Codenames 18

[pjabrony]

CLOAK	HAWK	MOON	DWARF	BOX
TRAIN	MOUNT	AGENT	MAPLE	PART
TELESCOPE	COURT	TRIANGLE	BALL	WITCH
ROW	VET	COPPER	PAN	ATLANTIS
TABLET	FAIR	ANGEL	GENIUS	LIMOUSINE

Equilateral 2

[Azoth]

Well that was lucky.

So, TRIANGLE, obviously. But I can't see a clear connection to any other word. Maybe MOUNT, because mountains on maps are often represented by small equilateral triangles? There are other ways to clue TRIANGLE and MOUNT (Peak?), but pjabrony might have been trying to avoid HAWK or something.

As for Charon, I'm now leaning more towards AGENT than DWARF. I suppose it could be both of them.

[sunrise089]

Point to Triangle

[Dp101]

Triangle is red

[DaveV]

Triangle was obvious, I'm struggling for a second.

A COURT can refer to a courtyard, which could be equilateral.
All lines equal = FAIR?
Dyslexic reading of ANGEL?
A BOX can be equilateral.
WITCHes use equilateral pentagrams.

Maybe we should go back to Charon. DWARF is looking a lot better now.

[sunrise089]

Agree on dwarf.

For Equilateral I didn't see anything else obvious either. I had...

*court - perhaps some type has triangular lines? Baseball (field not a court) is an equilateral diamond.
*ball - same idea, I don't know if the curves in a sphere can count as equilateral as well
*genius - did Euclid some up with the term, or is it too basic?
*box - some boxes are cubical

[Azoth]

Out of all the options, I think I like FAIR best. Equilateral = fair triangle.
It's what you'd think of cluing if you had those exact words, because it works as a definition.

But we can start with:

Point to DWARF

[Dp101]

Dwarf is red

[DaveV]

I hadn't thought of Court as in playing field, e.g. tennis court, but that's a good argument. I'm not keen on Ball, although a soccer ball is covered with equilateral shapes. I'm also not enthusiastic about Genius, since I think the blue team had a plausible argument for that being an electronics word.

For the last Charon word, I'm kind of stumped. Agent is possible, so is Court again (Charon being a member of the court of Hades).

[Azoth]

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that it has to be FAIR.
Two-word clues allow you to be very specific - so if we work backwards, and try to imagine how we would clue the words:

It can't be GENIUS, because if you had to clue TRIANGLE/GENIUS, you'd just name a genius. Pythagoras 2 or Euclid 2.
Likewise, there are simpler ways to clue TRIANGLE/BALL (Billiards?) and TRIANGLE/BOX (Toblerone?)
I'm not sure how I'd clue TRIANGLE/COURT, but TRIANGLE/FAIR immediately suggests the very specific word Equilateral. A triangle equal on all sides.
If we're being asked to pick something that contains equilateral triangles, then there are too many options: BALL/BOX/COURT.
So it's more likely that pjabrony is asking us to make a connection with the definition itself, which leaves only one possibility: FAIR.