For the second month in a row, Andrew is our puzzle winner. Good job! Most of the answers were figured out by at least one person. Castaway was a nice alternative answer to 15…which was better than the attempted James Bond character answer for 12. Ahem.
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The next play-by-email word game will be Codenames. I’ve never played it but it sounds interesting. You can learn about it here. Basically, there is a group of 25 words which are the codenames of spies. Some belong to blue team, some belong to red team, and there is also an assassin and innocents in the mix.
Each team has a spymaster who knows which words belong to spies on their team. It is their job to give one word clues to get their teammate to correctly find one ore more of their team’s spies. The team who finds all their spies first wins. Incorrect guesses will help your opponent. Guessing the assassin will end your game.
Hoping for 12-16 players, but can probably accommodate any even number. Whether we play this round-robin, Swiss system, etc will depend on the number of signups.
Sign up by responding in the comments. You can choose your partner or let it be decided randomly.
Tags: Codenames, codenames_01
Tags: Name That Tune, name_that_tune_01
This one may not be as hard, or at the least adds some variety to the puzzles. There is a kids version with similar type puzzles as well.
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Answers for the monthly puzzle for both adult and kids puzzles inside.
Read the rest of this entry »The game starts out with one person who picks a theme of some sort and is the only person who is “in”. He then lists three things that are part of that theme to get people started. Next, people start listing three things and anybody who is “in” will respond with yes or no to each of them. Once somebody puts down three things that are all “yes”, the people who are “in” will usually decide to declare him in (unless for some reason they are not sure that person has guessed the theme, but normally you just declare them in).
A sample game might go like this:
I post
red
blue
green
to start off the game. So Spooky guesses
orange
poop
dinosaur
to which I respond “Yes, no, no”. At this point, Spooky figures out that the theme is colors and guesses
magenta
cyan
black
To which I say “Yes, yes, yes. You are in.” Then Spooky can start answering yes or no to anybody’s questions. The game goes on until people decide to stop.
Let’s start out with a (hopefully) relatively simple one.
saving
big
money
Tags: In and Out
5 votes needed for majority.
Melissa D: Rebecca Howe, manager, stolen for some reasonColin Prime: Sumner Sloan, in the wrong seasonAnnette Baron: Janet Eldridge, single and alone
adobery
daneekasghost
mbnovak
todahshy
The Dread Pirate
8BSEMT8
spookymilk
nibbish
Tags: Cheers 2
Tags: Name That Tune, name_that_tune_01
Melissa D: Rebecca Howe, manager, stolen for some reasonColin Prime: Sumner Sloan, in the wrong season
adobery
daneekasGhost
mbNovak
todahshy
The Dread Pirate
Annette Baron
8BSEMT8
spookymilk
nibbish
Bar Closes at 9:30 pm. 5 Required for Majority
Tags: Cheers 2
“Oh, Saaaaaaam!” called out John Allen Hill.
Sam sighed heavily. “What, John? Was my car parked four centimetres to the left today?””
“As a matter a fact, it was, and I had it towed. But that’s not why I came down.”
Sam pointed upstairs. “There’s another reason you left your evil laboratory?”
“Oh, Sam,” replied John. “I would think you would be more grateful. I just came down here to let you know that Ms. Howe has been kidnapped.”
Day Ends at 9:30 p.m. CST
6 Votes Needed For Majority
See post below this one for rules/roles. If you have a question regarding rules and roles, e-mail me directly.
Patrons
Melissa D: Rebecca Howe, manager, stolen for some reason
adobery
daneekasGhost
mbNovak
todahshy
The Dread Pirate
Annette Baron
8BSEMT8
spookymilk
Colin Prime
nibbish
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