Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

[Charles510]

I like mug best now

[Charles510]

So MUG > WAR?

[Save The Dragons]

i like both
mugging is a crime
warcrimes is a crime
let's commit some crimes

[Charles510]

MUG > WAR

[CreativeMod1]

Mug is Blue

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 Clues
ANIMAL - 3	DARK - 5
NUMBERS - 2	TRUCK - Infinite
	CRIME - Infinite

Team	Spy Master	Members
RED TEAM	CreativeMod1	Save The Dragons, Charles510, StrangerCoug
BLUE TEAM	Tris	Nancy Drew 39, Farren, Sirius9121

[CreativeMod1]

Back to Blue team!

[Nancy Drew 39]

Back to Blue team!

Cool, we’re even for mole now. \o/

So, we’re waiting for our 3rd clue which will probably explain mug because it definitely doesn’t fit animal.

[tris]

paratrooper 2

[Nancy Drew 39]

paratrooper 2

Fly, tube, grass?

We still have one animal left, mug is probably the next clue.

Animal is probably buck.

Africa maybe?

[Farren]

tris might not have gotten around to cluing Mug yet. I can't think of any Animal or Numbers connections, so it's effectively a freebie.

I'd say FLY and SOLDIER for Paratrooper. WAR's decent, but SOLDIER is much better given that tris clued a person, not an object. Paratroopers are strongly linked with flight, and they are soldiers.

If we get both of the Paratrooper clues, that puts us at 7/8. Then comes the big debate - go for the Animal, or pass?

[Sirius9121]

1. Always go for the animal?
2. Fly first because its both an animal and a paratrooper.
3. For the second one I would also say soldier. If it IS Fly>Soldier, then I would say pass?

[Farren]

Yeah, that's another possibility - that FLY was indeed the Animal that tris was cluing before.

I'm okay with FLY > SOLDIER, in that order. And we've had enough "maybe-animals" that I'd be very leery of guessing BUCK afterwards. Problem is, if we end on 7/8, our opponents will go for broke - they'll have no choice. CM1 clearly has no qualms about giving infinite clues, and this would be a prime opportunity to give one. What are the odds of them hitting their four remaining agents?

[Sirius9121]

should we get fly>soldier first and think later?

[Sirius9121]

we don't have to worry if we get it wrong

[Farren]

Should wait for Nancy to weigh in on SOLDIER first.

[Nancy Drew 39]

I think fly - buck - soldier? Grass might also be an option? I thought tube because of parachute though.

War I think could be another mole, so hard oppose that one,

[Nancy Drew 39]

We should definitely go with fly first I think because it’s either the last animal or paratrooper and if get get both paratrooper clue correct, than we know for sure it’s buck right?

[Farren]

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%.

[Farren]

And yes, if FLY and SOLDIER are right, we should

never

guess 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.

[Nancy Drew 39]

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 thought there were 3 altogether and we only got 2? Cat and dinosaur.

[Nancy Drew 39]

And yes, if FLY and SOLDIER are right, we should

never

guess 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 don’t think war is ever blue.

[Farren]

I thought there were 3 altogether and we only got 2? Cat and dinosaur.

There are definitely three Animal words; we can't know for sure if we only got two or if we got all three.

Spymasters can legally clue a word multiple times. If they think we're on the wrong track, they *should* clue the word multiple times. It's entirely possible that BUCK fell into the "MOLE" category (reasonable but wrong) and that SCALE or FLY was the other animal word, which tris clued twice.

That would mean one word hasn't been clued at all yet. Which would be bad if it were true, but sometimes coming up with the right word is hard - and the more words you try to link together, the tougher it is.

Problem is, tris's strategy is good in both worlds. If BUCK is correct and we keep talking about it? Better to clue the other words than to re-clue BUCK. If BUCK is wrong and we keep talking about it? Try to clue the other Animal word so we guess it and stop talking about BUCK.

No way to know for sure which world we're in.

[Farren]

I don’t think war is ever blue.

Then we agree 100%.

[Farren]

Proposal: we guess FLY > SOLDIER, then (assuming those are both correct) we continue the discussion about whether or not to guess BUCK.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Proposal: we guess FLY > SOLDIER, then (assuming those are both correct) we continue the discussion about whether or not to guess BUCK.

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.