Codenames 19

[Bobchillingworth]

The grid:

POUND	BEIJING	WAVE	CROSS	PORT
KETCHUP	POLICE	PUMPKIN	FIGHTER	MAMMOTH
LEPRECHAUN	MOSCOW	KNIFE	GRASS	PIT
ROSE	YARD	COURT	SPOT	PARK
CLOAK	BRUSH	GLOVE	LAWYER	BERRY

I think we both had fairly easy boards here, unfortunately mine especially. I was tempted to lead with Arena (6) for Court, Lawyer, Knife, Pound, Pit, and Fighter, but figured it would just be indulgent and confusing.


Biggest challenge was to come up with a way of cluing both Pound and Knife while avoiding Glove or Police... I figured Hit would work because I was obviously avoiding something like "Punch (3)" (I hadn't considered Cross, but the logic still holds). Alas I didn't even consider the "Hit the spot" connection, which in retrospect makes perfect sense. Oh well.

[WarriorKnight]

Maybe you don't need a write-up since blue team played perfectly (something to add to my spy mastering resume   ) and Bob is right that we both had fairly easy boards. But I may as well share my thoughts:

Right away I noticed that I had probably the worst word in the deck - KETCHUP - but I was very lucky I could pair it with BERRY. I'm a little disappointed that no-one realized that, yes, a Tomato is a berry, but we got the word in the end so all's good. I led with it basically to buy time to think of how I'm going to clear the other 7 words in 2 rounds, in a perfect world I'd have saved it till last.

It took me a while to come up with a pair of clues I was happy with (debating clues like National, International, Hide-and-Seek (which was legal according to Bob) and even Sandiego), but eventually I settled on Ship 3 and Tourist 4. I led with Ship because I was worried about FIGHTER but it seems that I was worrying over nothing. I still have no idea how you guys pointed to YARD without referring to shipyard, I can't say I know much about ships but I though the 3 words were pretty obvious. I laughed a lot harder then I should have when rho later bought up shipyard.  

Red gifting us SPOT was nice but didn't really change much. It let me switch from Tourist to Tourism, which IMO links stronger to PARK while not as close to SPOT and POLICE (misfiring on POLICE would've given Bob an opening to snatch the round). I was kinda concerned it could hit POUND but Bob cleared that before that was an issue. Civ6 National Parks generating Tourism was a coincidence, I've never played Civ6 so it was lucky that the team saw a connection to one of our words that I didn't.

Anyway, GG's everyone. I believe Dave is our next spymaster? If Red can decide on their next spymaster we can ask Pind for the next grid.

[WarriorKnight]

Warrior Knight is at GMT+8 (China?), which speaks against it a bit.

Australia actually. The eastern states are GMT+10 (I think anyway) so it's easy to assume that's the timezone for Australia, but West Australia shares GMT +8 with many E Asia countries.

[rho21]

I'm a little disappointed that no-one realized that, yes, a Tomato is a berry, but we got the word in the end so all's good.

(Woo, now I can look up what a berry is.)
Yep, tomatoes are berries, as are cucumbers, aubergines and bananas, but not strawberries or raspberries.  I'm not overly surprised about the confusion.

I led with it basically to buy time to think of how I'm going to clear the other 7 words in 2 rounds, in a perfect world I'd have saved it till last.

Fair enough. Glad my attempt at working out why you'd planned the (presumed) 4-clue last didn't send us down the garden path.

I still have no idea how you guys pointed to YARD without referring to shipyard, I can't say I know much about ships but I though the 3 words were pretty obvious. I laughed a lot harder then I should have when rho later bought up shipyard.  

Yep, I felt so stupid when that one clicked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(sailing) , incidentally.

National Parks generating Tourism was a coincidence, I've never played Civ6 so it was lucky that the team saw a connection to one of our words that I didn't.

Nor have I.

Anyway, well played to get us through that in 3 clues despite our best attempts to come up with silly alternatives.

[Jkaen]

Well at least we followed bob's logic of there being a reason punch wasn't clued, even if we lost. Well done all that went super fast.

With regard our next spymaster, I dont have strong feelings. I am willing if nobody else wants it

[sunrise089]

So Dave and Jkaen for round 2?

[Bobchillingworth]

Sure.

[WarriorKnight]

Cool, can someone PM Pind then?

[Jkaen]

done

[DaveV]

I just received the grid. Red team is up first.