My next clue was going to be Disc: 2 – what would the blues have said to that?
The thinking behind my clues
Creature: 3
I very nearly went with Creature: 4, but thought ANGEL might not be totally obvious and that you might lean toward FOREST instead. I then kicked myself.
Beelzebub: 4
Emboldened by how easily you'd done Creature this may have been a bit of a dumb move. I was going to go for Satan: 3 originally to get ANGEL, DEATH and hopefully SLIP (y'know, because of the fall and all that), but suddenly realised that Beelzebub, Lord Of The Flies gives a very tenuous link to STOOL (which I dreaded pairing with WASHER and SLIP). I thought you might go for AIR, but hoped that would be too much of a stretch and really couldn't see any other links. APPLE and IVORY were surprise suggestions to me, I wish you'd gone for one of them instead of AIR.
Excrement: 1
This one was designed to pull us out of the shit. With COUCH and POOL on the board I really couldn't see a way to link STOOL, SLIP and WASHER all in one, so I just hoped Zac didn't have a double for the last words. :/
Sorry guys, if I'd looked a bit closer at what Zak had to work with I'd have realised he wasn't ending on a three and should just have played Satan: 2, but for some reason I'd got Him being a Fallen Angel stuck in my head as an obvious clue .
I'll say that SLIP crossed my mind for Beelzebub, as in the Devil is waiting for you to slip in a sin. But I thought it was too much of a stretch. Should have said something, really.
I thought the word which would make sense for Lord of the Flies was PIG, didn't think of STOOL.
It was a pretty hard set of words, OH. In the end, our AIR guess really was the big decider, I think. It would be closer otherwise.
Well played, team. I was very pleased that you nailed the first three, so I was hoping you'd realize that I had already made an effort to clue orange without including apple. In general, I wasn't aiming for obvious true positives, but trying to minimize the number of potential false positives. My last clue seemed safe in that regard, as I knew you'd have to guess something.
(January 26th, 2016, 16:44)zakalwe Wrote: I had already made an effort to clue orange without including apple.
That did cross my mind, but I didn't think deeply enough: I thought something like 'well, Fruit: 2 would have gotten apple + orange, but a 3-word clue is obviously better'. Now that I look back at the grid, if Apple was ours you could have started off with something ridiculous like Branches: 5.
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