Codenames

ElizB

18:37

@/

John Dvorak

0/

El'endia Starman

18:55

<_< ... o/

Hosch250

We're in the spyfall room.

o/

Mithical

19:36

0/

ElizB

game?

Mithical

Who's still here?

Hosch250

I am.

Mithical

@El'endia? @John?

El'endia Starman

Can't guarantee I'll be present the whole game. ./

Mithical

19:42

pong @caird, @Rubiks

HTM

20:09

o/

Too late?

Mithical

0/

ElizB

@/

John Dvorak

0/

El'endia Starman

./

Mithical

!newgame ElizB, John Dvorak, Mithical, HTM

Shiro

20:18

RED: John Dvorak, HTM, El'endia Starman

BLUE: ElizB, Mithical

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/751wpnn2q3qskge1arrcctdcpnugdn7
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/9s45znhz1enw04dr7ossac9w7kikjrj

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.

BLUE goes first!

El'endia Starman

!join

Shiro

Hi El'endia Starman, you'll be joining team red!

RED: John Dvorak, HTM, El'endia Starman

Mithical

@Eliz

Hosch250

!join

Shiro

Hi Hosch250, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: ElizB, Mithical, Hosch250

ElizB

20:26

Blue: PRESIDENT (3)

caird coinheringaahing

!join

Shiro

Hi caird coinheringaahing, you'll be joining team red!

RED: John Dvorak, HTM, El'endia Starman, caird coinheringaahing

msh210

!join

Shiro

Hi msh210, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: ElizB, Mithical, Hosch250, msh210

msh210

hi, all

Mithical

20:29

CAPITAL, STATE, RULER

msh210

president is a ruler in the capital

less sure about state. How do you figure, @Mithical?

oh, state as in = nation

Hosch250

I like those 3.

msh210

yeah, me too

Hosch250

As a 4th, if one doesn't work, I like Europe, as a place with a fair number of presidents.

msh210

does Europe itself have one?

Hosch250

20:33

NAFAIK.

msh210

Who's our recording secretary? :-)

I'm going for it:

capital

Shiro

CAPITAL is Blue

msh210

state

Shiro

STATE is Blue

msh210

ruler

Shiro

20:36

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

John Dvorak

Red: Prosthetic(2)

Hosch250

I want a prosthetic tail now.

HTM

Oh phew I arrived just in time

Prosthetic FOOT

caird coinheringaahing

Foot and Hook?

HTM

Oh yeah HOOK is a good one

Probably not SHOE because FOOT + SHOE is way easier to clue together than that

caird coinheringaahing

20:40

I think John's trying to find a way to clue Foot and not Shoe

HTM

Yeah that’s what I suspected

caird coinheringaahing

Foot > Hook for me

HTM

I’m good with FOOT and HOOK, you can play

caird coinheringaahing

Hold on a second

@El'endiaStarman You still around?

El'endia Starman

\o Looking.

Looked back here at just the right time. :D

Agreed on FOOT and HOOK.

caird coinheringaahing

20:41

FOOT

Shiro

FOOT is Red

caird coinheringaahing

HOOK

Shiro

HOOK is Red

caird coinheringaahing

Nice

Pass?

Hosch250

Why pass when you could gamble a blind guess to pull ahead?

caird coinheringaahing

20:44

We're already ahead :P

!board

Shiro

HTM

Pass pls

caird coinheringaahing

[PASS]

Shiro

msh210

@Shiro Yes, you just said that.

@ElizB

ElizB

20:50

working on it

msh210

Didn't mean to hurry you, just wanted to make sure you knew it's your turn.

ElizB

yup no worries

Blue: BOWLING (3)

Mithical

BALL, TRACK, CASINO

CENTER?

LINE?

msh210

ball, drop?, center, shoe

, line

Mithical

BALL > TRACK > CENTER > CASINO > LINE > EUROPE > ROME

Hosch250

20:53

BOX and SHOE?

I don't know... I like ball, track, center.

msh210

I think ball is surest. Center because you aim relative to the center arrow. Drop because you drop the ball. Shoe because you need special "bowling shoes". Line because of the foul line.

Mithical

I like SHOE the least.

msh210

Why track, casino, Europe, Rome, box?

Mithical

Track for the bowling lane, casino because bowling in casinos, europe/rome for "president"

msh210

I've never heard a bowling lane called a track afaict; shoe is much better IMO. I also don't recall seeing bowling in casinos, not that I looked for it there.

Hosch250

20:58

Isn't the box where they put the pegs (or whatever they are called).

msh210

I think ball > shoe > line

Mithical

Should we go for BALL > CENTER and go from there?

msh210

I'm not so happy with center, actually.

ball

Shiro

BALL is Blue

Mithical

...how much does Eliz know about bowling? We should be looking for the most obvious connections.

!board

Shiro

21:00

msh210

@Hosch250 wanna opine?

Hosch250

I know nothing about bowling, LOL.

msh210

Oh, sorry, you did, I didn't see.

Hosch250

I've heard charging BUFFALO can tend to BOWL you over...

Mithical

So I think right now my choices are CENTER > TRACK/LINE > CASINO/SHOE

msh210

21:01

@Hosch250 never heard it called a box… but then I've never heard it called anything

Hosch250

I like track.

And I've heard of bowling shoes.

Mithical

I haven't...

msh210

@Mithical they're for sure a thing

No question.

I like shoe > { line or center }

Mithical

If you're confident, go for it.

Hosch250

Track first?

msh210

21:05

@Hosch250 not IMO

Hosch250

Also, is there such a thing as a President Mole?

Mithical

Dunno, haven't been down to Redwall recently.

msh210

@Hosch250 maybe in The Wind in the Willows?

Mithical

But I've never heard of anything like that.

Hosch250

Don't play it then :)

Mithical

21:07

CENTER > SHOE > TRACK > LINE

msh210

center

Shiro

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

Mithical

welp

John Dvorak

red: DIY(2)

HTM

DIY may involve using DRILLs

Working with IVORY, maybe? No, it should be marble then

A TELESCOPE can be constructed from a DIY kit

msh210

21:11

Definitely not Shakespeare. That wasn't DIY: someone wrote his plays for him, I hear. :-)

HTM

And I guess DIY kits are BOXes, though that seems a bit too generic

@msh210 Does their name have any relation to delicious pork products by any chance?

Mithical

No, Francis.

El'endia Starman

BOND and DRILL, methinks.

Mithical

...typed the wrong thing...

Hosch250

@Mithical Bacon

caird coinheringaahing

21:13

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, I was thinking about those

There seems to be better ways to clue them, but I can't think of any :/

HTM

BOND as in gluing things together?

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah

msh210

@HTM Mine does!

HTM

@msh210 Sweet :)

I think DRILL is obv, but the rest I’m not sure about

caird coinheringaahing

I like Drill > Bond > Everything else

HTM

21:18

Any objections to DRILL? I’m gonna play it

caird coinheringaahing

Go for it

HTM

DRILL

Shiro

DRILL is Red

HTM

I honestly don’t know what the other word could be

DRILL + BOND is hard to clue together, but so are DRILL + TELESCOPE and DRILL + BOX

caird coinheringaahing

Bond is by far the best fit

Hosch250

21:21

I don't know. Building Europe's nations was kind of a DIY project by various rulers over the ages ;)

caird coinheringaahing

Woodworking might have been a better clue, but that risks Box

HTM

@El'endiaStarman Any ideas?

Currently at BOND ~ TELESCOPE > BOX

caird coinheringaahing

Bond > Telescope > Box

HTM

Hmm, DRILL + BOX could’ve been “Power tool”

I’m still torn between BOND and TELESCOPE though cause I can’t see a better connection to DRILL

caird coinheringaahing

Personally, I think you're overthinking this @HTM

HTM

21:25

Perhaps, it’s a 2 after all

OK, go for BOND, and put TELESCOPE behind if that doesn’t work

caird coinheringaahing

BOND

Shiro

BOND is Red

HTM

All right, good

[pass]

caird coinheringaahing

[PASS]

Shiro

Hosch250

21:26

1 president, 2 bowling?

I like track + shoe for bowling.

Mithical

Okay.

msh210

I like shoe and then probably line for bowling. And I guess Europe for president?

Oh wait, there's a President Casino.

Hosch250

TIL Eliz is a gambler.

HTM

@Hosch250 Have you seen the kinds of clues she's set as SM?

msh210

I'm trying to remember whether it was a chain. If not, then probably I remember it from St. Louis, which means probably ElizB doesn't know about it.

Hosch250

21:30

Not all of them :)

ElizB

Blue: PRESIDENT (0)

msh210

lol

Mithical

Wack.

HTM

...wow

caird coinheringaahing

Oh boy, this just got fun

Hosch250

21:30

President ball?

OK!

Oh, they do have a yearly ball at the WH, right?

AKA rich-person dance party?

msh210

maybe whip, as in party whip

Anyway, let's do our other backlog?

Hosch250

Eh, let's try for bowling first.

At least that way we aren't guessing blind.

msh210

Shoe?

Mithical

SHOE > TRACK

Hosch250

Sure. Also, TTQW.

msh210

21:32

@Hosch250 huh?

Hosch250

Time To Quit Work.

msh210

ah

Hosch250

In other words, I'll be offline for a few hours.

msh210

shoe

Shiro

SHOE is Blue

msh210

21:33

@Hosch250 safe travels, if relevant

HTM

I'm having lag issues with my browsers for some reason, esp when I try to switch to this room

Hosch250

@msh210 We did just get a few inches of snow, so...

msh210

I still prefer line but

track

Shiro

TRACK is Blue

msh210

Okay, now what?

Mithical

21:35

!board

Shiro

msh210

One president, but definitely nothing we mentioned earlier, or maybe try for another bowling in the chance that our previous guesses were unintended?

Mithical

Might be safer to just pass.

msh210

Probably

There was a President Taylor. Clue for TAIL? (kidding)

[pass]

Shiro

John Dvorak

21:37

red: Horn(2)

HTM

I immediately saw BUFFALO, but then I thought "wait, they don't have horns though," but then right after that I realized how dumb I was

caird coinheringaahing

Ivory and Buffalo?

HTM

Ivory is elephant tusks though, which I don't normally call horns

Anything for the noise-maker horn?

caird coinheringaahing

As far as I know, all horns are ivory

HTM

Horns and TAILs are often mentioned together

@cairdcoinheringaahing Hmm, on second thought, that's probably right

caird coinheringaahing

21:40

Buffalo > Ivory > Tail

HTM

I just thought of that lone white rhino that was being protected from poachers until it died of natural causes

Good with that order

caird coinheringaahing

BUFFALO

Shiro

BUFFALO is Red

caird coinheringaahing

IVORY

Shiro

IVORY is Red

HTM

21:42

Cool beans

caird coinheringaahing

Pass then?

HTM

Yep, pass

caird coinheringaahing

[PASS]

Shiro

msh210

No pressure, ElizB, you just have to clue all four in one turn, for a set of guessers who clearly are not on the same wavelength as you. :-)

ElizB

21:45

Blue: LENGTH (4)

msh210

a line is used to measure length

telescope is used to reduce apparent length

HTM

Good luck, Blue :)

msh210

tail of a sequence is its long part... that's a math-technical term though and even there is weak, so I'm not sure

@HTM Why, thank you.

Mithical

SHAKESPEARE, LINE, TAIL...

msh210

Why Shakespeare?

Mithical

21:47

long plays

msh210

oh. maybe.

are whips known for or by their lengths?

Mithical

No idea.

msh210

So telescope, line, tail, Shakespeare?

Mithical

LINE > TAIL > SHAKESPEARE > TELESCOPE

msh210

Order doesn't matter much: they've two left. But sure, let's do yours if you like.

Shall I, or are you still thinking?

Mithical

21:50

Hosch left?

msh210

yep

Mithical

Alright... looking ove rthe board one more time.

Nope, don't see anything better, let's go for 'em. You can guess.

msh210

a box's volume is given as length x width x height, in grade-school math

I think I might like that better than Shakespeare tbh.

line

Shiro

LINE is Blue

msh210

tail

Shiro

21:51

TAIL is Blue

Mithical

@msh210 Eh... I'd be more willing to replace TELESCOPE with it

msh210

shakespeare

Shiro

SHAKESPEARE is Blue

msh210

I think telescope.

HTM

Oh boy, down to the wire

Mithical

21:53

!board

Shiro

Mithical

...I don't feel confident in either one, so go for what your gut tells you.

And then probably find a bathroom.

HTM

Brb, gonna check on laundry

msh210

Is length a technical term (term of art) in a casino?

@HTM In Soviet Russia, laundry checks on you.

Mithical

I've never been inside a casino, I have no idea.

msh210

21:54

@Mithical you haven't missed much

telescope

Shiro

TELESCOPE is Blue

msh210

whew

gg

caird coinheringaahing

Damn

!finalboard

Shiro

John Dvorak

gg

20191209

black: Mole
red: Europe, Drop, Hook, Foot, Bond, Buffalo, Ivory, Drill

Lots of oddball words... eugh.

Europe + Buffalo = cow? Cows aren't typically European
007 tempting for Europe + Bond + perhaps something else, but spy = mole so ... eugh
Shakespeare blue, so UK not good
Prosthesis = Hook + Foot? The best so far and it's just a 2. Maybe Bond could be rammed onto it as well.

Blue plays President(3). Capital, State, track? Ruler| found instead.

Drill red, Mole black. Disgusting.
Shakespeare blue, Bond red. Eugh. Tail blue, Foot red.

ElizB

21:55

SM for team Blue!

I'm first!

RED: John Dvorak, HTM, El'endia Starman
BLUE: ElizB, Mithical

Assasin: Mole
Red: Europe, Drop, Hook, Foot, Bond, Buffalo, Ivory, Drill

Blue: Line, Capital, State, Ball, Shakespeare, Telescope, Tail, Shoe, Track

Shoe, Track, Line could do for something related to running but could hit something related to operating something. Maybe something like SPORT could cover ball, track?

Long is pretty general but could get line, tail, telescope, shakespeare but could hit drop and bond.

well. that was a really good game.

msh210

@ElizB yeah, rather tense

nice cluing!

ElizB

thank you! :)

caird coinheringaahing

o\

ElizB

o\

msh210

What's "IAAB"?

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