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(January 31st, 2020, 18:07)WarriorKnight Wrote: I think our last word is also the missing Hobbit word. The only other possibility our missing word could be is UNICORN, but if pja planned the clues in advance then he wouldn't include UNICORN with Hobbit if he was going to get it next turn with Pointy. We also have a Pointy word left, but RACKET fits and since it also fits with Clinton it makes sense to reclue it. So what's our strongest remaining Hobbit word? GENIUS for the Tolkien reference. Reading this last night had me laughing my head off. Absolutely everything here is wrong or misguided, and it led to the correct word. Inspector Clouseau couldn't have done better. Let's start with this: the clues I intended for Hobbit were DWARF, KIWI, UNICORN (for the fantasy setting), and...CARROT! Hobbits like to eat and grow stuff, and there's even this scene in the first LOTR movie where a prominent carrot is displayed. But I was also working with the strategy that anything you picked as an alternate should be safe gray or even blue. All I needed you to do was suggest and discuss UNICORN and CARROT and I thought you could pick them up as plus-ones. After those four I was going to clue Potomac 2 (WASHINGTON STREAM) and then Navratilova 3 (CHICK who's a GENIUS with a RACKET). Well, the strategy kinda worked, as you lucked into STREAM and then the safe gray DANCE. I did not see the path toward AMAZON, but I wasn't too upset about that, since if you took it off the board in the second turn it made my third clue even stronger without the confusion of AMAZON messing with GENIUS-CHICK. But, because you didn't even discuss CARROT, I had to re-clue it. I did a poor job on the second clue, I think. I no longer needed to clue STREAM-WASHINGTON but CARROT-WASHINGTON, and that was more difficult. I couldn't think of one on its own, but when I thought about re-cluing UNICORN I said, "Ah! Unicorn horns, carrots, and the Washington monument are all kinda the same shape!" (Rho in the lurker thread got that.) I was so proud of that revelation that I didn't give enough thought to what the actual word should have been. I wanted to go with Conical 3, but the Washington Monument is an obelisk and that was the most difficult one to get. Then I thought of Tapering 3 and rejected that to go for Pointy. In retrospect, I'm not sure the right clue wasn't Phallic 3. In any case, once again you didn't even discuss one of the words I clued, but you did think about one that I did not intend. And I'm still not sure how a racket is pointy. I also didn't realize that I was the only Yankee on the team, and had I known that I would have understood why the Washington Monument was less prominent in the team's minds. So I had to rethink again. If RACKET was going to be a strong plus-one, then I had to find a GENIUS-WASHINGTON-CHICK, and probably would have said Ginsburg 3. And that might have been worse since non-Americans are less likely to know Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. Then Red Team almost hit WASHINGTON which would have put me right back to my original plan! But since you were also considering INDIA I felt I had to clue all four missing words. And since there are no major tennis events in Washington, that meant a smart political woman who was also shady enough to be considered a racketeer, and that meant Clinton, with the side bonus of strengthening CHICK and RACKET through Bill. This came at the cost of weakening GENIUS, but I also felt that if you were down to one word, it stood up well against all the other words and you might get it through reverse-engineering the clue. You did get it, but through an entirely unintended connection with a completely different clue. (February 1st, 2020, 08:59)pjabrony Wrote:(January 31st, 2020, 18:07)WarriorKnight Wrote: I think our last word is also the missing Hobbit word. The only other possibility our missing word could be is UNICORN, but if pja planned the clues in advance then he wouldn't include UNICORN with Hobbit if he was going to get it next turn with Pointy. We also have a Pointy word left, but RACKET fits and since it also fits with Clinton it makes sense to reclue it. So what's our strongest remaining Hobbit word? GENIUS for the Tolkien reference.  Let's just say all's well that ends well and leave it at that.
Yep, the Washington Monument connection completely passed me by - but I do feel it is one that I could have got, even from this side of the pond. And that would have made the last clue so much easier ...
Oddly, I would probably have spotted who was being referenced with Ginsberg quite quickly - it's a distinctive name. Whether I would ever have thought of her as a chick I don't know - even with Clinton, chick reminded me much more of Bill than Hillary. Strange how the mind works.
It may have looked easy, but that is because it was done correctly - Brian Moore
(February 1st, 2020, 09:10)shallow_thought Wrote: Oddly, I would probably have spotted who was being referenced with Ginsberg quite quickly - it's a distinctive name. I would have thought of Allen Ginsberg before RBG.
Damn blue team. GG
"Superdeath seems to have acquired a rep for aggression somehow.
![[Image: noidea.gif]](https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/images/smilies/noidea.gif) In this game that's going to help us because he's going to go to the negotiating table with twitchy eyes and slightly too wide a grin and terrify the neighbors into favorable border agreements, one-sided tech deals and staggered NAPs."-Old Harry. PB48.
Well done, Blue. I was hoping I could knock it out in two rounds (Black 5 followed by Publish Unlimited after the team inevitably hit Olive), but most of the team understandably favored Undertaker over Cricket.
(February 1st, 2020, 12:49)Bobchillingworth Wrote: Well done, Blue. I was hoping I could knock it out in two rounds (Black 5 followed by Publish Unlimited after the team inevitably hit Olive), but most of the team understandably favored Undertaker over Cricket. i was all over cricket  But im also American so i see it as an annoying bug far more than some crappy sport
"Superdeath seems to have acquired a rep for aggression somehow.
In this game that's going to help us because he's going to go to the negotiating table with twitchy eyes and slightly too wide a grin and terrify the neighbors into favorable border agreements, one-sided tech deals and staggered NAPs."-Old Harry. PB48. (February 1st, 2020, 08:59)pjabrony Wrote: "Ah! Unicorn horns, carrots, and the Washington monument are all kinda the same shape!" (Rho in the lurker thread got that.) I am also from Europe, so perhaps having a European team wasn't completely a lost cause. But mostly pointy made me think of the Washington monument because of this webcomic: https://ozyandmillie.org/comic/ozy-and-millie-1625/ |
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