blue

Yeah, almost certainly pilot after this.

But I think passing is best. No reason to give red more info and I cant win this turn.

Attack - 3
mountainous - 2
graph - 2
termite - 2
Lincoln - 4
wings - 2

Australia
Aztec
Buffalo
Hand
Novel
Pilot
Screen
Server
Shadow
Stock
Telescope

Heart
Shark
India
Line
Pistol
Theater

Knife
Olympus
Pyramid
Tick
Trunk
Dragon

Ruler
Ninja

Stargazer Unlimited

telescope

The rest are tricky; I need 2 more Lincoln and 1 attack (unless that’s pistol) and 1 graph, which could be overlapping with Lincoln or not


I like stock for graph but then why not chart for stock and line? Maybe bc worried about hand chart or chart by hand, but maybe it’s not stock and he did graph to get hand instead of stock

Lincoln memorial is under a roof so doesn’t cast a shadow I don’t think

Novel or screen for Lincoln maybe; screen also for ford’s theater perhaps

I’m gonna have to ponder because not sure if I should go stock and screen or hand and screen or something completely different...Aztec could be attack as well

Ugh

Need 4 for Lincoln; pistol and theater are two...I don’t even see good ones for the other two, maybe screen but meh

dunno how hand fits, maybe novel since he liked to write

I don’t see any Lincoln Nebraska things (maybe buffalo?)

This is tough in a 2v2 game

Red

Bleh

stock screen novel

Sorry

red
neutral

Attack - 3
mountainous - 2
graph - 2
termite - 2
Lincoln - 4
wings - 2
Stargazer - unlimited

Australia
Aztec
Buffalo
Hand
Novel
Pilot
Server
Shadow

Heart
Shark
India
Line
Pistol
Theater
Stock
Telescope

Knife
Olympus
Pyramid
Tick
Trunk
Dragon

Ruler
Ninja
Screen

avionics - 2

Found it.

I mean.. pilot but gunna have to think on the other.

That feels like such a weird clue. Why not just give me a 1 clue that is highly related to the other word if pilot is correct. But I cant see if ever being wrong. I guess I could have maybe thought longer before guessing.

blue

Probably going hand. Only thing that sort of could make sense.
With novel and server being behind it. They dont make sense but they dont not make sense.

I dunno. I doubt I'll convince my self to go anything else. hand?...

neutral

I kinda blew this one I guess. It'll be an interesting writeup.

No worries. Weve still got 2 games to come back and win this. We just gotta rock it from here.

animal - 1

buffalo

I couldn’t go buffalo last time because of chance it was buffalo wings for blue

Whew, we just barely escaped

yup that's that

And now the recap...

mountainous 2 - Olympus/Pyramid. I should've said peaked or just mountain, but I didn't expect India to make it in there. After being gifted a word we give it right back. Even steven. I kind of wanted to go Altitude 4 to also include pilot/dragon but was afraid of telescope getting in there. Knowing the list, I felt a conservative approach in this game was ok.

termite 2 - Tick/Trunk. I'm glad you got the wood -> tree trunk angle there.

wings 2 - Pilot/Dragon. I almost blew it right here, I should've said flies. I completely overlooked Buffalo wings, and it seemed like it would get ranked 1 or 2 here. Fortunately you missed it too it seems. Though it was the correct move, I was worried when you passed instead of guessing Pilot, as it buys time for you to see Buffalo and maybe waffle on the 2nd word.

avionics 2 - Pilot/Server. Here's where I ****ed up. I was so worried about you maybe seeing Buffalo that I wanted to make sure you stuck with Pilot. Not thinking beyond Level 0 here for whatever reason, I completely missed the fact that cluing 1 here would make you guess Pilot even if you did suddenly see Buffalo, as it would be clear I was ok with your near-guess of Pilot. So avionics was using the electronics angle to get Server. I also considered Stewardess, in fact I felt it was a better clue in a vacuum, but backed off because it had Hand equity, ironically enough.

GG all. Strange game. It seemed to be a battle of who wanted it less lol.

attack - 3

I was going for heart, shark and pistol. I didn't see knife or ninja for some reason. Must have been rushing/burned out from playing 20 of these in a row. My bad.

graph - 2

Line and Stock. I would call it a stock graph, but I guess it's one of those words that doesn't translate well. I knew there was ruler, but I thought these two would trump it.

Lincoln - 4

This is where the stretch began but I felt I needed to for a couple of reasons.

1). You were trying to say Ninja and I thought that this would get you off Ninja once you realised that pistol was our word. (didn't work out like that)
2). I thought we had to win that turn (didn't turn out like that)

It was a hail mary, but I was hoping for Theater, Pistol, Buffalo (Lincoln the city being the connection) and Telescope (real stretch here, but there's actually a pretty major observatory in a English town called Lincoln)

stargazer - unlimited

Ok, we got another go, good. It was very unlikely you'd get telescope from what I clued and so I had to make it obvious and hope you got the others from previous clues. Didn't quite work out that way but fortunately it didn't have to.

I'm definitely burned out. After this tournament and the final mirror game I'm taking a break. I think many others feel the same.