Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

[lilith2013]

/in

[lilith2013]

Would also play!

[lilith2013]

i would like to spymaster if possible!

[lilith2013]

no preference really

[lilith2013]

Actually is it too presumptuous of me to pick red team and draft Xtoxm and Isis? (@mena or @NM, feel free to say no, I realize picking a whole team for myself is potentially a huge advantage)

[lilith2013]

baseball, 2

[lilith2013]

ambassador, 3

[lilith2013]

rip

[lilith2013]

not sure where menalque is, but capital was the bomb

[lilith2013]

yeah your reasoning was exactly what i tried to do

[lilith2013]

/in again

[lilith2013]

that clue was always gonna be rough so i decided might as well get it over with. so at least it was a quick death?

[lilith2013]

like having embassy, moscow, and china but with capital as the bomb is just yikes. i was also debating giving a clue that would make it clear capital wasn’t part of our words, by giving a clue like “punishment 0” or something, but i wasn’t sure if delaying an entire turn would cost us too much in the long run. sorry team.

[lilith2013]

I’d like to try to redeem myself as spymaster but also don’t want to prevent anyone else from being spymaster if they want to. no preference on team

[lilith2013]

Haschel can have spymaster, since I just went. If we get to the point where there are 2 simultaneous games then I’d like to be a spymaster in the second game.

[lilith2013]

@lilith and @hectic i can pre-in you both as spymasters for the next game if you like

Yes pls

also yes please!

[lilith2013]

a supersonic boom leaves a wake?

[lilith2013]

like a wave

[lilith2013]

I don't see phoenix at all

[lilith2013]

I think it probably is a reference to the basketball team and then back/board would make sense

[lilith2013]

I don’t really follow sports too much but I’ve never heard of a team called the Phoenixes, I think based on the mouthfeel alone a team wouldn’t/shouldn’t choose Phoenixes as a name because it’s not easy to chant. Eagles is a football team but again I don’t think it’s that.

Here are my picks: boom/jet/back/board

[lilith2013]

Maybe give him some time to check in, then guess the first two and hash out over basketball vs. flying things vs. speed connections?

sounds good to me

[lilith2013]

are you talking about the phoenix suns?

[lilith2013]

i believe the phoenix suns is a basketball team but i think “phoenix” is a stretch from “supersonics” - like if the words were boom/jet/phoenix then i feel like haschel could have just given a fire/flying related clue and not gone to the trouble of “supersonics.” when i see the word phoenix, “phoenix suns” is suuuuuper low in my associations with that word

[lilith2013]

eagles are from my hometown! so i can confirm it’s a football team

[lilith2013]

i feel very strongly that it’s not phoenix here

[lilith2013]

the word “phoenix” by itself isn’t the name of a basketball team, it’s just the city where the team is located. you wouldn’t call them “phoenix” for short, you’d call them “the suns.” i don’t think haschel is giving us a clue that’s the name of a city because it happens to have a basketball team??? i associate phoenix much more strongly with the bird, anyway.

edit: sorry for the multi-posts, i just feel very strongly about this.

[lilith2013]

you wouldn’t call them “phoenix” for short, you’d call them “the suns.”

[lilith2013]

the backboard is the thing that’s behind the basketball net. as far as basketball-related clues go, i think it’s a decent set of guesses. i don’t really see any other basketball-related words. (i believe xofelf said they maybe participated in march madness but that should be a college event only and from our conversation about the supersonics i don’t think they were a college team, so i’m excluding march.)

[lilith2013]

uh okay i thought we were going to wait for the worst to check in

[lilith2013]

poke me on discord if you need a +1? interest seems pretty high

oh i don't think he officially /inned so he probably assumed he wasn't on a team. mena, could you poke him and let him know he's on our team?

[lilith2013]

guessing jet next if no objections.

[lilith2013]

i guess basketball shoes are also a thing so that’s prob in my list now

re: force, yeah i was thinking the natural force bit

[lilith2013]

i changed my mind, idt it’s shoe.

maybe it’s cold in seattle?

[lilith2013]

we could also pass and hope for another clue that gives us some more clarity

[lilith2013]

force > board (back) > wake for me

[lilith2013]

yeah i agree

[lilith2013]

Fine with that

[lilith2013]

Actually I’m kind of warming up to the idea that “supersonics” is maybe just meant to represent

a

sports team as opposed to a particular sport, and that eagle might be our word (referring to the Eagles).

I also want to bring back xofelf’s suggestion of March for March Madness, I think it has potential.

Again, phoenix is not the actual name of a team so I still don’t think it’s phoenix. It’d be equivalent to saying “it must be Berlin because Berlin has a basketball team.”

[lilith2013]

Yeah I’ll concede on March then. Do we think there’s a third “sonic” word out there?

[lilith2013]

This also is probably a stretch, but I just thought that maybe sonic also refers to the hedgehog, who’s known for being fast and whose games are about running. So maybe “lap”?

[lilith2013]

So you think it’s board then?

[lilith2013]

I think it’s more likely to be a basketball word than a sports team word so I’m also more comfortable with board. Let’s see where that puts us and we can always guess Eagle after (it’d be next round, anyway).

[lilith2013]

I think I’m a bad luck charm for this game lol

[lilith2013]

First two words that come to mind are “cover” and “back.” My third choice would be “march” because of the kind of militaristic connotations of the word “retreat.” I could also see “spider” as a thing you retreat from.

[lilith2013]

That makes a lot of sense - my picks would be cover/back/march then

[lilith2013]

Cover actually makes more sense to me than march (or at least equal) - you need to get to cover when you’re retreating; in war you’d have someone covering you etc etc

[lilith2013]

Why not a clue about birds though?

[lilith2013]

Oh I still think back is #1 pick

[lilith2013]

SPIDER logic: some people are afraid of spiders and would retreat if encountering one. Alternately, some spiders are poisonous and should be retreated from if encountered.

[lilith2013]

Given Farran’s hypothesis of 3 retreat words, I removed spider from my list.

[lilith2013]

I’m trusting (hoping) that Haschel wouldn’t have given us an unlimited clue as a hail mary unless we had been clued on all of the words

[lilith2013]

We got all the cetus clues though?

[lilith2013]

Oh, okay. I don’t think any of those are constellations but I’m also not super familiar with astronomy.

I feel like wake is the most likely/least unlikely supersonics clue since march could have been for march madness

[lilith2013]

I still don’t think it’s phoenix

[lilith2013]

yeah that was my reasoning when I suggested it - like the wind you feel blowing you back when a plane leaves the ground

[lilith2013]

omg I’m so sorry team I shouldn’t have doubted you, enomis

[lilith2013]

Construction 4

[lilith2013]

orange is red! (lol)

[lilith2013]

Crash is blue.

[lilith2013]

Tiana 3

[lilith2013]

fork is red

[lilith2013]

olive is neutral

[lilith2013]

bowler unlimited

[lilith2013]

ball is red

[lilith2013]

pin is red

[lilith2013]

leprechaun is red

[lilith2013]

Looking at the grid (and finally being able to look up Tiana!), I'm guessing the breakdown was Construction: Bridge/Orange/Well/Berlin, while Tiana was Fork/Ball/Leprechaun. I'll be curious to see what our spymaster actually intended.

spot on!

[lilith2013]

/in again

[lilith2013]

should we.... poke mena?

[lilith2013]

Fork and turkey are my first instinct

[lilith2013]

Spoiler: for our reference, not official board

TURKEY	SCUBA DIVER	FIGURE	FIELD	SQUARE
COTTON	OIL	SHAKESPEARE	DRAGON	FORK
SLUG	DIAMOND	SKYSCRAPER	WELL	HAWK
ROME	SPINE	EUROPE	MATCH	WATCH
GREECE	CONTRACT	LOG	SPIDER	DISEASE

remaining clues - 2 histories for blue team

A contract is breakable, a watch is breakable, a spine is breakable - those are my 3 picks. I guess a log is also breakable, and maybe like a figure as in a figurine. My top two are definitely contract and spine.

[lilith2013]

I feel like adding stick to the end of the word is a bit of a stretch? did you not like watch?

[lilith2013]

alright I guess I'm fine with matches.

[lilith2013]

Oops. I legitimately am coming up blank. I’m okay with oil, have no idea about anything else

[lilith2013]

I feel like it could also be watch? Like, goodnight would be a reasonable clue to span both the Bond thing and a time word

I feel less good about oil now. Pine plz help

[lilith2013]

gah here's what I think could be our words:

oil
cotton
diamond
hawk? (like, nighthawk)
watch

I don't really see anything else on the board that could be related, so I feel like we just pick one of these and guess it, since we have 4 goodnight words. 1/5 chance to be wrong isn't that bad

[lilith2013]

Pine seems to like hawk more, I kinda like watch more

[lilith2013]

gg! what were our last two words?

[lilith2013]

/in as spymaster please

[lilith2013]

Bleh, got my terminology wrong. Homonyms should be out. There, that's the simple version.

I agree with Farren on this, the spelling thing makes it weird anyway. we should allow homographs but not allow clues where the spelling changes.

I like the abbreviations rule but I think if we include it then we should also allow proper nouns (like counting proper nouns as one word)

[lilith2013]

star 6

[lilith2013]

Space is blue
Gas is neutral, which I believe ends the turn.

[lilith2013]

wave is red.

[lilith2013]

ketchup is red.

jam is red.

[lilith2013]

are yall ending your turn?

[lilith2013]

safari unlimited

[lilith2013]

lion is blue.

[lilith2013]

Moon is blue

[lilith2013]

Model is blue

[lilith2013]

Matador 3

[lilith2013]

Death is blue

[lilith2013]

Horn is blue

[lilith2013]

Fighter is blue

[lilith2013]

Chair is red. Berlin is red. Fan is blue.

[lilith2013]

Jill 1

[lilith2013]

great job team! I thought I fucked things up with the star clue

star words: moon (space-related), model (I was actually thinking of this being a space clue, like a model planet), death (farren got this right, it was a star wars reference), fan (of a celebrity), space (stars are in space), fighter (I thought I remembered star wars having starfighters?)

safari was supposed to clue lion & horn (like a rhino)

I didn't remember that stars were made of gas, lol.

[lilith2013]

/in again. As always prefer spymaster but am willing to defer.

[lilith2013]

people just complained about neutral gray being too close to the “normal” text of unguessed clues. I like purple.

[lilith2013]

octopus, penguin for sure

[lilith2013]

TRIANGLE - probably not
PART - probably not unless it's like a reference to body parts or centaurs or mermaids
BEACH - a place where animals are found
THIEF - probably not
DWARF - hopefully not
LOCH NESS - maybe not, better clues
STATE - where does Jake live? there are state animals in the US but probably not
HOTEL - probably not
MINT - probably not
LASER - probably not, although cats like lasers idk
AIR - a place where animals are found
GROUND - a place where animals are found
ALPS - a place where animals are found
POLE - could be like a polecat, but then I'd expect the clue to be "cat"
BOMB - probably not
OCTOPUS - yes
CAP - probably not
CHECK - probably not
TRAIN - probably not
AMERICA - a place where animals are found
COOK - animals can be... cooked? hopefully not
PENGUIN - yes
GERMANY - a place where animals are found
FIELD - a place where animals are found
TIME - probably not

[lilith2013]

I feel like field or ground maybe. field is kind of close to farm, maybe the clue is for Animal Farm

[lilith2013]

I wouldn't really consider Loch Ness to be an animal though

[lilith2013]

serious question, weren't homophones banned?

[lilith2013]

I agree with triangle and beach, let’s guess those two first?

[lilith2013]

we have 1 animal word//2 bermuda words//up to 4ish capitalist words remaining
blue is still missing 1 fare word and/or 1 micro word

TRIANGLE - Bermuda word, guessed successfully

PART - probably not

THIEF - maybe a capitalist word, it's related to money?
LOCH NESS - probably not? although I guess it's like, water-related (therefore maybe bermuda) and animal-related somewhat...
HOTEL - could be related to capitalist, like businessmen run hotels?
MINT - prints money, could be related to capitalist

LASER - probably not, although cats like lasers idk

GROUND - a place where animals are found, Bermuda's an island so technically it counts as ground? idk
ALPS - a place where animals are found. it could be a Bermuda word by way of "vacation destination"?

POLE - probably not
BOMB - probably not

OCTOPUS - Animal word, guessed successfully

CAP - really stretching here, bermuda is known for planes disappearing and pilots of planes wear... caps? like amelia earhart was famous for wearing a hat thing? oh god
CHECK - it's related to money so it could be a capitalist word, but it could also be a fare word
AMERICA - is definitely capitalist

COOK - animals can be... cooked? hopefully not. probably not.

PENGUIN - Animal word, guessed successfully

GERMANY - a place where animals are found. I don't know if capitalist applies here.

FIELD - probably not

TIME - could be a "capitalist" word, like "money is time" kind of thing?

[lilith2013]

capitalist word possibilities:
America
thief
mint
hotel
check
Germany
time

Animal words
Loch Ness?

Bermuda words
ground?
Alps?
cap?
.... Loch Ness?

[lilith2013]

wait what?????????

[lilith2013]

pooky that was 1000% the bomb...

[lilith2013]

/in as spymaster preferably

[lilith2013]

@pooky I'm trying not to be particularly upset, but in a team game it's not good form to submit guesses like that without waiting for the team because there may have been clues or rules you missed, which is what happened here. I'm not blaming you for not knowing the rules, but it would be good to be a team player and just wait another 5 minutes for us to weigh in.

[lilith2013]

the clue has to relate to the

meaning

of the word, not the spelling. I'm pretty sure capitalist as a clue for cap is illegal.

[lilith2013]

@CM1 can I go to the back of the spymaster queue so I oppose mena? /in to guess in the meantime

[lilith2013]

I like compound.

Maybe it could be chemistry in a sexy way? -> bed. If the 3 words were intended to be oil/plastic/compound, I feel like those could have been clued as all “materials”?

[lilith2013]

I like bed the best for the last one

[lilith2013]

... can you please not troll in a color that’s not green/a color that you’ve used as a spymaster to give real answers?

eta:

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.

[lilith2013]

In my experience people are always WAAAAAAAY too liberal with guessing instead of passing.

We have a word that's been clued, but we don't know what it is and we disagree on which of the two options is better. If we pass, then we can potentially have the word re-clued to us on the final round, or not clued which will implicitly tell us to look at the options we are debating between. It also leaves words on the board that the opposing spymaster has to work around, and we also have the chance that the other team will guess the word.

Passing is usually the smart play here.

quoting Haschel here - my vote is to pass

[lilith2013]

If it’s not too much trouble, could we also get the list of team members repeated underneath that?

[lilith2013]

I think waiting on pooky/dsjstr/chemist to give their okay on passing atm

[lilith2013]

oh must have missed that somehow, sorry

[lilith2013]

sorry yes I agree with stock, unsure on the second word. is there a specific saying or phrase having to do with flies in soup?

[lilith2013]

fine with me

[lilith2013]

Other people are smarter than me so I’m just gonna quote again (edited slightly to apply here)

Unlimited also tells us there's a max of one relevant word for film. If two or three had been intended, could have gone with FILM 2 (or 3) and we could still have a chance to win. Realistically, I think we have to assume there is one FILM word and two SOUP/SKYWALKER words.

idk if our spymaster is thinking about it this specifically, but if all of our remaining words related to FILM why didn’t they give us a FILM 3?

[lilith2013]

Chemistry - microscope, compound, plastic
Soup - stock | probably either oil or chick
Skywalker - knight, space | probably revolution
Film - probably cast

I say we guess cast -> revolution -> oil/chick

[lilith2013]

so sorry, @CM1 can you push me and mena spymaster-ing back another game? I'm also /out from guessing for now. I should be more alive for the game after next.

[lilith2013]

eulogy 4

(should we add timers to our clue posts?)

(expired on 2021-01-04 19:33:30)

[lilith2013]

Olympian 3

(expired on 2021-01-13 20:39:33)

[lilith2013]

rotund, 2

[lilith2013]

great job team!!!!!!!! farren fucking reads my mind every time, I love it. gg to mena/team

[lilith2013]

I'd suggest a slight change to the timer rules:

72 hours initially
+24 hours to the timer with every correct guess
Timer pauses while waiting for guesses to be confirmed.

That way there's no punishment for making an easy guess early.

2nding

[lilith2013]

when you're playing vs lilith you gotta reach or she ends you :3

lmao

my philosophy as spymaster is “be very aggressive.” I hope to never start on anything less than a 3.

[lilith2013]

okay - personally I think 24 hours between guesses is really short if you’re trying to check in with your team before guessing again, and I think somewhat unevenly favors teams that like to decide all their guesses at once

eta: not sure if helpful info, but there was one round where I could have cut the other team’s phase early and I didn’t because it felt really mean to do that while they were waiting for people to check in

[lilith2013]

/in for next

/in for spymaster queue

[lilith2013]

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?

yes please!

[lilith2013]

being a king is a status
compounds can have a state (not a status but close?)
I like web, battery, and game for similar reasons

[lilith2013]

hi farren!!!

game next?

[lilith2013]

I like king better than web I think. status of a webpage is a thing but the word on the board is just web so it feels like an additional leap needs to be made to get to webpage status. whereas the word king by itself is already a status

[lilith2013]

I’m fine with passing

[lilith2013]

I believe biotics might refer to a specific kind of (not yet fully developed) science technology in which little mini robots go in and fix your insides, so I would advocate for Robot pretty strongly. I like Lab and Bug as well. I don’t really like anything else? maybe compound just for science.

[lilith2013]

ROBOT

[lilith2013]

aw no

[lilith2013]

Sophisticated makes me think of limousine/theater. and maybe like, duck is seen as a fancy protein at high-end restaurants?
Biotics 4 - {lab}, bug, compound, ?
Status 4 - {king, game} I think battery was a status word and the last word might be covered by another clue. We should have some quite a bit of overlap between sophisticated and our remaining clues from status and biotics.

so best guesses for our remaining four words:
limousine, theater for sure
maybe bug or compound for biotics, but at least one of them has to also be related to sophisticated.
changed my mind about duck because it has to relate to biotics or status in addition to sophisticated
maybe it’s web? That feels like it could be vaguely connected to sophisticated, like the internet is very sophisticated technology

so limousine/theater/web/bug?

[lilith2013]

I think I actually changed my mind and don't like theater for us. I like bug the most for biotics.

[lilith2013]

If we think biotics is supposed to refer to living things, then both duck and dog would be on the table I think?

[lilith2013]

theater stages have wings. I am also fairly certain (unless I missed the red team guessing the last Breve word) that the third Breve word is theater.

[lilith2013]

Compounds are… sophisticated forms/combinations of elements?

[lilith2013]

Oh I just realized there's only seven unguessed words left. Take out duck and theater, and we only need to eliminate one more, and then guess the remaining four. Out of rose/compound/olive/paste/web, I think paste is least connected to our clues. So my order is something like compound > rose > web > olive.

[lilith2013]

oops, I can totally count.

I think compound can fit all three (biotics are sciencey, compounds are sciency; molecules can have a status like liquid, gas, solid; compounds are "sophisticated" versions of molecules). Web for status of a webpage. I like rose for sophisticated and possibly status and it's also living so it could be for biotics as well. same goes for olive pretty much.. Rose and olive are pretty similar and I can't decide which one I like better, so I guess I'll actually put compound and web first.

[lilith2013]

gg. sorry bulge

[lilith2013]

lol I didn’t /in but now I guess I have to

I don’t remember signing up for spymaster but cool let’s do it

[lilith2013]

duck 5

[lilith2013]

eagle is blue

[lilith2013]

ball is red.

turn passes to red team

[lilith2013]

Thor 3

[lilith2013]

Heart is neutral.

cook unlimited

[lilith2013]

sorry team it was almost an amazing comeback

clues:
duck 5 - eagle (a bird), france (I thought duck was well known as part of French cooking), ham (another thing you eat), stock (like chicken stock), bat (things that fly/things you duck). This clue was originally “chicken 4” which makes better sense with stock, but then I thought I could get france too by clueing duck instead of chicken. Duck also worked with bat better than chicken did.
thor 3 - you got these. superhero, bolt, jupiter.
cook unlimited - I had clued everything except time (“cook time”) at this point, but wanted to reclue the duck words as well because I don’t think you were getting to stock or ham from just duck. We needed 6 words to win though and it was fairly likely the other team would win in the next turn, so I had to make it an infinite clue if I wanted to give the team a chance to guess the rest of the words in one go.

[lilith2013]

/in spymaster & next

[lilith2013]

alexander graham bell invented the telephone (I think?)
you can play games on your phone
phones are like little robots
phones have a battery life
phones have wires, which are kind of like tubes?
kids have phones
telephone and telescope are both things that are used for distance (distance talking, distance seeing)?

[lilith2013]

oh yeah, I like apple

[lilith2013]

apple -> game -> robot -> bell I think

[lilith2013]

no, but I think farren might link phone to alexander graham bell

[lilith2013]

bell

[lilith2013]

yay! great clue, farren!

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

my first instinct is swiss chocolate.
swiss is the descriptive form of the nationality, like Czech
I also briefly thought about the alps being like the himalayas
Definitely chocolate first though?

[lilith2013]

I’m fine with passing. I also like czech slightly better than himalayas I think.

[lilith2013]

also agree

[lilith2013]

yay!

/in again
/in for spymaster queue if I’m not already

[lilith2013]

Agree with Farren - I’d be ok with prods as long as the spymaster uses a pre-determined message and is limited to once per turn. also would not play in a game that allows googling. I’ve never played duet but looks interesting.

[lilith2013]

Here’s a link to a bgg thread that talks about the differences: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/6719 ... -agents-al

reading this, I feel like we’ll actually have less discussion/a harder time discussing clues in duet, so I might just prefer the regular version.

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

I think this is streamer like a youtube streamer, so the first words I see are net, screen, and tube
It could also be streamer like the tissue paper strips that you put up at parties, so that could maybe be wind? but I feel like it’s probably just the person streamer.

[lilith2013]

I like screen->net->tube

[lilith2013]

sounds good to me. Sorry, I’m on vacation and have really sporadic service.

[lilith2013]

So sorry!

Spoiler:

slip, bank, wake are my picks

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

I was thinking of drift mostly in the car sense, which would actually put tokyo at the top of my list now that I look at the board again

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

yeah, drifting is the thing you do when turning. I don’t actually remember much about drift other than you’re supposed to do it in mariokart to stop yourself from turning too hard. and tokyo drift. I was basically just thinking car words. I could see wake and wind though.

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

Tokyo drift is a movie, right? it’s a car movie.. maybe part of the fast and furious franchise? that’s all I know.

[lilith2013]

I’ll let you make the guesses

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

maybe we should do tokyo -> wind?

[lilith2013]

Go for it.

[lilith2013]

We can’t win this turn anyway, so I’d rather pass I think.

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

anniversary is a day
the third drift word was probably slip, since bulge didn’t clue it and we said that was our third choice.
kind of stumped on the second anniversary word. maybe gold, like a wedding ring?

[lilith2013]

Spoiler:

I'm good with day -> slip

[lilith2013]

I think slip is more solid. you make a good argument against gold, but I don't really feel good about concert.

[lilith2013]

I’m not sure we should pass since they have 3 clued words already, but don’t feel great about any guesses. so I’m not sure where that leaves us.

[lilith2013]

slightly in favor of passing, I guess?

[lilith2013]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[lilith2013]

all that glitters is gold

[lilith2013]

We both think it's gold. "All that glitters is gold" is a well-known lyric from All Star by Smashmouth (hope I got the title right, otherwise I'm gonna look like a fool)

[lilith2013]

yeee fingers crossed

[lilith2013]

/in duet. same question as datisi, will this be played via PT?

[lilith2013]

gj as spymaster, bulge!

[lilith2013]

i'll be teaming up with lilith

^

[lilith2013]

Do you mean that if I guessed a word that was correct and it happens to be on my list as well, I can't tell my partner that it's on my list? will there be a penalty for doing so?

[lilith2013]

who’s spymaster for this round then?

[lilith2013]

I will not be signing up to guess then lol

[lilith2013]

The rule about compound words says that words with hyphens or spaces aren’t valid clues, unless we’re playing with flexible rules.

[lilith2013]

/in for spymaster

[lilith2013]

We don’t play with flexible rules unless it’s agreed on before the game starts. So by default, hyphenated words, pronouns, acronyms, and anything else listed in the flexible rules section aren’t allowed. Usually you don’t need to know the flexible rules so there’s no need to have a list of them in this thread unless we play a game with flexible rules, but in this case we’re citing it to show that hyphenated words are explicitly not allowed in the non-flexible ruleset because they’re specifically part of the flexible rules, which we’re not using. The gist of the basic rule is “only one word that is related to the meaning of the words on the board,” and flexible rules are only there as exceptions to the basic rule if the people playing decide they want those exceptions. By default there aren’t any exceptions to “only one word.” Hyphenated words are more than one word.

[lilith2013]

Sorry, I meant proper nouns lol.

[lilith2013]

what does the current spymaster queue look like, please?