Just played this after a family dinner with a table of my aunts and uncles.
They loved it and demanded I bring it back for Thanksgiving. :rotate:
Knew it would be good with this group, they like the split into teams family games, and they don't have to know a bunch of rules, just play. (Unlike my other games. They were all OH NO, HERE COMES INFIDEL WITH ONE OF HIS GAMES...)
Also that green clue was really bad and I apologise.
I was attempting to try a strategy where I name broad categories that fit many words, and then overlay that with another category that fits many words, and then the intersection of the two clues is the entirety of our words.
But 'green' matched far too many words, and encouraged backwards logic where a clue from a later word is massaged to fit into the previous category (sun matches cell, and solar energy is green too! I was hoping cell would be matched last, but once solar cell had been thought of, solar cell matches green. But green doesn't match cell otherwise.).
Then it didn't help that you guys hadn't heard of sun beds. And so couldn't make that connection and then think 'garden beds are green'.
Which is probably a localisation thing.
As green giant would have been, if it weren't for the fact that American media pervades Australian media so much that I knew about the connection, even though I've never seen that ad myself.
The only other thing that was tenuous was the 'oil - sun' clue, but that was meant to reflect tanning oil/sun block etc and/or also the company Sun Oil, which is now Sunoco.
@discrider: On the turn you said "MASSAGE", "TANNING" may have been a better clue. Also, giving a number instead of ":Unlimited" might have worked better if you didn't think that Hedgethorn would be able to put together a clue to get his team's remaining three - if you had said ":2", then your team would still have a bonus guess to narrow things down for the next time around. You can be ambitious, but there is such a thing as being too ambitious and spreading yourself too thin.
Looks like with discrider's re-sign up, we're at seven players on the signup list. I'll keep signups open until at least the morning time to allow other folks, especially folks that are new, the opportunity to play.
Eh...
In that circumstance, unlimited carried the same meaning as 2 in my mind.
Why would I make a single clue relationship with 4 clues still to guess?
I won't say that ":Unlimited" was a wrong play to take, I can see where your thought process was going. But if you believe that you can get another turn and do not need to go for broke to catch everything at once, providing a solid number can be more helpful for your operatives. This is especially true if you sense that your operatives are not certain on all of the past words that they missed on prior turns. Nab three things securely on this turn, then clean up your final word on the next. Of course, it all depends on the state of the board, but it is a strategic consideration to have in mind as a spymaster.
Well yes.
I hadn't realised that 'sun bed' might not have been a common term though, and thought it was simply 'green garden bed' that was being obtuse.
So I thought 'massage - oil and bed' was obvious enough without needing to specify 2, especially as 3 or 4 allowed my team the same amount of guesses as unlimited with 4 clues remaining, and so 2 related clues could be safely assumed via deduction.
I'm sorry to have missed the end of the game, but work has been hectic all last week. I'll skip the next one for the same reason and Sign Up for eventual game 5.
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HedgethornAssociate Professor of Historical Hobby HorsesIn the Lions' DenRegistered Userregular
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Sorry to my team; I found it very difficult to connect 'microscope' to any of my other words. I had hoped someone knew about jewelry microscopes or made the connection that microscopes are used to examine the crust of the earth. Alas. (I was also slightly thwarted by my phone's autocorrect -- the clue was supposed to be' 'jewelers', not 'jewelery'. But I don't know how much of a difference it would have made.)
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That would've helped some, probably, tbh, but yeah, that was a pretty tricky board for us. Good try!
I just realized that I missed a name my first time through the thread, so we do have eight people for the next game. I'll put the game up tonight, but there'll still be about eight hours for more folks to sign up and get in on the lottery.
After that, I don't know that we have three more agents that are separately related to "lear", looks like the rest might be "King Lear" more as the clue?
Just not really feeling the other words, film seems to be good on the surface. Anything else is maybe deeper into this than intended and I feel may be coincidental something they didn't notice when giving the clue.
The only other thing I can think of is that Lear goes batshit, so 'marbles'. Or the loss thereof. Bit of a stretch, I know. Lead or Film far more likely.
Passing is also an option here - we normally get 1 bonus guess with every clue, and our discussions should make it clear to the spymaster that we got it narrowed to 2 things. We can either get an additional clue, or get the other spymaster/team to knock out one of the possibles.
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They loved it and demanded I bring it back for Thanksgiving. :rotate:
Knew it would be good with this group, they like the split into teams family games, and they don't have to know a bunch of rules, just play. (Unlike my other games. They were all OH NO, HERE COMES INFIDEL WITH ONE OF HIS GAMES...)
Also that green clue was really bad and I apologise.
I was attempting to try a strategy where I name broad categories that fit many words, and then overlay that with another category that fits many words, and then the intersection of the two clues is the entirety of our words.
But 'green' matched far too many words, and encouraged backwards logic where a clue from a later word is massaged to fit into the previous category (sun matches cell, and solar energy is green too! I was hoping cell would be matched last, but once solar cell had been thought of, solar cell matches green. But green doesn't match cell otherwise.).
Then it didn't help that you guys hadn't heard of sun beds. And so couldn't make that connection and then think 'garden beds are green'.
Which is probably a localisation thing.
As green giant would have been, if it weren't for the fact that American media pervades Australian media so much that I knew about the connection, even though I've never seen that ad myself.
The only other thing that was tenuous was the 'oil - sun' clue, but that was meant to reflect tanning oil/sun block etc and/or also the company Sun Oil, which is now Sunoco.
Train, 3.
Their last three words, needed to win it in that turn or lose: Track, Switch, Soul
Looks like with discrider's re-sign up, we're at seven players on the signup list. I'll keep signups open until at least the morning time to allow other folks, especially folks that are new, the opportunity to play.
In that circumstance, unlimited carried the same meaning as 2 in my mind.
Why would I make a single clue relationship with 4 clues still to guess?
I hadn't realised that 'sun bed' might not have been a common term though, and thought it was simply 'green garden bed' that was being obtuse.
So I thought 'massage - oil and bed' was obvious enough without needing to specify 2, especially as 3 or 4 allowed my team the same amount of guesses as unlimited with 4 clues remaining, and so 2 related clues could be safely assumed via deduction.
I'll be back, but not for the next one.
Island Name: Felinefine
Nintendo ID: Pastalonius
Smite\LoL:Gremlidin \ WoW & Overwatch & Hots: Gremlidin#1734
3ds: 3282-2248-0453
Game 4 Start
Red Team
@Polaritie (Spymaster)
@Kaneski
@Infidel
@Teucrian
Blue Team
@CesareB (Spymaster)
@azith28
@Jam Warrior
@discrider
BUFFALO
FLUTE
KING
SCORPION
MOLE
LEAD
SHAKESPEARE
KANGAROO
MARBLE
PIRATE
GROUND
LAWYER
FILE
TRACK
CROWN
NIGHT
KEY
CIRCLE
KETCHUP
MAMMOTH
TAP
FILM
BAT
SWITCH
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
@Kaneski
@Infidel
@Teucrian
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
After that, I don't know that we have three more agents that are separately related to "lear", looks like the rest might be "King Lear" more as the clue?
Red operatives may make up to four more guesses.
Contact - Shakespeare
Red operatives may make up to three more guesses.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Great board/clue, btw.
If he wanted to get to king and Shakespeare but not lead there are plenty of options.
Crown, then Lead?
To keep it moving: Contact - Crown
Red operatives may make up to two more guesses.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
@azith28
@Jam Warrior
@discrider
Flute for Pied Piper perhaps.
Pirate has 'rat' in it and so is probably an invalid syntactical clue in this game.
Blue team has 4 guesses remaining.
I'd suggest Kangaroo next, unless we think perhaps that's too esoteric.
I would also think hes speaking metaphorically. Lawyer.
I'll go along with flute too, but save it for last.