Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

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Heart

I'm thinking drill/train as the other two, they make a lot of sense together, idk if he'd take that angle for one of them and ignore the other, so Life + one of these seems unlikely. plus that one for Life is more of a stretch, imo, despite its adjacency to Heart.

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for drill I'm not thinking necessarily a military instructor, just a general workout routine.

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when I think drill I think specifically of an intense set of reps. like if someone says they're working out or going for a run it's like yea hey cool but if they say they're running drills it's like oh wow that sounds sweaty and hard.

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idk, to me cardio -> life is missing a step (heart), whereas cardio -> drill is the exact same line of logic as cardio -> train

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we should put the train guess first.

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Train

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still thinking drill. there are lots of ways to capture Train that wouldn't accidentally make us think Drill as well.

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Drill

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nice

pass

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yea string was for sure one of the TIE words, Pin seems like a good guess for the other?

I think I'm at Bark/Conductor/Pin as well. thinking the conductor of a choir rather than a train conductor. the only other word I could be sold on I think is BUTTON but that's bringing the show "The Voice" into the mix.

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we have 3 guesses technically right? I'm thinking pin first because nothing else really makes sense for tie

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it's a singing competition where the judges' chairs are faced away from the stage and if they like what they hear they make a big deal out of hitting a button that turns their chair around. it's pretty well-known, the celeb judges are always A-list, but I've never been into the show so idk how much they lean on the button itself like branding-wise?

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gg! I definitely would have guessed ice for polybags, like treating a burn/swelling with an ice baggy

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/in as spymaster

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can I play in the next one and still keep my spot in the spymaster queue for the following game?

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I like these suggestions, I think diver is easily the biggest stretch of the bunch?

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

for check I'm thinking more along the lines of like watching for something/checking for something, but with both possible meanings I think it's all the more likely.

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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.

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ahead of film?

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wind and then pass maybe?

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good game! it crossed my mind to weigh the possibility of haschel only interpreting it as the blowy kind of wind, but I definitely thought that it wasn't the bomb lol.

excited for the next one!

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GAS

red

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IRON

neutral

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Status - 4

INDIA	DOG	OLIVE	OPERA	BUG
BATTERY	NOTE	ROBOT	GAME	LIMOUSINE
DUCK	ROUND	FENCE	IRON	BACK
ROSE	COMPOUND	LAB	THEATER	PASTE
CAT	KING	POOL	GAS	WEB

Blue Clues	Red Clues
STATUS - 4	HEATING - 3

Team	Spy Master	Members
RED TEAM	Sirius9121	Not_Mafia, Charles510, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39
BLUE TEAM	The Bulge	Menalque, lilith2013, Datisi

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battery

blue

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Guess: Game

blue

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Guess: KING

blue

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Biotics - 4

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ROBOT

neutral

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Sophisticated - 3

INDIA	DOG	OLIVE	OPERA	BUG
BATTERY	NOTE	ROBOT	GAME	LIMOUSINE
DUCK	ROUND	FENCE	IRON	BACK
ROSE	COMPOUND	LAB	THEATER	PASTE
CAT	KING	POOL	GAS	WEB

Blue Clues	Red Clues
STATUS - 4	HEATING - 3
BIOTICS - 4	BREVE - 3
SOPHISTICATED - 3	POLE - 4

Team	Spy Master	Members
RED TEAM	Sirius9121	Not_Mafia, Charles510, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39
BLUE TEAM	The Bulge	Menalque, lilith2013, Datisi, Farren

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guess: limousine

blue

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India

neutral

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Wings - 0

INDIA	DOG	OLIVE	OPERA	BUG
BATTERY	NOTE	ROBOT	GAME	LIMOUSINE
DUCK	ROUND	FENCE	IRON	BACK
ROSE	COMPOUND	LAB	THEATER	PASTE
CAT	KING	POOL	GAS	WEB

Blue Clues	Red Clues
STATUS - 4	HEATING - 3
BIOTICS - 4	BREVE - 3
SOPHISTICATED - 3	POLE - 4
WINGS - 0	WATCH - infinite

Team	Spy Master	Members
RED TEAM	Sirius9121	Not_Mafia, Charles510, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39
BLUE TEAM	The Bulge	Menalque, lilith2013, Datisi, Farren

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red, that's game

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compound was barely discussed before, didn't expect it to pop up on a zero clue. gg, still a fun game, and well played by both teams

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.

this should be a good indication it's both of them

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lol so biotics

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my original thought for the second clue was "Organics" (for organic materials, Olive/Rose/Web plus a bonus chance at Lab or an extra stab at a Status guess) but that was sure to land on Compound, probably first. "Biotics" means the same thing to me but better evokes Lab and would probably dodge Compound (I believe you were all on the trail of "bionics" with the Robot guess). I figured either way a clue of 4 would dodge the 4 animals (because "why would he not just do Animal - 4") but I totally wasn't thinking of Bug in the viral sense, which for sure would have been my first guess personally aha, so that obviously wasn't a great alternate to Organics after all. also idk how or why the '-s' stuck around lol, which definitely made it worse/more Bug-indicative.

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/in next
/in spymaster queue

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I'd be fine with board/nail/pirate in any order, I'm pretty confident in all of them. for the fourth maybe calf? idk

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Board

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i was so used to ignoring this in my egosearch during the games i wasnt playing.... my bad!

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ooooo i can help here tho! the sahuagin are d&d monsters

Green, poison, DICE stand out to me.

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oh we only have 3 left? confidence up to 99. I'd say let's do Dice>poison>green

I don't know for sureeee that the sahuagin inflict poison damage, but nothing else here really works, and that is one of D&D's damage types, and is certainly the one that best fits the sahuagin flavour-wise.

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it's specifically a monster from Dungeons&Dragons, a game that largely revolves around rolling dice

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gonna go ahead and hard-veto ATLANTIS in case someone decides to put a guess in. it is definitely not related.

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i mean, unless the creatures actually originates from Atlantean lore and was borrowed by d&d designers. but I find that unlikely. plus Haschel strikes me as a ttrpg type, and I don't think he would pull out some obscure mythical creature without it being a direct reference to something he'd expect at least some of us to be familiar with.

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ooooo i can help here tho! the sahuagin are d&d monsters

Green, poison, DICE stand out to me.

Ah! You showed up at exactly the right time! <3

no kidding! haha sorry for disappearing

Can you explain “green”? I’m obviously fine with it, since you clearly know exactly what you’re talking about.

So, I think dice fitst then?

pretty straightforward, the monsters have green flesh/scales. haschel has to expect us to guess something as simple as that imo, but it's the least specific of the three.

I'm good with dice first. poison and green have other far less obscure ways of being clued, like a real-life plant or animal. but if my last 3 clues as spy master were those two plus dice, irl creature->fictional creature seems like the most natural choice, so dice is like, pretty integral to the validity of the clue.

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arrgh, im blaming that one on my DM for not giving me enough swamp encounters

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yea that was pretty devastating aha

i may have hard vetoed the correct guess you had all decided on in my absence , BUT in my defense I basically only forced us to trade Atlantis for Dice

gg, wp! sorry again for disappearing! im still game for the next one.

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Streamer - 3

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Net

Screen

blue
blue

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Tube

blue

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HONEY

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blue

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Drift - 3

BAR	GOLD	SKYSCRAPER	TUBE	NUT
DOG	SINK	NET	WAKE	PIRATE
CALF	WHIP	PART	WIND	PIE
TRUNK	TOKYO	CONCERT	DAY	FIELD
SLIP	BANK	PANTS	SCREEN	HONEY

Blue Clues	Red Clues
4/9	2/8
STREAMER - 3	CHOCOLATE - 3
DRIFT - 3

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	The Bulge	lilith2013, Farren, HockeyFan
RED TEAM	Charles510	Nancy Drew 39, Marashu, Not_Mafia

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Part

neutral

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Anniversary - 2

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Day

blue

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Trunk

neutral

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Glitters - 1

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Gold

blue!

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gg! that turned into a real nailbiter at the end ahaha. well played by both teams! go blue!!

i just moved halfway across the country so I'll sit this next one out, but i will

/in spymaster queue

for whenever we return to regular play

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re-/in spymaster

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I'll /in to play as well

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the flexible rules would come into play most often in casual settings, especially in-person with a crowd that doesn't appreciate nitpickery, whereas online that sort of behaviour is generally encouraged

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Sorry, I meant proper nouns lol.

What are “proper nouns”? *confuzzled*

generally, any noun that starts with a capital letter (unless it's only capitalized to begin a sentence), which in most cases is a name of a person, place, or thing, like Alfred or Mexico or Windex.

this rule would also extend to any capitalized adjectives, Mexican for example

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thatcher is allowed because it means someone who builds a type of roof

Moby is an illegal clue as far as I'm aware

mccartney would be illegal, even if you write it in all lowercase

the bug is spelled "beetle", and I'm not sure if "beatle" has a different meaning, but I feel like beatle would technically still be allowed if its understood that it was a misspelling

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well there ya have it

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Acrylic - 3

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SPY	WEB	LION	MOUSE	FACE
NAIL	MISSILE	PILOT	UNDERTAKER	HOLE
FIRE	VAN	TABLE	DEATH	KID
MERCURY	NEEDLE	PLASTIC	LOCK	JACK
STREAM	BOND	WITCH	DUCK	PLANE

Blue Clues	Red Clues
0/9	1/8
CHESHIRE - 6	ACRYLIC - 3

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	Nancy Drew 39	Cat Scratch Fever, Farren, Not_Mafia
RED TEAM	The Bulge	Charles510, Not Known 15, Datisi

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Hold - 4

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SPY	WEB	LION	MOUSE	FACE
NAIL	MISSILE	PILOT	UNDERTAKER	HOLE
FIRE	VAN	TABLE	DEATH	KID
MERCURY	NEEDLE	PLASTIC	LOCK	JACK
STREAM	BOND	WITCH	DUCK	PLANE

Blue Clues	Red Clues
0/9	3/8
CHESHIRE - 6	ACRYLIC - 3
CHARIOT - 5	HOLD - 4

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	Nancy Drew 39	Cat Scratch Fever, Farren, Not_Mafia
RED TEAM	The Bulge	Charles510, Not Known 15, Datisi

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Guess:Bond

red

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Web

Guess:Web

red

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Guess:Lock

red

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SPY	WEB	LION	MOUSE	FACE
NAIL	MISSILE	PILOT	UNDERTAKER	HOLE
FIRE	VAN	TABLE	DEATH	KID
MERCURY	NEEDLE	PLASTIC	LOCK	JACK
STREAM	BOND	WITCH	DUCK	PLANE

Blue Clues	Red Clues
0/9	6/8
CHESHIRE - 6	ACRYLIC - 3
CHARIOT - 5	HOLD - 4

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	Nancy Drew 39	Cat Scratch Fever, Farren, Not_Mafia
RED TEAM	The Bulge	Charles510, Not Known 15, Datisi

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Preparing - 2

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Guess: Undertaker

red

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guess kid

neutral

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Launch - 1

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good game everyone! and thank you nancy!

as always thanks as well to cm1

/in regular queue if i didnt already

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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.

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hi beepsy!!!!

bear and antarctica (ironically, "the land without bears") for sure.

for the third i was torn between cap and snowman but ultimately leaning towards cap. i think polar could actually be intentionally avoiding snowman by taking antarctica off the board.

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

this clue is meta as hell lol

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ok do we all agree on bear, anarctica, cap in that order?

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the polar ice caps are the big important ones. same reason antarctica was an immediate yes for me, polar as in the south pole.

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but i do feel least strong about cap and might be ok to guess 2 and skip, mostly because it would be relatively easy i think to miss that one as a cluegiver. ie not realizing the ice cap connection and just thinking of the word's other uses

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i'd have to be convinced on snowman tbh, i think the snow connection is weaker than any other, and if snowman is neutral or the other team's, then giving a strong antarctica clue avoids unintentionally cluing snowman with something cold or snow related.

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guess: bear

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guess: antarctica

going for 3 yea?

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yea that's where im at as well

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ah mb meant to check in last night. i am not confident about deck or any other guess, and it's early enough i think a pass wont hurt.

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LEPRECHAUN	SQUARE	STRAW	HOOK	WHIP
PLANE	MINE	CAP	CODE	DRESS
SNOWMAN	DOCTOR	FENCE	AFRICA	BEAR
TAG	SHOE	DECK	ANTARCTICA	GERMANY
TAP	LOG	CAPITAL	BLOCK	CLOAK

Blue Clues	Red Clues
4/8	4/9
FLAT - 3	POLAR - 3
MONEY - 2	ANCHOR - 2
	TOUCH - 2

Team	Spy Master	Members
RED TEAM	BipolarChemist	Nancy Drew 39, Not_Mafia, The Bulge
BLUE TEAM	Tejate Raichu	Cat Scratch Fever, Mizzytastic, Charles510

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Spoiler:

tag/tap? and we could try deck after?

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let's go for it. im somewhat worried it was clued by flat but still think we should go there.

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woo go team

pass