Codenames League - Match Thread B

Bats are scary
Lightning bolts are scary and frankensteins monster, who is also scary, has bolts in his neck
Ghosts are scary
Loch Ness monster is scary
Octopuses can be scary if they’re kraken
Scorpions are scary

I’m probably on

Ghost
Loch ness
Bat
Scorpion
Pass

Bolt
Octopus

I like those let's do it

Ghost
Loch ness
Bat
Scorpion
Pass

Bolt
Octo

Loch ness

job - 6
scary - 4

Bat
Battery
Bolt
Buffalo
Code
Crown
Drop
Fish
Octopus
Olive
Pipe
Scorpion
Shadow
Ship
State
String
Trunk
Well

Police
Lawyer
Fair
Bank

Ghost

Van
Loch ness

bump for Nich

tentacle - 2

This was our previous list:

So octopus/trunk seems pretty obvious here. Trunk is probably another job word too. Question is do we guess fish or just pass? Only upside to guessing again is if ship is ours and the others are wrong. But if that is the case then it could make next turn tricky if we don't guess fish now.

Might be best to just guess it since it won't be assassin and they are unlikely to win next turn even if it's blue.

Yeah, I think we guess Fish. Worst case it's neutral and it makes next round easier to clue

Octopus
Trunk
Fish
Autopass

I'll give d1 a bit of time to respond, but will bold for timezone reasons later on if he doesn't

Octopus
Trunk
Fish

fish

job - 6
scary - 4
tentacle - 2

Bat
Battery
Bolt
Buffalo
Code
Crown
Drop
Olive
Pipe
Scorpion
Shadow
Ship
State
String
Well

Police
Lawyer
Fair
Bank
Octopus
Trunk

Ghost

Van
Loch ness
Fish

lightbulb - unlimited

Bat Scorpion of course, Bolt good chance

I have some words in mind but curious what you think

All of these after Loch Ness. Was just a nasty blocker, but thankfully not a bad guy.

For lightbulb, that’s tough. There’s nothing sticking out that’s uniquely lightbulb, so he’s stretching the clue to hit some stuff. And I’m thinking he’s trying to win it here, so we need to guess three for lightbulb imo.

String works (pull a string to turn on a lightbulb)
Shadow kinda (lightbulb can cast a shadow when blocked)
Battery kinda (battery operated bulbs, don’t love it)
I guess code could work for electricity, but meh

What are you thinking?

we already had Ghost so only need 3 more scary, I don't think we can win here cause even with 2 lightbulb words we're only at 6

I was thinking Battery and Shadow but there are also some concerns

String hmmm....

It doesn’t matter how many scary words we need, it’s always possible that we lucked into a word of ours. So we should go for the gold until the turn ends.

A pull string for lightbulbs is very common, and it’s my number one for this clue.

I'm fine with clearing all of our back up words - we only have 3 as octo was theirs

You good to start with Bat Scorpion String?

Ah balls, I missed octopus being theirs. Yeah, we’re not winning this turn, haha. Hopefully their final three is tough. With that in mind, we should definitely tread lightly.

I’d be fine with running our list first. Those three should close out scary.

Then I’d probably be fine with just leaving lightbulb alone and leaving a list. I’m okay with not passing if you wanna go that route, but I see very little upside to it.

Bat
Scorpion
Bolt

then can decide

String
Battery

Blue x3

hmmm kind of unsure what to do here

leaving a list and passing is an option I suppose since we're gonna need another turn no matter what and we can give them less info

the order seems pretty important to that, we wanna go String/Battery or what you thinking?

Pass

String
Battery
Shadow

imo

We might not be getting another turn anyway, but there’s nothing we can do about that.

yea i just wanna give 4Donk the most help we can

like if top 2 of our list is correct that will make it the easiest, if battery is wrong for instance it can make the last clue kinda clustery

we think shadow least likely of the 3, string most?