[Lurker] Codename 19's lurker thread

[T-hawk]

Canaveral could very well be for Jet. There is another NASA department called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that builds many of the spacecraft launched from Canaveral. I don't know if anyone on the team knows that, though.

[rho21]

rho is one of few around here to consistently get this right.  When you're unsure about a guess, take it.

I think that only really applies when you have a guess between two or more options. If there's just one word you're considering but you don't really like it, it's probably better to wait and see how many the next clue is for. This is particularly true when the opponents need 3 words, say, and hitting one of theirs makes it massively more likely they will win on their turn.

It did occur to me at the time (given the precise situation) that we could have said something like:
If it's Mexico, give us a 2-clue next time.
If it's Embassy, give us an unlimited clue next time (unlimited has to be two anyway).
If it's neither, give us a 3-clue next time.

This felt a little bit against the spirit of the rules to me though, so I just went ahead and made the guess. Any views on this tactic?

[AdrienIer]

OMG a 7 clue !

Let's see, bow + fence + fan + racket + horseshoe + bar + parachute makes 7. Nice.

[T-hawk]

It did occur to me at the time (given the precise situation) that we could have said something like:
If it's Mexico, give us a 2-clue next time.
If it's Embassy, give us an unlimited clue next time (unlimited has to be two anyway).
If it's neither, give us a 3-clue next time.

My RL group does the first one of those all the time.  It seems okay to me because that's isomorphic to simply "we want to guess Mexico next" and the spymaster can infer to supply a 2 clue.  But we say it out loud just in case the spymaster isn't paying enough attention.

I agree the latter two feel over the line.  The problem is conveying information from the number.  Cluing for more words than exist on the board has to be forbidden, since there's no reason to do that other than to convey extra information by the number, which is already illegal.  If the third case there is illegal, then the second case there is rendered moot as it doesn't distinguish from the third case or anything that hasn't already been said by the first.

Consider the ultimate result of allowing overbidding: you could just encode the solution to the entire board as a 25-bit binary number!

[Ichabod]

Mercury has to be one of the Monty words, referring to the Civ 6 incarnation of Monty (luxury related agenda, mercury is a new luxury in 6).

[AdrienIer]

Does anyone on blue team play civ 6 besides Dp ?

[Ichabod]

Mercury was the assassin.

[rho21]

Cluing for more words than exist on the board has to be forbidden, since there's no reason to do that other than to convey extra information by the number, which is already illegal.  If the third case there is illegal, then the second case there is rendered moot as it doesn't distinguish from the third case or anything that hasn't already been said by the first.

There were three words left, with one of those unguessed from a previous clue, so a 3-clue wasn't illegal.