Codenames 38

[sunrise089]

*Cell - Grounding someone turns their room/home into one
*Horseshow - you throw them to the ground in the game, so they're literally grounded
*Date - one might not be able to go on their date due to being grounded. This connection isn't strong directly but I like the kid/teenager tie-in.
*Bridge - bridges are anchored to the ground
*Tail - planes get grounded due to weather, and a person grounded 'sits on their tail' in their room
*Point - someone grounded is forced to stay in a fixed point

I only really like Cell here. Does anyone see any electrical connection words to tie in to that definition?

[shallow_thought]

I guess I'll post my rough notes, but I'm going to take another pass at this tomorrow morning before reading spoilers. After coffee.

Are PLATE and DIAMOND linked via baseball? Is Grounded a term? Help us, Americans!

Is a circuit Grounded at an earth POINT?

Is GROUNDED an engineering term when building a bridge?

You might grind a DIAMOND or the lens of a TELESCOPE, which has Ground as the past tense? But definitely not Grounded.

[pindicator]

@sunrise

I'm wary of CELL because of that ambitious autopsy clue

[sunrise089]

pindicator, you’re right. I was in a hurry and didn’t compare to Blue’s word.

@shallow - good catch (ha!) on baseball. You definitely say one Grounded Out at the Plate on the ‘ole baseball Diamond.

[DaveV]

Lewwyn

[Lewwyn]

Lewwyn

[Azoth]

Tough clue. Let's consider the different meanings of Grounded and the words associated with them.

1. connected/anchored to the ground: BRIDGE, HORSESHOE
2. as above, but specifically for electric devices: POINT, PLATE
3. restricted/incapable of flight: TAIL
4. colloquial, confined to your home/room: CELL, DATE
5. even-tempered: (no words)
6. baseball expression?: PLATE, DIAMOND

Grounded does not have the same meaning as underground/buried/burrowing and does not derive from the verb grind, so I think we should ignore those connections.

Where does that leave us? I think the links to TAIL and DATE are too weak. I also think that if we were primarily supposed to think of teens stuck at home, or a baseball game, we would have been given a more specific clue. So I'm leaning towards BRIDGE/POINT/PLATE.

Except that I think there's a decent chance that PLATE (along with CELL) is an Autopsy word. So I'm inclined to start with POINT -> BRIDGE. Not very confident on that; I could be completely off here!

[shallow_thought]

Sleeping on it didn't give a lot of insight, I'm afraid. I think Azoth's analysis covers the categories nicely. I'd not caught the teenager possibility, and while I'd thought of Grounded aircraft couldn't see any actual words (same for "even-tempered").

I also feel that DATE, TAIL, are weak links, along with HORSESHOE in my case. I'm also not fond of CELL. Being Grounded usually means being restricted to ones house during free time ... it's not quite a CELL to me; plus there is the autopsy risk. I also feel that BRIDGE + HORSESHOE would have been linked to something else via arches rather than forced together here.

So I would go BRIDGE > POINT > PLATE [ > DIAMOND], basing that mostly on the engineering and electrical links, with baseball as a backup.

Everyone has mentioned BRIDGE, while Pindicator didn't list POINT. So ...

Point to BRIDGE

[WarriorKnight]

BRIDGE is red

[Azoth]

In the interest of keeping this moving:

Point to POINT