Codenames (Game 66 in progress)

[Nancy Drew 39]

Ah, thank Farren, I think I misread it when I was updating the Post 0, it did feel a little off when I was doing it haha
I'll update Post 0 with this

Now I’m seriously confused. Isn’t what Farren just posted contradict what you said previously?

So Moby, Thatcher and Beatles are all valid then if only referring to one specific spelling of the word is being referenced?

But clues must always be a single word and never hyphenated correct?

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Cheshire - 6

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red

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Nail - red

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red

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I’ve been extremely busy, how much time do I have left?

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Thanks I’ll try to do it tomorrow as soon as I can, it’s a lot more pressure being spymaster, especially two games back to back.

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chariot - 5

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neutral

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will give a clue sometime tomorrow, promise.

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ring - infinite

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blue

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blue

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van - blue

plane - neutral

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Lol, April Fools from the Codenames makers, they announced Codenames: Solo
Have a look at the rule book, it's pretty funny

https://mobile.twitter.com/czechgames/s ... GnaRw&s=19

Could you maybe repost the fake ruleset for us? The link on the mobile twitter - czechgames appears to be broken.

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fork - infinite

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blue

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red

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Congrats red team, Bulge was a brilliant spymaster and red team made only one mistake in the entire game.

/in next

/in spymaster queue in game AFTER this one or later, not this one. And could I be on whatever team that goes second if possible?

[Nancy Drew 39]

Well done, everyone!

Looking up Alice characters ... there was a DUCK in the Caucus race. So that was a connection to Wonderland directly.
Guessing maybe MERCURY was the sixth, in reference to the Mad Hatter?

Mercury was a chariot clue.

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cluing undertaker without cluing death was very difficult, I only came up with Preparing last minute. I tried going the WWE wrestler route with Hold, dunno if that was caught onto.

For me it was Jack, since I was going the Alice in Wonderland route also didn’t want to clue missile.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Bear is beyond obvious

Spoiler:

Then cap and snowman. Not sure yet on which order to guess them but those would seem to be the most likely.

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Spoiler:

There's also Antarctica, I know Polar bears live in the arctic but there's an association there

Right, so

Spoiler:

snowman could be wrong then, so I’d then either go bear, cap, Anartica, snowman or bear, Antartica, cap, snowman.

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I’m thinking that it’s probably bear, Antartica, cap > snowman but those bear and Anartiva fit the most for that word. I’m thinking if cap was wrong > snowman, I might go with winter > polar.

Spoiler:

The only other possible word left is block and that is the least likely one of the 5,

so, I think we start out with bear first, Antartica second and decide from there but I would be extremely shocked if cap wasn’t one of the three.

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Antarctica, cap? I don’t think there’s too much risk in guessing cap

I agree but I think Antartica should be first.

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Antartica next?

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Yeah I'd like to, Nancy?

+1

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guess: antarctica

going for 3 yea?

Yeah, I really think cap is probably the third but we’ll wait until we get feedback on Anartica.

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Do we go for cap next?

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Hook is definitely one. I’d guess maybe deck for the second? But with cap being blue, snowman was probably the 3rd polar clue.

So maybe hook, snowman, deck?

Probably because I’m the least confident on deck?

or maybe we do hook, snowman then skip because I really don’t know what the 2nd anchor clue could be.

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Spoiler:

Just want to say let’s really think about the second anchor clue. I have some ideas other than deck. I’m not sure deck isn’t a blue clue. I’ll elaborate more once these two guesses are likely confirmed.

[Nancy Drew 39]

So log like anchor can hold something down.

Also, are any of you familiar with a caduceus? It’s a the medical emblem that’s in every medcal diploma and looks quite similar to anchor.

So doctor could possibly be the second anchor clue. Decks are flat. So if BC has any familiarity with medicine, doctor is probably more likely than deck. Ship isn’t an agent and deck anything doesn’t automatically make me think of water or boats.

I’m scared of us guessing deck based off of flat being a blue clue.

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Considering none of these guesses are extremely confident, I think we should probably skip.

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I'd lean guessing Deck so I'll leave it up to Bulge

Deck is also flat, so could possibly be a blue clue. I vote skip but if Bulge is super confident on deck. I’m not, I could also see log and doctor (due to a caduceus being a medical emblem closely resembling an anchor).

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pass

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So log like anchor can hold something down.

Also, are any of you familiar with a caduceus? It’s a the medical emblem that’s in every medcal diploma and looks quite similar to anchor.

So doctor could possibly be the second anchor clue. Decks are flat. So if BC has any familiarity with medicine, doctor is probably more likely than deck. Ship isn’t an agent and deck anything doesn’t automatically make me think of water or boats.

I’m scared of us guessing deck based off of flat being a blue clue.

I prefer Leprechaun to Mine too.

As a weak option a Fence in the criminal sense could work, but I'd only look at it if both the other two failed

We’re not on the same teams.

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We've exhausted our guesses so it's red team's turn btw

You need to bold pass I think?

@mod?

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tap

is for certain.

however, are we absolutely certain we’re not guessing a flat word?

tag is probably right but tap has to be for sure.

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tag, next?

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tag

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deck next?

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deck

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Yeah, it’s obviously that.

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Do we go for a hail mary guess?

We don’t have any previously unsolved clues and we need to wait for Bulge and confirmation first.

We could easily hit the assassin word and lose, so I think we should probably pass after straw is confirmed red. If it weren’t for that it would be different.

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Bulge, feel free to pass or I can do it?

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Taking sign ups for the next game!

Nancy Drew 39 v Mizzytastic (with Nancy's team going 2nd as per their request)

After this game, the spymaster queue is empty so feel free to also sign up to be an upcoming spymaster!

/confirming. I like that we’re going second.

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Congrats blue! If we had any unsolved clue, we could have guessed but we had nothing to go on.

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totem - 3

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red

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red

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red

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rod - 3

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red

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red

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I’m going to need a little time. I had no internet access the entire day yesterday,

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Can someone please update the list for me? Thanks.

Then I’ll try to give a clue but I need to see the updated graph because I’ve fogotten everything.

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Yeah thanks.

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tennis - 1

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red

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blue

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Lock

I'm always for taking the risk

We could have won if it weren’t for this.

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Gg! congrats blue team.

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I would absolutely love to continue playing this setup if someone takes over.

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I was at least pondering trying to run Duet. Although if I do, it'll be just two people playing at a time co-op - it won't be the "multiple teams, one winning team" competition.

I've noticed that engagement here's been on the low side lately, so that might be the perfect time to have a game running that doesn't require a lot of players.

I enjoyed Duet more, so I’d definitely be up for that.

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I'll take ins for the next game

And I'd be happy to run duet if there aren't many sign ups

+1

/in

for either but really hoping for Duet.

[Nancy Drew 39]

We need at least one more player so tell your friends

Yoi could also advertise on the discord server?

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Okay team 2 has finished their board!

Congrats to the winning team...

Spoiler:

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug with 21 points!

Farren and Not_Mafia with 26 points - not that far behind in spite of hitting an assassin - though they deserve brownie points for finishing quickly

Farren and Not_Mafia: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89898

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89899

I am seriously so shocked that we won. \0/

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/in

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Is 7947 an official guess?

Official guesses need to be bolded, always.

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Both are blue

which is a shock to absolutely no one.

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Spoiler:

watch, ivory, glass, arm?

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I’d prefer watch, then arm.

arm, watch

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Spoiler:

I think we go with ivory next. Too many possibilities for glass.

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Pass

Since we got them all and there are no other clues.

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Star
Center

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Pass

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Kangaroo

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Pass

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Spoiler:

gas? oil?

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Meant to use the other kind of spoiler; just highlight over it when you're ready to read it

Doesn’t work on iPad.

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I edited the post to use the other spoiler tag

Thanks, I really wish they’d get rid of that thing.

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Spoiler:

Hmm... A bit of a tricky one, but if we get them both, we'll win, and we've been good at guessing so far.

GAS and OIL are possibilities, but I would expect a clue more directly related to petrochemicals if that's the case. If Farren's thinking materials engineering, then IRON and GLASS could do it, too.

Spoiler:

Should we go with iron then? I don’t know much about engineering. I think I prefer iron to glass as the order.

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Iron

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What were our last two clues? I’m still stumped and what was the assassin word?

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SHIP and OIL were the last two red words; EAGLE was the assassin.

DIVER, GAS, and (especially) PILOT were pretty tough to work around. I could not for the life of me think of anything to tie KANGAROO and OIL together - other than DINOSAUR, but that also points to EAGLE, and arguably better than Kangaroo does.

I was thinking of engineering bays specifically, which would be found in a ship and would utilize oil. Couldn't use ENGINEER due to Pilot; couldn't use ENGINE due to Gas.

Thought about things that float - but so do GHOSTs, as do DIVERs on the return trip.
Thought about Water, but that hits GLASS and DIVER.

Anything power-based hits GAS.
Thought about pistons and hydraulics, but wasn't 100% sure about the latter, and thought pistons would be more likely to hit IRON than SHIP.

I would have picked WHEEL in that case, because ships have a wheel and the “squeaky wheel gets the grease”saying.

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Pilots are the ones at the steering wheel.

Maybe motor then? Idk? I guess you had two difficult clues to combine together. <3

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/in

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I’ll maybe volunteer next game. I will br afk for about a week, so think that’s not optimal timing.

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I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been extremely busy IRL. I hope to get the next game set up soon, before the weekend at the latest.

How do people feel about playing with 4?

So long as teams are equal, I’m fine, so it would be a lot more like Duet in that case.

My only concern is if I’m afk for about a week, what happens then? Can the game be put on hold if I can’t find a temporary replacement?

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I'll give folks some leeway over Thanksgiving weekend (thurs-sun). If that's your concern, I think you'll be fine.

But if you need to be away from 1+ week outside of that, it might be better to wait for the next game

Problem is I don’t know when that will be but it would probably be less than a week, which wouldn’t be an issue with 6 players.

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laser? telescope?

Will think more on this before I officially guess.

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telescope

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laser

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Pass

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strike, vet, draft?

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strike
vet
draft

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vet
draft

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stick

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Sorry, I forgot about this game.

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pass

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lemon

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I have no idea what the last “war” clue is. I think it’s one of King or Space but I should probably risk it because blue probably wins next turn.

Will sleep on it and decide tomorrow. Okay @CSF?

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Later today, I swear.

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king

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Red!

\0/

Whoah had no idea. I kept mulling it in my head back and forth between space and king and decided that space didn’t really fit with all of the other clues, than it suddenly hit me that people would battle for the throne but even then I wasn’t super confident on it.

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/in next

/in spymaster

[Nancy Drew 39]

I couldn't think of a good connection for Lime and King, closest I got was Orange, a fruit to link to Lime and the dutch royak family. But though it would be too obscure

Plum? Because plums are purple and purple is the colour associated with royalty.

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/in to guess
/in as spymaster

[Nancy Drew 39]

Hey @CSF, the teams aren’t even, we only have two guessers so we’re at a disadvantage. Game should not continue until we get a third.

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Game 55

SQUARE	PISTOL	PILOT	FOREST	LIGHT
AZTEC	FIRE	PHOENIX	SPIDER	PIT
HOOK	PANTS	POLE	NAIL	HORSE
MATCH	SNOWMAN	ROCK	ROW	WALL
FORK	PUPIL	PAPER	FAIR	VACUUM

Blue Clues	Red Clues
0/9	0/8

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	lilith2013	PookyTheMagicalBear, Menalque, Not_Mafia
RED TEAM	Nancy Drew 39	Charles510, Farren

It’s not fair to us, that blue team has an extra member. Teams need to be equal.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Hey @CSF, the teams aren’t even, we only have two guessers so we’re at a disadvantage. Game should not continue until we get a third.

Whenever I've played codenames irl with an odd number of players, one team just ends up slightly larger & i haven't really noticed the larger team having much of an advantage. Is that not how it's typically done? i honestly don't know

Yes, CM1 had the teams be equal numbers. We’re at a disadvantage with one less member.

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woodwind - 3

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recipes - 3

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both red

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red