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In post 6123, CreativeMod1 wrote:
GRASS AFRICA BUCK CAT SCALE BOW SCREEN TUBE VAN BRIDGE CODE MUG WAR GIANT KETCHUP DINOSAUR MINT SOLDIER MOLE FLY TORCH COLD SPACE COURT STADIUM
Blue Clues Red CluesANIMAL - 3 DARK - 5 NUMBERS - 2 TRUCK - Infinite
Team Spy Master Members RED TEAMCreativeMod1 Save The Dragons, Charles510, StrangerCoug BLUE TEAMTris Nancy Drew 39, Farren, Sirius9121
Disregard this.In post 6131, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:Actually change to dinosaur - fly - code
I missed that. Fly is an insect but still qualifies right?
Yes, I’m confident the 3 animal words are cat, dinosaur and buck.In post 6134, Farren wrote:(guessed three *correct* Animal words, that is.)
Fly is technically an insect, depends on whether or not the mod was going with deer or cash right?In post 6137, Sirius9121 wrote:But a fly is also an animal, and i think its somewhat more possible than buck.
OK for dino and cat tho
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Oh I’m sorry, I had no idea that this wasn’t allowed.In post 6154, CreativeMod1 wrote:As the mod and the opposing spymaster I'm gonna try and be fair in a ruling here and if anyone disagrees I'm happy to open it up to a discussion.
Given that this is Nancy's first game, I'm gonna be a bit more fair here and allow the game to carry on as normal and just simply issue a warning to Nancy, please don't use outside resources to help yourself or your team
Game continues as normal unless anyone disagrees with me
Yeah good with that.In post 6162, Farren wrote:Just about out of time.
Sirius listed SCALE before BUCK, so I'm going to assume that means he has a preference for SCALE over BUCK. And last Nancy weighed in on the two, she had SCALE listed first.
Scale.
Cool, we’re even for mole now. \o/In post 6180, CreativeMod1 wrote:Back to Blue team!
Fly, tube, grass?In post 6182, tris wrote:paratrooper 2
I thought there were 3 altogether and we only got 2? Cat and dinosaur.In post 6192, Farren wrote:We don't know for sure it's BUCK. We don't even know for sure that there's an Animal clue left.
We've got three words left. Two of them are definitely clued by Paratrooper, 2. The third ... we don't know.
SCALE could have been the third Animal clue - some animals have scales. FLY could have been the third Animal clue - some animals fly, or maybe Sirius was right and tris intended for us to think that flies themselves are animals.
Since we can be 100% confident that there are two Paratrooper words out there to guess right now, we should guess Paratrooper words first. We can't be 100% confident that there's still an Animal word. My confidence level in that right now ... is maybe around 40-50%.
I don’t think war is ever blue.In post 6193, Farren wrote:And yes, if FLY and SOLDIER are right, we shouldneverguess WAR. If our remaining words were FLY / SOLDIER / WAR, tris could have just given us Paratrooper 3 instead of Paratrooper 2.
If they were FLY / WAR / ???, something like Bomber, 2.
If they were WAR / SOLDIER / ???, something like Infantry, 2.
I would have been opposed to mole but obviously I wasn’t allowed to say anything. I think buck is probably our 3rd animal word but yeah, I approve this strategy because if both of those words are correct, it’s definitely buck then.In post 6198, Farren wrote:Proposal: we guess FLY > SOLDIER, then (assuming those are both correct) we continue the discussion about whether or not to guess BUCK.
I’m shocked about Africa but I knew for sure about Ketchup. Wow, good thing we passed then. \o/In post 6244, Farren wrote:Buffalo are particularly large for animals ... one might even say GIANT.
Buffalo are known to live in the GRASSlands (among other habitats).
The Buffalo Bills play in a STADIUM.
Given all the talk we'd done about BUCK, I think it would have taken a sledgehammer-level clue to get the Red team to consider it. BUFFALO is great, but I think there are too many ways of interpreting it.
I thought of VENISON as a possibility - that definitely hits BUCK! - but I think people are more likely to hit MINT over KETCHUP.
In post 6251, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:I’m shocked about Africa but I knew for sure about Ketchup. Wow, good thing we passed then. \o/In post 6244, Farren wrote:Buffalo are particularly large for animals ... one might even say GIANT.
Buffalo are known to live in the GRASSlands (among other habitats).
The Buffalo Bills play in a STADIUM.
Given all the talk we'd done about BUCK, I think it would have taken a sledgehammer-level clue to get the Red team to consider it. BUFFALO is great, but I think there are too many ways of interpreting it.
I thought of VENISON as a possibility - that definitely hits BUCK! - but I think people are more likely to hit MINT over KETCHUP.
Gg
/in to whichever game I can. I also wouldn’t mind being a possible clue giver as well.
Oh okay, that’s what I thought. I want to do another round of this since I wasn’t able to play one round but I would also love to be a clue giver in the future.In post 6255, Farren wrote:I'll do my usual: /in to guess if needed to even out the teams.
PEdit> Default is in as guesser. If you want to give clues, you'll definitely want to specify that.
So, iow, you are only allowed to make guesses during your team’s turn? Is that correct?In post 6261, CreativeMod1 wrote:RULE CHANGES!!
So, I've just gone through and cleaned up the rules section a bit whilst adding the new rules, it's now divided into 3 sections (Field Operatives/Spymaster/Other Stuff)
All players are expected to have read through the role they're playing and the other stuff section!
I have added in the following rules:
FO.5: You may not discuss past clues whilst waiting for your spymaster to give a new clue.
S.5: If you feel like a clue might not be 100% legal, you may message the other spymaster and ask for their approval, if they approve then it is a legal clue in any case. If they disapprove but you still think it should be legal, you may message me and I'll make a final ruling on it.
OS.2: Any player or spymaster may call out either an illegal clue or a rule break, to do so please put in bold PAUSE GAME and say why you paused the game. At this point nobody should discuss clues or anything. Please then ping me on discord and I'll come and resolve the issue. If you're unsure please pause the game anyway and I'll happily intervene. For illegal clues the opposing spymaster always has the choice to allow the game to carry on.
OS.3: If you're not playing, you must not call out any illegal clues, it is down to the players themselves.
(Reason for this rule is that it is a valid strategy to try and get away with submitting an illegal clue in the hopes of not being caught out)
OS.4: If you wish for a rule to be changed, please PM me and I'll bring it up as a topic of discussion between games. Rules will not change during a game.
iron > ruler > millionaire and possibly cat (because Maggie could also be a possible reference to “Maggie the cat” in Tenessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) but I’d probably shelve that for now.In post 6270, Farren wrote:I like both IRON (given the nickname) and LOCH NESS for the Scotland connection.
I'm okay with IRON > RULER > ... ?
I know for a fact that a biopic was made about her so film may be a really good guess. I don’t recall if she was ever compared to the loch ness monster. Doesn’t ring a bell. I’d go with film next.In post 6278, Farren wrote:So, in no particular order, we have:
HORSE - Thatchers (not Margaret Thatcher) work with hay; horses eat hay (?).
MILLIONAIRE - Margaret Thatcher was a politician; politicians are usually rich; ergo Margaret Thatcher is probably rich.
FILM - Margaret Thatcher was famous; famous people have films made about them; ergo, Margaret Thatcher is probably the subject of a film.
LOCH NESS - Loch Ness is part of Scotland, which is part of the UK; Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK.
PANTS - Margaret Thatcher was known for wearing pantsuits.
CAT - a cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is known by a diminutive form of Margaret, in reference to Margaret Thatcher.
Things I'd like to know:
1) Was Margaret Thatcher really rich? If so, MILLIONAIRE looks a lot better.
2) Are there any movies about Margaret Thatcher? If so, FILM looks a lot better.
3) Given the "Iron Lady" reference, what was Margaret Thatcher's reputation like? Was she considered a monster, of any sort (even if just by her political opposition)? If so, LOCH NESS looks even better.
4) How prevalent were the pantsuits?
My current inclination is LOCH NESS > Pass.
NM is a Brit, so you should probably take that into account.In post 6283, Farren wrote:Ooh. That's another possibility. PM is in charge of Parliament, I think ... which I think is where bills come from? House of Commons, house of Lords ... and we're running into the limits of my knowledge of British politics.
I mean it’s possible but I don’t recall ever hearing her explicitly called that. Witch I can se but idk about loch ness. I just think it should be a lot more obvious to me.In post 6286, Farren wrote:That means we can safely assume his knowledge of British politics is much greater than mine.In post 6285, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:NM is a Brit, so you should probably take that into account.
Unfortunately, don't think that changes much from where we are right now? Other than maybe, if Margaret Thatcher was generally disliked by the British public, and Not_Mafia *is* a member of the British public, odds are higher that Not_Mafia holds a general dislike for Margaret Thatcher, and thus might associate her with a monster, making LOCH NESS a better guess?
Or that he'd be more likely to come up with associations about Margaret Thatcher in general, and thus considering clues like HORSE is probably the wrong direction?
I think so? but not sure. He was definitely a politician though. I think he wasn’t a good guy but still don’t recall “loch ness monster being used to describe him either.In post 6288, Farren wrote:Yeah, if it were just the Loch Ness Monster connection, I'd be pretty iffy about that too. But there's also the "Loch Ness is in Scotland, which is part of the UK" connection.
Haven't heard of Colin Thatcher. Also British?
Is that a separate game?In post 6339, Haschel Cedricson wrote:/in for the spymaster queue again.
In post 6350, Farren wrote:Just out of curiosity, what was the fourth clue intended for Thatcher? Looks like LOCH NESS, PANTS, and ROW all would have been good guesses.
In post 6345, CreativeMod1 wrote:I've already put you in the queue from before, you'll be the spymaster in the game after this.In post 6340, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:Is that a separate game?In post 6339, Haschel Cedricson wrote:/in for the spymaster queue again.
/in for spymaster queue as well then
What Haschel has done, is after you've just finished being a spymaster, you can put yourself straight back into the queue to be spymaster again
Awe, I wanted to be on the same team as Farren. :/In post 6355, CreativeMod1 wrote:Looking for 1 more to even out the teams, Farren I know you like to hop in to make teams even, you in this game?
Gas, battery. Those are for sure correct.In post 6363, Charles510 wrote:iron, pool, and gas?
Sorry, I’ll check it out but please don’t discuss that here. Thanks.
You mean “brave” or “brevity”? We need an actual word or we’re put at a serious disadvantage.In post 6413, Sirius9121 wrote:Breve - 3
INDIA DOG OLIVE OPERA BUG BATTERY NOTE ROBOT GAME LIMOUSINE DUCK ROUND FENCE IRON BACK ROSE COMPOUND LAB THEATER PASTE CAT KING POOL GAS WEB
Blue Clues Red CluesSTATUS - 4 HEATING - 3 Breve - 3
Team Spy Master Members RED TEAMSirius9121 Not_Mafia, Charles510, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39 BLUE TEAMThe Bulge Menalque, lilith2013, Datisi
Yes but if none of can make head or tail our of the clue, how are we supposed to be able to form a guess? I think we should get a different clue, unless one of the members of the red team understand the clue and at least 2 of us don’t even recognize “breve” as an actual word.In post 6415, Farren wrote:Charles510 wrote:No googling allowed, right?Correct.In post 0, Cat Scratch Fever wrote:Field operatives may discuss clues with each other if they so wish, but they must do so in thread—getting help from outside the thread (for example, searching on Google) is not allowed, nor is help permitted from anyone not participating in the current game.
In post 6424, Not_Mafia wrote:I agree with Note>Opera then heating words
Nancy, Charles. happy to play Note and Opera?
+1In post 6425, Charles510 wrote:Note>Opera is good for me
+1In post 6451, Charles510 wrote:Try Round first?
In post 6460, CreativeMod1 wrote:Fence is Red
INDIA DOG OLIVE OPERA BUG BATTERY NOTE ROBOT GAME LIMOUSINE DUCK ROUND FENCE IRON BACK ROSE COMPOUND LAB THEATER PASTE CAT KING POOL GAS WEB
Blue Clues Red CluesSTATUS - 4 HEATING - 3 BIOTICS - 4 BREVE - 3 POLE - 4
Team Spy Master Members RED TEAMSirius9121 Not_Mafia, Charles510, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39 BLUE TEAMThe Bulge Menalque, lilith2013, Datisi, Farren
In post 6468, Charles510 wrote:It’s still our turn to guess, no need to wait for another clue.In post 6464, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:We should wait for Sirius to give us our next clue first but yeah I agree with pool for heating anyway.
I never thought that, only spymasters are informed. I just auto assumed it was a typo.In post 6473, Farren wrote:Sorry, I meant to say "POLE - 4", not "POOL - 4". No deception was intended.