Codenames (Game 54 - in progress)

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Thank you for letting me know, I didn't realize you needed a list mod for that. I've pm'd them.

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Thanks everyone for being patient. I got the spreadsheet from CreativeMod. I plan to fire off the next game Monday or Tuesday, since I expect people will be busier over the long weekend anyway.

Since I've never played Duet before, I'll reuse CreativeMod's ruleset:

Spoiler: Codenames Duet rules

Codenames Duet

Even if you know Codenames, please read these rules as Duet is played very differently.

In Codenames duet, you will be playing as a pair trying to collectively find every agent on the board, you will know half of the agents and your partner will know the other half

Twenty-five code name cards, each bearing a word, are laid out in a 5×5 rectangular grid, in random order. Both you and your partner will have a private grid card showing the locations of your agents, on your grid you will have 9 agents (green), 3 assassins (black) and the rest are innocent bystanders (white). Your goal is to find 15 agents between you (3 of the words will be agents in both grids).

You will take turns being clue-givers and giving clues relating to the locations of agents from your own grid (whilst you are the clue-giver, only your grid matters).

Words given must follow standard codenames word rules, please check the rules in post 0 to find out what words are legal and illegal. You may ask me if a word is legal if you're unsure (I request you use discord where possible for this as I'll be quicker to respond there)

The guesser may make as many guesses as they want providing that they are always guessing correctly, upon 1 failed guess the turn passes and clue-givers are swapped, you may also decide to just simply pass your turn.
Incorrect guessed words may still be guessed by your partner, these words are not out of the game completely

To make a clue, guess or pass turn you must make it clear by doing it in capitals e.g: CLUE: WEATHER-2, GUESS: STORM, PASS TURN.
You may make a list of guesses in 1 post however you must order them in the order in which you are planning to have them revealed, if an earlier guess is incorrect then the rest of your guesses are ignored. E.g if you guessed BLUE, STORM and blue was wrong then the turn passes to your partner and we don’t find out whether storm is correct.

Either player may go first, just simply the first to find a good starting clue, you keep playing the game until you have managed to find all 15 agents. Clue-givers must alternate between turns unless one clue-giver has run out of agents on their board, at this point they must state this to their partner (Until this moment you may never state how many agents you have left to find)

Rules of communication: When you are the clue giver, you may only post in the thread to post your clue and to say whether a word is right or wrong. When you are the guesser, you may post your thoughts into the thread about which words you believe are related to the clue, but that's all you're allowed to talk about.

This game will be judged on strikes with the teams on the lowest strikes winning, the strikes are as follows:
1 strike for every clue given
1 strike for every innocent bystander hit
10 strikes for every assassin hit
2 strikes for any illegal clue given (as described above)(This is as well as the standard 1 point for giving a clue)(You may purposely give an illegal clue if you believe it will be cost-effective on points)

Every pair will be playing the exact same setup, this will be both the words on the grid and which words are agents/assassins.

The games will be self-moderated, so you tell your partner when they get words right or wrong and adjust the grids accordingly.

Failure to submit an action 48 hours after the previous action will result in a time token, in the event of a tie the team with the fewest time tokens will win... This tiebreaker will be the first tiebreaker looked at. You may prod your partner at any time.
A player may pause their game if they need to go on V/LA for whatever reason (but please don't abuse this, only use it if you need to)

The pair with the fewest strikes will win, if there's a tie then the following tie-breakers are taken into consideration:
The pair with the best individual clue given (e.g giving a clue for 4 words and all 4 being guessed)
The pair with the most agents found in 1 turn (regardless of the clue number)

Secrets of the grid card:
All grid cards are designed according to the below diagram, you may use this to your advantage

From the 9 words you see as being green, 3 of them are also green on your partners grid card, either of you may guess these words.
From the 3 words you see as being black, 1 of them is green on your partners card, meaning that you must guess one of your black words, however 1 of your black words is also black on your partners card and the other one is white.

Official rules can be found here: https://czechgames.com/files/rules/code ... les-en.pdf (Please note that some rules may have been changed for the sake of it being online)

[Cat Scratch Fever]

PMs for Codenames Duet have been sent out Please PM me directly if there are any questions, issues with thread access, etc.

The teams are: Farren & Not_Mafia vs. Nancy Drew 39 & StrangerCoug

[StrangerCoug]

Thank you for letting me know, I didn't realize you needed a list mod for that. I've pm'd them.

Maybe try xofelf, too? Just now noticed that PrivateI hasn't been on for awhile.

[xofelf]

Yep, done. If it's mish mash related, those questions go to me.

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Edit: it's come to my attention that CreativeMod would remove guesses if your partner hasn't seen the guess yet, so I'll just do that

[Farren]

Can confirm; at least that's happened with clues before. On the honor system to speak up to the mod if you see something disappear.

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Farren & Not_Mafia have finished their game. I'll wait for the other team to finish before posting scores

[StrangerCoug]

Mod: Please note sig.

[StrangerCoug]

Mod: Out of V/LA.

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Okay team 2 has finished their board!

Congrats to the winning team...

Spoiler:

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug with 21 points!

Farren and Not_Mafia with 26 points - not that far behind in spite of hitting an assassin - though they deserve brownie points for finishing quickly

Farren and Not_Mafia: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89898

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89899

[Farren]

Well played, everyone.

Also, to clarify something on the rules in Duet, since I noticed a few Unlimited clues pop up in Nancy's / StrangerCoug's match:

Guessers can guess as many times as they like, as long as they keep guessing correctly. That means that if I give a clue of SANDWICH 2, my partner is

not

forced to pass after three correct guesses. They can keep on guessing as long as they keep guessing agents.

Because of this, unlimited clues are completely unnecessary.

(Zero clues can still come in handy from time to time!)

[Nancy Drew 39]

Okay team 2 has finished their board!

Congrats to the winning team...

Spoiler:

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug with 21 points!

Farren and Not_Mafia with 26 points - not that far behind in spite of hitting an assassin - though they deserve brownie points for finishing quickly

Farren and Not_Mafia: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89898

Nancy Drew 39 and StrangerCoug: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=89899

I am seriously so shocked that we won. \0/

[ORAM]

I'll /in for a game of regular codenames if there's interest; either role but slight preference to spymaster.

[Farren]

I'll /in for that, conditional on there being at least six players total. Either role.

[Not_Mafia]

/in

[Charles510]

/in

[Nancy Drew 39]

/in

[StrangerCoug]

Slow and steady apparently won the race!

/in

[Cat Scratch Fever]

I'll get the game set up later tonight or tomorrow. Still taking sign ups

[Cat Scratch Fever]

Game 53 has started! ORAM and Farren will be our spymasters

CASINO	RABBIT	MUG	OIL	DIVER
STAR	CENTER	ARM	KANGAROO	SHIP
SINK	GAS	BELL	ROULETTE	TRIP
IVORY	EAGLE	ROBOT	GHOST	DOG
IRON	PILOT	JAM	GLASS	WATCH

Blue Clues	Red Clues
0/9	0/8

Team	Spy Master	Members
BLUE TEAM	ORAM	Charles510, Not_Mafia
RED TEAM	Farren	Nancy Drew 39, StrangerCoug

[ORAM]

GAMBLING - 2

[Charles510]

Spoiler:

CASINO and ROULETTE?/spoiler]

[Charles510]

lol spoiler fail

[ORAM]

Is 7947 an official guess?