here are my thoughts, without spewing too much

irtm: clear

Poker: okay, fine, pretty clear or quite lucky

xander: generic but fits

inDheart: I have no idea what the connection is

me: think about other meanings of the word

like it's Poker taking a ballsy line or someone got lucky, period

in the getting lucky sweepstakes, in order of combinatoric likelihood, seems like it's xander -> Poker -> irtm

irtm is clearest

and i have conveyed that i definitively know the word, if villagers want to confirm

I've been looking, but haven't seen anything.

I think I need 3 things:

1. Sleep
2. To hear from others
3. To know more about sports in general

I'm 5% more confused than before people started chatting

I'm not going to convey it more clearly; I'm a little worried that I've already been too clear

I do regret my clue because I think it was a little too clever, but I was trying to cast a reasonably wide net in terms of other words it also fit

I meant inDheart here, of course

for my clue: how up are you on your celebrities

failing that, how up are you on your celebrity deaths

i am not a sports people person as much as i know about how sports work, but "how sports work" didn't seem like a useful route to go when i was thinking about this

this doesn't mean anything to me

douglas can be a first or last name

but if it's a first name,

inDheart, are you a sports fan? I've got a quick quiz for you if so

(if not, I'll give this quiz to someone else to prove I know the word)

so i haven't been great at processing today, and not sure i saw what gad put down right now. his clue feels like a villa clue though

i would hope poker and irtm come back after a sleep to talk more and give me some reassurance, but in one sense, they're on a similar level and they already seem to believe in each other. baseline feels good

xander's is kinda whatever, which according to him means it's not him. huh. i guess thanks random.org for sticking a couple lesser sports people with sports. he feels important to resolve but i don't know how to do that right now. like in absence of me being able to pick on something he might know, he might have to try to show us something in the same way. hrm

not really, no, sorry

i mean i could lolresearch but that seems to be not the point, i just wouldn't be able to lock you in in that way, in all likelihood

ok

for someone else, one of the following three clues hits the word hard. don't need to say which one, but if you're a sports fan and one of them resonates with you, please recognize that i know the word

1) claws

2) bird

3) feet

Hey Gad,
Maybe you can give me a list of words that your clue def doesnt fit.

Also, if Xander thinks that its probably not Gad then it's less likely to be Gad, but makes it more likely its Xander. Which is completely possible that he just got lucky.

I still cant find a connection for Indh

Can you talk to me about why it would be poker taking the balsy line and not me?

Obv I know I'm clear, but what makes me clear in your mind instead of him?

^^^irtm

Although Poker's is decisively more generic than yours

Well I ain't got a clue who the chameleon is, still don't get inD's clue or Gad's

Could still be xander as well

basically where i'm at; if we can find a way to clear xander then they both look good though

you could reasonably have submitted this person to a peehs of life, and been disappointed in your results. you might also like having them along if you ever decide to travel the oregon trail

sorry for the vagueness but once you have the person, the connection is instant, and at this point i guess i'm relying on it being a harder problem for the chameleon

neither of you that came in took gad up on his quiz offer, huh

there's gotta be a better way of doing this that doesn't involve me becoming the ultimate sports fan in like 12 hours

If irtm clears inD then i'm good with that, I haven't got a clue what it's all about lol

Gad's quiz means nothing to me, just made me more confused

when has irtm cleared inD?

this makes no sense to me

by "this person" you mean the Douglas you're referring to?

yes