Codenames for Suckers

marching - 3
largest - 3
television - 2

Bolt
Boom
Bug
Cook
Cricket
Engine
Eye
Fair
Fork
Kiwi
Mexico
Net
Note
Pupil
Robin
Root
Wind

Band
Boot
Soldier
Screen

Olympus
Canada
Part

Hawk

computing - 3

Bug and engine seem all right. Net maybe? Those seem to be the only three related to computers.

Maybe pupil I guess.

What am I missing that makes it computing vs computer? Is engine why?

I could see engine for computing vs computer.

I like your three. Do we want to give Kiwi a shot after that?

I don’t know, hawk being neutral has me second guessing the bird theme.

We can’t win here, so just going with the computing words and leaving kiwi at the top of the list makes sense to me.

Bug
Engine
Net
Pass
Kiwi

marching - 3
largest - 3
television - 2
computing - 3

Bolt
Boom
Cook
Cricket
Eye
Fair
Fork
Kiwi
Mexico
Net
Note
Pupil
Robin
Root
Wind

Band
Boot
Soldier
Screen

Olympus
Canada
Part
Bug

Hawk
Engine

bomb - 0

So, not boom, and we still have a TV word to guess with no further clues

Bolt
Boom - No
Cook
Cricket
Eye - perhaps? The CBS logo is kind of an eye
Fair
Fork
Kiwi
Mexico
Net - Internet TV is a thing
Note
Pupil
Robin
Root
Wind

I guess I'd go

Net
Pass
Eye

And not feel good about. Hopefully you have something more?

can't be net

net+screen is too obviously ipad/iphone/roku/appleTV/laptop/hulu/etc/etc

eye+screen would be VR, smart glasses, contacts, etc.

if he was thinking of eye for CBS then he'd just clue CBS for eye + screen

gotta be something else

Bolt - don't see it; it's a movie, not a tv show
Boom - No
Cook - cooking shows, but woulda done a show or Ramsey or something, so no
Cricket - can watch Cricket on tv; weak
Eye - no
Fair - not really
Fork - nah
Kiwi - nah
Mexico - made in Mexico? Mexican shows? seems weak and better options likely
Net - no
Pupil - nah, like eye
Robin - tv character, so maybe? not great but possibly
Root - don't see it
Wind - don't see it

not seeing much reason for television
bomb is just to get us to not guess boom
so he didn't have 5 clue to give us to get us off boom and onto other things

is anything here the opposite of bomb? we could guess that if so

not seeing anything there either

I guess Robin or Mexico or Cricket could be ok guesses?

Robin & Pass?

Eye
Net
Mexico
Cricket

as backup? I think it's useful to look at alternate clues for words, but when we're this far afield, we have to consider the possibility that he just missed a better clue, and was stuck in a bad spot needing us not to guess boom

sure

Robin
Pass

Eye
Net
Mexico
Cricket

We can remove net from the list tho

No way it’s ours given television clue and they got computing clue

marching - 3
largest - 3
television - 2
computing - 3
bomb - 0

Bolt
Boom
Cook
Cricket
Eye
Fair
Fork
Kiwi
Mexico
Net
Note
Pupil
Root
Wind

Band
Boot
Soldier
Screen
Robin

Olympus
Canada
Part
Bug

Hawk
Engine

bump

principal - 3

Net is ours. Kiwi is not.

Pupil is all I see immediately for principal. Maybe note? Does cricket have some position or other crickety thing called a principal?

Maybe note was the overlap w/ largest (like, largest monetary note, I’m making **** up).

Or maybe part was the other largest word. I forgot we were gifted that. I’d guess pupil is the other computing word.

largest - 3
Olympus
Canada
Part?

computing - 3
Bug
Net
Pupil

principal - 3
Pupil
Note?
??????

Principal root is a thing, but a bit obscure.

I like everything else you have.

Okay, so we need an eighth word. Are you proposing that it’s root?

Pupil
Net

Getting these out of the way