Codenames - Game 2, Round 2

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

guess : mail

That has to be correct, which leaves 2 to get.
Square and Theatre maybe? (letterbox film ratio?)

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:42

Red, carry on.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Square could also fit in with the triangular clue too, square of the two sides and all that bollocks.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

We have a leftover from loud and a leftover from triangle, and potentially more for letterbox

Theatre would potentially fit loud and letterbox

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:45

I'm down with square.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Just so we're clear, as an answer to the clue 'TRIANGULAR', you and Trooper would like to propose the word 'SQUARE'?

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Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Of course, it's entirely logical.

I'd probably go with Theatre before that though.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Cap'n Gingerbeard wrote:

Just so we're clear, as an answer to the clue 'TRIANGULAR', you and Trooper would like to propose the word 'SQUARE'?

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Mr Dave wrote:

Team Teabag:

Malc - Captain

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

*guess:theatre*

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 15:52

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 15:55

Heh.

BRING IT HOME, DOC!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

elegance: 1

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25588

Grace. I'm not even going to wait.

*guess: grace*

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:18

Correct.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:21

Apparently I need to type something here to show the grid.

Here you go

Attachment:

Game 2 Round 2.PNG

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

So this was my grid.

Despite "film" being a huge gift, I struggled and struggled and couldn't find a :3 for the life of me. Can anyone else see one?

Malc, what on earth was your third word for "noisy"?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:22

Which evens things out to 1:1

Which means I need a volunteer from each side to lead their side into the final.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:22

Poor effort lads

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

I really struggled to find even :2s for most of the blue words. "Grace", "limo", "compound" and "whale" were all tricky. I almost played ambroxen:2 (synthetic compound used in place of ambergris) but it felt a bit Google-heavy. I was very pleased with tyres:2. There was no way I could not play Singham once I realised it was an option, of course. Fortunately no-one got hung up on "pistol"... Chronology:2 was a little bit of a punt but I was wary of most clues for "post" overlapping with "mail" (which was red.)

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:26

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

So this was my grid.

Despite "film" being a huge gift, I struggled and struggled and couldn't find a :3 for the life of me. Can anyone else see one?

Malc, what on earth was your third word for "noisy"?

I'm guessing Bolt as in Thunderbolt

And yeah, was a horrible grid. Most 3's were sabotaged by the post/mail similarity. 2's were hard enough.

The only one I did think of was "High Society" = grace (Grace Kelly)/film( A film what Mrs Kelly did appear in)/limo (something you tend to drive around in as high society). But it did have some potential others (theatre, maybe) and the possibility noone else would know/think of the film. (which given I'm about the least film savvy person, i'd hope was not the case). And that it may be objected to as two words. Natch.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Malc, what on earth was your third word for "noisy"?

Must have been bolt, assuming in the context of lightning bolt. Which doesn't really make any sound.

Valley must have been the other triangle one, which I can see.

Was there another one for letterbox, or were we meant to just revisit the earlier clues?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:29

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Chronology:2 was a little bit of a punt but I was wary of most clues for "post" overlapping with "mail" (which was red.)

Yeah, I had no idea where you were going with that when you posted it. I had to check the grid I'd sent out to make sure I hadn't made a horrible error, as I couldn't figure it out even knowing your word list.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:30

Cap'n Gingerbeard wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Malc, what on earth was your third word for "noisy"?

Must have been bolt, assuming in the context of lightning bolt. Which doesn't really make any sound.

Valley must have been the other triangle one, which I can see.

rWas there another one for letterbox, or were we meant to just revisit the earlier clues?

Revisit, else it would've been letterbox: 2, I'd have thought.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:31

Mr Dave wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Chronology:2 was a little bit of a punt but I was wary of most clues for "post" overlapping with "mail" (which was red.)

Yeah, I had no idea where you were going with that when you posted it. I had to check the grid I'd sent out to make sure I hadn't made a horrible error, as I couldn't figure it out even knowing your word list.

Yeah, that was a good clue.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Mr Dave wrote:

The only one I did think of was "High Society" = grace (Grace Kelly)/film( A film what Mrs Kelly did appear in)/limo (something you tend to drive around in as high society). But it did have some potential others (theatre, maybe) and the possibility noone else would know/think of the film. (which given I'm about the least film savvy person, i'd hope was not the case). And that it may be objected to as two words. Natch.

That's pretty good. I had a few ideas around stuff like sophistication for limo/grace, but the presence of theatre and maybe even wine were always in the way.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Cap'n Gingerbeard wrote:

I think my vote on a third has to go to whale. It's a bit tenuous, but less so than school or theatre, I think

This was where Team Blue won, I think. If whale hadn't been flipped here I'd have really struggled.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 16:47

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

The only one I did think of was "High Society" = grace (Grace Kelly)/film( A film what Mrs Kelly did appear in)/limo (something you tend to drive around in as high society). But it did have some potential others (theatre, maybe) and the possibility noone else would know/think of the film. (which given I'm about the least film savvy person, i'd hope was not the case). And that it may be objected to as two words. Natch.

That's pretty good. I had a few ideas around stuff like sophistication for limo/grace, but the presence of theatre and maybe even wine were always in the way.

Yeah. It's ok to a degree to hit a grey early, so long as it's by far the weakest answer and so the last. It just gives your team another try later rather than passing.

When the potential miss is another colour... a slightly different matter. But you can always hope they remove the ambiguity before you use the clue. (I thought of "shot" for pistol/bolt/mail. But clearly film would need to be removed by the other team if it's to be a sensible clue.

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 17:05

Thunderbolt is what i was hoping for. You should have listened to jazzy. I did consider that whale, theatre and film might distract from bolt, but I thought that bolt was louder than all of those.

As for triangular, I did want to go for v-shaped, but it was deemed to be effectively two words. And yeah. I was hoping the fact that I went for unlimited, and there were two clues left over from before would point to that.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Yeah, thought that was where you were going. That's one of the problems with unlimited, I guess - we didn't know whether there were more things that applied to letterbox.

Fun! Who's captain for round 3?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 17:30

Cap'n Gingerbeard wrote:

Yeah, thought that was where you were going. That's one of the problems with unlimited, I guess - we didn't know whether there were more things that applied to letterbox.

Fun! Who's captain for round 3?

I'm waiting for volunteers. And then foisting it upon the most chatty person who hasn't been captain should I not get any volunteers. I hope I do, as I don't want to go to the effort of finding the most chatty persons.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Happy to volunteer, I figure past gaming history shows that my brain is a little bit more esoteric than most when it comes to complex clues, so this could be amusing

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2015 18:17

Trooper wrote:

Happy to volunteer, I figure past gaming history shows that my brain is a little bit more esoteric than most when it comes to complex clues, so this could be amusing

Ok. I ecpect at least two secret roles in play.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

My first clue will be a 7

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843