Codenames 38

[JR4]

Net is red
Wave is red

Red team wins!

[Lewwyn]

GG guys! a 3 round victory is nearly impossible to beat. Well played.

[T-hawk]

Yeah, that was an easy board.  Azoth found just the right clues and we did it perfectly in teasing out the subtle lines of logic there.

[DaveV]

Yeah, eight words in two rounds is tough to pull off.

[BRickAstley]

JR4 I had to delete your last post, something in them was screwing up the thread view dramatically.

[shallow_thought]

Azoth found just the right clues

Yep, very nice work.

[JR4]

Yes, there is only that much that can be done when the other team gets a perfect 4+3+2 round.

I think that the deciding point came already in the very first clue. Skies is quite risky and could easily have led to Antarctica instead of Canada. As the reds correctly guessed that Canada was ever so slightly stronger, we were already in trouble. I decided to take a risk and go for Cold 4 (basically all the dangerous cold words were removed from the board already). ANTARCTICA was super obvious. I was almost certain that you`d guess SATURN next but DEATH was an acceptable grey. TAP is certainly a stretch and normally I`d go for a 3 clue in that position.

Azoth then again made a good clue, and there was no doubt that he`d manage to clue WAVE and NET easily at the end. So, I decided on a big gamble. The last Valhalla word was actually.. CENTAUR. I hoped that the team would at least discuss the mythological connection but it`s definitely weak. 

So, good game everyone and congrats to the reds.

[JR4]

JR4 I had to delete your last post, something in them was screwing up the thread view dramatically.

No problem. I`m not sure what happened there.

[Dark Savant]

GG!  

Also sorry, was out of action for a day.

I think we still did pretty well in that last round considering what a difficult hand we were dealt.  It happens.

Still, what were the remaining blue words?

[Lewwyn]

Yes, there is only that much that can be done when the other team gets a perfect 4+3+2 round.

I think that the deciding point came already in the very first clue. Skies is quite risky and could easily have led to Antarctica instead of Canada. As the reds correctly guessed that Canada was ever so slightly stronger, we were already in trouble. I decided to take a risk and go for Cold 4 (basically all the dangerous cold words were removed from the board already). ANTARCTICA was super obvious. I was almost certain that you`d guess SATURN next but DEATH was an acceptable grey. TAP is certainly a stretch and normally I`d go for a 3 clue in that position.

Azoth then again made a good clue, and there was no doubt that he`d manage to clue WAVE and NET easily at the end. So, I decided on a big gamble. The last Valhalla word was actually.. CENTAUR. I hoped that the team would at least discuss the mythological connection but it`s definitely weak. 

So, good game everyone and congrats to the reds.

I think it was pretty close, good work