Forced Unlimited Guessing Codenames

That’s alphabetical.

And maybe novel as the forced guess given that it’s a story.

Looks perfect to me (ive never seen it)

Then bold it? lol

China
Plot
Captain
Kid
Kung fu
Dragon
Novel

dragon

SPAM - 4
Mulan - 6

Astronaut
Christmas
Cold
Comet
Cycle
Link
Maracas
Marathon
Mexico
Novel
Plane
Salsa
Sign
Stream
Suit

Tin
Hamburger
Cheese

Stable
China
Plot
Captain
Kid
Kung fu

Dragon

**** yeah

Story - 4

Yo

They only need 2, so not the best situation.

We need 6 and Ervin clued for 4.

I'm not sure we have any choice but to assume that Cold and Salsa are both correct and then try to get the 4 for this one.

Christmas and Novel are must-guesses, and I'll fight pretty hard for Cycle. Last one could be ~anything to me.

Christmas is a lock
Novel too
Stream?

Cold for SPAM imo

not sure on the last one

Christmas
Novel
Cold

I'm not for or against cycle, but I don't get it?

Stream
Cycle
Salsa?

Red
Red
Neutral

Cycle as in a story cycle (a collection that is technically stand-alone, but also connected).

Only example I can think of right now is Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I'm sure there are better, more famous examples, but it's definitely a thing.

I wanna watch Blue finish it out but it's safe to say we could get spotted another turn right now and absolutely 0% chance to win :p

Welp. Probably doesn't matter now.

SPAM - 4
Mulan - 6
Story - 4

Astronaut
Comet
Cycle
Link
Maracas
Marathon
Mexico
Plane
Salsa
Sign
Stream
Suit

Tin
Hamburger
Cheese
Christmas
Novel

Stable
China
Plot
Captain
Kid
Kung fu

Dragon
Cold

bike - 0

wat

Not cycle

I’m on stream as the last Mulan word. I also can’t connect it to bike, which helps. We also didn’t mention it in round one, which didn’t help Nich because it left him on the hook to reclue in some way.

All I can figure is that our last two words have a really gnarly batch of blockers, so the safest spot here was a 0-clue.

Cycle was never under consideration, so bike seems like a weird clue, but there are other words that could relate to bike via parts, transportation methods, etc. that should all be avoided. I’ll take a deeper look in a bit.

Astronaut - lots of astronaut stories
Comet - isn’t there an old school bike branded comet?
Cycle - bike obv
Link - bike chain
Maracas
Marathon - bike
Mexico
Plane - mode of transportation
Salsa - food, maybe hits spam
Sign - road signs indicating bike lanes
Stream - Mulan
Suit - those skin tight biking suits

Stream + Mexico = Coco (Pixar film) /Grande (Rio Grande river)
Stream + Maracas = Coco / Spotify?

Maracas and Mexico are the only words I can’t connect to any of the clues given thus far.

I really don’t love bolding stream when it’s next on their list and they still need four words to our two. This is such a weird clue with two words left, I would’ve much preferred Nich had just clued for the final word and tasked us with figuring out the last Mulan word.

But, as it stands, I guess I’m on Stream/Maracas. It’s a brutal combo, and this clue seems to be communicating that fact.

Bump

Any thoughts, DZ?

yh I have no idea why we got bike Clued.

I think stream + astronaut is harder than stream + the other ones you mentioned? They seem so obvious.

Let's try stream? Then I think I might prefer astronaut but barely.