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09-10-2018 , 10:24 PM

#351

Eric

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My clue was for romance languages. It occurred to me afterward that the word 'romance' derives from 'roman', which in turn derives from 'Rome', which is in Italy.

Yeah, Carl fell into something good there.

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09-10-2018 , 10:32 PM

#352

Eric

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

Me again? When are you going to learn?

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

I've gotten 2+ votes all four games without being the chameleon once.

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

Surprised I didn't get a vote or two in the game I modded.

This is a byproduct of your (apparent) strategy of going generic. That will always attract a portion of the votes. With a bigger pool of players, it woudn't surprise me if such a strat would always get the most votes.

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09-10-2018 , 10:42 PM

#353

Eric

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Originally Posted by Gadarene

We have a majority vote on eyebooger (I think the pace of these rounds is simultaneously too fast and too slow, because people usually go on their snap decisions, so mind-changing rarely occurs, but it takes many hours for the inevitable to be actualized. Not sure what the fix is.)

I don't know if the discussion phase adds anything. Or maybe it's the main thing, and the results don't matter.

Maybe the game needs to be played sans discussion, and we go with our first impression. We aren't likely to get our minds changed.

If the game were played against a background of knowing the other players' tendencies and their interaction styles, then a longer game may be better à la werewolf.

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09-10-2018 , 10:50 PM

#354

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 59,962

I think a turbo format would be better for this game, but would be much harder to pull off.

Remember when we tried to start up Codenames turbos recently? It failed miserably. Only when we started the slower games did we have any real sustained interest.

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09-10-2018 , 11:00 PM

#355

Eric

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No need to go turbo, just no need to discuss (or discuss much). Give the clues, and vote once all the clues are out.

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09-10-2018 , 11:02 PM

#356

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 59,962

Might be worth trying. Think we should finish out the series the same way we've been doing things before we make changes.

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09-10-2018 , 11:24 PM

#357

Gadarene

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Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 83,008

I'd be up for trying that

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09-11-2018 , 02:52 AM

#358

Duckburg

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Originally Posted by Gadarene

I'd be up for trying that

I wanna join next game!

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09-11-2018 , 07:50 AM

#359

Carl_Spackler

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Originally Posted by Duckburg

I wanna join next game!

I'll bump the sign up thread again after this ends. I think we want to run with exactly a group of 6 ideally, so that we have five players.

I think 4 players would be pretty bad and result in way too many ties.
6 players might be OK. At some point, the chameleon starts to get a lot of info, though.

At any rate, I'd like to give players in this game first crack at playing a new round, but we'll see what happens.

Maybe we could even play 2 games? A mirror match like we do in codenames would be interesting in this as well.

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09-11-2018 , 08:05 AM

#360

Duckburg

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Originally Posted by Carl_Spackler

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09-11-2018 , 05:40 PM

#361

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

Oops, 100% forgot about this. Will rand now.

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09-11-2018 , 05:47 PM

#362

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

PMs have been sent, hopefully correctly:

List 5: Movies

Jurassic park
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Avengers
Transformers
Toy Story
Home Alone
Titanic
ET
The Wizard of Oz
King Kong
The Matrix
Shrek
The Godfather
Finding Nemo
Avatar

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09-11-2018 , 05:50 PM

#363

Priptonite

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Spoiler:

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09-11-2018 , 07:05 PM

#364

Carl_Spackler

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Spoiler:

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09-11-2018 , 07:44 PM

#365

eyebooger

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Spoiler:

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09-11-2018 , 07:57 PM

#366

Eric

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Spoiler:

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09-11-2018 , 09:27 PM

#367

Gadarene

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Spoiler:

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09-11-2018 , 09:29 PM

#368

Gadarene

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Only one of everyone else's clues makes immediate sense to me

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09-11-2018 , 09:29 PM

#369

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

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Originally Posted by Priptonite

disaster

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Originally Posted by Carl_Spackler

king

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

Science

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Originally Posted by e_holle

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Originally Posted by Gadarene

balls

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09-11-2018 , 09:31 PM

#370

Gadarene

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Also, sorry for the delay; I was sleeping

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09-11-2018 , 09:35 PM

#371

Gadarene

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I had a different clue that I really wanted to use but it would have been utterly obvious if the chameleon looked at it the right way, so it was too much of a risk

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09-11-2018 , 09:40 PM

#372

Carl_Spackler

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I might be voting EB again

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09-11-2018 , 09:42 PM

#373

Carl_Spackler

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prip, eye, eholle all could be solid guesses that hit to some degree. Don't want to say the degree to which I think they each hit.

I have an idea about Gad's but very little confidence.

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09-11-2018 , 09:45 PM

#374

Carl_Spackler

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Originally Posted by Gadarene

I had a different clue that I really wanted to use but it would have been utterly obvious if the chameleon looked at it the right way, so it was too much of a risk

This is almost tctbc