CODENAMES: Reliving the Cold War Through Wordplay.

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Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

OP blatantly stolen from Gutter Owl's thread.

CODENAMES. Vlaada Chvatil, not content with rebuilding Pictionary, turns his madness to Taboo. Of course it turned out loving brilliant, and now all the boardgoons wish they had friends to play it with. They don't, so I'm making a thread.

:siren:

MISSION BRIEFING :siren:

TEAM BLUE

, the time has come. Your sleeper agents are in position, awaiting your orders. Your couriers must find and activate all of your agents before the commie bastards in TEAM RED :ussr:

can activate their agents. You will know your agents by their Codenames. Of course, we cannot transmit these classified codenames to all agents, for fear of interception by the enemy.

Spymasters, you must guide your couriers to the correct agents through encrypted communications. Be careful not to mislead your agents into giving sensitive documents to ignorant bystanders--or worse, enemy agents. And we have word that a mysterious and deadly extremist lies in wait, ready to slaughter the agents of either side. We know this man only as THE ASSASSIN.

TEAM BLUE :911:

, deploy to the field. AMERICA is counting on you. FREEDOM is counting on you.

(TEAM RED :ussr:

, copy, paste, find-replace with THE MOTHERLAND and THE PROLETARIAT.)

:siren:

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT :siren:

The full rules are here, but in brief:

Players are presented with a list of 25 words, representing CODENAMES of agents (or nicknames of complete randos, as the case may be)
Goons will be divided into two teams, RED and BLUE. Each team will have one Spymaster and three Couriers.
The Spymasters will know the "identity" of each word: Red, Blue, Bystander, or Assassin.
Spymasters will take turns giving clues to their Couriers. The clues must take the form of [WORD]: [NUMBER], e.g. "Anime: 4." Translated, this means "four of our words on the board are related to Anime."
Couriers will then select from the words on the board, at which point I and/or the Spymasters will reveal that word's alignment.
If the word matches your team, the Couriers may guess another word, up to [NUMBER] plus one. (You may stop guessing at any time and pass your turn if you wish. But you must guess at least one word every turn.)
If the word matches a bystander or the enemy team, your turn is over, and the opposing Spymaster takes his turn giving a clue.
(Revealing an enemy agent also functionally gives the enemy team a point--the agents don't care who reveals them.)
If a Courier ever selects the Assassin, the game immediately ends, and the Courier's team immediately loses the game.
First side to have all their agents revealed wins the game.

CRYPTOGRAPHER'S GUIDELINES :siren:

Spymasters must not violate any of the following rules.

Clues cannot contain words present on the game field. This includes partial words--TABLE is an illegal clue if TABLET is in play. (Note that "revealing" a word removes that word from play, making it a valid clue for other words later.)
You also cannot use variations or derivatives of the words on the field. If BROKEN is on the field, BREAKING or BREAKAGE are illegal.
Homophones are also illegal. If BREAK is on the field, BRAKE is not a valid clue.
Spymasters may only use English words. Foreign words are okay if they're common loanwords (like STRUDEL or SCHADENFREUDE or whatever).
Proper nouns and compound words are okay. NEW YORK, BARACK OBAMA. and SELF-DESTRUCT are all valid. You don't get to make up proper nouns out of whole cloth, though. SIR LUNAR SQUID is not a valid clue for MOON and OCTOPUS.
The second part of a clue (the number) cannot be itself a hint. CITRUS: 8 is not a valid clue for LEMON and OCTOPUS.
That said, the first part of a clue can be a letter or number, provided the letter or number is related to the meaning of the word, rather than the orthography. THREE: 2 is a valid clue for TRIANGLE and PENNY, but not JAW and EYE. X: 2 is a valid clue for RAY and FILE, but not EXACT and AXE.
Spymasters may not give any sort of extraneous communication in-thread, such as "This clue is a longshot, but..." Just say the loving clue and nothing but the clue.

If there is a dispute, I will ask the spymaster to explain their logic to me via PM. If I'm not satisfied by the explanation, I'll declare the clue INVALID. If a Spymaster gives an INVALID clue, that team's turn immediately ends, and the enemy Spymaster may reveal one of their agents on the board for free. I reserve the right to be as lenient or draconian as I drat well please.

Spymasters have a few special clues they can give. FEATHER: 0 is a valid clue, meaning "none of our words relate to feathers." Alternately, FEATHERS: UNLIMITED is also a valid clue. In either case, the team may guess as many words as they wish, until they guess a wrong word or pass the turn.

Also, for this thread, I'm engaging an optional rule: Rhyming clues are completely allowed. KNIGHT is a valid clue for FIGHT. Of course, Spymasters can't tell their Couriers that they're using a rhyming clue, however. Have fun with that.

:siren:

SPECIAL THREAD RULES :siren:

In order to keep the thread moving, I'm implementing a time limit. A team has 24 hours from the timestamp of the spymaster's clue to make official guesses. After the 24 hour mark, you can keep guessing...but the enemy Spymaster may end your turn immediately by posting their own clue.

Likewise, Spymasters have exactly 48 hours after the enemy turn has ended (from a pass or a bad guess) to issue a clue. If they don't make the deadline, I will treat it as an invalid clue. (If a Spymaster has an extenuating circumstance, they can PM me.)

All game communication must be in the thread itself. Until game end, Spymasters may say nothing to their Couriers except clues. Couriers can say whatever the hell they want, but must do so in full view of the enemy team. The peanut gallery can cheer/mock as they like, but can't help either team.

Official clues and guesses should use this format: ## BODYPILLOW: 4 or ## GUESS ANIME. Bold, allcaps, with # signs. This makes it much easier for me to find when scanning pages of thread chatter.

:siren:

SIGNUPS :siren:

I need eight players for the initial game. Signup by posting ## MISSION ACCEPTED below. Please specify which team you want (red/blue/don't care) to be on and what role you want (spymaster/courier/don't care). ADDENDUM: Please also specify whether or not you have PMs. You must have PMs enabled to be a Spymaster.

I intend to run multiple games so long as interest holds, so if you miss your chance, you'll be added to the queue for future games and/or substitutes as necessary.

Some Numbers fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Oct 4, 2015

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:12

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 05:03

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

CURRENT GAME

BLUE TEAM :911:

OmegaGoo (spymaster)
burger time
Robust Laser
tofes

RED TEAM :china:

ETB (spymaster)
Ripley
Gutter Owl
Phi Fi Fo Fum

MISSION 1
MISSION 2

Queue
Chekans 3 16
Max Peck
Omega Goo
burger time (s)
Fat Turkey
silvergoose
rchandra

Some Numbers fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 14, 2015

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:13

OmegaGoo: Nov 25, 2011; Mediocrity: the standard of survival!

I see you stole from the other queue. Will you continue doing that, or should we sign up separately here?

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:17

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

OmegaGoo posted:

I see you stole from the other queue. Will you continue doing that, or should we sign up separately here?

I'm starting with the old queue, but yeah, let's make our own from here on out.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:22

unpronounceable: Apr 4, 2010; You mean we still have another game to go through?!; Fallen Rib

Blue 2 reporting in.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:23

Max Peck: Oct 12, 2013; You know you're having a bad day when a Cylon ambush would improve it.

Here but at work, might take a little time for my brain to engage.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:28

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

RED TEAM STARTS :china:

Tail
Platypus
Box
Tooth
Maple
Undertaker
England
Loch Ness
Plot
Lap
Code
Washer
Port
Africa
Amazon
Flute
Thief
Swing
Bill
Fork
Trunk
Nail
Glass
Cricket
King

All PMs have been sent; once the red couriers all check in, we can get started.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:36

silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

gently caress yeah, and I can't completely ruin everything (unless I demand to pick the assassin). ##red courier checking in

# ? Oct 4, 2015 16:37

burger time: Apr 17, 2005

##MISSION ACCEPTED

# ? Oct 4, 2015 17:07

Fat Turkey: Aug 1, 2004; Gobble Gobble Gobble!

I await Comrade Bon Hair before performing my duties for Mother Russia. Gives me time to think!

# ? Oct 4, 2015 17:46

OmegaGoo: Nov 25, 2011; Mediocrity: the standard of survival!

##Mission Accepted

I believe in miracles!

# ? Oct 4, 2015 17:50

ExtrudeAlongCurve: Oct 21, 2010; Lambert is my Homeboy

I'm heeeere. Let's go team blue.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 18:00

gutterdaughter: Oct 21, 2010; keep yr head up, problem girl

## MISSION ACCEPTED . I think I'm due.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 19:33

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

Gutter Owl posted:

## MISSION ACCEPTED . I think I'm due.

Putting you at the top of the queue.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 19:36

Ripley: Jan 21, 2007

##MISSION ACCEPTED

# ? Oct 4, 2015 19:53

ETB: Nov 8, 2009; Yeah, I'm that guy.

##MISSION ACCEPTED, red spymaster requested

# ? Oct 4, 2015 19:58

Aston: Nov 19, 2007; Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay

I checked in in the other thread by mistake.

# ? Oct 4, 2015 20:40

Chekans 3 16: Jan 2, 2012; No Resetti.
No Continues.; Grimey Drawer

##Blue Courier checking in

# ? Oct 4, 2015 21:00

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

Gutter Owl, do you want to sub in for BonHair to get this thing going?

# ? Oct 5, 2015 02:23

tofes: Mar 31, 2011; #1 Milpitas Dave and Buster's superfan since 2013

Have I been banned from the queue or what?

# ? Oct 5, 2015 04:38

gutterdaughter: Oct 21, 2010; keep yr head up, problem girl

No thanks, I'd rather wait for next game. Need a couple days of game cooldown after a big convention this weekend.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 05:01

Phi Fi Fo Fum: Dec 28, 2010

##MISSION ACCEPTED

# ? Oct 5, 2015 05:19

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

tofes posted:

Have I been banned from the queue or what?

Some Numbers posted:

I'm starting with the old queue, but yeah, let's make our own from here on out.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 06:00

tofes: Mar 31, 2011; #1 Milpitas Dave and Buster's superfan since 2013

Some Numbers posted:

I thought I was in the old queue!

# ? Oct 5, 2015 06:34

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

I took the first 8 people on the old queue and now we're starting a new one.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 07:09

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Red 5 standing by!

# ? Oct 5, 2015 07:17

Robust Laser: Oct 13, 2012; Dance, Spaceman, Dance!

Yeah, I'll jump in line for a new thread.

## MISSION ACCEPTED for glorious Team Red. As a courier, as I don't have PMs.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 08:56

Fat Turkey: Aug 1, 2004; Gobble Gobble Gobble!

All Commies present and accounted for!

##COFFIN 2

# ? Oct 5, 2015 12:15

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Undertaker is pretty drat certain I think. Box and nail seem fitting, with box being more likely?

# ? Oct 5, 2015 12:18

Max Peck: Oct 12, 2013; You know you're having a bad day when a Cylon ambush would improve it.

Immediate thoughts: undertaker is the obvious choice; I could go for either box (because a coffin is a fancy box) or nail (because of the expression).

fake edit: I'd've thought nail was more likely, but at the same time I thought of box first. :shrug:

# ? Oct 5, 2015 12:19

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

I just figure that a coffin being a kind of box makes the link that much stronger, but I thought of nail first too. I'll let you guys pull the trigger though.

##GUESS UNDERTAKER

# ? Oct 5, 2015 12:29

silvergoose: Mar 18, 2006; IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS

I think box over nail.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 12:47

Max Peck: Oct 12, 2013; You know you're having a bad day when a Cylon ambush would improve it.

I guess if I were trying to clue both "undertaker" and "box" I might go with "heavyweight" :v:

But I'm comfortable with box if you guys are.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 13:01

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Max Peck posted:

I guess if I were trying to clue both "undertaker" and "box" I might go with "heavyweight" But I'm comfortable with box if you guys are.

I am sad that I have not yet seen a wrestling clue for Undertaker

# ? Oct 5, 2015 15:49

Fat Turkey: Aug 1, 2004; Gobble Gobble Gobble!

BonHair posted:

I just figure that a coffin being a kind of box makes the link that much stronger, but I thought of nail first too. I'll let you guys pull the trigger though.

##GUESS UNDERTAKER

UNDERTAKER is red! You have two guesses remaining.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 16:20

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

##GUESS BOX

And I guess in case that's right, passing is the sensible choice

##PASS

# ? Oct 5, 2015 16:29

Some Numbers: Sep 28, 2006; "LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

Blue Team, you're up!

# ? Oct 5, 2015 16:36

Aston: Nov 19, 2007; Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay

Location: 3

# ? Oct 5, 2015 18:00

ExtrudeAlongCurve: Oct 21, 2010; Lambert is my Homeboy

England, Africa, and Amazon are probably the strongest.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 19:17

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 05:03

Chekans 3 16: Jan 2, 2012; No Resetti.
No Continues.; Grimey Drawer

Loch Ness could be one too.

# ? Oct 5, 2015 23:16

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