Codenames lurker thread

[Wyatan]

Not linking it to a particular game, since there's too little lurker activity to warrant it.

So, T-Hawk's game 34 CYBERWARFARE 4 has had his team floundering about the last word.

One that has only briefly been mentioned once and discarded immediately is SUB.
That would have been my topmost candidate for the missing word, though : https://www.theatlantic.com/internationa...ng/277855/

[El Grillo]

Nicely called Wyatan.

[Bobchillingworth]

What kind of degenerate sushi includes peas, mustard, and lemon???

[Ichabod]

What kind of degenerate sushi includes peas, mustard, and lemon???

That cannot be it. Why not clue vegetables or seed? That being said, I'm at a loss regarding what could be the intended words.

[Wyatan]

SALOON ?

[Bobchillingworth]

Or possibly Judge due to sushi being prepared in various cooking competition programs? Very weak connections either way.


"Homebird" was strange as well. Had to look it up; means someone who would prefer to stay at home, presumably a regional variation of the "homebody" expression I'm familiar with. Has nothing to do with actual birds, but I guess it's supposed to lead them to the two avian-related words already selected + Fence.

[Wyatan]

If TWOPENNY 0 is meant to steer the team away from a word, it seems like a clumsy clue, with many better, more direct clues available for each of the considered words.
So maybe it's actually trying to flag several words as no-go ?

BUCK and LEMON (car) ? Although I can't really see what "twopenny" would bring to the table that CHEAP wouldn't also cover.

[Bobchillingworth]

I had to look up twopenny as well to see if it meant something other than literally "two pennies". Inexplicably T-Hawk and SD appear to want to guess Buck anyway, even though the "0" clue should ward them away from it.

[sunrise089]

You guys should get back in the next game. Your interpretations were pretty spot on, especially with Wylatan actually getting the Sushi-Saloon connection!

[shallow_thought]

Please let Origami be a reference to the UNICORN from Blade Runner .

(I like the idea of having an ongoing Codenames lurker thread, BTW).