Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

[Not_Mafia]

When the hero shows up a moment too late

[DragonEater70]

MEDIA - 1

[biancospino]

Spoiler:

I'm like 99% sure that the hint here is for PRESS; and RULER is clearly in class, so the missing dominatrix hint is almost surely BED.

[StrangerCoug]

Spoiler: My thoughts

I'm thinking FILE. I think we have another DOMINATRIX one to figure out if I remember right, too.

[StrangerCoug]

Spoiler: My thoughts, part 2

Although I'm willing to go with biancospino and guess PRESS instead.

[biancospino]

Spoiler:

Eh... I believe file could be clued much more clearly than with media. Idk, just say "directory" or "pdf" or something would have been pretty unmistakable; and on top of that I'm kinda scared of the conversion-0 clue, file can plausibly be the assassin. And the Press is the prototipical Media, so it's not like it lacks the association.

That said, should we guess Bed first? That one is pretty clear at this point imho

[StrangerCoug]

Spoiler: To #8355

We can. I think it's good that you pointed out the CONVERSION: 0 clue, so let's take FILE out of consideration.

[biancospino]

@lilith, @Pooky?

[lilith2013]

I'm good with press & bed

[biancospino]

Let's roll dice.

Press

Bed

[Farren]

Let's roll dice.

Press

Bed

PRESS

is

blue

BED

is

blue

BLUE

team wins!

KID	WHIP	PART	CAR	BILL
PRESS	TRACK	GREEN	BED	JET
AUSTRALIA	BOOM	MOUNT	CHICK	MUG
RULER	LEPRECHAUN	DROP	TEMPLE	FORCE
BOLT	LASER	DUCK	FILE	VACUUM

Blue Clues	Red Clues
9/9	3/8
RACE - 2	TURRET - 3
DOMINATRIX - 3	CONVERSION - 0
NONHUMAN - 2	CLASS - unlimited

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	DragonEater70	StrangerCoug, PookyTheMagicalBear, biancospino, lilith2013
RED TEAM	Farren	Menalque, Not_Mafia, furtiveglance, Datisi

[Farren]

Spoiler: Post mortem

TURRET: Initially, it was meant to point towards MOUNT (turrets themselves are mounted; people can mount turrets as well), LASER (what can I say, I play a lot of video games, where laser turrets are very much a thing), and JET. (think like fighter jets armed with machineguns. They aren't turrets per se, but was going for the conceptual link.)

I considered BOOM - thought, eh, it

kinda

fits, but only a relatively small number of turret types go BOOM - maybe turrets with heavy ordnance, but gun turrets don't really BOOM, laser turrets certainly don't BOOM, and if people start thinking about castle turrets, those don't BOOM either. So it might get guessed, but no way does it get guessed first.

*bzzzt*

TEMPLE - I

still

do not see a connection between Turret and Temple, even now. Y'all are going to have to explain this one to me. Fun fact: I had originally considered BOMB, 4 as an opener. BOOM doubtlessly gets guessed first, but that's okay. Follow up with COLOR, UNLIMITED to knock out Green / Mount / Laser / Drop / Jet, then CLASSROOM, 3 for KID / RULER / FILE. TEMPLE made that impossible, though.
PART - The only connection here that I saw was "Well, turrets do consist of parts - but so does just about everything else on the planet. Not really a threat here."

*bzzzt*

TEMPLE was in fact the assassin. So when I saw multiple people thinking it was a good guess, that pretty much forced me to give a zero clue. I hate giving a zero clue that just covers one clue, though. The word I thought was the second-biggest threat - had a decent amount of consensus and was wrong - was FORCE. So I thought, hm. INQUISITOR, CRUSADER, that sort of thing? Gets too close to RULER, which was one of ours. That line is out. CONVERSION, though - nice strong Temple connection, and when we're talking about that connection, it's the sort of conversion that is frequently done by FORCE.

I hadn't considered file conversion. I think when it comes to files, I think of different forms of the word. Convertor, converting, but not so much conversion.

So everyone who mentioned "Why give CONVERSION instead of BUILDING or RELIGION if it's just pointing at TEMPLE" was correct, but Not_Mafia was also correct when pointing out that nobody had been discussing FILE at all, so giving a zero clue to knock it out would be odd.

In retrospect, cluing NAVE, 0 or PEW, 0 might have been the better way to go. Given the discussion flow, I didn't think that PART would get pushed heavily - I thought only one person had endorsed it, and at least one other person had pushed back against it.

CLASS was a hail Mary. I had to retroactively change my initial thought behind Turret. Not_Mafia had suggested GREEN as a possibility for Turret. I didn't see a connection there either, but GREEN was in fact one of our words. And nobody had suggested JET, so that had to be reclued. So mentally rewrite Turret to MOUNT / LASER / GREEN, and CLASS covers the rest.
KIDs attend class.
RULERs (the measuring tool) can be found in a class. Also, Rulers (leaders) are at the top of social class. Double-connection.
People can DROP a class.
Any class imaginable lives and dies by FILEs. Plus they're both programming terms. Again, double-connection.
And finally, on a JET, you can fly first class. (Yes, it's a stretch, but hey, had to come up with something.)

TL;DR: listen to Not_Mafia, who is wise in all things.

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Congrats blue team!

[Cat Scratch Fever]

I google imaged it and a turret is also a tower-like structure attached to some castles. Some churches apparently have turrets, although if you had asked me, I would've called them steeples. I thought turrets were things that attacked you in league of legends heh

Tricky board, certainly

[StrangerCoug]

GG

[Menalque]

gg lmao

[DragonEater70]

GG

In retrospect I could've probably done NEWSPAPER as my last hint, glad it worked out well though.

[DragonEater70]

Good job to my team though! You never made a single wrong guess!

[DragonEater70]

/in as field operative

[furtiveglance]

/in as Spymaster

[Not_Mafia]

/in as field operative

[biancospino]

/in spymaster

[lilith2013]

gg everyone!

/in for both

[Malakittens]

/in

[Cat Scratch Fever]

I'll probably kick the next game off later this week