Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

[lilith2013]

/in as spymaster please

[lilith2013]

Schoolhouse 3

[lilith2013]

I just checked the game history and it seems like most of the time the larger team loses. I don’t really care either way, if someone wants to switch teams I’m fine with having fewer people on my team.

[lilith2013]

minerals 4

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both blue

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Marble is neutral

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hoof 2

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throuple 3

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both blue

[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

[lilith2013]

/in for any role

[lilith2013]

Spoiler: my thoughts

#1 picks are track for “racetrack” and car for “racecar”
or maybe other speedy words like “bolt”
or it could be a race like a species of character kind of race, so maybe “leprechaun”

I feel like the racecar/racetrack connection is the strongest though

[lilith2013]

yes please

[lilith2013]

Spoiler: thoughts

okay definitely whip
also thinking bed
then maybe chick?

[lilith2013]

I think bed links better to the full word of dominatrix, and 3/4 of us had bed in our guesses while only 2/4 had ruler. With how strong of a link bed has, I think it’s probably at worst neutral. I’m fine with passing though.

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

Duck & Leprechaun seems obvious.

[lilith2013]

yeah no need to go crazy I think. fine with passing

[lilith2013]

I think we can just pass

[lilith2013]

I'm good with press & bed

[lilith2013]

gg everyone!

/in for both

[lilith2013]

I could see war, missile, bug, disease

[lilith2013]

yes I’m fine with that order

[lilith2013]

personally I think we should keep guessing for apocalypse, otherwise we may run out of guesses later

[lilith2013]

Merlyn is correct, which is why I’m worried about running out of guesses later.

[lilith2013]

I think I like disease/bug better than jet, since missile wasn't one of our words I think it's less likely to be jet.

[lilith2013]

Copper for sure, not sure about the others

[lilith2013]

okay let's guess

copper

[lilith2013]

I like ball, I think the golf connection helps explain why specifically iron and not any other particular metal.

coins are metal so maybe change

we can also switch back to apocalypse words, I think we still have two left.

[lilith2013]

apocalypse was a 4 clue. we've guessed disease and war. there are potentially 2 apocalypse words we haven't gotten yet. (although now that I'm thinking about it, Horse may have been an apocalypse word, like the four horsemen)
hippocamp was a 2 clue. we've guessed horse and atlantis.
iron is a 3 clue, we've guessed copper so there are 2 other iron words we haven't gotten yet.

[lilith2013]

I think horse was probably an apocalypse word. I think the other apocalypse word might be bug, like the plague of locusts, but it could also be like a virus kind of bug which would fit apocalypse too.

[lilith2013]

Shakespeare for sure.

Maybe the other one could be ball or whip since those could be props in a show?

[lilith2013]

I think I like ball best, for both iron and prop

[lilith2013]

Ah sorry

There’s two words left and we only get one guess so I say we pass, we can’t win this turn anyway

[lilith2013]

And hopefully bianco can clue both words next round

[lilith2013]

how come i dont get email notifications for this even tho im subscribed but yea we are doing great blue team!!!!

letsjust pass ... bianco is smart to do a 2 word clue

Pass

Go here and make sure you have “email” checked for “someone posting to a topic you have subscribed to”?

[lilith2013]

gg everyone!! that was super close

[lilith2013]

casino 3

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pagoda 2

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both blue

[lilith2013]

sorry I forgot to say congrats! A super impressive clue and run of guesses

I’ll /in as both

[lilith2013]

winged 4

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all blue

[lilith2013]

sorry - crisis mode at work, I’ll do my best to give a clue in the next 24 hours.

[lilith2013]

fishing 4

[lilith2013]

Scale is blue
Cook is red

(also thank you, things are better for now)

[lilith2013]

fishing 4

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hell yeah, go team!

[lilith2013]

Most excellent clues!

So which one of the fishing words wasn't intended on the first iteration of Fishing, 4?

Cliff was not intended. i was going for fishing rod (stick), fishing from a bank of a river, fishing ships, and scales of fish

[lilith2013]

/in for both (if anyone else signs up for spymaster, I’ll let them take priority in the spymaster queue so they have a chance to go, but will happily spymaster if no one else signs up)

[lilith2013]

It looks like Charles actually signed up before the game ended so it won’t be me, but we can rematch next game!

[lilith2013]

Chocolate and round you mean? those were the two I saw

[lilith2013]

I’m good with those two, shall we lock in?

[lilith2013]

are you good with passing, since that was all of our words?

[lilith2013]

I agree with day and space. Not sure about dance, I don't know what sundance kid is?

[lilith2013]

ooh that’s a good one! I like that

only other thing I can think of would maybe be fly, like flying too close to the sun? kind of goes with space? But I like block

[lilith2013]

welcome back charles! hope everything is okay.

Spoiler:

okay so first thing is do we have a sun clue left? I don’t think ship was related to sun so we maybe have one word that’s related to both coronation and sun.

then two more words that are related to just coronation but not sun.

king for sure - don’t think that’s a sun word
the other two possibilities I see are concert and organ - but I’m worried one of these is the bomb since blue team were given a piano 0 clue

[lilith2013]

why would coronation and ship be linked?

knights would be at a coronation I think, but if it was king and knight together I think there would be other easier ways to clue them. so there has to be a reason Charles chose Coronation specifically and not something like, say, princess.

[lilith2013]

I don't think ship was a sun word, so that means there is still a sun word since we only guessed 2 sun words. so one of our three words would then need to be a sun word (and also possibly a coronation word too).

[lilith2013]

King

[lilith2013]

sorry! yeah I think knight may be one but I have no idea what the other one would be

[lilith2013]

gg!

[lilith2013]

I think I’m already in as spymaster? CSF is that right?

[lilith2013]

typewriter 4

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space is blue

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Sorry, I’m about to get on a plane. will try to post a clue when I have internet again

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truck 5

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Both blue

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mouth 2

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gg!

sorry team

[lilith2013]

also /in as operative for farren if allowed

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

a 0 clue to start is always hard...

I think a farthing is a term from old British currency, like something smaller than a penny maybe? also sometimes used to refer to something very small iirc.

so I think farthing 0 is supposed to get us away from London for sure. and maybe other small things, like needle, nut, olive. and maybe also something related to money?

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.

[lilith2013]

On second thought it might be a unit of distance? but anyway I think we agree it’s a British unit of something so definitely stay away from London.

[lilith2013]

Honestly I’m not sure what to do here

[lilith2013]

I want to pass I think

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

definitely Europe. I’m also thinking stadium/opera as places you can go to? And maybe Saturn

[lilith2013]

I disagree with car but I’m good with Europe first

[lilith2013]

Saturn or opera next?

[lilith2013]

Okay, that reasoning sounds fine, I wasn’t understanding why you said Car before.

Why opera over stadium? I feel like they’re both equally destinations

[lilith2013]

I just meant why did you pick opera but not stadium in your list. Since we both have opera/saturn I’m ok with guessing those two

[lilith2013]

car

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poop

[lilith2013]

You may not discuss past clues whilst waiting for your spymaster to give a new clue.

[lilith2013]

I was thinking both swing and deck as “hit” synonyms, those seem the most violent to me.

[lilith2013]

Sure, I can see your reasoning for nut.

I think we go nut then stadium. I think I prefer deck after that. I don’t think “abuser” is the first clue I’d give for nut and most other words, so I feel like there has to be a hitting synonym in there to justify clueing “abuser” rather than like “radical” for nut/revolution/fair.

[lilith2013]

Let’s just do nut->stadium first?

[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.

[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

[lilith2013]

apple 3

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both red

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poison is neutral

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cylinder 3

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oh no, that was the assassin

[lilith2013]

/in any

[lilith2013]

Spoiler: thoughts

greek and egyptian mythology were polytheistic, so could be Olympus for greek gods and Egypt

I feel like Aztecs were also polytheistic but if it were Olympus+Egypt+Aztec I feel like there could be better options than polytheism? not sure. that makes me think it’s not strictly these three, but I’m really not seeing anything else I think could be related

[lilith2013]

okay so should we go egypt -> olympus -> aztec?

[lilith2013]

yay! let's pass?

[lilith2013]

I agree with watch. I think line might be one for “line of sight.” Between pupil and telescope I think I like pupil better, maybe?

[lilith2013]

yes I’m good with that, let’s do the first two for now

Watch
Pupil

[lilith2013]

I'd prefer line but I'd also be okay with passing

[lilith2013]

rip, sorry about line. yeah I guess it's telescope.

definitely antarctica for this one. I'm also good with litter. Last one I am kind of torn between fish and grace because I think of big cats as very graceful, but I also feel like based on the last clue that it's probably not that abstract of a connection so it's probably just fish.

how do you feel about telescope -> antarctica -> litter -> fish?

[lilith2013]

gj team!!

/in for any

[lilith2013]

kiln 3

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ancient 2

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eyelid 2

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that was super close! gg

[lilith2013]

GG!

Did we miss a clue or was there no clue for the last word?

Me deliberately not clueing another word there was supposed to indicate that the last conversation you had about ancient was on the right track (centaur was the other word you were discussing for ancient).