microscope

cake - 4
water - 3
black - 3
play - 3
power - 2
splinter - 2

Degree
Fighter
Honey
Spring
State
Tail
Tooth
Van

Pan
Ice cream
Horse
Shadow
Space
Engine

Pie
Wave
Well
Shakespeare
Bat
Trunk
Pin

Glass
Hole
Bill
Microscope

follow - 1

Uh...should I feel dumb that I'm not certain about this?

Other two have to be Honey and Degree unless I'm even more confused than I already am.

We need 3

If he did unlimited then degree and honey would be ours

If he did 2 clue degree would be ours but not honey

3 clue means degree isn’t ours, tho honey could be


At this point he isn’t trying to win this turn; we guess our one and then can guess honey or better to just leave it top of list and let him finish it next turn

Problem is they only need 1 so we never get another turn so this is just a white flag clue?

Or maybe he meant unlimited and didn’t realize 1 clue prevents us from guessing 2 extra and honey and degree are ours

To follow someone is to tail them

That’s my best guess


Van or others can work also, but not as good


So tail pass honey?


I think it’s tail degree honey and he meant to go unlimited tho

It's forced unlimited so the 1 makes sense if Degree and Honey are good.

Oh lol I missed that


Then tail degree honey bottles


Let’s go over list one more time to make sure tho

I guess, but that's such a bizarrely confusing clue.

Why not "wagging" or something like that?

Degree - don’t see follow, plus already our next one
Fighter - don’t see follow connection; Rocky or Tyson here
Honey - don’t see follow and already our last one
Spring - nope; winter or season or tons of clues here
State - Georgia or Arizona or whatever; not tail
Tail - one meaning is to follow someone; donkey/monkey easier but follow works
Tooth - no
Van - creepy dude following you in a van, but not as good as tail and obv car/bus/mini/camper/etc


Yeah, tail degree honey bottles

My best guess is he thought of that version of tail or he was worried that tooth is another body part so just went with that version of tail


No matter which word it is, it’s not the most clear and simplest clue, but this is the most direct connection of anything on the list

Assuming you're right, what are our 3 black words?

cake - 4:
pan
ice cream
degree
honey

black - 3:
shadow
space
horse or tail


power - 2:
horse
engine

follow - 1:
tail


so for black, why not go dark - 3 for dark horse, dark shadow, space? so maybe it was for black tail? but then he's thinking of tail for an animal, so why not monkey or wag or whatever now?


so I dunno


at the end of the day, he gave us a 1 clue for tail (unless you see anything even 1/10th as good) and that leaves us with making up the 2 cake words that we had left on our list: degree and honey

not sure what else we can do?

I hate it, but I hate everything else more, so:

Honey
Degree
Tail

Yeah, gg

Not exactly sure why we just decided to forget about the water clue that still needed to be closed out, but whatever. A spring is literally water. And that was next on the list, which was the last thing posted before bolding bill.

This is what happens when you are resistant to convention like lists and n-1. You try to use them and use them incorrectly. It’s very difficult for a spymaster to communicate intention when this happens.

Splinters and pins are both small, sharp, pointy things. In the end game, try to find the words that are clued and then pick up what’s left. You determining somehow that pin was only possibly ours because of n-1 completely disregarded the fact that there was still a water word left to get.

Normalize this

Engine
Tail
Space
Honey
Ice cream
Degree
Pan
Shadow
Horse
Well
Wave
Shakespeare
Trunk
Pie
Bat
Spring
Pin
Microscope
Tooth
State
Hole
Van
Bill
Glass
Fighter

Yay!

(But seriously, Zeus, why "follow"?)

ok, so bill then spring since top 3 already guessed

ok, you guessed bill, so spring is your n-1 word


wat

I see nowhere that indicates pin woulda been next


only list that even had pin on it had fighter right before pin


this is why you should NEVER guess ANY words unless posting non-bolded list below that guess...this is a game of communication and so I don't know why some people want to cut off the communication from one side

yh I was worried about "tooth" if I did anything body related and there was nothing else "follow" could be close too...and I couldn't think of anything related to the animalistic tail (I didn't think of wagging lol)

BTW for cake it was
pan
ice cream
SPACE
honey

do you guys not have space cakes?

oh and I missed bat lol

Black was horse because loads of black horses

was stupid af

I was so lucky you guys clued on to Degree tbh

FWIW though honey cake is also a cake

oh oops

somehow I missed Spring on post 1405 and went back one more

good clue we shoulda had that, I just overlooked Spring somehow

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