Haha sure, then you’ll just bold whatever the next word on your waitress list was.

This isn’t about cap, this is about words being regarded as makeup words even when there are no words to be made up.

Ah; perhaps a good line to take is to make it up if other team wins if we pass but if they only have 2-3 words like this game then just pass if you got all the words

The problem is we spurs a lot; so no line is perfect, which is why I default to the non-agreement deduction-based n-1 guess

But I see the merit in ignoring n-1 if other team is far behind (point of n-1 is you we lose if pass so you guess next word) and the makeup word is likely not ours since we likely got all the obvious ones for prior clue and didn’t spurs anything

It’s about this. It’s the assumption that you knew the list better than I did. Rather than acknowledging that I had clued the words I had intended to clue for, an endgame convention we use superseded my clue and made cap an auto-bold.

I’m arguing that is not an optimal play.

But I’m not interested in getting into an n-1 debate. I don’t need to be convinced if it’s merit. I’d just like to know how to keep my team from guessing an extra word when no makeups are needed. Changing the order of clues is convenient on paper, but there have been plenty of times where the discussion goes “yeah, these two are locks, but let’s list another word or two just because we should have a list.” How tf is a spymaster supposed to plan for those often peripheral, sometimes completely random list words?

Sorry, long-winded x-post

Yeah there is no perfect answer that works for everything

All I can say is I’ll consider passing here in the future if other team only has 3 and doesn’t have obvious path to catch up in one turn

I like this

I didn't know it was a word in an English dictionary.

Never heard of the instrument. Was worth a shot. Tough board, gg.

Interestingly merriam-webster.com has cajón listed, but the drum is not one of the definitions. I was good with it.

Looks like this round is nich/eb

bump

Apple
Back
Bell
Bermuda
Boot
Canada
Compound
Contract
Fighter
Film
Genius
Grace
Hood
Ice cream
Log
Maple
Marble
Mug
Queen
Skyscraper
Switch
Torch
Turkey
Van
Web

if even i'm red

i'm up

Toronto - 3

Lots of potential there

Canada obv

Skyscraper, queen, maple after that, not sure what I like better

Film, too
Lots of movies made here, and nich would know that

Bump

Bump for IBD

Canada (obv)
Maple (Leafs)
Skyscraper (CN Tower)

Would be mine I think. Queen as backup is fine. I get movie, and yeah Toronto stands in for a lot of other cities in film. But it’s a distant 5th for me.

Sorry, at Expo West this week

Yeah, I didn't think of the maple leafs connection (somehow? Wtf?), but that is a good tiebreaker over queen I think

Canada
Maple
Skyscraper
Pass
Queen
Film

No prob

Just realized I hadn’t said your name in first bump and you may not have realized it’s on you

Red x3

Toronto - 3

Apple
Back
Bell
Bermuda
Boot
Compound
Contract
Fighter
Film
Genius
Grace
Hood
Ice cream
Log
Marble
Mug
Queen
Switch
Torch
Turkey
Van
Web

Canada
Maple
Skyscraper