Codenames LOL Semi-Final 2 Team RPG Vs Team Siberia

Mollyb60

Red Team: Mollyb (c), Pter
Blue Team: Banjo (c), sKeith

Mollyb60

Red Clue 1:
Barazinbar (3)

Baggly

RING

Mollyb60

Correct, Play or Pass?

Baggly

CLIFF

Mollyb60

Cliff is a Neutral word. Play passes to Blue.

Baggly

Ok so dwarf and maybe Alps for the next time.

Baggly

Hmmm maybe kiwi too since I think that sequence was shot in NZ

Baggly

Yeah it's probably kiwi. Whoops.

Banjo

Sunspider, 4

sKeith

SCORPION

Banjo

Correct - Play or pass

sKeith

WEB

Banjo

Correct! Play or pass?

sKeith

OPERA

Banjo

Correct - play or pass

sKeith

Seriously scraping the barrel here, SOUND

Banjo

<Game currently paused for discussion>

sKeith

?

Mollyb60

Just had a discussion about the use of that clue. It's been resolved now so we can continue.

Sound is correct. Play or Pass?

sKeith

scorpion was the only guess related to the animal, then we get into the JavaScript benchmarker,
its used on the web and opera is a web browser.

as i said, the last one was seriously scraping the barrel


Pass.

Mollyb60

Red Clue 2:
Gardening (3)

Baggly

FENCE

Baggly

DECK

Baggly

MOLE

Mollyb60

Fence is correct.
Deck is correct.
Mole is a Blue word. Play passes back to Blues.

Mollyb60

Updated Board:

Baggly

Molly I'm thinking I have kiwi dwarf and either honey or fair in the bag.

Banjo

monarch, 2

sKeith

CROWN

Mollyb60

Crown is correct. Play or pass?

sKeith

I'm thinking pilot straight out of the bat, because of monarch airline,
but, there is a Washington Monarch hotel, although that's weak, just like the monarch theatre in phoenix is weak.
There's are mens boots called the monarch, there's even a company called monarch helicopters.
There's even a investment firm called monarch alt capital.
There's a chilling tale called The March of the Monarch about the monarch butterflies getting caught out by a winter storm.
Then theres the The Monarch March, by Charles Sanglear, marching song.
Theres a brand of honey called monarch honey.
oh, monarch airlines ceased trading in 2017, so i'm less happy with pilot.

Think i'll pass and hope for the best.

Mollyb60

Red Clue 3:
Shuksan (2)

Baggly

WASHINGTON

Baggly

EAGLE

Baggly

DWARF

Banjo

Pter wrote: »

WASHINGTON

Correct

Pter wrote: »

EAGLE

Sorry, that's the Assassin.

Baggly

Flip. Ah well. Best of luck in the final lads.

Sorry molly!

sKeith

Hard luck on hitting the assassin, gg.

Banjo

Sunspider was the controversial clue. It's both a web benchmark and weird desert not-a-spider creature, but the creature is usually 2 words. There are some references to it as a single word from reputable sources, and that's the original form of the name apparently but I should have cleared it first.

4th word for that was Crown because Opera took the Sunspider crown in 2014. Tenuous doesn't even come close.

Pilot was the last word for monarch, didn't know they'd gone under. Might have gone with prince William but he's a Helicopter pilot so it was risky.

sKeith

thinking dwarf, kiwi, alps and march are red?

Banjo

Dwarf boots helicopter fair alps

sKeith

so, pter had it right with gardening fair, and alps was with dwarf in first clue, not kiwi, was there anymore to shuksan, or just a reclue of alps?

Banjo

March was our one by the way.

sKeith

so march & pilot left.

Mollyb60

Shuksan was an alps re-clue to try get Pter off the Kiwi thing for my dwarf clue. Ugh. Just couldn't get the words to fit together.
Boot was the other word for the gardening clue actually. I had a word for helicopter and fair.

Sorry Pete.

Baggly

The word translated to eagle peak or something like that but sure not to worry.

Mollyb60

Ugh never even noticed that on the wiki page.

sKeith

think its ok as
The mountain's name Shuksan is derived from the Lummi word [šéqsən], said to mean "high peak".


The traditional name of Mount Shuksan in the Nooksack language is Shéqsan ("high foot") or Ch’ésqen ("golden eagle")
thats quite a diffrent word, so clue should be okay.

In the book Nooksack Place Names by Allan Richardson, Brent Galloway, even they are unsure if it means golden eagle or not.
source

the wikipedia pages cite the nooksacktribe.org website which doent help as its doesnt clarify anything.
Shéqsan ~ Ch’ésqen – Mt. Shuksan. [high foot ~ golden eagle]

Baggly

Clue lead me to the wiki page and the word eagle was there.....

sKeith

Pter wrote: »

Clue lead me to the wiki page and the word eagle was there.....

ah yes, i understand that,


but if eagle is still active anywhere on the board, you can't clue águila (sp) or Aigle (fr).


so was just making sure the clue is good, and as far as i can see, it was fine.