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it was makeup and ervin didn't like it high so I moved it down thinking we had common ground with him

for strike, I have exactly 7 words I like:
thunder
stamp
glove
tea
pole
guitar
oil

The only thing I was adamant about was that tea was guessed top 2 and ervin was coming around I think. Was pretty unhappy when I saw how far down it was moved.

Ok I guess you strike oil, so that seems fine. Missed that on first pass and it hits fruit also. Not sure I understand a couple of those.

strike as in hit so boxing glove
american revolution started with strike on taxes by dumping tea in the harbor (plus makeup)

pole has 3 connections:
people striking hold up a pole with sign on it
use a pole to strike things
poles from poland striking
(mostly the first connection is why)

strike a chord, strike a note, strike the strings on guitar...rock and roll playing

maybe guitar isn't as good as first glance tho

my bad on tea; I liked it best but I thought ervin wanted it lower so figured since it was makeup anyway I'd move it down

They're pretty weak imo, although obviously there's gonna be some stretches. I'd definitely be dumping tea if I didn't already like it so much, and we still need 4 fruit words lol. Apart from that and oil, I can't make any of them work even if I squint. Sack has to be one of them surely.

And I still like homer even though it's basically the opposite of strike. I totally overlooked it when we got the action clue, but it makes a lot of sense for that too.

Is there some kind of stamp strike?

Thunder/March/oil first 3 may as well bold imo

(March from action and you march on a strike)

March is like the 1 word we should be able to discount lol

oh yea...like...sorta technically we did mention other words after but it is our last bolded word so that normally takes priority over everything

idk tho how can March be wrong wtf it's been hit 2.5 times

we need 7 tho so I'm fine to start bolding words we all agree on

Thunder and Oil then let's go

we can debate the remaining whatever

Words I can't imagine not guessing:

Tea
Thunder
Oil
Sack
Homer

I'm fine with any and all of those being bolded. Order obviously doesn't matter at this point.

i'll sign off on thunder oil homer

good with pole too - thinking more of the lightning strike connection, nich 3idea equity thing doesn't hurt

Sack like sacking the qb or striking a boxing sack (bag)?

It also hits fruit so I’m ok there

Oil
Tea
Sack

Are 3 fruit + strike words

Homer for striking the ball with the bat to hit a home run? I can see that

But don’t see it for fruit so still need fruit

Pole isn’t great for fruit either

Thunder also doesn’t hit fruit

That’s 6 strike words and need 1 more, and it needs a fruit connection

Strike is clearly a hail mary clue and a couple of these words may have almost no relation to the clue at all.

I still don't like pole that much. It's weak for strike and doesn't hit the other clues at all. I'd rather guess stuff that at least relates to the other clues first and see where we land.

Fruit:

Tea
Oil
Sack
?

Action:

Kung fu
Quack?
Thunder
Homer
?

So still need 1 more fruit and 1 more action word, and that's if everything else is right lol.

All those words are must guesses imo. Someone can bold them.

I mean there is no striking with zero poles involved

Have you ever seen a strike without a sign on a pole?

I’m good with your 5 but Ervin isn’t on board yet with tea and sack, even tho those are 2/3 best fruit and strike words

Still looking for final fruit word

Only options I see for final fruit word:

Bucket - not great for strike, but maybe in gold strike you need a bucket with your shovel so somewhere to put the gold you find

Slip - slip on banana peel; works for action also; strike and slip both fighting words I guess

Stamp - strike and action means this is ours anyway; but fruit often has a stamp or sticker on it; and kids stamps are sometimes fruit smelling like they do fruit smelling markers and stickers

All seem kinda weak and kinda ok

If we need another action word then slip is ok but if not then stamp can work for all 3 prolly

Yeah but strike hits almost everything on the board depending on what definition you wanna use. Pole doesn't hit any other clue, which is mostly why I'm against it.

Stamp on a bunch of grapes?
Slip on a banana peel?

I'm really grasping here haha. It could also still be bucket.

That was an xpost. Yeah, I pretty much agree with that.

Max of 4 words can hit everything

But yeah, we can come back to it

I’m fine with your 5 so far but Ervin isn’t there yet

For your 5, sack also hits action

Sack the quarterback is an action
Sacking an employee is an action

Ervin's gonna have to get on board. We are not not guessing tea again.

He agrees with

thunder
Oil
Homer

Since order doesn’t matter

I like Homer one of the least here but it’s good enough