Codenames 4

[novice]

Are we allowed to look up words in online dictionaries? I haven't done that due to the no googling rule.

What was the third Artist word?

[novice]

I volunteer for spymaster, but others are welcome to it too.

[NobleHelium]

I don't know what a 0 clue is or what that's supposed to mean.

If you've never seen a word before I think it's perfectly reasonable to look it up. I wasn't sure what cuticle meant exactly and certainly had to look it up or I wouldn't have been able to do my job at all.

Incidentally if spelling bees didn't require vocabulary as a prerequisite I would have won a lot more of them during school.

[novice]

A zero clue is when you say Something 0. This means that none of your team's words is related to Something, and your team gets unlimited guesses.

A related clue type is Something unlimited, where you're cluing at least one Something word, and the team gets unlimited guesses.

[zakalwe]

So... dictionaries allowed for the final round?

[pindicator]

GG team, that was a tough board. We were mostly on the same page, up until Cigarette at least

Thoughts behind my clues:

Agent (3). Intended for Draw, Flute, and Agent. I vaguely had a thought about Sushi thinking I had heard Sushi Artist was a thing, but since that was grey I figured it would be fine if we got tripped on that momentarily.
Investigator (2). Intended for Private and Eyebrow. I was hoping someone would realize that Private Eye was the intention. Thought about making the clue Invesgiatorish to show that it wasn't a perfect fit but that isn't really a word and also I was afraid it might confuse more than help. Didn't even consider Agent until after the pick was posted.
Tracks (2). Intended for Lizard and Rut. Ruts are tracks in the ground and lizards make tracks when they walk. I chickened out on using Geico again, but this time more because I am having hard time pairing eyebrows and matchstick with anything at all.
Cigarette (2). Getting down to the end. What is a word that matches matchstick, eyebrow, and advertise? If blue had gotten cuticle off the board I would go with Maybelline (3), and hope someone realizes that I name a company because I'm going for advertise instead of just mascara for matchstick and eyebrow. But the risk is someone will pick cuticle over advertise and that will give Blue the win. If cuticle was off the board another good fit would be Model (3), but there's nothing to say to pick eyebrow and not cuticle in that.

I think clueing my team to possibly pick one of blue's words is too big of a risk - Noble would just have one word left and the easy win. So I need to bank on the fact that Noble's board is just as difficult to come up for clues as long as eyebrow is on the board. Cigarette is the best choice. Book might be another choice. People might pick Torch, but I'm hoping they'd realize I'd pick something like 'Fire' if I wanted torch. The fact that I'm not picking 'Fire' will hopefully clue them in that I don't want both words. And cigarette ties in more with advertising

[zakalwe]

Though maybe we don't need them if we switch to the official word list.

[Rowain]

Tricky words. You probably just had to bite the bullet and clue them one-by-one there at the end. Or give a 0 clue for eyebrow first.

Let's choose spymasters for the final round. Rowain?

In as long as I don't have to be spymaster

@novice IMO the spymaster should be allowed to look up but not the others

[zakalwe]

Ok, I'm happy to be the spymaster, unless Dave wants to take it.

[DaveV]

Ok, I'm happy to be the spymaster, unless Dave wants to take it.

I think we've each done it once? If so, maybe someone would be so kind as to flip a virtual coin?