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[furtiveglance]

treasure 2

[Farren]

Some points outside the spoiler:
- We got a 2 clue when we need 3 to win. Our opponents only need 2 to win; odds are reasonably high if they get another turn they will seal it up. So I think we need to go for victory here.
- We're in kind of a unique situation in that our spymaster got replaced mid-game.
- While I don't know with 100% certainty, it's a reasonable assumption that furtiveglance was not able to confer with Nancy about previous clues. So he'd be in the dark just as much as we are in terms of what the previous clues meant.
- Normally I'd take a 2-clue at this point to either mean "You're on the right track; stick with your previous ideas," or "This is impossible to make a 3-clue for." That's less certain now.

Spoiler: treasure

CHEST is a gimme. Unfortunately, CHEST was also the only thing I had for Woodwind. (And now I'm wishing we'd gone for it. Sometimes caution is not the right answer. Alas.)
The only other thing I see is DWARF. Thinking D&D, roleplaying, that sort of thing - dwarves as portrayed in fantasy.
For a third Woodwind - I've got nothing. All I can do is eliminate some ideas.
I don't think it's Mexico - I think Not_Mafia had a good point that it'd be pretty easy to connect to Recipes - Nancy could have made it Recipes 4.
I don't think it's Church - I still think Woodwind (as opposed to just about any other sort of music clue) was an attempt to point away from Church specifically. Plus I think CHEST and DWARF are easy to clue together; BAND / RACKET / CHURCH gets music; FILE / COOK / TIME gets recipes; CHEST / DWARF gets a fantasy-based clue.
I don't think it's Spider - I think that's the next logical step in the fantasy department.
I don't think it's Contract - too likely to be a blue team word.

That leaves Hospital, Deck, Bermuda, Saturn, and Sock.

[Charles510]

Spoiler:

I'm sorry, I don't see a path to victory here.

Treasure Chest is obvious. I'm pretty sure Dwarf is the other treasure word.

But I have no idea what to go back to for Woodwind.

I'd probably say CHEST > DWARF > PASS but then the other team probably has a win next turn

[Not_Mafia]

Chest

Dwarf

[Not_Mafia]

We might have to just hit and hope here

[furtiveglance]

D:
we lost sorry

[furtiveglance]

It was Chest and Mexico, Dwarf was Assassin

I thought Blue Team wouldn't link Church and Bermuda so I went with a 2er.

Our third word was Saturn

[Not_Mafia]

Hospital, Deck, Bermuda, Saturn, and Sock.

What would be the hardest of these to link to Chest and Dwarf?

[Not_Mafia]

Oh we hit assassin

[Not_Mafia]

D:
we lost sorry

Don't worry, you were in a really tough position

[furtiveglance]

My bad there

[Farren]

Eh, it happens. Thanks for replacing in!

So the actual puzzle was to link Chest, Mexico and Saturn, without hitting Bermuda. Ugh.

Maybe a 2 for Mexico and Saturn, and hope we go back to CHEST on the strength of Woodwind?
Ugly.

Best I can think of is ISLAND 0. That tells us "Definitely not Bermuda" and *maybe* we get to "places that aren't Bermuda" from that? I wouldn't like our chances, though.

Granted, CHURCH + BERMUDA would be tough too; I can't think of a good clue for those either. And I thought throuple was clued to specifically point *away* from Church.

[lilith2013]

gg all

Throuple was me trying to tie in my last 3 words together - church, bermuda, and date. For church and bermuda I was thinking triangle (holy trinity, bermuda triangle), and the best way I could think of to tie date in with that was to make the triangle into a triangle of people

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Congrats blue team!

This was the full game card:

RACKET	HOSPITAL	FILE	CHURCH	BAND
DATE	COOK	HAND	SOCK	DECK
FOOT	SPIDER	CONTRACT	BERMUDA	SATURN
HORSE	CHEST	IRON	COPPER	MARBLE
DWARF	TIME	COMPOUND	GROUND	MEXICO

[Cat Scratch Fever]

I'll be taking ins for the next game if anyone is interested!

[furtiveglance]

/in as a guesser

[biancospino]

/in field op

[lilith2013]

/in for any role

[Farren]

/in to make the teams even if needed; any role.

[DragonEater70]

/in as a spymaster
/in as a field op

[StrangerCoug]

Ahh, sure, why not jump back into the fray?

/in

[StrangerCoug]

I'm fine with being either, I should say.

[Not_Mafia]

/in either

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

triangle (holy trinity, bermuda triangle)

this is so clever

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

/in as field operative