Makes perfect sense to me.

We should have gone for the scented egg

Johnson - 3

wat

Is there a famous guitarist named Johnson?

Does Johnson and Johnson make Q Tips? I think so? That gets you cotton.

Ervin is clearly taking the piss now.

Michael Johnson was a runner right? So maybe lap is one of them. That's all I got.

I like this.

It's less of a reach than anything I can think of.

I'm not saying I'm against cotton necessarily, but that is absolutely a huge reach imo.

Anything else is even more of a reach imo.

Only because we aren't sure who he's talking about. Going from Johnson to J&J to q-tips to cotton is a stretch no matter what way you slice it.

Michael Johnson to lap is much more direct.

I think it's much more direct than a runner that I haven't thought about in like 2 decades.

Last name clues so fun

We should do name-only variant of Codenames where all clues are first or last names

Okay. My working assumption is the three blues we have are the three for Jackson.

So I'm assuming this Johnson clue is ENTIRELY unrelated to Jackson, and it just happens that the two clues are the last names of US Presidents.

Johnson and Johnson also made one of the major shots for COVID-19. Virus.

I'm okay with cotton/virus/lap here.

You not thinking about him doesn't make it less direct. If you mention J&J to someone, they aren't gonna be like "oh yeah, the cotton bud company."

The covid thing is compelling tho. I'm good with guessing virus first. I'm fine with cotton second too, but if virus is wrong, then probably so is cotton.

I'm okay with that.

Virus
Cotton
Lap
Pass

Canada - 5
Jackson - 3
scented - unlimited
Johnson - 3

Alien
Apple
Barbecue
Break
Drill
Egg
Gear
Guitar
Halloween
Ice Age
Lock
Night
Rome
Sherwood
Spider


Washington
Shampoo
Lemon

Pop
Foot
King
Virus
Cotton
Lap

India

black - unlimited

Night
Barbecue
Spider

And then our 3 makeup words


And then bottles

100%

Why barbecue?

Blackened chicken, barbecue stuff usually makes it black on the outside (hot dogs, hamburgers, black grill marks on salmon and chicken, etc)

Eh, I guess. Halloween can be pretty black. But Halloween/Night/Spider surely have a better clue than black, so I’m fine being off that.

If this is what we go with, which of night/spider/bbq hits Canada? Because Washington is all we have right now that fits. I can’t imagine shampoo or lemon were double clued.

Canada - 5
Washington
Drill
Alien
Ice age
?????

scented - unlimited
Lemon
Shampoo

black - unlimited
Night
Spider
Barbecue

none of those 5 hit Canada

Apple
Barbecue
Break
Egg
Gear
Guitar
Halloween
Lock
Night
Rome
Sherwood
Spider


I don't see how any of these hit Canada

Something has to at least kind of hit Canada. It wasn’t an accidental clue.

I’ll definitely never be convinced that barbecue or spider is a Canada word, but maybe I could buy night hitting Canada as winter months are dark further north.

Just seems like a weird clue out of the gate if we’re literally meant to disregard it at the end. It’s pretty clearly a tough board.

What about Sherwood? It’s a place, like Canada. Black is a stretch, but it probably gets pretty dark in a forest. And dark would be a tough clue with a Halloween blocker.

I don’t know, I’m probably overthinking it, but I’d like to feel like one of what we’re guessing for black can credibly hit Canada.