BEACH and TORCH are red. Red wins!
Here's what the board looked like:
Post mortem (written as I went along, so some of the tenses may be weird):
Captain 3: I was mostly worried about getting BRIDGE without getting CROSS
. I intended RULER and PLANE to go with it, so I was very happy to see you settling on them. I worried quite a bit when I discovered that BAND captain is a thing, but fortunately y'all talked yourselves out of it. Then when you pointed out TELESCOPE, I regretted not including it as Captain 4 or some such...but the suggestion that 'Mardoc would have clued Pirate if he meant telescope' made that seem like a good idea, especially since we also needed GOLD and SINK.
I don't think I regret not going for Pirate to start...wouldn't have likely gotten PLANE or BRIDGE with that, after all. Was concerned about BAND and BEACH , since those seemed like plausible Pirate words too and y'all had already considered them, which made them more likely to come up again. Another worry is that the Jolly Roger included crossed bones, and of course I couldn't afford you to guess CROSS. I didn't even realize that an X on a map is a cross.
I decided to go for this one mostly because Bob make me nervous with his Cake clue, which not only got three words red but left red with the team leaning toward BAND. It became clear that it was possible for Red to clear the board in three clues, a 4 followed by two pairs, so I needed to be able to threaten three clues as well. And I didn't have a clue in mind for my other three missing words...otherwise I'd have waited for him to fill in BAND and/or BEACH first.
Y'all ended up guessing the exact words I wanted, but the process made me...very very nervous
. Your list of possible guesses was all blue and red and black, not even grey. It worked perfectly, but it could have been a disaster. I definitely wouldn't have tried this if I wasn't under pressure, but 'we lose if I don't gamble' causes the gamble .
Fortunately at this point Bob was under substantial pressure, with five words remaining. In addition, several of his words were plausible blue, which might push his team away from guessing them. Although I can't see a good way to clue my last three words in one go, he might not realize that. If he tries to get all five, then there's a good chance of a slip that buys me the time to finish this more carefully, and hopefully takes away some red herrings in the process. What I was most afraid of is a solid 2-clue that gets BAND and two of his words, forcing me to push for a weak three-clue next round. Especially if he 2-clues in a way that leaves an obvious 2-clue remaining. So when he clued Snowshoe, I had to try something. Tiki was an obvious option once he was down to those two words, so again it was go big or lose. Unfortunately I was even less good at cluing these words than the Pirate words.
PIT ROOT FORCE
Trap? Trip? Transplant? Midichlorians (root?) Dagobah (pit?)
I was leaning toward Faceplant 3 - Roots and pits and force can all make you trip and fall. Don't want to go with trip itself because that would tempt Beach. But, I wasn't sure faceplant is a single word, it might be a phrase...so I tried to get the same effect with Tripper which I knew was a legal clue. Didn't work, and I'm not sure it could have worked.
I think all in all Bob had the easier board, but it's hard to distinguish that from Bob just being better at making clues. Going first could have been a big enough advantage if I had been smarter at making clues and didn't paint myself into a corner.
Here's what the board looked like:
| BAND | SINK | LAB | ANGEL | TAIL |
| POUND | CROSS | BRIDGE | FLUTE | BEACH |
| ROOT | GOLD | CARD | RACKET | DIAMOND |
| ROUND | TRAIN | RING | FORCE | TELESCOPE |
| PIT | FOOT | PLANE | RULER | TORCH |
Post mortem (written as I went along, so some of the tenses may be weird):
Captain 3: I was mostly worried about getting BRIDGE without getting CROSS
. I intended RULER and PLANE to go with it, so I was very happy to see you settling on them. I worried quite a bit when I discovered that BAND captain is a thing, but fortunately y'all talked yourselves out of it. Then when you pointed out TELESCOPE, I regretted not including it as Captain 4 or some such...but the suggestion that 'Mardoc would have clued Pirate if he meant telescope' made that seem like a good idea, especially since we also needed GOLD and SINK. I don't think I regret not going for Pirate to start...wouldn't have likely gotten PLANE or BRIDGE with that, after all. Was concerned about BAND and BEACH , since those seemed like plausible Pirate words too and y'all had already considered them, which made them more likely to come up again. Another worry is that the Jolly Roger included crossed bones, and of course I couldn't afford you to guess CROSS. I didn't even realize that an X on a map is a cross.
I decided to go for this one mostly because Bob make me nervous with his Cake clue, which not only got three words red but left red with the team leaning toward BAND. It became clear that it was possible for Red to clear the board in three clues, a 4 followed by two pairs, so I needed to be able to threaten three clues as well. And I didn't have a clue in mind for my other three missing words...otherwise I'd have waited for him to fill in BAND and/or BEACH first.
Y'all ended up guessing the exact words I wanted, but the process made me...very very nervous
. Your list of possible guesses was all blue and red and black, not even grey. It worked perfectly, but it could have been a disaster. I definitely wouldn't have tried this if I wasn't under pressure, but 'we lose if I don't gamble' causes the gamble .Fortunately at this point Bob was under substantial pressure, with five words remaining. In addition, several of his words were plausible blue, which might push his team away from guessing them. Although I can't see a good way to clue my last three words in one go, he might not realize that. If he tries to get all five, then there's a good chance of a slip that buys me the time to finish this more carefully, and hopefully takes away some red herrings in the process. What I was most afraid of is a solid 2-clue that gets BAND and two of his words, forcing me to push for a weak three-clue next round. Especially if he 2-clues in a way that leaves an obvious 2-clue remaining. So when he clued Snowshoe, I had to try something. Tiki was an obvious option once he was down to those two words, so again it was go big or lose. Unfortunately I was even less good at cluing these words than the Pirate words.
PIT ROOT FORCE
Trap? Trip? Transplant? Midichlorians (root?) Dagobah (pit?)
I was leaning toward Faceplant 3 - Roots and pits and force can all make you trip and fall. Don't want to go with trip itself because that would tempt Beach. But, I wasn't sure faceplant is a single word, it might be a phrase...so I tried to get the same effect with Tripper which I knew was a legal clue. Didn't work, and I'm not sure it could have worked.
I think all in all Bob had the easier board, but it's hard to distinguish that from Bob just being better at making clues. Going first could have been a big enough advantage if I had been smarter at making clues and didn't paint myself into a corner.
EitB 25 - Perpentach
Occasional mapmaker
Occasional mapmaker
