Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

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/in

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oooooh

me too if possible?

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Oh, I like this team.

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A field operative may post outside of their turn, as long as they make it clear by using an easily-noticed shade of green for their text.

Does anyone read the rules around here?

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i forgot the colour thing stop bullying me datisi

can't stop won't stop

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Bar, pole, maybe club or link?

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Why dragon?

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ok but the clue was steel

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I don't know? Steel is stronger than iron I think?

i'm fine with dragon being our third if you guys feel confident on that

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Yeah sure, I'm still in favor of pole and bar

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my first thought is that you're overthinking but idk

we could do just the two obvious ones and then leave the third for later?

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Pole, bar

I think my vote still goes to link rather than brush, but I wouldn't mindly oppose either, so
up to you two

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I wouldn't mindly oppose either

what does this even mean
i need to sleep

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agree on bar and pole

i kinda took this as a green light for bothl, sorry

tbh i'd never heard of "steel brushes" (and google kept referring to them as "wire brushes") but you two probably know better in that regard than i do?

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I'm on the blue team, I'm obviously a liberal duh

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lmao i'm trash

(edited for colour)

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oh
oh no
i am so sorry i didn't even think about that
I took the rule as "don't ask other people for help" I didn't think about google as an outside the thread thing

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modkilled

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why does pole get a strikethrough but not bar?

getting pole wrong ended our turn

also yikes
we started so well

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Pupil and thumb sound real obvious to me so fine with that

Tbh both brush/link and bar sound kinda okay since we still got 3 clues there right?

Feel free to submit whichever one you two feel best on

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I had never heard about steel dragons before this game so. If it makes sense to you two go for it, but i obviously don't know?

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I like 3232
Though how sure are we in link/brush/bar?

Pedit: agreed, hit it

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Damn, it's a long night

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Morning love

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Also it's like 2am here and I do not have the capacity for actual game solving rn

What do you even mean by beach

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My first idea was the word cycle, because there's those cycling bike machines used in gyms right?
Tbh I've read absolutely none of the thread since our last turn I'll do that Soon

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You did see the clue had a zero next to it? Or am i misunderstanding what you're saying?

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Ye but wouldn't it be infinity then? Doesn't zero mean "no words relate to the clue"?

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Ok cool i sleep now I'll get to this when the sun is up

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Fine by me, since if we're wrong on them we prob just lose anyway
Tho I'd like to wait for Mena to confirm first i guess

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If the opponent team agrees to it (because I might still have not read their discussion and so have no idea on the actual gamestate), I am fine with Mena's idea as well.

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I'm down

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/in mena's field operative

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I love this team let's go

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Aaaaany second now

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I'mma keep it real with you chief

wat

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I think I agree with eagle

I haven't heard of the comic book character so idk

I don't think it's air based on that

I vaguely thought it could be lead but I don't feel strongly at all about it

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Legion is a comic book character for marvel that has multiple persaonalities and powers.

you wrote this without seeing the word "comic" on the board?

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mkay

eagle and comic sound good to me then

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I don't think I want to gamble with "air". "Comic" makes sense, but I get your point that if he doesn't know of the comic then it's a ~problem~.

(also thank you for reminding me what centaurs are, it's been on the tip of my brain the whole day but for some reason I couldn't picture it)

"lead" and "foot" both make sense army-wise, though I prefer "lead" out of the two

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Ok, i think Fish agrees with eagle so if you want you can input it

tbh I'm still a bit scared (as stupid as it sounds), last time I did it it was a miss so

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Hm, I actually didn't feel ~too~ strongly about Lead, Eagle caught my eye first to be honest

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inb4 assassin

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agh
i myself would be down
wanna wait or lolhammer

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Groovy

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I... don't think I've heard of it, but again using me as a measure for what is or isn't know probably isn't the best idea

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My problem here is that "lead" is only vaguely connected to the clue, while "comic" has a stronger connection. But since there are 3 words, and we can't think of a ~strong~ third, then at least one clue is vaguely connected? So even if it is comic, we're still missing a third?

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huh
okay then

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no

you could never come close to the horrors i've witnessed

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yeet

ok what guesses were we talking about again

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unfortunately I wouldn't know

i get the feeling either foot/lead were intended and centaur was a lucky snipe
or it would be comic

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no don't make me decide that never ends well aaaaaaaaa

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like my brain is telling me that passing is a smart/safe play

but my heart wants to gamble on comic

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ugh i was hoping one of you would've lolhammered something by now tbh

how likely is "comic" to majorly screw us up?

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Ye i think I wanna play comic

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second game in a row lol

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Spoiler:

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The only thing I see is "spell", since a single letter = spelling maybe?

Another thing that comes to mind is "medium" as in size but I don't think I see anything to go with that?

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Didn't we guess comic earlier and it was neutral?

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Hi fish help pls

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Thinking again, i could see brush since brushes are often referred to as small/medium/large but that is more on the ~artsy~ side so

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No clue unfortunately

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Eh, I'm down for that

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Yep, tail and life sound okay

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tail

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excuse me i guessed it right

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i have been awake 24 hours straight what is a telltale? is that a videogame company right? idk imma pass out now i don't see anything k

Pedit: hi fishy nice to see you on this

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Sweet

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Still don't know of the story, so... I'm feeling pretty lost this game.

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We still have 3 for M right? If you two think it could be spy (I legit have no idea other than spell for that but that was wrong...) then go for it

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Didn't Menalque already give a clue for this turn?

Pedit: oh ok

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Yeah, most likely. I'm down for guessing "spy" if that clue makes sense to you two.

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I feel like I have cursed luck in this game honestly

I think I'll /out for now

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/in if there's room

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put me on the same team as formerfish

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oh yay another thing i know pretty much nothing about

bat is an obvious one?

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oh i didn't even see glove

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pass

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y'all gonna pass this or?

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i'm not really sure on this one so i'mma leave it up to you

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i think i have a slight preference for capital but not enough to actually have a say lmao

also, considering the blue team has two seemingly inactive team members, should they get replaced when there's people in the queue?

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i think i have a slight preference for capital but not enough to actually have a say lmao

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yikes.

/in next?

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put me on the same team as fishy again and i'm good w whatever

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i just wanna

play

lose some more codenames lmao

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i think i'm down for that

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so, shoe then?

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i'm fine w bermuda i guess

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i gotchu fam

pass

smdh no lolguessing

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another blue, hopefully.

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for some reason skyscraper is pinging me even though i'm not sure if it does make sense with granite in any way

does it? or am i mixing up words again

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granite is a type of stone, right? lmao i should know this

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you mean marble and skyscraper?

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i'm gonna assume we're not about to risk all of this for a meme so

pass

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/in next field operative if room

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/i already inned?

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Speech given in remembrance of the dead.

thank you, i was *not* sure what that word meant.

agreed on undertaker, sound, maaaybe grace. wake i'm not sure about, but mostly because i haven't heard of that term before in that context/meaning.

i'd maybe bring forward cycle, because the cycle of life that ends in death?

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A field operative may post outside of their turn, as long as they make it clear by using an easily-noticed shade of green for their text.

*cough* @kanna @sirius

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so, we agree on undertaker and wake. (except me for wake but since everyone seems strongly in favour of it i guess it is just a word i did not know.)

jake, you fine with those two? i think we're just waiting for you on that.

i guess there *is* a possible strategy of discussing as much as possible before submitting the first word, due to the way the timer works, but since i don't think anyone is doing that...

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guess: undertaker

i hate being the one submitting these because things usually go bad when i do it, but eh

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my new year's resolution is to win a game of codenames

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for a second i thought we were the red team, and i saw my life flashing before my eyes when i saw the board.

we all agreed on wake, right?

guess: wake

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yeah, assuming wake is correct, sound > grace sound like decent guesses

is there a point to passing if we're not Quite sure?

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good with me!

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so, we pass here, and do not do the random-guess strategy?

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boring.

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weren't the olympics in china at some point in the near past?

agreed with torch and beijing then. the only thing bugging me is cycle. if it's specifically olympian and not olympics for a reason, i'd maaaybe suggest contract instead of cycle.

pedit: hm, didn't even think of cycling. i dunno.

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contract

don't they sign contracts?? iunno lel

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+1 to that.

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alternatively

guess: torch

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fuckin yeet

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pass

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oh this is a thing

real talk i don't know what that word means

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i don't think i see anything better than pumpkin > dwarf.

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hell fucken yeah i won a game of codenames i can retire now

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i'm in the mood of making bad life choices

/in as guesser

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jesus okay

"tick" and "film" seem like the obvious choices. a watch ticks, watching a film. i guess "pupil" is also possible since you watch things with it?

not sure on the last two... i can think of a few, but they all seem like stretches. anything obvious i'm misssing?

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I'm thinking TICK > FILM > CHECK > WIND > PUPIL

i'm ~fine with this, maybe i'd swap wind and pupil around

i see we have a bit over 12 hours left, if sirius doesn't chime in soon i'm probably just gonna submit tick

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film

sorry, i see we're out of time and i don't want the opponents jumping in

i like film slightly better than wind so if this is wrong blame me (or blame the spymaster for giving such a clue)

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diver watches are a thing. you need to time your oxygen. every diver has one

how common is this knowledge? if haschel is aware of diving watches, would he presume us to be as well? i think we can assume more people would be likely to make the WIND/PUPIL connections before DIVER, making it a better clue for the former imo.

this is kinda why i'd rather go pupil than diver. i dunno, it makes sense after you say that divers need to wear a watch to time oxygen, but it's not something i would ever think of. how sure are you haschel would know of it?

good with the first two, i guess

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ok i just searched through haschel's posting history, he's never posted about diving (at least not in the sea-diving context). how common is the "divers wear watches" knowledge? i know i said i've never heard of it, but i'm not exactly a good measure for if something is common knowledge or not here.

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i'm fine with check.

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wind

passing wouldn't be a terrible idea.

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oof

it's alright, in my first readthrough of the board, i also saw it only as air-movement

/in for next

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Next game:
The Bulge v Sirius with: Menalque, Datisi, lilith2013, Charles510, Not_Mafia, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39
Still taking sign ups

can i be on the team with mena and lilith, if they're fine with it?

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hmm

vaguely in order of certainty:

battery - pretty self-explanatory
web - status of a web page, i.e. whether it's up or down
game - "game status" is ringing a bell, but i can't quite place it rn. it's used outside mafia, right?
duck - this is probably an enormous stretch, but "duck season being on or off" (or its status) is a common joke in looney tunes?

other than these four, i can maybe see lab, robot, or note, but don't have anything super solid for any of those other than ~feels~

pls help

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if i don't hear any objections from mena i'm submitting battery in ~an hour and a half

farren, you don't like web?

also i'm more confident on game than you are. game status is a thing in mafia, and bulge is both a frequent player and mod, i could see him making that connection.

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battery

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i don't think i've personally heard titles such as "king" be described as a status, but i am esl so easily possible i'm in the wrong here. it makes sense, so if you're all confident on king, i'm down to play that next.

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i now don't want to submit game *solely* because i think it's a correct guess, because historically those were not really that good lmfao

someone else take the responsibility, i don't wanna hit the bomb again ._.

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i don't wanna pass because passing after guessing 2 words for a 4-word clue feels embarrassing >_>

my current favourite is still web, but it could be my own bias, as about an hour before we were given the clue, i happened to be googling about the status of a webpage that wasn't loading for me

if you two feel strongly about king, submit it

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bump @ my team, pls do thing (._. )

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alright.

so, we pass now?

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i think biotics are bacteria? since antibiotics kill bacteria, and probiotic yogurt is full of good bacteria? agreed on lab and bug. i had similar thoughts about paste too, though i'm less confident on it than the first two.

no idea about the 4th. for some reason, "pool of bacteria" is ringing as an expression of some sort, and usually i'd just google it to see if i'm right or if i'm again making stuff up, but i cannot do that so weee

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oooh. i was thinking robot as well, i even wrote a line about it, but i ended up deleting it before posting - i couldn't remember why "robot" was ringing a bell, and i figured it was just me being tired and mixing up "robotics" and "biotics" because they sounded similar. if you're also thinking robot, maybe i'm not completely insane yet

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i think it's kind of unreasonable to give a clue such as "biotics" and *not* expect us to think of pro/antibiotics, so lab/bug still sound like decent guesses? we can do robot first if you two feel that strongly about it

agreed we're well ahead, but i don't wanna be giving them opportunities for a lucky streak to catch up. also again, 4-word clue, something something only two guesses >_>

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we need 8 words, and the three clues cover 11 of them, right? so we have overlap.

i thought of rose for sophisticated. but agreed limousine and theater definitely sound like sophisticated words. and bug feels like a leftover from biotics (considering lab was a hit).

err, not sure if overlapped words add up then... i'm kinda tired and not in the mindset for Thinking About Words, i'll look at this more closely after lunch.

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i will probably end up drawing a venn diagram for this later lol

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ok. now what?

i'm wondering if our next guess should be bug, as that still feels like a biotics word. but also uh, assuming bug's a hit, we're still missing two of those? as i don't think limo makes sense as a biotics word? but then what does...

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agreed to that. i don't see how math adds up.

but then again i also don't see how *anything* other than bug properly adds into biotics, so.

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bruh

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Menalque, Datisi, any thoughts?

bah sorry, i keep delaying this because my brain is not working well the past few days

will do my best to get to this properly tonight

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Spymaster Queue:
Haschel, Farren, Datisi

when did i /in as spymaster?

also uhh i am bad at this game. sorry for not showing up at the end, been a hell of a week.

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actually /in lilith's team, let's try one more, i'm sure it won't go horribly wrong again

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Kinda think we shoulda waited for dats to weigh in

wrong

(i looked at the clue, then the board, then i was like "jfc i am too stupid for this game i will try to figure this out later" then i didn't because i am stupid, i'll try to weigh in on the next turn)

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agreed with superhero and bolt, dunno the third but it might be cloak as mentioned?

going back to duck, my guesses would be phoenix (another bird), and then spitballing ham (both are food?) and bank/hotel (mostly thinking of scrooge mcduck here, but i could be widely off. considering ball was a miss, i'm not sure the intended idea was "things to duck under".)

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so, we wanna go back to phoenix now?

also, i had an idea earlier - third word for thor might be night. because thor - hammer (the first connection to thor, unless i'm *really* mixing stuff up) - night (in mafia, after the hammer falls)

but as all my guesses this feels very... stretchy? idk

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i need to retire from this game i stfg

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is now the time for me to jump in, give my thoughts, and submit a word that ends up being the assassin?

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/in duet

not sure i get how that works (would it be played in private topics if everyone is guessing the same words?), but it sounds fun

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i'll be teaming up with lilith

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woo, gg all!

i'm pre-inning to any codenames duet that will be run in the future, i really enjoyed the game.

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/in

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/in as field operative

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stock is definitely my first thought, and the strongest candidate.

my other ideas were compound (investors can own part of a company, right?), roulette (investing can be good or bad, with some luck involved), and model (i think i've heard the word model being used alongside investing), however i don't feel great about any of these.

why is angel a strong candidate to investor?

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i'd say apple over hood, as apple is a better known company than the robin hood app (which is something i'm hearing of for the first time).

so, stock > angel > model, then maybe pass if we don't know the 4th?

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Can we do Apple before Model? Charles' interest in his profile is "Software," so I think I like that more.

sure, this is seems like something you know much more about than i do

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yeet

so we pass here, yeah?

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pass

random guessing would be funny, but something something trying to win

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the only two things i see are link and bridge, both kinda self-explanatory...

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The team turn goes on until they either guess incorrectly or actually say “pass”.

the team's turn goes on until they guess incorrectly, pass, or run out of guesses for that turn. you ran out of guesses.

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you can only make a number of guesses = to the clue number given +1

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this is alps, right? and then we still need two more join words...

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guess: alps

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wanna do bridge? i think our turn ends automatically after that anyway

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actually, i am questioning why our spymaster gave us a clue that doesn't allow us to guess everything when the opposing team needs one more, but fine whatever

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/in as guesser

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i *think* nail is one, since i think i recall some nail art youtuber talking about acrylic nails... other than that, i am. uh. not sure.

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i guess i'm fine with that. my other idea was table, since you usually draw on a table(???), but i'm very much not married to that

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/in as guesser

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Spoiler: thoughts, before reading what furtvie wrote

the first (and pretty much only) thing that comes to mind to me here are those turrets from portal which i played recently. so i'm assuming that's what the word means >_>

BOOM is probably my top choice

LASER would be my second choice, because turrets there use lasers to aim - but i'm not sure if that's generally true of turrets so i'll sheep the rest of you on this

BOLT > DROP > FORCE would be my other thoughts, roughly in that order, but hm.

Spoiler: re:furtive

huh. why PART/TEMPLE?

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fine with me

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so, uh, not temple, huh.

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the datisi codenames curse is back, huh

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those turret words all sound fine, i'm not sure how to figure out which one is not it, though.

if we get 3 words for turret, we still need to get 5 for class, and hm. my thoughts are vaguely...

kid
ruler
file (i feel like i've seen files be classified as "file class #123" but i may be making this up, and if the connections to conversion really are that strong, i'm fine dropping it)
drop (drop out of class)

not sure what the 5th one is either.

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With Conversion 0, it must be linking Temple with something - otherwise it would have been Building 0, or Religion 0. I think Conversion was meant to link Temple and File.

yeah, i guess. i'm not sure i see anything else to link with conversion, either

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I think Temple is the assassin

yes i agree with that

but there are simpler clues that could've been given for temple that would've been more straightforward

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can i /in for next as field operative? :3

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whoops sorry, was waiting on you two because i was kinda stumped and then i forgot to reply last night

novel and note were my top picks. my third was needle, because don't typewriters have a needle-type thing when you press a key down and it pushes the mark onto the paper? but considering neither of you thought about it, that's probably not very good...

novel / note / space / capital are probably my 4 choices. but all those 4 work with keyboard, and i don't really see a word that fits with keyboard but not typewriter, so why wouldn't keyboard be our clue? which makes me think the 4 is wrong

how common of phrases are "code typewriter effect" and "copper typewriter"? i've never heard of either of those, but i'm also not the best person to say that since. y'know. *points at my location*

and words like train and theater just seem like too weak of links for typewriter specifically

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Maybe we should queue up NOVEL > NOTE, then figure out what to do next after those results?

i'm good with this.

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oh, i see the code typewriter thing now. it's clever, i like it. i'm not sure how likely it is that lilith had *that* in mind though... it would fit with typewriter but not keyboard ig.

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sounds good to me

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i think ice cream, horn, and belt (seatbelts!) are my top picks. snow and drill are my second picks, and i guess plate makes sense as well

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i thought "ice cream truck" is like, a very well-known thing. even if they aren't as common anymore, i doubt lilith wouldn't have thought of it when making the clue

and i'm not sure what word is supposed to cover both typewriter and truck...

i'm good with starting on horn and belt, though

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sounds good

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yeah, ice cream is definitely it

drill is the second one, probably?

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gg

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/in if you'll have me

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whoops, sorry

i agree with hollywood > box

the other 2 i'm not sure on, but i also don't really see anything better, so i'd be fine guessing those or passing

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i'm down

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ehhh i'd rather pass

opera seems the most likely but i'd like to keep it in out back pocket for later

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ugh sorry difficult clue x_x

i'm good with guessing tie first