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[DragonEater70]

Ohhhh

We should go for fair, not saturn.

And I think we also go for swing.

[Adorable]

I'm good with those choices. I'll wait and see what lilith says.

[lilith2013]

lilith will have to elaborate on how common is deck referring to physical abuse because I also don't know. The verb swing is common for physical abuse but I don't know if verb also counts or not. Saturn and fair are destinations.

why wouldn’t a verb count?

if we’re looking for terms related to physical abuse, I feel like deck and swing are the only options on the board.

I’m fine with fair over saturn.

[Adorable]

Swing

Fair

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Swing is blue
Fair is neutral

Red team's turn

[biancospino]

ABUSER -- UNLIMITED

[Charles510]

Why would the clue be repeated? I’m so confused

[biancospino]

Prodding red team

[Not_Mafia]

I guess we were close last time

[Charles510]

Ok, let’s guess

London

[biancospino]

LONDON

was the Assassin!

The blue teams won.

[biancospino]

The concept there was that all of the remaining words were considered by the

other

team in the last round, and I hoped you would fish the correct ones out from the other clues (it was a repeat of the

other

team's clue).

Those were MATCH, LOCK (both to match and to (inter)lock are rough synonyms for to link), and FAN (which was a MOVIES clue)

[Farren]

Post-mortem on my end:

Spoiler: What was he thinking?

FARTHING, 0: my intent here was to specifically keep Blue away from London - while using the logic of "If London wasn't on the board, what words could be easily grouped together?" in the hopes that Blue would go one of two ways:
a) Place-names. EUROPE, CHINA, and

SATURN

were all good guesses. The only dangerous place-name other than London was Hollywood, which was already off the board.
b) City stuff. This misses SATURN but potentially picks up OPERA and STADIUM in its place, as things you might expect to see in a city. Thinking of London specifically probably also knocks out CHINA, but going with generic "city" hits it. One potential hazard with this route: CAR.
I chose farthings specifically because I wanted something that would exclude London *without* excluding Europe, and farthings were the only things I could think of that weren't potentially ambiguous.
Extra bonus points for figuring out that both paths were valid, as I generally won't give an opening 0 unless there are at *least* four targets - it's a risky play, and high risk plays require juicy rewards to be worthwhile.

DESTINATIONS: my intent here was "just give a list of places." PLACES itself, as well as LOCATION, I figured had too high a risk of hitting CAR. While cars are a means of reaching a destination, I figured "Is a destination" was a stronger connection than "can be used to reach destinations." FAIR was reasonable-but-wrong.

ABUSER: as lilith put it, "hitting synonym" was dead on the money. Taking a SWING at someone and

DECK

ing someone are both synonyms for hitting someone. I had to walk a thin line here - anything that sounds like boxing or other organized full-contact sport runs the risk of hitting MATCH or FAN; anything that sounds like large-scale violence runs the risk of hitting REVOLUTION. NUT was the reason why the clue took the form of the criminal and not the crime or the victim. Again, every other potential clue I thought of either tilted one way or the other, or had ambiguities I wanted to avoid.

I thought of trying to go with BACKYARD instead for a more wholesome clue, but was worried about TABLE, which I thought was a better connection to BACKYARD than NUT was. (picnic tables and such)

[DragonEater70]

Funny because if you just did location, I would never have guessed car

But I'm happy I guessed your line of thought correctly on the first clue, maybe I should have been more confident and also guessed Europe and Opera.

Well, GG!

[DragonEater70]

Backyard sounds like a fun clue but yeah it would've probably hit table first.

[lilith2013]

I always get frazzled by 0 clues, but I'm glad I was on a similar wavelength for the other ones! great clues farren, gg everyone!

/in as both/whatever

[Farren]

probably

Saturn

is the one I'm most comfortable guessing because it's definitely not small and you can't use money to buy planets.

maybe also

China

/

Europe

because they are places that do not use farthings and are not small and you can't use money to buy countries/continents.

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I'd say you were on the right wavelength for the 0 clue too.

[ORAM]

/in for next, whatever role needed (no preference).

[Farren]

/in. Let's see if we can poke some life into this.

[biancospino]

/in operative

[Adorable]

/in

[DragonEater70]

I'll conditionally /in as operative for ORAM if they are spymaster

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Hey sorry all, I completely forgot about this. I'll start the next game soon (~2-3 days).

Sign ups are still open! If you already queue'd up to play, I'll PM you to confirm you're still interested:

lilith2013 (both)
ORAM (no preference)
Farren (no preference)
biancospino (op)
Adorable (no preference)
DragonEater70 (op w/ ORAM)

[Cat Scratch Fever]

okay everyone has confirmed. Randomizing the game now

[Cat Scratch Fever]

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