-)
POLE vault
@El'endiaStarman That made me wonder if FOOL was a word in the Kodenames list
22:22
Maybe BOW for archery.
RACKET for tennis?
I thought about that too.
POOL > POLE > BOW ~ RACKET
I'm not sure tennis is an Olympic event though? :thinking:
I'm 99% sure it is.
!leave
RED: ElizB, PiIsNot3, msh210
22:24
Sorry, Have fun, guys!
@Hosch250 See ya!
I'm thinking RACKET > BOW for a silly reason: because RED mentioned it so often
(it may have stood out more to our SM)
or at the very least shouldn't have been overlooked.
I wonder if POLE is actually obvious enough.
That was for the LOVE (3) clue though.
POOL > RACKET > BOW ~ POLE
@El'endiaStarman right
@Hosch250 thanks
22:26
Nah, POLE is definitely one of the words.
OK. I'm in favor of that as a former pole vaulter, but to me it seems like the most obscure one.
The one most likely to be overlooked
Huh, that's surprising to me.
POOL
POOL is Blue
yes, yes it is
22:28
@Rubiksmoose maybe that's your innate modesty speaking
@msh210 Well, I am the most modest moose you'll ever meet.
;)
Nobody can do modesty like I can!
These you go, then. (Cue mental picture of a moose pole vaulting.)
Let's do BOW and then flip a coin for POLE vs RACKET?
@msh210 Score another for the lorebook :)
22:29
SURE
BOW
BOW is Blue
R = POLE, B = RACKET
!flipcoin
Red
POLE is Blue
22:30
huzzah!
Told ya. :)
[pass]
Glad you were right :)
Full send time...
I'm losing track with all the movement:
22:30
FULL SENDDD
I wonder if our SM was also unsure if tennis was an olympic sport.
!teams
RED team: ElizB, PiIsNot3, msh210
BLUE team: John Dvorak, Rubiksmoose, El'endia Starman
Or maybe I'm wrong and it isn't.
@PiIsNot3 huh?
22:31
@msh210 As in, "we gotta guess all our words this turn or else the other team wins"
ah. Well, not necessarily. They've two, not one.
@Rubiksmoose It's one of those things where it'd be surprising if tennis wasn't an Olympic sport, but it's also easily overshadowed by tennis' own world championships.
@El'endiaStarman Sure, that makes sense.
@El'endiaStarman The opposite is true for swimming: most people would bring up the Olympics before any of the world or national championships
Yeah, I don't know any of the non-Olympic championships...
22:33
Quoits, most people would bring up nothing.
@El'endiaStarman And for good reason, because most of the lesser championships are really just qualifiers for the Olympics
Red: AUSTRALIA (2)
!board
Hmm, this is telling us something I bet
Well PLATYPUS obviously
Australia is a STATE technically, although it feels weird to describe it as such
22:42
It also has states
(and territories)
True, true
@msh210 Liquid Australia, solid Australia, gaseous Australia
Don't know why a 2 clue though, are Blue's last two really that hard to clue together?
hush, you. :-)
22:43
@PiIsNot3 I hope so :-)
Ah bummer, I was about to suggest that it's currently MARCH in Australia, but really, it's currently May.
@PiIsNot3 Maybe there's simply nothing better to do.
Even if we got both of our "Australia" words, we're still stuck with 3 that are probably difficult to find a connection between
@msh210 Unfortunately, that's probably what's happening here
Alright, well I have to head out. @El'endiaStarman I trust you to take us home!
But we have to play on!
PLATYPUS > STATE
22:44
@Rubiksmoose o7
wave, because some areas of Australia are famous for surfing? That's a stretch methinks
!leave
BLUE: John Dvorak, El'endia Starman
ooh I have a great idea
I'll put WAVE after STATE just in case then
22:45
@El'endiaStarman you !leave too, and we win by default
Hmm, tempting.
@PiIsNot3 that seems right
Shall we?
@msh210 I don't think Shiro recognizes that, lol
...now I'm curious how Shiro would react.
OK, I'll play the words
PLATYPUS
22:46
PLATYPUS is Red
STATE
STATE is Red
Can't do much else, unfortunately
And stop here, I guess.
[pass]
22:46
@El'endiaStarman I think she'll just remove you from the team, and the game continues
Alright well if it's our turn I can stick around for a few more minutes
!joinblue
BLUE: John Dvorak, El'endia Starman, Rubiksmoose
oh man, our 2 must be tough.
Probably, yeah.
22:51
blue: Peace sign(1)
...wow. Yeah.
WAVE?
I'm.... not sure honestly.
oh
olive branch
ohhhh
Yeah, I like that.
gotta be right?
Why not just "branch (1)" then?
22:54
lemon maybe?
but still.
I can't see what else it could be though
I like it better than WAVEing the "peace" hand shape/sign.
OLIVE
you'd think there would be a better way to clue WAVE (1) for sure.
OLIVE is Blue
22:56
so thought
Do you think they only gave us 1 because we had 1 remaining? maybe from guessing 1 accidentally? Probably not, because it would have been unlimited I guess.
washington + genius + march = MLK
@Rubiksmoose Yeah, I'd expect an unlimited clue in that case.
@msh210 I don't think it's as simple as that for us, unfortunately
22:58
Red: WALKING (3)
march
Or maybe it is?
MARCH is obvious, yeah
...and no idea what else
OK I have to go for realsies now.
!leave
22:59
BLUE: John Dvorak, El'endia Starman
Good luck all!
@Rubiksmoose See ya (again)!
slip? as in slip away
Perhaps...
22:59
bye Rubiksmoose
I saw CHANGE because there's lot of charity events involving walking for a long period of time
why walking, not walk....
Maybe we're to find things that walk?
Or just can move around in general?
So BUCK could fit the bill (no pun intended)
A tick walks (I assume)
You can also have a walking GENIUS, although I don't think that's a commonly used phrase
Perhaps speedwalking is popular enough to warrant having their own CLUBs?
23:02
walking pneumonia, walk the plank, walking back and forth, a floorwalker, a streetwalker
@PiIsNot3 possible
@PiIsNot3 that might explain why walking not walk
I mean, beyond MARCH everything else is pretty tenuous
And I don't want to agonize over what our SM could possibly have meant by that clue
MARCH > CLUB currently for me
you can walk back a CHANGE
@msh210 My thought was a walk-a-thon for charity that can inspire change
Washington is good for walking (it's crowded with cars and is pretty small). Did the SM ever go to Gallaudet?
She lives in New York IIRC, so possibly?
23:06
(or for that matter anywhere else in Washington)
But then you said WASHINGTON + MARCH could have been "MLK" or something similar
yeah
Hmm, I'm liking SLIP now after thinking about it a bit more
fine so march, club, and then we'll see?
Since if you're walking, you can slip on ice or a banana peel or something like that
23:07
ooh nice
march>slip>club I suppose
Yeah, same for me
march
MARCH is Red
Don't wanna play CLUB just yet because there may be a better word we haven't considered
@PiIsNot3 fair enough
slip
23:08
SLIP is Red
!board
Clutch
Really it can be any word we've said by now
23:09
do casinos have employees called walkers? rings a bell
And we can't glean any ideas from other clues since all the intended words have been gotten
@PiIsNot3 right
@msh210 Is that really what they're called?
Yeah, I think this is the best game I've seen yet in this room. No yellow or black words guessed!
Never heard of that term before
23:10
@PiIsNot3 dunno, I think it rings a bell...
maybe I'm making it up
Even if it was, I'm not super confident it's our word
right
Since again, "walking" not "walk" or "walker"
I like club
There's really no way to reason through this anymore. I'm OK with CLUB
23:12
club
CLUB is Red
!!!!!!!!!!!!
woohoo!
Nooooo waaaaay
23:13
wowwwww
[pass]
I think I just went to heaven, twice
I wanna see if I can get the last blue.
23:13
GG
blue: Tennis(1)
nice cluing, @ElizB !!
RACKET is Blue
!finalboard
Ooh, OLIVE + RACKET, yeah bad combo
23:14
And yes, excellent clues @ElizB! Congrats! :)
20191126

Going first this time; second game of the day

Black: Washington
Blue words: Racket, Pole, Bow, Table, Ice, Pool, Kid, Ketchup, Olive

Food items? Nope, Honey/R and Lemon/Y.
Watery? Platypus/R risk. Ice, Poll, check. Ketchup, not great.
Lifeguard for Pole/Pool/Kid? They don't really use poles that often, and kid might also miss.
Iceberg ... would trigger a penalty.
McDonalds for Kid, Ketchup, Table?
French Fries doesn't work for Table.
Actually, McD should also give Ice.
Should work. Playing 4.
Second game to redeem myself! Team RED,

RED: ElizB, PiIsNot3, Avi
BLUE: John Dvorak, Rubiksmoose, El'endia Starman

red words: Honey, Platypus, Heart, State, Slip, March, Opera, Club

Blue: Racket, Pole, Bow, Table, Ice, Pool, Kid, Ketchup, Olive

Assasin word: Washington

Argghhh State is gonna be hard to get because of Washington.

Love might be good for Heart and Honey, maybe Opera

I don't have much better words for the three words, so i'll try it. >.<

Yes, heart and honey!

ugh!! not racket, but good point. I forgot about that.
I was worried about the 2 clue when we were down big, but somehow it worked out haha
23:15
That pass is what really lost me the game.
Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players. After two appearances as a demonstration sport in 1968 and 1984 (with a U-21 age limit), it returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics open for all players regardless of their age and status and has been played at every edition of the Games since then. In 1896, 1900, 1904, 1988, and 1992, semifinal losers...
... that and an unexpectedly good clue from Red
@JohnDvorak hehe why thank you I guess my sick brain isn't all that fried :P
and i've redeemed myself in a super satisfying way! :)
Well, GG y'all, that was a great finish
Gotta go though
\o
Literally a perfect game. Wow.
23:19
Yup!
@El'endiaStarman Wonder how likely that happens
You know, I should also probably include a hall of fame for particularly great/interesting/horrible games in my lorebook
@JohnDvorak what's FP?
This one'll probably be up first for induction:)
:) I'm pretty happy but sweaty now
("Red plays Walking(3). March seen. Club obvious. Slip might miss, though what would be the FP?")
23:22
@msh210 My guess is short for "final play"
@ElizB you were amazing
@msh210 Thank youuuu :)
it was definitely a nail biter but you guys did well too
@ElizB I'm bookmarking this entire game, what should I title it?
false positive
aww lol umm not sure
brain-fryer?
23:25
codenames-logs.txt
@JohnDvorak ah
Close enough. I'm gonna call it "The Perfect Game"
So, what's the precedent / consensus for unlimited clues with two words remaining?
@PiIsNot3 There's joy in Mudville after all.
Also can't get every single message in it (exceeds limit by just a bit), but it should still be good :)
23:27
Can you trash some messages to get it under the limit if given the power to trash messages?

The Perfect Game (20191126)

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@JohnDvorak Nah, I think it's all right
FTR: the seed is 34037289
omg i'm so flattered
gtg; gameN
GAmen
\o
23:31
goodnight! :)
cy'all

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