Farren and Nancy Drew 39 Codenames PT

[Farren]

Hello!

HIDING, 3.

[Farren]

NINJA is an

Agent.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3

No. of Agents found	1/15
No. of Clues Given	1
No. of bystanders hit	0
No. of Illegal clues given	0
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	1
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

COVER is an

Agent

.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3

No. of Agents found	2/15
No. of Clues Given	1
No. of bystanders hit	0
No. of Illegal clues given	0
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	1
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

ATLANTIS is a

Bystander

.

I will mark bystanders that you've guessed (and I haven't) as red.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3

No. of Agents found	2/15
No. of Clues Given	1
No. of bystanders hit	1
No. of Illegal clues given	0
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	1
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

All right, let's do this. Connections to camping:

Suburbanites could set up tents in their YARD (very weak).
BUGs are one of the well-known hazards of camping (moderately strong).
CampFIREs are a thing (very strong). Form of the word was camping, not camp ... but one would still set a fire while camping, so the connection still works.
Camping by definition is done overNIGHT (moderately strong).
Camping is done in the wilderness, where one could reasonably expect to see trees and BARK (weak).
NAILs could be used to set up a camp (weak).

Guess: Fire

Guess: Bug

Guess: Night

Let's start with those three first, then see where we stand.

[Farren]

Just to confirm: did you get a message from CM1 about this game?

[Farren]

I will mark bystanders that I've guessed and you haven't as blue.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	4/15
No. of Clues Given	3
No. of bystanders hit	2
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	9
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

(CM1 didn't tell me how many strikes for the mistimed clue; I'm assuming two.)

All right, PICNIC. That meshes with CAMPING, so makes me think there's going to be some duplicates - and I'm guessing you reclued because I was on the wrong track, to some extent.

The only food-based word I see is KETCHUP. I could see ketchup at a picnic.
YARD looks better with picnic than it did for camping.

Not seeing anything else at first glance. Let's start with these, then go from there.

Guess: KETCHUP

Guess: YARD

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	6/15
No. of Clues Given	3
No. of bystanders hit	2
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	9
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

STOCK as in soup stock is vaguely food-like, but I don't know that it's the sort of food you'd expect to see on a picnic.
You'd buy stuff for both camping and picnics at a SHOP ... that's an option.
BARK is still a possibility for camping, as is NAIL.

The big question is, how much overlap is there between Picnic and camping? If the overlap is 100%, then SHOP looks good; BARK doesn't really work with picnic.
YARD could have been camping. KETCHUP is a stretch ... but maybe? Hot dogs get cooked at camping, so I could see people bringing ketchup along on camping trips.

Camping: Bug / Fire / Yard / Ketchup / ?
Picnic: Yard / Ketchup / ?

hm ... camping shops are themselves a thing. REI and whatnot.

Guess: Shop

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	6/15
No. of Clues Given	3
No. of bystanders hit	3
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	11
Total number of time tokens	0

My turn to give a clue.

[Farren]

In Duet, it's possible that a word could be a bystander for one of us but an agent for the other.

I'm using red to indicate: Bystander for you, ??? for me. Blue to indicate: ??? for you, bystander for me. I can still guess red words; you can still guess blue words.
I'll use strikeouts to indicate words that both of us have guessed incorrectly. (None so far)

[Farren]

My clue is:

CAROLS, 3.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	6/15
No. of Clues Given	4
No. of bystanders hit	3
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	12
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

#00008a:

WORD

#00009b:

WORD

#0000ac:

WORD

#0000bd:

WORD

#0000ce:

WORD

How are these for visibility?

[Farren]

ORGAN is an

Agent

.
SNOWMAN is an

Agent

.
NIGHT is an

Agent

.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	9/15
No. of Clues Given	4
No. of bystanders hit	3
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	12
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

STOCK is a

Bystander

.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3

No. of Agents found	9/15
No. of Clues Given	4
No. of bystanders hit	4
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	14
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

Hmmm.

I'd expect to see MILLIONAIREs in the city.
Ditto STOCK exchanges, but I don't think you clue City to hit Millionaire / Stock specifically.
Atlantis is a city ... okay, that has to be one of the two.

Guess: Atlantis

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
	CITY-2

No. of Agents found	10/15
No. of Clues Given	5
No. of bystanders hit	4
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	15
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

Need some time to think about another guess.

[Farren]

think we're going to go with ...

Guess: BARK

.

Going back to the picnic / camping clues. Also thinking of barking dogs, which one could possibly hear at a picnic or while camping.

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
	CITY-2

No. of Agents found	10/15
No. of Clues Given	5
No. of bystanders hit	5
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	17
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

TREE, 2.

[Farren]

BARK is an

Agent

.
CAT is a

Bystander

.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2

No. of Agents found	11/15
No. of Clues Given	6
No. of bystanders hit	6
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	20
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

Hm.

A MILLIONAIRE would have luggage.
You'd bring luggage aboard a PLANE.
A PILOT would have LUGGAGE.

Let's start with

Guess: Plane

.

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2
	LUGGAGE-2

No. of Agents found	12/15
No. of Clues Given	7
No. of bystanders hit	6
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	21
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

All right.

Plane / Millionaire
Plane / Pilot

The last two are heavily intertwined by themselves; cluing PLANE without cluing PILOT is tough. If you actively wanted to clue them together, I think you'd pick something real simple like "FLY" or "FLYING." At least for a 2-clue, which this is.

Cluing Millionaire / Plane ... that's a bit trickier. Plus we have the earlier connection from CITY too. And I can't think of a simple word that hits both easily without pointing to other things.

Guess: Millionaire

.

[Farren]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2
	LUGGAGE-2

No. of Agents found	12/15
No. of Clues Given	7
No. of bystanders hit	7
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	23
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

SHREW, 2.

[Farren]

SHAKESPEARE is an

Agent

.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2
SHREW-2	LUGGAGE-2

No. of Agents found	13/15
No. of Clues Given	8
No. of bystanders hit	7
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	24
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

NAIL is ...

Spoiler: Glory ... or death?

... an

Agent!

I am out of Agents.

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2
SHREW-2	LUGGAGE-2

No. of Agents found	14/15
No. of Clues Given	8
No. of bystanders hit	7
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	24
Total number of time tokens	0

[Farren]

I see two words with strong connections - CRASH and STOCK.
Stock Market.
"Market crash" is a thing.
However, it's only a thing in context of a stock market specifically. I don't think you ignore the stock market connection to clue CRASH. And I think stock connects to luggage as well, in terms of store stock - things that can be stored.

Guess: Stock

[CreativeMod1]

MILLIONAIRE	PLANE	YARD	DROP	ORGAN
DIVER	SHOP	STOCK	BUG	FIRE
COVER	KETCHUP	DEGREE	ATLANTIS	NIGHT
CAT	BARK	NAIL	SNOWMAN	NINJA
SHAKESPEARE	CRASH	FRANCE	PILOT	MICROSCOPE

Player 1 Clues	Player 2 Clues
HIDING-3	CAMPING-5
CAROLS-3	PICNIC-3
TREE-2	CITY-2
SHREW-2	LUGGAGE-2
	MARKET-1

No. of Agents found	15/15
No. of Clues Given	9
No. of bystanders hit	7
No. of Illegal clues given	1
No. of Assassins hit	0
Total number of strikes	25
Total number of time tokens	0

And that's fifteen agents. We're done.

[Farren]

I'm a big fan of Duet myself; I've always preferred it over regular Codenames.

[Farren]

Oh, I thought bystanders were two strikes each. Oops. Works for me.

[Farren]

Post-mortem on my end:

HIDING, 3: Ninja / Cover / Night
CAROLS, 3: Organ / Snowman / Night (normally I wouldn't double up this early, but I couldn't think of any other good 3-clues, so figured might as well)
TREE, 2: Bark / Nail
SHREW, 2: Shakespeare / Nail

Assassins were KETCHUP, CRASH, and FRANCE. CRASH in particular was spoiling a lot of attempts to try and hit all three of Shakespeare / Bark / Nail in one swoop.