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John Dvorak

23:00

piercing as in sharp sound would also fit drill

Do some people get foot piercing? I shudder at the idea.

user58

@El'endiaStarman The Drill of Babel?

ElizB

Drill > glove > head ....?

John Dvorak

+drill

El'endia Starman

@user58 Ooooh, yessss...

John Dvorak

not really keen of head

ElizB

23:01

a star pierces the heavens?

me either

John Dvorak

Not sure I've heard the phrase

DRILL

Shiro

DRILL is Blue

ElizB

Link? like earring chain link? i'm just not sure

John Dvorak

I"ll leave glove up to you

I don't think I've seen earring chains

caird coinheringaahing

@JohnDvorak For any part of the body, someone somewhere has had it pierced

ElizB

23:02

what about cross? I'm thinking now more about tattoos

not sure if that's intended, my gut doesn't think so

John Dvorak

A cross would be a common tattoo, but that's a different type of bodily ~~muti~~ decoration

ElizB

Yeah, that's what I was thinking that a cross is pretty common

John Dvorak

We also have some girl-stuff from before

there should be overlap

ElizB

I'm still thinking that it's hard to clue 5 words together so maybe Head might be one of the words

John Dvorak

Bar might potentially fit both clues

You pick up girls at bars, and a simple rod might be the thing you stick through your body.

ElizB

23:05

thats true. Some people who get piercings get bars/rods in their bellybuttons or tongues

I'm liking bar more but there's also glove

John Dvorak

I also like glove, as piercer's equipment

I think I prefer bar over glove

ElizB

so bar > glove > head? > cross?

John Dvorak

I"d be willing to drop cross entirely

I'm good on the first two or three

ElizB

it's on the edge for me

see how far we get

want me to guess

John Dvorak

You may

ElizB

23:08

bar

Shiro

BAR is Blue

ElizB

glove

Shiro

GLOVE is Blue

ElizB

okay how you feel about head, cross, link?

anything else you see?

John Dvorak

I'm fine with guessing head

ElizB

23:10

head

Shiro

HEAD is Blue

John Dvorak

nice!

!board

ElizB

ooh nice okay

Shiro

ElizB

any girl-related stuff you see? I think star might be a possibility

John Dvorak

23:11

could "star" fit "girl"?

ElizB

wow are we reading each other minds or what?

John Dvorak

Let's try star

ElizB

star first then cross then link?

John Dvorak

As you wish

ElizB

Star

Shiro

23:12

STAR is Red
I hope you feel okay about that.
It is now Red's turn

ElizB

awww

John Dvorak

I guess that settles it for now

ElizB

still that was a good round

John Dvorak

Still, great round

caird coinheringaahing

cough Mind readers cough

ElizB

23:14

lol

caird coinheringaahing

I'm looking at Cross, Cover and Foot to be Red, just because I want a triangle

@cairdcoinheringaahing If Beijing, Screen and Link are Blue, the symmetry will be glorious

msh210

Red: Weird Al (2)

caird coinheringaahing

COVER

Shiro

COVER is Red

caird coinheringaahing

BAND

Shiro

23:21

BAND is Red

caird coinheringaahing

!board

Shiro

El'endia Starman

RIP symmetry

Well actually, FOREST...

caird coinheringaahing

Field kind of messes that up

El'endia Starman

No, there's still symmetry across y=x.

caird coinheringaahing

23:23

Ah, I was looking at y=-x

You guys just need Screen, and I need Link :P

John Dvorak

How dare you conflate symmetry groups with their fixed point sets?

El'endia Starman

Sorry, I haven't memorized the wallpaper groups yet... :P

caird coinheringaahing

I think Mercury Peppers might be a thing, but really not sure :/

You cross types of peppers to make new ones

John Dvorak

You can describe the group as (x,y) => (y,x)

caird coinheringaahing

MERCURY

Shiro

23:26

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

caird coinheringaahing

Damn

Shiro

caird coinheringaahing

There goes the no Yellow guesses :/

John Dvorak

I don't quite remember the notation for "group generated by the set"

user58

Blue: Born to Run (2)

ElizB

23:27

okay, that's a movie I haven't seen (sorry!!)

El'endia Starman

@JohnDvorak Hmm. Yeah, I think that's the phrase you'd use.

ElizB

but from that I see foot and screen? for movie screen?

John Dvorak

Oh, I thought it was a metal album.

I'm okay with screen. Why foot?

ElizB

running requires feet?

John Dvorak

and then there's foot piercing

ElizB

23:29

I think so...

John Dvorak

What part of the foot can you stab through without crippling your ability to walk?

ElizB

i'm hoping that the clue isn't meant to be either beijing or australia because it could have been from one of those places but I have no idea

@JohnDvorak I don't want to think about it lol

John Dvorak

screen for now?

ElizB

I'm not terribly confident on that but if you don't know anything better might as well

John Dvorak

We also have one excess that doesn't fit the clue

perhaps cross or link

ElizB

23:32

maybe cross is an overlap for crossing the finish line

John Dvorak

I'm okay with cross on the sole basis that we've already indicated it as our first and nothing afterwards suggests against it

caird coinheringaahing

@El'endiaStarman If Satellite is Yellow, Screen is Blue and Forest is Red, I think it'll be symmetric again. And, if Link/Beijing is the Assassin, the entire board will be

El'endia Starman

Fingers crossed! :P

ElizB

I think I want to go for the born to run clues first to get them out of the way so foot for sure?

John Dvorak

ElizB

23:33

Foot > Cross > Screen?

John Dvorak

The order doesn't matter. It's all or nothing.

ElizB

alrighty

foot

Shiro

FOOT is Blue

caird coinheringaahing

@JohnDvorak It's Nerf or nothing

ElizB

okay

cross

Shiro

23:35

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

ElizB

awww

El'endia Starman

Bummer, I was expecting that one to be blue. :P

John Dvorak

And that's why I wanted screen first :P

msh210

Red: blade (1)

El'endia Starman

RIP symmetry. For reals.

caird coinheringaahing

23:35

SWITCH

Shiro

SWITCH is Red

caird coinheringaahing

Nice

ElizB

caird coinheringaahing

!finalboard

Shiro

msh210

23:36

192901548

Red: switch band Moscow cover field fair mint star Czech
Assassin: satellite

cover + field = grass ?
star + field + band? = American flag
-- risks embassy (yellow). And they're called stripes, never bands

Moscow + Czech = Europe

Starting with Europe in absence of anything better

Okay, they got those easily, as I'd expected

Blue clues girl (4), probably going for chick, head, foot, and... glove?

star + field + switch = light -- risks satellite, assassin

mint + field + band? (Sgt.) = pepper

John Dvorak

Link, huh...

user58

192901548

DRILL, GLOVE, LINK, CHICK, BAR, FOOT, HEAD, SCREEN.

Only 12:30, should be fine...

Idle thoughts: "extremities" might clue FOOT, GLOVE, and loosely HEAD. "person" migh fit FOOT, HEAD, maybe GLOVE.

Maybe "girl" - CHICK, HEAD, FOOT, GLOVE. Might run into FAIR. GLOVE is really tenuous, but might be worth a shot in any case.

(gives "girl" clue)

CHICK seen. FAIR spotted :/. I wanted FAIR to be at *least* third.

"Girls have HEADs, I guess" - you *guess*?

Hmm, BAND. Missed that that was red...

ElizB

Link and screen were blue, huh

user58

anyway it's creeping closer to two in the morning so i'm off to bed, GameN

El'endia Starman

G'night! \o

msh210

23:38

@user58 ditto, gg, gameN

ElizB

Good night. Gotta do more laundry :P

user58

It does add a bit of spice when it's the middle of the night for both SMs

msh210

@user58 :-)

caird coinheringaahing

@msh210 Light would've been a better clue for Switch IMO, especially as the last one

I was only ~75% sure for the last word

Hosch250

John Dvorak

23:53

El'endia Starman

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'd have done SWAP (1).

John Dvorak

Even Ninteno would be better IMO

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