Regular Run of the Mill NO LIST Codenames!

Good game.

You guys did eventually guess right that my intended fourth word for picket was Staff, but when you locked in on Screen I rolled with it.

I think I was going with Airport, capitalized, for Bermuda/Phoenix. Had to pick a *destination* word that didn't hit beach. But I think it should have worked.

Strike
Phoenix
Wall
March
Screen
Staff
Bermuda
Head
Date
Face
Horseshoe
Vet
Dice
Agent
Disease
Buck
Scientist
Pyramid
Beach
Row
Tail
Hospital
Heart
Pitch
Mouth

this was a tough board for me filled with blockers

had to go for the risky tick+Cage combo

Yea you did as well as you could have with only 2 turns, we got a lot of the words but yea, just too much ground to cover with only 2 clues and blockers

IBD v D1iab

Odd and I’m red

Ace
Buffalo
Cloak
Cycle
Dressing
Fever
Frog
Garden
Mug
Night
Orange
Organ
Pea
Poison
Quarter
Rat
Ruler
Sherlock
Shoot
Ski
Spell
Stable
Tap
Vacuum
Whip

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D1iab’s blue

nickel - 2

Buffalo and Quarter

sounds good

Buffalo
Quarter
Pass

nickel - 2

Ace
Cloak
Cycle
Dressing
Fever
Frog
Garden
Mug
Night
Orange
Organ
Pea
Poison
Rat
Ruler
Sherlock
Shoot
Ski
Spell
Stable
Tap
Vacuum
Whip

Buffalo
Quarter

ballroom - 4

Night Tap Organ...Dressing?

dressing really means stuffing as a food item

but dressing up is something you do for the ballroom, so I can get down with dressing

night for sure
organ seems decent
ruler for sure; palaces and their ballrooms

tap for tap dance? meh you don't really tap dance in a ballroom; not bad but don't love it

must guesses:
ruler
organ

after that:
night
dressing

I think

I'd prefer to get the dancy/party stuff out of the way first

Don't really view ruler as a mustguess, like sure I can see some connection, but you wouldn't think Trump > ballroom really so it's more a 2stepper, a little stronger but to me Tap is a must. Tap dance is totally a thing and why would we be getting this clue if it's not for the dancing

I mean the only context you mostly ever hear about ballrooms is for palaces/white house/disney/etc. so ruler seems to hit it pretty hard

night/tap/organ/dressing would just be dance/party type clue

ballroom evokes ruler on purpose imo

I mean...idk what evokes dance/party much more than ballroom, makes me think of an event

There's a ballroom in the game clue, I mean it's really...for dancing, if it's some rich people only clue could have been gala or something idk

Let's see what DZ says

princes don't have galas; they have balls in their ballroom

if he just clued dance or party then you'd get the 4 you want to guess...why did he clue ballroom instead?

Fever is a blocker for both, mug could block party, some other stuff in the way too

On a dance clue we don't really guess night or dressing(not saying this is right over ruler, I could be swayed here) but gotta be organ night tap first

i'm not convinced that anybody tap dances in a ballroom

you do many types of dances there, but not really tap dancing

in fact, tap is a blocker for cluing dance/party so could be one of the reasons it's ballroom; not a big fan of tap and it's 2-step connection of ballroom->dance->tap dance

You dance in a ballroom, there is no other dance word up there. Tap is the reason it is a "dancing" room, otherwise could have been variety of other stuff or rooms

that's a good point

ok, i'm good with tap, ruler, organ, dressing

balls are often at night but don't have to be; I think dressing up for them is more of a component of ballroom than just 'night'

ballrooms evoke older days so organ is good plus for music even if modern ballrooms prolly don't use an organ anymore

let's see what Zeus thinks about the options