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10-27-2020 , 04:07 PM

#26

pwnsall

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Originally Posted by Gadarene

(I'm right that since we can never get rid of a card without trying to place it, it's better to try to place the ones you know will be difficult sooner rather than later, so you don't get bitten more than necessary by random variance, right?)

That's sorta what I was thinking but you could also theoretically try to make things harder for others.

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10-27-2020 , 04:08 PM

#27

pwnsall

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Exact year don't you have to call your shot?

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10-27-2020 , 04:11 PM

#28

Nicholasp27

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nah, you just have to put the card in the right slot in the timeline and either before or after the same year item counts as the right slot

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10-27-2020 , 04:15 PM

#29

Priptonite

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Woooow

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10-28-2020 , 04:53 AM

#30

Bloobird

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Railroad between pressure cooker and telegraph

(also this would be easier if I had any idea what a Winchester Rifle was beyond 'a gun')

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10-28-2020 , 10:21 AM

#31

pwnsall

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screw earliest

Even though it feels like a punt to not save it

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10-28-2020 , 12:41 PM

#32

Nicholasp27

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-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1925: Television

bloo, pwns good; gad up

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10-28-2020 , 12:49 PM

#33

Nicholasp27

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Originally Posted by Bloobird

(also this would be easier if I had any idea what a Winchester Rifle was beyond 'a gun')

Winchester Rifle card:

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10-28-2020 , 12:50 PM

#34

Gadarene

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I'm going to take a bit of a punt on whiskey between cannon and diving suit

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10-28-2020 , 12:51 PM

#35

Nicholasp27

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 85,710

-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1494: Whiskey
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1925: Television

gad correct, back to prip

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10-28-2020 , 01:03 PM

#36

pwnsall

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I would have gotten railroad wrong

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10-28-2020 , 01:53 PM

#37

Priptonite

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Hoping that some form of "sharp thing on a string" counts as barbed wire here:

barbed wire after screw, before cannon

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10-28-2020 , 01:56 PM

#38

Nicholasp27

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-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1494: Whiskey
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1867: Barbed Wire
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1925: Television

our first miss

Prip gets the new card: Hypodermic Syringe

eye is up

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10-28-2020 , 02:03 PM

#39

Priptonite

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Welp, never would've gotten that anyway lol

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10-28-2020 , 02:24 PM

#40

Gadarene

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barbed wire is how the West was won for capitalism

low-key one of the most impactful inventions in US history

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10-28-2020 , 02:30 PM

#41

Nicholasp27

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US is nothing if not good at weaponizing anything

Last edited by Nicholasp27; 10-28-2020 at 02:55 PM.

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10-28-2020 , 02:39 PM

#42

eyebooger

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Photocopier most recent

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10-28-2020 , 02:54 PM

#43

Nicholasp27

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 85,710

-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1494: Whiskey
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1867: Barbed Wire
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1925: Television
1938: Photocopier

eye correct, bloo is up

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10-28-2020 , 03:24 PM

#44

Bloobird

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hmmmm

not 100% on this, but assuming it means something we'd recognise as a garbage sack...

garbage sack most recent

feel there's a decent chance of lolbloo here though

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10-28-2020 , 03:33 PM

#45

pwnsall

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telescope between screw and cannon

Which I'm also quite uncertain about.

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10-28-2020 , 03:45 PM

#46

Nicholasp27

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 85,710

-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1494: Whiskey
1609: Telescope
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1867: Barbed Wire
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1925: Television
1938: Photocopier
1950: Garbage Bag

bloo correct, pwns incorrect, gad up

pwns' new card: Sign Language

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10-28-2020 , 03:46 PM

#47

Gadarene

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Bloo's garbage sack result may well aid in my conundrum re toothpaste tubes

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10-28-2020 , 03:48 PM

#48

Gadarene

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Oof, boy, not sure I want to risk it regardless

will have to at some point tho

toothpaste tube between wireless telegraphy and television

Figure that has the most equity

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10-28-2020 , 03:49 PM

#49

Nicholasp27

27th level thinker

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 85,710

-250: The Screw
1313: Cannon
1494: Whiskey
1609: Telescope
1679: Diving Suit
1679: Pressure Cooker
1763: Railroad
1837: telegraph
1867: Barbed Wire
1876: telephone
1877: phonograph
1895: Wireless Telegraphy
1896: Toothpaste Tube
1925: Television
1938: Photocopier
1950: Garbage Bag

gad just squeezes in there, prip up next

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10-28-2020 , 04:13 PM

#50

Priptonite

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Gonna botch this one, too. Hoping the need for morse code was significantly after the technology enablement.

morse code after toothpaste tube, before television

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