Codenames - 2017-06-14 (page 3 of 5)

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4:00 PM

it's so worth it

lmao

[/blows all the money on a trip to elsewhere instead]

(I've actually been to the US twice, but that was eons ago)

!newgame palum,deus,gnome,dcfyj,ffao,gareth

RED: palum, dcfyj, ffao

BLUE: deus, gareth, gnome

what are the rules for hunt eligibility @Deusovi?

4:01 PM

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/fm2v6a8ykua0bb1jodax6xxeucajo1
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/5kxqkdoeksaoumvw53wn91rwx66makh

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.

If mith/rubio/scon want to join just do so.

BLUE goes first!

I think I missed Sid actually

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4:02 PM

@ffao Be on a team, and be unopposed to the idea of puzzles.

!join

Hi Sid, you'll be joining team red!

!join

RED: palum, dcfyj, ffao, Sid

hmm... If I do decide to show up next year would your team take me? :P

4:02 PM

but sadly you need people to be with

Hi Mithrandir, you'll be joining team blue!

^freehand frowny

And have a nonexistent sleep sch... wait nvm ffao already has that covered

BLUE: deus, gareth, gnome, Mithrandir

@ffao Yup, absolutely!

4:03 PM

Mith you didn't say anythin so

We're open to pretty much everyone - about 2/3 of our team is remote solvers, and 1/3 is on-site.

@Deusovi Unless I showed up, then you'd be like nah nah nah get outta hereee

You need @gareth. *nods*

nah, we'd like to have you

Should just make a global PSE team XD

4:04 PM

the good part is you already wouldn't be there n_p

back

@ffao lol fair point

@n_palum _/

(and anyway, you can do most of it online - IMO being there in person is a lot more fun, but seeing everything online is great too)

@Deusovi I feel like being good at puzzles is a criteria XD

4:05 PM

Nah, not really!

Also @Deusovi You're up and I'm gunna send you a secret in a sec

EARLY, 2

Gareth McCaughan

worm, I guess

robin to go with it??

^^

@Deusovi onetimesecret.com/secret/jfhlm88ob60xa4oajazg5hza6w1awtv

4:06 PM

the early bird catches the worm

draft

so I'm guessing robin/worm?

worm/draft

Gareth McCaughan

any objections from blue to worm then robin?

draft??

@n_palum Unfortunately, that's not valid. Pretty funny though.

4:06 PM

early draft

Gareth McCaughan

??

is that some sportsball thing?

*facepalm*

@Deusovi Oh I am well aware but it'd be perfect

Gareth McCaughan

oh

sorry

I'm an idiot

19

so yes, early -> draft isn't crazy at all

but then worm becomes that little bit less plausible if not accompanied by a bird

maybe Gareth likes sportsball more than he lets on, if that was the first association with "draft"...

4:08 PM

lol

Gareth McCaughan

@ffao nope, it's just that my mental model of other people leans that way :-)

anyway. @G_as_in_Gnome @Mithrandir what order?

I'd say that we do worm and then try draft. Team?

Gareth McCaughan

I'm happy starting with worm

worm > bird > draft imo

@GarethMcCaughan rest assured, I have zero interest in sportsball

Gareth McCaughan

4:09 PM

WORM

blue

Blue.

Gareth McCaughan

@G_as_in_Gnome note that we don't have BIRD as an option, but we do have ROBIN

hm

draft then I guess

Gareth McCaughan

ok @G_as_in_Gnome @Mithrandir robin to go with that worm, or draft?

4:09 PM

draft

Gareth McCaughan

ok

draft

Neutral.

Gareth McCaughan

bah, robin it was I guess. never mind

NAVIGATION (3)

!board

4:11 PM

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point

fly?

pilot?

why point?

saturn maybe (navigation by stars)

@ffao no idea, but navigation makes me think of it

bah, I have no better ideas

@sid?

4:14 PM

eh? Oh, it's our turn.

Yeah, all good to me. I don't like point, though.

ok

fly

Yellow.

lol

Ah, that's why. navigation point is a thing

LES MISERABLES, 4

revolution

4:16 PM

!board

Gareth McCaughan

well, it's a NOVEL. It involves a REVOLUTION.

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I could so rock that clue, but it's not my team

cast?

play?

4:16 PM

play?

cast

Okay, I need to go now. Have a nice day, folks.

Gareth McCaughan

maybe CAST and PLAY but has it been a play? It's certainly been a musical.

bye @Sid!

Bye Sid!

Play, Cast, Revolution, and Plot in that order for me

4:16 PM

as for Mystery Hunt stuff: if you can join online and contribute a few things, that's great and we'd love to have you join us. If you can be there, I highly recommend it - it's a lot of fun (also, it'd be really cool to meet you in person! you all are great. (and it'd be kinda weird now that I think about it, since we wouldn't recognize each other at first))

Gareth McCaughan

anyone disagree that revolution and novel (I think in that order) are safe?

^^^

Gareth McCaughan

you think play and cast come ahead of novel and revolution? really?

I think so

@Deusovi Make a custom shirt with your username on it :P

4:17 PM

Well maybe not cast

Gareth McCaughan

I mean Les Miserables literally is a novel

I like play then revolution

and novel

Gareth McCaughan

we all seem to be able to agree on revolution; shall we guess it?

okay Novel > revolution > play?

@GarethMcCaughan Yes.

Gareth McCaughan

4:18 PM

REVOLUTION

Blue.

@Deusovi I very much know what that's like. Before starting Uni I met a kid who'd also be a freshman and we played stuff online all summer before and meeting them in person was super weird because we're like.. who/where are you?

!join

Gareth McCaughan

what next? I would go for novel but it seems the rest of Team Blue has other ideas :-)

Hi Beastly Gerbil, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: deus, gareth, gnome, Mithrandir, Beastly Gerbil

4:18 PM

and hi :P

!leave Sid

RED: palum, dcfyj, ffao

Er... Sid left so BG should be red but okay

@dcfyj eh, most of you know my first name from emails / Google Docs anyway

I'll go with novel

4:18 PM

hey BG :3

Gareth McCaughan

NOVEL

Neutral.

@Deusovi true

Gareth McCaughan

wat

!board

4:19 PM

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BLACK (2)

wow yellows winning

BOARD

Gareth McCaughan

again

It's not that hard to figure out the last name too, or at least the first letter of it

4:19 PM

should I join reds?

Wait what

google docs won't show the whole thing

........ yellow

HA

lol

4:19 PM

blackboard...

LOL

WHY!

Gareth McCaughan

this game is shaping up to be just as good as the last one

This is why you consult haha

(fwiw that's a perfectly reasonable guess)

4:20 PM

!board

@ffao true - some of you know my last name anyway, but I don't exactly keep it secret

Yeah I guess

board was an obvious choice...

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@Deusovi most know me :P

4:20 PM

I was going to suggest dcfyj should wear his avatar to display my beautiful chess board creation to the world, but when I think about the implications of that I'm not sure I would be comfortable wearing an Aqua shirt around

@ffao lol

Gareth McCaughan

can I switch to the yellow team?

red haven't got any :P

Gareth McCaughan

I suppose blue is at least in second place

also, is it worth leaving and rejoining BG to put him on the red team?

Why does blue have 4 people? lol

4:21 PM

!leave Beastly Gerbil

BLUE: deus, gareth, gnome, Mithrandir

yeah i'll leave and rejoin

Gareth McCaughan

(I say "him" but actually I have no idea of BG's gender; just guessing on the basis of stereotypes)

!joinred

RED: palum, dcfyj, ffao, Beastly Gerbil

4:22 PM

@gareth he is correct

Who is? :P

Based on his last nick, likely male

STOMP, 2

Gareth McCaughan

gotta be boot

can someone do board

4:22 PM

bold please

Gareth McCaughan

force?

@Deusovi if you bold your clues, they're much easier to find

Gareth McCaughan

and we have some pending from earlier clues of course

@GarethMcCaughan want to guess play and boot first?

!board

4:22 PM

@ffao solution: show up in Aqua cosplay instead

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boom?

@dcfyj fair point, I'll go back and bold my other ones

Gareth McCaughan

I think boot had better be first; anyone disagree?

BOOT

yep

4:23 PM

BOOT

Gareth McCaughan

BOOT

BG, you're on our team now! :P

boot

Gareth McCaughan

also, BOOT

...

4:23 PM

oh oops

forgot

lol

I'm sorry, did you all guess BOOT? I can't tell.

I've GTG.

Gareth McCaughan

bye @Mithrandir

!leave

4:23 PM

(BOOT is blue.)

BLUE: deus, gareth, gnome

should I rejoin blues :P (JK)

Gareth McCaughan

ok. so we need one more STOMP, one more EARLY, infinitely many more LES MISERABLES

I have an idea what the other may be but I'm reds now :P

Gareth McCaughan

FORCE for STOMP? ROBIN for EARLY (in connection with the worm)? PLAY or CAST or even PLOT for LES MIS?

4:24 PM

play?

why would you do that BG, joining the underdog is always so much more fun

I would say play

@BeastlyGerbil Yeah, I've made some really good comebacks before, ask @Deusovi :P

Gareth McCaughan

PLAY seems likely but I'm more inclined to look for another STOMP and/or ROBIN (left over from EARLY many turns ago) first.

on the other hand, my last attempt to go it alone in this game got my team assassinated

so, ok,

PLAY

lol

4:26 PM

Blue

Gareth McCaughan

phew

we have one more guess if we want it

@GarethMcCaughan "hm, going it alone was a bad idea before. let's do it again!"

Gareth McCaughan

robin? force? cast? something else?

reminds me of that one xkcd

lol

4:27 PM

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Gareth McCaughan

er, I wasn't going it alone this time, I was going with my team-mate's preference

how has the assassin not been guessed yet!?

let's go for robin

Gareth McCaughan

ROBIN

@GarethMcCaughan yeah, but it looked like you were asking for more advice and then guessed without getting it

Blue.

Gareth McCaughan

4:27 PM

of course robins are famously red

phew

@BeastlyGerbil Because the clues are leading away from it?

!board

@n_palum, your turn!

@dcfyj but these seem like wild guesses :P

oh my

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4:28 PM

mate in two

Gareth McCaughan

this game is really hanging in the balance

good luck

Gareth McCaughan

will blue or yellow be the winner?

@GarethMcCaughan maybe you should've guessed:
ROBIN
(BLUEBIRD)

MYTHICAL (unlimited)

4:28 PM

UNICORN

red

hey its still close. Yellow can still win ! :P

Gareth McCaughan

or maybe red will get 8 in a row and it will be the most awesome game ever

PAN

Ok, what the heck do we have oustanding again?

4:29 PM

peter pan

Gareth McCaughan

I personally have never really believed in Antarctica

let's go for outstanding clues

we don't know how much mythical stuff there is

what are they?

I doubt there's more than 1 mythical word

@ffao but n_p only gives mediocre clues! :P

4:29 PM

yeah

(no offense to n_p, it was just a perfect setup)

@Deusovi D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

xD

oh @ffao did you get +100 on your answer yet?

hey, if I can't make suggestions for them about what (not) to guess, I have to heckle them some other way, right? :P

4:30 PM

10 mins ago, by n_palum

BLACK (2)

it's on +97, I think

18 mins ago, by n_palum

NAVIGATION (3)

oohh

(¬_¬)(¬_¬)(¬_¬)

I think that's all of them

4:30 PM

PILOT?

for nav?

I've GTG guys

I had thought that earlier

for BLACK, I can see piano, shadow, cloak, but that's 3

see ya gnome!

Good luck @GarethMcCaughan

4:31 PM

(by the way, @n_palum, if this actually makes you uncomfortable, please let me know and I'll be happy to not make those kinds of jokes)

I think point would be good for it too

Gareth McCaughan

bye @G_as_in_Gnome

NAVIGATION could be pilot, point, and something else

pretty sure those are good

oh wow, it's just me and Gareth on the blue team now

4:31 PM

all good for pilot?

Gareth McCaughan

yup

what can possibly go wrong?

we can kick bg back to you :P

makes it fair though now :P

good news Gareth! consulting with your teammates is easier than ever!

Gareth McCaughan

nah, you've touched him now

4:31 PM

@Deusovi Lol I'm only teasing back

@n_palum (yeah, I figured - just making sure!)

Gareth McCaughan

@Deusovi I shall have long and involved conversations with myself

@GarethMcCaughan lol, not yet, he basically got no chances to guess the last round

anyhow, all good for pilot/point?

@GarethMcCaughan please don't

go point and pilot first?

4:32 PM

I agree with those, what can possibly go wrong

@GarethMcCaughan everyone knows that gerbils' mothers won't accept them back if you try to carry them back to the nest because they can smell the scent of human

it's definitely gerbils and not any other animals, nope

POINT

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum but they'd be fascinating

red

good.

pilot?

4:33 PM

PILOT

...

@GarethMcCaughan As much as I'd love to hear a crazed British Mathematical genius banter with himself for an hour, I think the game would prefer moving forward

red

!board

Red.

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4:33 PM

@BeastlyGerbil (We had already agreed on it don't give me that lol)

ok, so 1 more nav, and 2 more black

no the ... was for waiting for confirmation :P

I think they were referring to lack of response, I was typing

that was directed at the SM's late reply, I think

shadow for black

^

4:34 PM

not sure what else though

SHADOW

Red

woo we have drawn level

missing two now...

I'm on the other side of the spectrum, I can relate black to half of this board

My first thought for black is piano

not a clue for nav though

4:35 PM

ENGINE for navigation?

ehh

best I can think of

unless its ANTARTICA

I would rather pass than do that

go piano?

I can kind of see engine

I'm ok with it if we all are

4:36 PM

@ffao ?

I still would rather pass

!board

okay lets pass

we are level

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!leave gnome

4:37 PM

BLUE: deus, gareth

That could come back and bite us, but

[PASS]

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!joinblue Sc

BLUE: deus, gareth, Sc

hi scon!

4:37 PM

allo

why would you specify a parameter, that only makes it harder to leave later

lol all ROs and mods

Gareth McCaughan

damn, I was looking forward to not having to discuss anything with my "team"

:-)

n_p is going to yell at me if engine is red, so I'm preemptively going to argue that navigation -> engine is quite tenuous

It is

nav -> plot isn't too farfetched though

plotting a course

4:39 PM

PLANET, 1

eesh, we were assassinated by ground? That's rough, fit like three clues

lol

Saturn, pretty clearly

Gareth McCaughan

SATURN

i wonder what that might be...

4:39 PM

blue

gasp

we have a chance

It was clearly a reference to planet piano

go for a 2 if you can @n_p

Gareth McCaughan

and we should probably take one from earlier. We need (I think) two from LES MISERABLES (most likely cast, plot?) and one from STOMP (most likely force?).

@Sconibulus dunno if you've been looking back at what's been happening here, but my feeling is that we should probably guess FORCE

4:40 PM

@BeastlyGerbil I'm expecting another unlimited from him, he's been favoring them today :P

I'm slowly looking over the history

I trust you though, feel free to guess historical stuff without me while I read :)

Gareth McCaughan

I'm actually kinda worried red is going to claim a rapid victory, because they have a bunch of things left over from earlier turns.

@dcfyj maniacally laughs

Gareth McCaughan

FORCE

crosses fingers

crosses toes

yellow

4:41 PM

blue

Gareth McCaughan

crosses eyes

?

!board

I was hoping :P

FORCE is blue

4:41 PM

out of guesses

oh

thought dcfyj was a spymaster :P

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go n_p

@BeastlyGerbil lol, no

CANDIDATES (4)

4:42 PM

oh boy...

lol what

Gareth McCaughan

shit, 4 = 4

um

so... enigine was mentioned, piano

ctrl f + candidtes

4:42 PM

I mentioned plot not too long ago

anything else?

Gareth McCaughan

sorry @Sconibulus, looks like you joined at a bad time

we said more than 4 things, n_p

go piano

PIANO

red

4:43 PM

pla

yes

engine?

play? not touching that

sure engine

go engine

ENGINE

Red

!board

good

4:43 PM

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what else did we mention?

I mentioned PAN

I'm thinking plot -> navigation (I said it at the end of last turn)

BG mentioned antarctica, and I mentioned cloak

we never said cast, boom, deck

we mentioned PAN, CLOAK, ANTARCTICA,PLOT

4:44 PM

I think plot is the likeliest

thats a lot

yeah go plot

plot and pass and hope for the best?

don't like plot personally

you plot your course

plotting a course -> navigation

4:45 PM

navigate

and what do you think les miserables, 4 was

ah

good point

Revolution, cast, play, possibly boom

not plot?

plot is possibly theirs, yes

4:46 PM

I think we should go CLOAK first

go for whatever

CLOAK

just don't pull a gareth :P

yellow...

I took the leap...

4:46 PM

bah

Gareth McCaughan

phew

phew?

uuuh

least it wasn't red

!board

or black?

4:47 PM

@Deusovi

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MAGIC: THE GATHERING, 2

lets hope deus can't find a clue to fit the final two words

Deck

Gareth McCaughan

gotta be deck

4:47 PM

...

Cast

I seriously hope they don't know the second word

Gareth McCaughan

ah, that's likely (and also fits Les Mis)

and plot was ours...

Gareth McCaughan

DECK

4:47 PM

Blue!

Gareth McCaughan

CAST

Blue, GG!

And this is why you should have tried to finish the game

dum dum dum

Gareth McCaughan

phew

4:48 PM

COME ON

sorry guys

Gareth McCaughan

that was much closer than it looked like at first

!finalboard

@n_palum They also had ANTARCTICA.

DEDUCTION PLEASE

glares at ffao

4:48 PM

!finalboard

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Gareth McCaughan

they did try to finish the game, btw, they just hit a yellow card

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so pan and plot

yup, they did indeed try

4:48 PM

OKAY BUT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT ANTARCTICA AND CLOAK FOR BLACK WHICH YOU FINISHED WITH PIANO SHADOW

deduction? You give us a 4 clue, when we have 6 possibilities

is Revolt a legal word-fraction with Revolution on the board? :)

@n_palum it's your own fault for cluing candidate...

ERGO PAN AND PLOT ARE YOUR LAST CANDIDATES

what do we have other than random guessing??

4:48 PM

how is antarctica black?

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum keep shouting at your teammates, that always helps

Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

^^ can confirm, it helps

@ffao But you didn't!

alright I'm off

Gareth McCaughan

4:49 PM

bye @BeastlyGerbil

See ya!

When I come back I bet n_p is still shouting :P

@n_palum we mentioned most of what was left on the board. We had no way of knowing for sure

(also, I was worried that you all wouldn't know about M:TG)

Gareth McCaughan

I know pretty much nothing about MtG

4:49 PM

I played some last night :)

Gareth McCaughan

but pretty much nothing was enough

14 mins ago, by Beastly Gerbil

unless its ANTARTICA

@Deusovi I knew what it was immediately, I was hoping they didn't

That was for Navigation

well, yes, looks like all my suggestions were bad, but I still think they were reasonable

4:50 PM

^

I thought you could've deduced your way to the end

You finished the other clues...

candidates is a dangerous clue

it always is

so? remember, coincidences can happen

I didn't think Deusovi would clue a play when plot is red

Yeah if a lot are still up

Plot a course mentioned by dc like 10 times D:

4:51 PM

@n_palum they were gonna guess plot, they just hit yellow first

I mentioned it 1 before you clued and twice after

Pilot/Plot/Point NAVIGATION Piano/Shadow BLACK

engine was a candidate for navigation too, so we "finished" that

see how your logic doesn't work?

^^

Like I said, Candidates is a dangerous clue

4:52 PM

You were right there though

to be fair, n_p was a bit desperate

It was within reach

Gareth McCaughan

FWIW I thought PAN was a pretty good option for that candidates clue

I had claimed mate in two earlier (and rightfully, might I add)

Rather than going off the board, you're going off previous possible words mentioned

4:53 PM

I would have gone with pan and antarctica, but for no real reason other than I thought plot was dangerous and cloak was iffy

What were the 4 left again? engine, plot and?

You only had plot and pan left to guess

what were the 4 left at the beginning of the turn

engine plot piano pan, I think

engine + piano

Gareth McCaughan

4:54 PM

because it was still available from MYTHOLOGICAL

that too

I was glad BG picked that up but no one went for it

I did mean to get pan and unicorn

and let you clean up some

oh, that pan

Peter Pan works too

either variation

I'll be back in a minute... if a game begins toss me on (I don't think my BP can handle a third sm in a row /s)

4:56 PM

if you had clued Grease(3) that might have gotten all the words

Jun 2 at 17:42, by Deusovi

half of the fun of this game is watching your friends reason themselves into an absolutely terrible idea and watching helplessly, unable to stop them

still relevant

although grease -> piano is a stretch

Grease (4) even better

pan would fit better actually...

Hmph maybe

4:57 PM

We would've had to think of the musical, but I think it would've been likelier to win.

some stuff can be reasoned, like not guessing horse when you just received a clue for kangaroo, some stuff is just gut feeling

I tend to fail badly at that last part

Anyway, AFKing for 20 mins

Gareth McCaughan

bye @ffao

I think we may now be too few for a game to work well

Either way, I don't think cluing candidates and expecting your teammates to know exactly what you're referring to is reasonable...

technically 4/5 people

I'm good for another, I can probably even sm

Gareth McCaughan

4:59 PM

I can play one more but can't sm

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