Codenames for Suckers

ok, so this is my team and I should be contributing with donk?

Yeah teams are me/nich/donk vs eb/IBD/xander

Back - often in the backyard; not bad
Berry - found in gardens, yup
Bomb - nah
Brick - a lot of time brick wall around garden or brick path in it; decent but not great
Buffalo - nah
Doctor - nah
Dragon - komodo dragon in the garden; weak link
Eden - lock
Flag - may fly flag in the garden, but pretty weak
Gangster - nah
Germany - have some gardens, but nah
Hollywood - see Germany
Iron - nah
Light - need light to grow plants; decent? not sure how I feel about this
Mug - nah
Pole - flag pole, poles to hang plants, poles to hang bird feeders/bird houses; decent but not great
Ring - meh
Satellite - nah
Shop - yeah
Shorts - pretty good
Smuggler - nah
Spring - pretty good
Square - kinda like brick; not sure if better, worse or same as brick
Swamp - meh
Tipi - nah

Garden is capitalized...what for?:

bomb: Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare has (cherry) bombs (this is a joke entry)
Dragon: China Garden or other Chinese restaurants with Garden in the name and dragons in the decor
Eden: Garden of Eden; probably why it's capitalized
shop: Garden in the title of some store could be another reason

feel good about:
Eden
berry
shop
spring
shorts

I like:
back
light

kinda like:
square
brick

backups:
pole
dragon
flag

you said: "Eden/back/berry/spring/square/shorts/light my favorites"

Eden, berry, spring, shorts are in my top 5 also so we agree there

back and light are in my next 2 so good there

square I have lower, but am ok with it, but I prefer shop ahead of it; and I see you posted that you have that in your 6 also now

so 5 we both have in top 6:
Eden
berry
spring
shorts
shop

then it's between:
light
back
square

I'm good with those 8 in that order, or if you want to swap light and black, that's fine

and then one of back/light is backup and square is 2nd backup and brick 3rd backup?

I think back garden is a british term for backyard, that's why i like it so much. I grew up in a house with a backyard that was always called the back garden.

bump

eden
Berry
Spring
Shorts
Shop
Back
Pass

Light
Square
Brick

Garden - 6

Back
Bomb
Brick
Buffalo
Doctor
Dragon
Flag
Gangster
Germany
Hollywood
Iron
Light
Mug
Pole
Ring
Satellite
Shop
Smuggler
Square
Swamp
Tipi

Eden
Berry
Spring

Shorts

nickel - 4

Must guess:
Buffalo (theres a version of the US $.05 piece that has a buffalo on the tail side, called a Buffalo Nickel)
Iron (obv)

Other metal-related words:
Pole
Ring

Other money-related words:
Shop
Smuggler

Is nickel a light metal?

What am I missing?

It’s not capitalized, so back probably out.

But they are eb’s favorite band, so we can think on it if you want.

My father used to work processing nickel, but that probably doesn't help us too much

I'll take your word on it for Buffalo

Yes to iron

Agree on no to back

Of your other words I prefer shop and smuggler in that order

I know that batteries are made of nickel, not poles and rings. Not seeing too much else. Don't think you'd have a brick of nickel or make a bomb using it. Don't think it's involved in any medical equipment used by doctors. Would a gangster nickel and dime someone, or something similar? Don't think so.

Also I don't know what tipi is.

Anything on light? Is it lighter weight than some other well-known metals? Any chance it fits a battery connection by being in a light bulb? Two-step connection, but still.

I don't know of it being especially light weight. Stuff light titanium or aluminium is. Only thing it's got going for it is that it's relatively low on the periodic table, but there are lighter metals even using this sense of the word.

The metal in a light bulb is traditionally tungsten.

I'd have light as a backup I guess, but it's weak for me. Seems like it should work but doesn't really for me and eb knows his chemistry.

I meant flashlight, not light bulb (for the battery connection). But yeah, we can keep it lower on the list.

Iron
Buffalo
Shop
Smuggler
Pass

Ring
Pole
Light

Garden - 6
nickel - 4

Back
Bomb
Brick
Doctor
Dragon
Flag
Gangster
Germany
Hollywood
Light
Mug
Pole
Ring
Satellite
Square
Swamp
Tipi

Eden
Berry
Spring
Smuggler

Shorts
Iron
Buffalo
Shop

Market - 0

Aren't you red?

lol me yeah

Market - 0

I'm confused, this would be a good clue to get us away from shop but shop is already revealed blue.

it is capitalised so maybe it's a reference to back

i legit just bought a phone from a site called Back Market so maybe he's trying to get us away from that and maybe square? is a market square a thing?

huh...that made more sense as a clue before I saw shop was already guessed and revealed...

here is what's left of our list:
Back - back market? not really thinking this is a market hit

Light - not really
Square - market in the square? why not just rectangle?
Brick - stores are often brick; a brick market? meh

I'm not sure why we got a 0 clue here for Market

given the relevence is not obvious i'm assuming this clue is to get us away from 2 or more of our list

my thoughts are back and square.

IDK if its just a UK site or what but backmarket is a site where you can buy used electronics, i've seen ads for it on the tube and like i said have used it for my phone. (there is a possibility that I'm completely off the deep end here and pog is currently facepalming)

idk if market square is a thing but it feels super familiar in a way that light and brick market do not

i can't think of an obvious word that pog could have used to connect specifically square and back so that's where I'm at with it.