Yeah, my board was a mess of things that don't link and blue had a huge list that did. Autopsy just lined up too much of everything. I originally saw Frankenstein for blue to link Arm + Eye + Knife + Lab + Wake, but that could run into Genius the assassin, but figured Brick could come up with some similar solution and he did.
Olympics 3 = Gold + Ring + Stadium. That was a simple straightforward clue and you guys almost way overthought it, but Sunrise correctly got things on track (and not at all his first time doing that for me!) Yeah, I'm from New York and never heard of the Olympics Range in Washington state. I just knew that Washington both the state and the city never had any connection with the Olympics sporting event so it was a safe clue. I went with the plural to stay on the event itself, not to indicate other meanings! I didn't do the singular Olympic as I thought that could be interpreted as a more figurative adjective, I was thinking Arm for an athlete.
After the big Autopsy clue, I expected blue to clean up whatever they missed and win in three turns total, so I had to stretch and gamble.
Grounded 3 was intended to hit Bridge + Horseshoe + Mouse. I wanted to give that triple because I had a perfect clue set up for the last two remaining after that. I didn't quite realize how many possible meanings it had. I was going for "things physically on the ground" and couldn't think of any better way to say that. Just Ground, or Earth, was too simple with too many other meanings. Soil wasn't strong enough. Groundbound didn't seem like a word. Earthbound would work better... except that a gaming audience like this would have someone interpret that as the SNES game and go off the rails.
What didn't happen: the perfect clue I had set up to come after that was Codenames 2 = Spy + Point. I so wanted to use that.
You hit Point from Grounded by pure luck, I didn't intend or see that at all. Meanwhile blue gifted us Root, although I could have covered that with Grounded 4 anyway.
So my last triple was Spy + Mouse + Horseshoe. Evasive was a strong way to link the first two, and could include a glimmer of hope that you might link the intersection of that and Grounded to a skittish horse, although yeah Tail was just as good from a guesser's point of view. I was just hoping nobody would link Evasive to the current Washington administration, either that someone had seen my political opinions in that thread (favorable to that) or you'd discount it since you already rejected it for the Olympics clue.
Random thoughts; I wanted to clue Belichick 3 = Stadium + Ring + Spy, which is super clever and Sunrise is sportsy enough to know it all, except that would also hit Genius! Also wanted to do Peyton (Manning) for Horseshoe + Ring + Stadium, but that's even worse to hit both Genius and Arm. My board was just really hard to find any triples at all after Olympics. Spy was hard to bring in for much of anything, I thought of Romulan 2 = Bridge + Spy, but that didn't link to anything else. For Spy + Mouse, I know there's a Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective, but I couldn't remember the character's name, and afterwards looked it up and it's Basil which wouldn't have helped at all. Ringer = Horseshoe + Point would have been a cute clue but also didn't link to anything else.
And yeah, I changed the avatar after shallow's confusion about sunrise's not being confused about the colors. Figured I'm on red team for both this game and the election so why not have some fun with it.
Olympics 3 = Gold + Ring + Stadium. That was a simple straightforward clue and you guys almost way overthought it, but Sunrise correctly got things on track (and not at all his first time doing that for me!) Yeah, I'm from New York and never heard of the Olympics Range in Washington state. I just knew that Washington both the state and the city never had any connection with the Olympics sporting event so it was a safe clue. I went with the plural to stay on the event itself, not to indicate other meanings! I didn't do the singular Olympic as I thought that could be interpreted as a more figurative adjective, I was thinking Arm for an athlete.
After the big Autopsy clue, I expected blue to clean up whatever they missed and win in three turns total, so I had to stretch and gamble.
Grounded 3 was intended to hit Bridge + Horseshoe + Mouse. I wanted to give that triple because I had a perfect clue set up for the last two remaining after that. I didn't quite realize how many possible meanings it had. I was going for "things physically on the ground" and couldn't think of any better way to say that. Just Ground, or Earth, was too simple with too many other meanings. Soil wasn't strong enough. Groundbound didn't seem like a word. Earthbound would work better... except that a gaming audience like this would have someone interpret that as the SNES game and go off the rails.
What didn't happen: the perfect clue I had set up to come after that was Codenames 2 = Spy + Point. I so wanted to use that.
You hit Point from Grounded by pure luck, I didn't intend or see that at all. Meanwhile blue gifted us Root, although I could have covered that with Grounded 4 anyway.
So my last triple was Spy + Mouse + Horseshoe. Evasive was a strong way to link the first two, and could include a glimmer of hope that you might link the intersection of that and Grounded to a skittish horse, although yeah Tail was just as good from a guesser's point of view. I was just hoping nobody would link Evasive to the current Washington administration, either that someone had seen my political opinions in that thread (favorable to that) or you'd discount it since you already rejected it for the Olympics clue.
Random thoughts; I wanted to clue Belichick 3 = Stadium + Ring + Spy, which is super clever and Sunrise is sportsy enough to know it all, except that would also hit Genius! Also wanted to do Peyton (Manning) for Horseshoe + Ring + Stadium, but that's even worse to hit both Genius and Arm. My board was just really hard to find any triples at all after Olympics. Spy was hard to bring in for much of anything, I thought of Romulan 2 = Bridge + Spy, but that didn't link to anything else. For Spy + Mouse, I know there's a Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective, but I couldn't remember the character's name, and afterwards looked it up and it's Basil which wouldn't have helped at all. Ringer = Horseshoe + Point would have been a cute clue but also didn't link to anything else.
And yeah, I changed the avatar after shallow's confusion about sunrise's not being confused about the colors. Figured I'm on red team for both this game and the election so why not have some fun with it.
I made that clue early in the morning, that is my excuse. I was thinking when you are stargazing with a telescope, you use your arm to move it and your eye to look into it. I definitely should have made that just a 2 clue. I was also specifically trying to stay away from Astronomer, because of Genius. Make you think "Oh, why didn't he just say Astronomer? Maybe he wanted us to avoid Genius....."
