Server, Slip, and Tick were my first three thoughts as well. I like Iron and Link as our two make-ups, with Nut and Rose as backups.

we already got 4 hot words. just one left. i think it's a coinflip between those two

and i think we'd be more likely to hit on our delicacy words now that we missed two of them.... but who really knows. nut seems like it almost has to be correct tho. and was next on the list

Right you are. Agree that it's a flip.

Regarding delicacy words, both nut and rose should be good. We could do those first instead of choosing between iron and link.

The only other word that popped out to me was nut check lol

Was also first on our list so doubt it is one of his 3

Also a missile check feels like something they say in action movies, but I think I like the same 3 as both of you do

Server
Tick
Slip
Nut
Rose

Iron (link if iron wrong)
Change (check backup)

looks good

i'd probably throw kiwi on there too, either before or after iron

Server
Tick
Slip
Nut
Rose

Iron (link if iron wrong)
Kiwi
Change (check backup

Yea quite unclear what is or isn't a delicacies word but think this makes sense

rose

Another long day

I’ll get updated board and clue up before bed

leprechaun - 5
delicacies - 5
eclipse - 3
hot - 5
events - 3
check - 3

Ambulance
Bugle
Change
Code
Crash
Draft
Fighter
Grass
Greece
Hospital
India
Iron
Kiwi
Lemon
Link
Match
Millionaire
Missile
Novel
Palm
Press
Robot
Roulette
Ship
Shoe
Thief
Wake
Whale

Dwarf
Moon
Luck
Pass
Light
March
Oil
Concert
Rose

China
Dog
Torch
Africa
Air
Kangaroo
Server
Tick
Slip
Nut

Green
Glass

Play

buckle - 6

Stongest look to be link and shoe.

Outside of those

Change
Fighter
Iron
Match
Millionaire
Press

All have some equity...probably some other connections I missed.

I forgot to add crash to the buckle list, which I think is considerably stronger than some of the others.

I like (in order)

link
shoe (plus Leprechaun equity)
crash ( plus event equity)
match ( plus event equity)
fighter
iron

not a big fan of change, press or millionaire here for buckle, but we'll see what Born thinks

Event 3 - 2 left - Prob should not pick wake or draft yet because we may have all three events covered with concert, match and crash

Leprechaun 5 - 2 left, but one could be shoe.... millionaire then change were next on our list, so one of them I guess.

Is there any link between Leprechaun and fighter??

I can make some tenuous links from lep to fighter, but meh.

Also, blues still need a hot word, so I kinda don't wanna say link+iron, but I dunno.

Oh and I meant to mention before that press is possibly an events word.

Geez my bad... I did not even look at theirs... yeah we don't want to pick link and iron

Ambulance (and less so hospital) could also be buckle related (they do buckle you up right?). I don't get millionaire (or match tbh, is this fighter-related?), but I do see change. Press for back up if crash and match are wrong.

Think I like

Shoe
fighter,crash,match?,ambulance? in some order
change
millionaire if we don't think we have all leprechaun words
press (event/buckle)
link (agreed we don't really want to guess this)
iron (same)

Match/Fighter and buckle are linked because of the big-ass belts that wrestlers, boxers, MMA fighters wear when they win.

There is also a turnbuckle in rings, but that could have nothing to do with it.

Seeing what you like and D1 likes, and what I like..

am guessing we are down to these as 4 of 6 of the buckle words.

Shoe (also Leprechaun)
Crash (also event?)
Match (also event)
Fighter (just buckle)

Then for the last 2 buckle words we are into 2 of the following (in no order)

press
ambulance
millionaire
hospital

and words we like but cant pick - link and iron

meh.. I don't really like and of these except link ...lol

For the last Leprechaun word (assuming Shoe is good) we have

millionaire
change

Not a fan of either of these either...lol

We should have events covered with crash and match and if we don't we'll find out.

This is a tough one... for some reason I worry about millionaire..

We still have work to do I guess...

I really don't like crash for events, and fighter seems pretty weak to me for buckle. I missed ambulance initially, but it actually seems decent? Hospital, not so much.

I also like press for buckle and events much more than you do. I think if we go for the win this turn, we have to say link at some point, but we can put it down the list.

My rough buckle order is something like

Shoe
Crash
Press
Link
Ambulance/fighter
Iron
Match

But I would guess match earlier, since I think it almost has to be an events word.

I am good with match coming up in the order for the same reasoning as you. I really don't see the press link as strong for buckle or event, but that is probably just me.

how about

Shoe (buckle and Leprechaun)
Crash (buckle)
Match (event)
Link (buckle)
Ambulance (buckle - you 2 like it)
Press (event and buckle)
millionaire (it was our 1st back-up Leprechaun word.. change was next)
fighter (buckle)

pass??

I really don't think iron buckle is a strong connection and that hot iron is something they will pick anyway.

Suggest some reordering and I am fine if you guys want fighter off the list and want iron in.. or whatever else needs moving

I don't want to say iron at all either lol, was just making a list of all the words we mentioned.

I think I would rather say press before ambulance, but your ordering is fine with me.

Ok. Fine by me. We can see what Born thinks about picks and order.

If we try and go out here, maybe we put link first in case it's blue/generally guess our list in reverse order this turn? Our list is decent but still kind of a long shot that all 8 words are correct.
I like change slightly more than millionaire at this point but millionaire was first on our list so I don't really mind either way.

If we guess link first and it is not ours we get zero info on where we stand on the rest of the words. I would much rather pick off some of what we think are best bets in the hope that if we get enough them Nich has more options for us and fewer uncertainties next turn.