Puzzle Plight - by shockcannon

[Submachine]

As confirmed by shock, this is actually the voting phase. Today I realized that my Skyrim knowledge is shallow (and other things I will publicly not say), so I remove my vote from MW.

MasterWalks (0)

I found 2 other compound words that could work with my half. I'll sketch up a network of possible teams in my notepad, then I'll come back with a new vote.

[shockcannon]

I'm editing the rules so that no one can be devoured if the leading vote is only a single vote. Also, do people want the timer extended for this phase?

[Linkcat]

ddevans96 (1) - Linkcat

His word is extremely generic and he is placed at the earliest reasonable point for a shock. That seems like the play he would make.

I have hard confirmed two people so far.

[Submachine]

do people want the timer extended for this phase?

I'm fine with no extension. People are most likely not voting because they don't know have a lead, anyway. We also have a lot of time left, so activity has time to increase.

[ddevans96]

Extremely generic words also make it harder for a Shock to guess. And word association games really aren't so difficult that a Shock can't put themselves in the first three slots - I expect Shocks will guess the word more often than not. Every word association + social deduction hybrid I've played favors the smaller team.

Are you sure this read isn't just carryover from mafia? <3

[ddevans96]

Also - me taking the safe option in early game? You know I like my gambits.

[Submachine]

Can we edit our posts? I wrote "don't know have a lead", but I wanted to write "don't have a lead".

[Linkcat]

Who wants to break the game? I can name the two people I have confirmed, if they both confirm back then we can't all be shocks. We send gibberish words and devour everyone else, game over. I believe that everyone who shares my half of the word already knows I am a noob, though one of my confirmed people might need to trust me on the other. I also believe that the associations are obscure enough for the shocks to not be able to tell the word by knowing three noobs who have the same half.

[Submachine]

Yeah, I thought about that strategy too. It requires fully trusting 2 players, then the Shocks cannot win.

Another strategy is to pick out a player, and one by one ask everyone whether, based on their word, they believe that person is on their team. This way, we could grind through everyone and weed out the Shocks right away.

This is shock's first game though, and I wanted to try out my language skills, so I would not do the gamebreaking.

[Submachine]

I sketched up some possible networks based on some compound words, and serprex was always at the bottom of the list. His word is way too specific, and I cannot think of any compound word that is even remotely related to his word.

ddevans96 (1) - Linkcat
serprex (1) - Submachine

If he flips Noob, at least I will know to shift my focus to different compound words.

[Linkcat]

I don't think we should go after serp right now, his word is probably intentionally not obviously connected to his half. If he was a shock I'm sure he would have blended in easily.

[Submachine]

Is no-sac beneficial to the Noobs? If yes or no, then why?

We should get some discussion going if we want to sacrifice someone to the Great Otyugh today.

Time until I can still give feedback and change votes: No time left.