Codenames 21

[DaveV]

AGENT	APPLE	SMUGGLER	REVOLUTION	BILL
SWITCH	SHAKESPEARE	LUCK	MOUNT	SINK
CONTRACT	DRESS	MOSCOW	HIMALAYAS	SOCK
CENTAUR	BEIJING	OPERA	CAPITAL	CIRCLE
KEY	BOOM	BERLIN	CLIFF	STRING

Globe was supposed to pick up BILL, SHAKESPEARE, and CIRCLE. I was only thinking of the "overthrow a government" definition of REVOLUTION, but that was an obvious choice in retrospect.

Tchaikovsky was intended to point to MOSCOW, CAPITAL, and BOOM. My impression is that Moscow was a cultural backwater in the mid-1800s, and he would have done most of his work and his music would have been performed in St. Petersburg.

Tirith was, as everyone guessed, pointing to CLIFF and CAPITAL. I would have had to rely on LUCK for the last guess, but since you guys were fixated on STRING, it was probably hopeless. I couldn't figure out any way to rule out string and clue cliff, capital, luck.

[Mardoc]

Ah, we were pretty far off, then. You're probably right on St. Petersburg for the era but I took Moscow not literally but instead as 'anything russian'. Which meant that capital didn't really occur to me as a Tchaikovsky thing.

So we had all of REVOLUTION, OPERA, STRING as false guesses and we weren't very close to guessing either BILL or LUCK.

At least I didn't quite push for APPLE for globe, even though it did cross my mind as fairly globe-like

Tricky board, I'm not seeing any way to clue more than two words together without diving into greys and reds as collateral.

Oh well. Straight into Codenames 22, or would people rather take a break first?

[Bobchillingworth]

Tough board for both sides. I also thought Apple was a missing Blue word, but there was no point in saying so.



I'm up for another game.

[Fenn]

Luck was a possibility for me...but only after String, which was at the top of my mind before the last round after the first two clues. Tricky board to work either either way. Tirith was an inspired choice - perhaps cluing it first thing for CLIFF-CAPITAL-CIRCLE would have gone better? That still leaves five words I don't know how one could clue together though...

I could go for another game.

[WarriorKnight]

Haha well that was an amusing round. FWIW, my unspoiled Beat impression were Apple + Boom, which I thought were both blue so I excused myself. Apple being black is hilarious.

I'm up for another game. Or if pindicator wants to play then I can create the boards.

[Lewwyn]

I got to admit that was one of the hardest boards I've had. I saw it I just about resigned myself to the loss. I could see maybe a couple 3 clues, but then I was left with words I didn't think I could even clue in pairs. Not having to deal with revolution was a blessing because I was thinking I was going to have to try to clue it with sock using boot, which felt very roulette-y.

Riding 3: Mount, Dress, Switch. I was pretty happy with this clue, I planned for centaur to be hit, but I thought this wasn't a bad start. No one got switch really tho until rho, rho you made me raise my arms in triumph you read it so right.

Next I wanted to get to pirate 3 at some point to try and get smuggler, sink and key, but Dave didn't clue boom off the bat and I knew we'd hit it so I had to think about something else.

Pitch 3: Key, Opera, Sink. I completely missed both Agent and Contract. Bob you missed one more meaning on your list of pitch definitions, a boat pitches in the sea, capsizes and sinks. But pitch is a great word with a lot of meanings. I had considered both the boat and the baseball elements for pitch so I thought sink would be clear, key you got, Opera no one mentioned, which made it crazy lucky when Dave clued Tchaikovsky.

so I'm left with smuggler and sock unclued, sink, switch and dress clued but not finished. I could not figure out how to clue smuggler and sock! Maybe valuables:2? I just couldn't be sure so I figures I'd have to clue them separately. Also of the clued words left it seemed like agent was one of the words you were very high on so I didn't want to go unlimited and make a mess.

Boat 2: Sink, Smuggler (dress). I hoped it would be clear here that by reclueing sink I would be cluing that the 3 pitch words were done and agent wasn't one of the words, leaving you to clue dress as your next lean. Rho mostly got it again. Boom really kept getting in the way. I ALMOST clued pirate over boat, but I felt that boom was still too strong a connection and that boat would be close enough while leaving boom out... little did I realize!

Beat 2: Sock, Switch. I chose to 2 clue rather than 1 clue sock because i wasn't sure if Bob still really liked agent or not and I could clue both. Surprised that JR never heard the meaning of sock: to sock = to punch, hit or beat.

GG DaveV! It was a very hard board.


I'm up for another.

I think Pin does want to play, but I'll let him chime in. Pin?

[Bobchillingworth]

Beat 2: Sock, Switch. I chose to 2 clue rather than 1 clue sock because i wasn't sure if Bob still really liked agent or not and I could clue both.

I suspect by that point most of us were convinced Agent was actually the assassin.

[sunrise089]

I’ll play another as well.

[Commodore]

Heck yeah.

[rho21]

Well played all. That really was a tough last board; glad I was on your wavelength, Lewwyn.

It's amazing how this game seems to produce a tight match almost all the time. I'm up for another.