[spoilers] Codenames 16 Lurker Thread

[Molach]

I say roulette. And it is plausible that spymaster only considered human party animals and not cats and bats.

[T-hawk]

I've been coming to realize this trick: Early in the game, on a wide-open board, figure out a clue by reverse-engineering it. Instead of looking at what words might flow _from_ the spymaster's clue, look at what words flowed _to_ it, what words induced him to think of that clue in the first place.

I got Jam and Diamond right away like that. Those words would induce you to think of Pearl as a clue. Port, Bed, and Australia wouldn't.

So for Displacement, I'm calling Net Force Mass. Trying to link Net + Force is exactly what would induce you to think of Displacement as a clue. Trying to link Force + Australia wouldn't.

[Molach]

Satyr are most noted for being sex-crazy. So bed.
They are more typically Greek, not sure that alone qualifies as Europe. If Spymaster is european I'd avoid Europe.

[AdrienIer]

Did none of the players on team red took French classes ? Most people who have know that the language's signature is the accented E, which would lead them to assume Ampère was French (spoiler : he was)

[Mardoc]

Did none of the players on team red took French classes ? Most people who have know that the language's signature is the accented E, which would lead them to assume Ampère was French (spoiler : he was)

So would the fact that the vast, vast majority of scientists in the era of understanding electricity were English/French/German. And the Germans were mostly chemists, not physicists.

I mean, really, process of elimination for scientists who have things named after them: if the name isn't English, it's probably French. With a faint chance of 'rest of the world', increasing the more recent the scientist was.

[pjabrony]

I didn't even know that Ampere was a guy. I thought it was just some unit word derived from old languages like meter.

[Azoth]

I'm Canadian, so I took French all through high school, and I definitely recognized Ampere as a French name. But that didn't necessarily mean that Ampere the person was French; one reason the vast majority of scientists of the time were English/French/German was because they flocked from all across Europe to the universities and research labs of the great powers. And a Professor Croci of Italy would change his name to Professor Cross when he came to England. I was specifically thinking of Marie Curie, who did all her work on radioactivity in France, but was actually Polish. (Wikipedia says she was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska.)

But that was all an attempt to explain why we weren't clued a musical prodigy for COMPOSER/GENIUS. Once I realized it was an attempt to avoid NOTE, it all made much more sense.

[AdrienIer]

I'm Canadian, so I took French all through high school, and I definitely recognized Ampere as a French name. But that didn't necessarily mean that Ampere the person was French; one reason the vast majority of scientists of the time were English/French/German was because they flocked from all across Europe to the universities and research labs of the great powers. And a Professor Croci of Italy would change his name to Professor Cross when he came to England. I was specifically thinking of Marie Curie, who did all her work on radioactivity in France, but was actually Polish. (Wikipedia says she was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska.)

I don't know anyone other than Marie Curie who changed names as they changed country (and for Marie Curie her name only changed when she married Pierre Curie). Do you have any example ?

But that was all an attempt to explain why we weren't clued a musical prodigy for COMPOSER/GENIUS. Once I realized it was an attempt to avoid NOTE, it all made much more sense.

It was conductor though, not composer.

[Mardoc]

I didn't even know that Ampere was a guy. I thought it was just some unit word derived from old languages like meter.

Well, that's some perspective for me. Every time I start to think Codenames should be easy, we run into something like this that I consider to be obvious and you find obscure. (of course I can't give any examples the other way, if I could they'd be obvious to me too).

I'm Canadian, so I took French all through high school, and I definitely recognized Ampere as a French name. But that didn't necessarily mean that Ampere the person was French; one reason the vast majority of scientists of the time were English/French/German was because they flocked from all across Europe to the universities and research labs of the great powers. And a Professor Croci of Italy would change his name to Professor Cross when he came to England. I was specifically thinking of Marie Curie, who did all her work on radioactivity in France, but was actually Polish. (Wikipedia says she was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska.)

Maybe it's a difference in culture, because 'was actually Polish' sounds like a contradiction to me with what you said above. 'Moved to France and changed her name' = 'is French' to this American.

[pjabrony]

I didn't even know that Ampere was a guy. I thought it was just some unit word derived from old languages like meter.

Well, that's some perspective for me. Every time I start to think Codenames should be easy, we run into something like this that I consider to be obvious and you find obscure. (of course I can't give any examples the other way, if I could they'd be obvious to me too).

There are probably a lot of sports references I could make that most people here wouldn't get. I'm only half geek, on my father's side.