Codenames

bobble

00:00

AZTEC

Shiro

AZTEC is Blue

Prince North Læraðr

Hm, what else is Mexican?

Bermuda? Bear?

bobble

what's on the backlog?

Prince North Læraðr

Nothing. We got a zero clue turn 1

I did tell caird I was pretty good with history, so maybe bear??? Seems kind of far-fetched tho

California's state flag has a bear, and it was occupied before by Mexico??

Is Bermuda around mexico?

Like Bermuda Triangle?

bobble

are there mexican novels? dragons? berries?

tutoring is over

Prince North Læraðr

00:03

I don't think novels

I think it might be Bermuda. That's like central america, right?

bobble

I'm not great with geography, but sure let's try

Prince North Læraðr

Or bear, but that seems a bit far

I'll go with bermuda

BERMUDA

Shiro

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

Prince North Læraðr

WHAT

Shiro

Prince North Læraðr

00:04

Dwarf?? Was it bear?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Can I say where it is or should I wait

Prince North Læraðr

Sure

It's been done

bobble

ugh, someone's telling me MathJax is fine and I don't want to deal with it right now

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

BERMUDA is in the caribbean

Prince North Læraðr

That's close enough to Mexico

I think it might've actually been bear. I don't know though

bobble

00:06

'borg, or North, would you mind? puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/105329/…

Sciborg

i'm kinda having a self-esteem crisis at the moment, i need a minute

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble Well, there is no meta post about it

I'll take care of it

bobble

the comment, or writing a meta post?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Red: Size(2)

Prince North Læraðr

Comment. I mean, you can write the meta post

matt

00:09

@Sciborg oh no :( virtual hugs

Sciborg

i have no goddamn idea

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

matt, want to join sciborg?

matt

as to...

Sciborg

things CONTRACT and get smaller, i guess??? and maybe the stupid thing i missed was SOLDIER, for War and Peace.

CONTRACT

Shiro

CONTRACT is Red

matt

00:10

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus got stuff to do, and i'm terrible at this

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

@matt fair

matt

:) i'll just observe

Sciborg

okay, so now... i had MOSCOW and SOLDIER for War and Peace. and i get 2 more guesses

MOSCOW

Shiro

MOSCOW is Red

Sciborg

!who

well, you're very helpful shiro

SOLDIER

caird coinheringaahing

00:13

!who

Shiro

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

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

Sciborg

you know what, i call that a win

OH MY GOD, NOVEL. I'm STUPID.

now i got it

bobble

you are not stupid

virtual hugs

matt

@Sciborg how in the world did that fit in the 500 characters of a chat message??

also you are definitely not stupid

bobble

if you copy-paste it ignores the limit

matt

00:15

huh

caird coinheringaahing

Or shift+enter

matt

yeah but that still counts as a character

caird coinheringaahing

No, if you precede it with shift+enter, it ignores the limit

matt

oh cool

Sciborg

i get you now, platypus. give me an unlimited next round because i know the 2 clues you were intending now. i got you.

caird coinheringaahing

00:17

Blue: Fur (2)

Prince North Læraðr

BEAR

matt

think i might pop in here, let me just switch to merrybot

Prince North Læraðr

DRESS?

bobble

BEAR for sure

do DRAGONS have fur?

Prince North Læraðr

No, don't think so

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

00:19

my log might be slightly incomplete; i'm sitting next to the 27 pound blob that constitutes my cat

bobble

objections to BEAR?

Prince North Læraðr

No

merrybot

@matt there we go

!teams

bobble

BEAR

caird coinheringaahing

!teams

Shiro

00:20

BEAR is Blue

RED team: ThePuzzlingPlatypus, Sciborg

BLUE team: caird coinheringaahing, bobble, Prince North Læraðr

merrybot

!joinred

Sciborg

matt, if you're joining, please please let me do my two guesses that i missed, please don't pass or anything.

Prince North Læraðr

Maybe DWARF?

merrybot

@Sciborg alright alright

caird coinheringaahing

@merrybot Just use !join, Shiro tries to be fair

merrybot

00:20

ok then

bobble

I thought DWARF would fall under the "size" clue?

merrybot

!join

Shiro

Hi merrybot, you'll be joining team red!

merrybot

yayyy

Shiro

RED: ThePuzzlingPlatypus, Sciborg, merrybot

Prince North Læraðr

00:21

@bobble Oh, maybe

@bobble Wait, we might be able to do process of elimination

Sciborg

matt, we're guessing DWARF (size) and NOVEL (war and peace). i am 100% confident in those.

merrybot

agreed

Prince North Læraðr

It probably isn't DWARF, NOVEL, TABLE, CLUB, BAR, and maybe DRAGON

bobble

do you want to try DRESS?

Prince North Læraðr

yea

bobble

00:23

DRESS

Shiro

DRESS is Blue

bobble

backlog?

Prince North Læraðr

nothin

Id pass

We have a solid "this won't work" list

bobble

[pass]

Shiro

Prince North Læraðr

00:24

we might lose. 'borg's got a pretty strong lead

bobble

not bad, not bad

Sciborg

give us the last two, platypus.

Prince North Læraðr

They basically have two ledt

Sciborg

we believe in you.

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble Is Dragon's Pub a thing from HP???

bobble

00:25

there's the Hog's Head

I can't think of any other pub

Prince North Læraðr

What's that pub that Hagrid enters

In Dagon Alley?

Sciborg

The Diagon Alley pub?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

the leaky cauldron

bobble

Leaky Caldron

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

having trouble with false positives on clues

Prince North Læraðr

00:26

Hm I might be confusing Diagon with Dragon

Sciborg

Been there, Platypus :p

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

you know what, I"ll go for it

Sciborg

"Shapes, that's a great clue!! ...OH WAIT HEART AND CIRCLE, F*CK"

caird coinheringaahing

FYI I never made the shapes connection to Heart until someone pointed it out ಠ_ಠ

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Red: Water (unlimited)

Prince North Læraðr

00:27

I swear Dragon's Pub is a thing, but I don't know

Sciborg

Okay, our backlog first and then we'll talk about this one.

NOVEL

Shiro

NOVEL is Red

Sciborg

DWARF

Shiro

DWARF is Red

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

If you get the false positives, it's my fault

merrybot

00:28

@Sciborg this gives me the impression that playing Codenames is basically screaming and profanity and words

Sciborg

Excellent!!!!

merrybot

am i right?

Sciborg

Okay, they gave us Water.

immediate instincts: WAVE, WASHER.

Prince North Læraðr

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus That's a risky gamble there

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I couldn't think of a better clue

Sciborg

00:29

everyone is warning about a gamble, so i'm a little nervous now.

matt, what's your instinct?

bobble

cleric casts "Create Water", therefore water is unlimited

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus onetimesecret.com/secret/aik0m2ljtz6nqqznw48n753sga2obll

@merrybot ...Yeah, basically

merrybot

@Sciborg i've no idea

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

@cairdcoinheringaahing onetimesecret.com/secret/p46mi6j2dsgoyel7oxgaqfdcw6k0git

merrybot

@cairdcoinheringaahing heh

Sciborg

00:30

i really think WAVE because it makes sense with water, and WASHER seems to make sense too.

and since we know BAR is the assassin, i think we're okay to be wrong?

is it okay if i guess WAVE, matt?

Prince North Læraðr

We don't know bar is assassin :P

merrybot

what about WHALE?

bobble

and there's no way we're winning next turn, you guys have time

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus onetimesecret.com/secret/ax5wzjap2e8vg6rltbg0v8dcyky8r3l

Sciborg

ohhh, crap, WHALE......

i think WAVE is the closest fit though?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

00:31

onetimesecret.com/secret/iljzxfsrxuawnmv3ttsdyfd4aq1cs3v

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble I think we can. If Caird can give us another strong 0 clue, we might be able to win via process of elimination

merrybot

alright, sure, mick

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus nods

Sciborg

It's okay if you disagree though, what would you rather guess?

merrybot

well, there's also BOTTLE

bobble

00:31

'specially if 'borg hands us one. hint hint

Sciborg

BOTTLE, ugh. A lot of these make sense with water.

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble onetimesecret.com/secret/q9tywtid12uuoyose8z0rjhc7j4n9xq

Jinx

Sciborg

so we're deciding between WAVE, WASHER, WHALE and BOTTLE, it looks like?

merrybot

yep

Prince North Læraðr

!board

Shiro

00:32

Sciborg

they're hinting that one of those is a blue one, so let's look at previous blue clues.

bobble

of course the blue clues are the water ones

Prince North Læraðr

Duh

Water is blue

merrybot

b- no

caird coinheringaahing

Unless something's gone very wrong

bobble

00:33

and I want SUB to be yellow because yellow submarine and Beatles :D

Sciborg

They had Fur (2) = BEAR, DRESS, Mexican (2) = AZTEC, ???

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble Is underwater?

:P

Sciborg

What do you think is the Mexican one they missed?

Prince North Læraðr

Must add to confusion

merrybot

@Sciborg *thinking*

bobble

00:34

I'm writing a meta post: "PSA: MathJax should be used ONLY for math"

Prince North Læraðr

@bobble onetimesecret.com/secret/q6fe5s32yizf916l04s46nz5kzv3kj0

merrybot

@bobble please do that

caird coinheringaahing

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Only if Bar, Key and Dragon are blue and Sub yellow. Then you have a yellow Sub under a row of blue :P

Sciborg

Ohhh, crap, SUB could be water too....

merrybot

@Sciborg i've really no idea

Prince North Læraðr

00:35

@cairdcoinheringaahing hehe

Sciborg

I think WAVE is a really really solid fit of all the ones we presented, I'm willing to at least guess that.

Then we can pass for another clue maybe, since we have time.

merrybot

sure, lets do it

Sciborg

Okay. I'm gonna guess it

WAVE

Shiro

WAVE is Blue
When will you learn?
It is now Blue's turn

Prince North Læraðr

YESSS

YESS

Shiro

00:36

Prince North Læraðr

HELL YES

merrybot

ah damn it

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I took a calculated risk and failed

Sciborg

playtpus?????

WATER?????

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I knew that would happen

bobble

00:36

okay, give us a good one caird

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I couldn't avoid it

Prince North Læraðr

Okay I think if caird can give us a solid zero clue, we might be able to do process of elim.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I couldn't think of a better clue forthe last two

bobble

@PrinceNorthLæraðr <expletive> yes from me

merrybot

i'm just thinking "well ... shit"

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

00:36

can I blame my cat?

Prince North Læraðr

I gotta think like TPP: what would he see WATER for?

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus No, but you can keep it to yourself/your log until the end :P

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

ok

merrybot

@bobble i thought you didn't swear?

bobble

<expletive> isn't swearing, because I didn't actually say a swear word

Sciborg

00:38

at least we only need those two matt, so if platypus can give us a second clue, we can probably figure it out from the options we had for WATER.

merrybot

@bobble i see

caird coinheringaahing

Blue: Open (3)

Prince North Læraðr

Okay hold on Bobble

bobble

TABLE, i think

Prince North Læraðr

About to OTS you

bobble

00:39

KEY opens stuff

caird coinheringaahing

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Why not talk openly?

Prince North Læraðr

Because I might give something away to red

bobble

Open bar? but then PUB

Prince North Læraðr

I think KEY might be good.

bobble

KEY is the most solid of those, yes

Prince North Læraðr

00:40

I'm trying to do process of elim

bobble

KEY

Shiro

KEY is Blue

Prince North Læraðr

Okay

Oh, DROP

Like DROP open

bobble

sure, sounds good

DROP

Shiro

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

Prince North Læraðr

00:41

Nooooooo

Shiro

merrybot

ok then

Sciborg

nice

Prince North Læraðr

frustrated noises

Sciborg

it's not BOTTLE, matt, because caird was obviously cluing BOTTLE. so we're down between WHALE and WASHER.

bobble

00:41

give us another, red team!

merrybot

@bobble we'll see about that

Sciborg

if platypus gives us a clue to confirm WHALE and WASHER, we're golden.

merrybot

@Sciborg hmmm

Sciborg

and we need to win now because i just gave blue one of their answers.

so let's thoroughly discuss whatever he gives us

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Red: Cetacean (unlimited)

Sciborg

00:44

PLATYPUS I LOVE YOU

WHALE

Shiro

WHALE is Red

Sciborg

Okay. Are we confident in WASHER?

Nothing else could be water-related?

merrybot

checking...

nop

Sciborg

WAIT

WATER TABLE?

no no, that wouldn't be it, would it?

Prince North Læraðr

afk for ten minutes

merrybot

00:45

@Sciborg i dont think so

Prince North Læraðr

Please wait for me bobble, and I will play another round if they win

merrybot

WASHER?

Sciborg

okay then, i'm doing the Hail Mary

WASHER

Shiro

WASHER is Red

merrybot

YESSSSSSSS

Sciborg

00:46

YES!!!

caird coinheringaahing

!finalboard

Shiro

caird coinheringaahing

What a shit board, eh @ThePuzzlingPlatypus

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

RED SM

RED: DWARF BELT CONTRACT WHALE BERMUDA WASHER MOSCOW NOVEL

BLUE: TABLE EMBASSY DRESS AZTEC BEAR KEY BOTTLE WAVE

YELLOW: SOLDIER DROP CLUB DRGON SUB POUND BERRY

ASSASSIN: BAR

blue clues Pub (0) to get the assassin out of the way early

not sure how he intends for that to do anything

North mentioned DWARF and BELT being clued easily by astronomy, so STAR(2) perhaps

yes! he clued them away from two of their own clues!

and they guessed BELT

RED: DWARF CONTRACT WHALE BERMUDA WASHER MOSCOW NOVEL

Sciborg

Platypus, you absolute mad lad, you had nothing to work with.

caird coinheringaahing

00:46

Seed: 817158156

Blue: Table, Embassy, Dress, Aztec, Bear, Key, Swing, Bottle, Wave
Red: Dwarf, Belt, Contract, Whale, Bermuda, Washer, Moscow, Novel
Black: Bar
Yellow: Soldier, Drop, Club, Dragon, Sub, Pound, Berry

Well, this is a shit board.
And North's given me a clue Astronomy (0) for later
Pub (0) could clue away from Bar and maybe clue Bottle and Table?
Although I do hate opening with a (0)

Oh damn, this is going to be a mess. At least North knows Black now
How do you get Dwarf and Belt from that?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

You try cluing WASHER and WhALE at the same time

Sciborg

You did brilliant, Water + Cetacean got us there.

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus How about Key, Swing, Table and Bottle for the win? :P

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I was kind of distracted

I wasn't kidding about the cat

I can't believe I only had to confirm WHALE

Sciborg

Oops, size = Whale too. My bad.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

00:47

that was the intention, yes

merrybot

that was <expletive> amazing

Sciborg

You did amazing given the complete crap of a board :p

caird coinheringaahing

@bobble Explain yourself:

9 mins ago, by bobble

TABLE, i think

How in the hell do you get Table from Open?

bobble

"open table"

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

@cairdcoinheringaahing A cetacean is an animal in the dolphin/whale family

caird coinheringaahing

00:49

@bobble What's that?

bobble

phrase that I've heard, maybe local or family-specific

caird coinheringaahing

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus I guessed as much :p

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

My cat may also qualify by weight

ok that's enough fat-shaming the cat for one night

caird coinheringaahing

@bobble A quick google comes up with opentable.com

Sciborg

Good game, that was a super tough board.

caird coinheringaahing

00:49

0/

merrybot

also a restaurant thingy
i can explain stuff after the game, right?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I'd be up to guess

o/

merrybot

what does o/ mean

bobble

o\

homework

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I technically could SM but I really don't want to

Sciborg

00:50

@merrybot means you're willing to guess but not SM.

caird coinheringaahing

Dec 15 '19 at 16:39, by Mithical

"O/" = want to SM
"@/" - no preference between SMing or guessing
"0/" - would prefer to guess but can SM
"o/" - can guess but not SM
"./" - can guess but only with another player on the team

merrybot

./

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I really don't want to sm again

Sciborg

Well, if no one is going to SM, my dumb ass can give it a second shot

O/

caird coinheringaahing

Give me ~5 minutes tho

merrybot

00:51

@Sciborg your ass is not dumb; neither are you

:p

Prince North Læraðr

What happened?

O/

caird coinheringaahing

@bobble If you don't mind me asking, how old (ish) are you?

Prince North Læraðr

I would like to SM this round

caird coinheringaahing

If North and Sci want to SM, I'm very happy to guess

Sciborg

I promise I have learned from my mistakes :p

bobble

00:53

@cairdcoinheringaahing senior in high school

Prince North Læraðr

So who's SM-ing?

And who's playing?

Sciborg

You and me are SMing, it seems like :p

merrybot

o/

Prince North Læraðr

Okay cool

I'll start it then

caird coinheringaahing

@bobble huh. I got the impression you were mid-20s ish

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

00:54

no @Caird that's me]

Prince North Læraðr

!newgame Prince North Læraðr, Sciborg, merrybot, ThePuzzlingPlatypus, caird coinheringaahing

Shiro

RED: Sciborg, caird coinheringaahing

bobble

I am very mature, yes yes

Shiro

BLUE: Prince North Læraðr, ThePuzzlingPlatypus

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/2q8fjlyptrluma3lcfwhgkc429l7j1p
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/d0f5fe459yde4sy6wmn4iqwetnnv1rv

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.

RED goes first!

caird coinheringaahing

@bobble indububuidedly

merrybot

00:55

well, mick, i'm working against you now

Sciborg

Caird, we got this

bobble

in The Sphinx's Lair, Nov 3 at 1:28, by bobble

merrybot

actually

bobble

i drew myself a while back

merrybot

!leave

Shiro

00:56

BLUE: Prince North Læraðr, ThePuzzlingPlatypus

merrybot

@bobble very detailed, yes

caird coinheringaahing

@Sciborg You've only ever seen me SM, never guessing :P

@bobble Practically a Picasso :p

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

and I wasn't kidding about the trolling

!who

Shiro

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

Sciborg

thinking sounds

caird coinheringaahing

00:58

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus At least you're familiar with it, god forbid I go up against a newbie

Sciborg

Red: Body part (2)

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