Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

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Registers

I am

NOT

interested in being a spymaster.

Should there be a PT for the two spymasters? It could be useful both for end-of-game analysis and because it is easier than PMs.

I think bystanders should be yellow, because it might be hard to tell them from grey on certain color schemes.

EDIT: Just realized I am 12th... that might compromise my chances...

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I am betting that there will not be 5 extra players until game one

begins

ENDS.

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Oh, and don't worry too much about the title saying it's only between the spymasters—that's just space savings

You could do

Codenames (Game 1: VashtaNeurotic's team vs Vijarada's team)

or

Codenames (Game 1! Spymasters: VashtaNeurotic vs Vijarada)

I think bystanders should be yellow, because it might be hard to tell them from grey on certain color schemes.

The bystanders are not colored; did you mean the assassin?

Oh... I see what you mean, now that I've tested it out on the light color schemes The problem I see is that yellow might be hard to read on light-colored backgrounds.

Urgh. Whatever.

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Yeah, while I am interested in the game, I would much rather have at minimum 2 extra players. I am not as active here as I used to be and would under no circumstances want to be the only guesser.

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I am fine with any rules as long as I know what they are

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Chick, Bug, and Rabbit could be things that could possibly die. I thought "Dead Point" meant something. You can "

play

dead". Sub is also something to consider if many of our other options fail.

I vote Ghost and Play as things to consider for our first guess.

I am not making any actual guesses at this time

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Page top for convenience.

Dead 3

I'm thinking Ghost for sure, maybe Aztec? Life could also be a thing as an opposite but related kind of clue. Dunno if he's the kind of guy to pull a tricky thing like that, but I might.

Chick, Bug, and Rabbit could be things that could possibly die. I thought "Dead Point" meant something. You can "

play

dead". Sub is also something to consider if many of our other options fail.

I vote Ghost and Play as things to consider for our first guess.

I am not making any actual guesses at this time

Play is a weird choice to tie to dead. Like there's much better ways to deal with that one. I feel like as someone who had played this, he'd be trying to do the clever thing of finding the easiest way to connect as many words as possible without it being a stretch. And if he wanted to go for Chick, Bug, and Rabbit, he could have said something about them being animals. Dead is a weird choice for those as well.

I personally agree with Ghost and Play, but I don't see what else could be related.

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@xofelf: What do you think the words might be? You listed a bunch of negatives, but no positives.

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Here is the Game 2 board:

CHICK	GHOST	NOVEL	YARD	SWING
MARCH	AZTEC	ICE	PARK	BUG
PLANE	LIFE	SUB	WELL	DRILL
STADIUM	FLY	TRAIN	POINT	PLATE
BRUSH	PLAY	RABBIT	LIGHT	CLUB

Team	Spymaster	Field operatives
Blue team	Formerfish	Felissan, xofelf and 2 718281828459
Red team	Charles510	James Brafin, Adorabebs, and Flicker

Formerfish, provide your first clue to the blue team when you are ready.

GUESS: Ghost

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Uhhh... I am skeptical of Life, but I also have no real alternatives to suggest.

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Oh yeah, there was also AZTEC to consider. I would approve of AZTEC and PLAY, although if you

really

want to try LIFE, you can I guess go ahead. Since we have 3 on our team, majority rule seems like a good option.

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@Felissan: But what about AZTEC?

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OK, I find it difficult to believe that Aztec is too much of a reach, but life is not. At least the Aztecs

are

dead, whereas life is the

opposite

of dead.

This is not working.

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Question

: is a guesser allowed to post out of turn?

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@Strangercoug: I mean: Would I be allowed to post during the red team's turn?

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Hey spy-master, if you give a clue that corresponds to one of AZTEC and PLAY but not the other, I may interpret that as dissuading us from that other. And team, we might want to guess AZTEC or PLAY earlier so we do not miss the opportunity to use them (i.e. if we mess up interpreting the second clue).

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Remember, we are playing codenames. It is

always

a reach.

Stadium, Bug, Train and Ice are also options, albeit VERY far-fetched ones. (Ice is not actually that bad though -- igloos exist, you know.)

Remember the clue is

Houses

, plural. CLUB and PLAY make a lot of sense. I wonder if AZTEC fits in to houses?

We also have TWO "Dead" clues that we missed. I have to wonder if the

Houses

clue was supposed to steer us away from AZTEC or PLAY...

My votes are Play, Aztec, and Club. Ice can be considered as well.

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After seeing PLAY + CLUB + LIGHT, I think that YARD is most likely too much of a stretch.

I think Play is most likely to be correct. My suggestion would be to guess in the order Play, Club, Light, and then maybe Aztec to fill in Dead.

Someone else please do the honors and guess PLAY

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Light at the end of the tunnel + drill a tunnel + Sub-ground +...

...did the Aztecs build tunnels?

I think we should try LIGHT.

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Next game I will absolutely not allow Formerfish to give clues.

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Next game I will absolutely not allow Formerfish to give clues.

Coming from the guy who didn't want to do it...

Dude, it's not his fault. Games are like this sometimes. You gotta figure out what works for the people you're playing with and how they think. I'd love to give fish another go now that he has a better feel for how I think about word associations. People do funny things with words, you gotta figure out what it is that works for them in how you describe words.

Play was connected to both DEAD and HOUSE but it was white. DRILL was connected strongly to tunnel but was red. LIFE was sort of connected to Dead (even though I thought it was wrong) but it was red. I get the feeling that probably at least one of the words we were planning on guessing will be incorrect, and we will lose the turn.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO SPYMASTER: We need an Unlimited clue or a 0 clue this turn so that we can try our best to take a shot at all our words.

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Guess: BRUSH

The only other one I can see for Paint itself is perhaps plate? Like that thing with a bunch of paint blobs that a painter would hold? Not sure if it has another name or not.

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So we can either try PLATE or we can try to do some of the ones we thought of for earlier clues. Namely: Aztec, Yard, and that other one I forgot.

Thing is, I cannot see how to get even 5 more words out of the information we have available.

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Wait why train again?

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I approve of that or aztec.

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AZTEC and YARD are good ones to try next.

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GUESS: ...

On second thought, let me let xofelf do the honors.

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I am out of ideas

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Most of the guesses from earlier ones have either been used. In fact I think all of them are used. I thought we were going to try YARD (Houses).

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GUESS: YARD

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SUB is better than anything else at this point.

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If you have other ideas you can post them. It could also be that we are just fighting a losing battle.

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I actually am going to /out. I know that next time might be better in terms of spymaster clues, but I have other reasons for not continuing.

I have zero idea how we were supposed to guess March (other than a clue that would have come later if we had the time). Swing is more of a stretch than Play and Club, both of which were incorrect.