- [Narrator] Hello and
welcome to Overboard.
Polygon's, card and board game show.
And yes that includes, digital
versions of board games
like the one we're
playing today, Codenames.
This simple word game, is easy to learn
but deceptively hard to play.
Here's how it's set up.
First random codename cards are laid out
in a five by five grid.
These cards have words on them
ranging from objects, to
concepts, to countries.
Players are divided into
two teams, red and blue.
A each team picks a
spymaster or team leader.
Everyone else is an operative.
Once the team's spymasters
have been appointed,
they both look at the key.
This card reveals which codenames
in the grid are team blue's
and which are team red's.
To win the game, the spymaster
simply needs to get the operatives
to pick their team's cards.
But this is a game of
spies and code phrases.
Which means the spymaster
has some restrictions
in how they help their team
find the correct cards.
On their team's turn, the
spymaster gives the team
a clue and a number.
The clue is just a single word
and the number indicates
how many codename cards
the clue applies to.
For example if the cards
Doctor and Ambulance
were both team blue cards,
the blue spymaster might
say, "Medical two."
Since there are two cards that
relate to the word medical.
There are a couple additional
rules regarding clues.
You can't use words that
contain a word on the board.
So you can't say "horse" or "shoe"
if Horseshoe is on the board.
And you also can't use
other forms of words
so don't say "feet" if
"foot" is on the board.
The rest of the rules are
in a bit of a gray area.
So we suggest deciding as a group
how strict you want to be
before you start playing.
Homonyms just aren't for everyone.
After the spymaster has given a clue,
the team's operatives discuss
what they think it means.
We also allow the opposing
teams operatives to trash-talk
however they see fit, but critically,
neither teams spymasters
should be weighing in.
And that includes nonverbal clues.
When the operatives agree on a card,
they indicate it to their spymaster.
If it's correct, they
can continue guessing.
If they pick a neutral card or
one of their opponents cards,
their turn ends immediately.
So your first guess
should be the one you're most sure about.
A team can also lose out right
if they choose the black codename card.
There's always one of these on the board.
So it is imperative the spymasters clue
doesn't get anywhere near it.
If a team guesses wrong,
they can still make up for lost
ground on a following turn.
That's because operatives can
always guess one more card
than the number there spymaster gives.
But operatives don't have
to make an extra guess.
If they like they can
simply end their turn.
The first team to find all
their cards wins the game,
which is harder than it might seem.
Spymasters have to weigh a
lot when deciding on a clue
because they don't want to accidentally
help the opposing team
and they really don't wanna give a clue
relating to the black codenamed card.
Operatives also have to thread the needle
in knowing how their spymaster thinks
while also not getting
too lost in the weeds.
Now it's time to play
because these rules will self destruct in
five, four, three, two...
- Hello a welcome to Overboard.
Polygon's, board a card game
and now online game show.
Today we are playing Codenames
and we are joined by a very
special guest, Mari Takahashi,
who is a wonderful internet personality
and also the new correspondent
on our quibi show, Speedrun.
- Hey.
- welcome, Mari.
(group talks together)
- Super stoked (laughs).
- How good are you at thinking
of code names for people?
- Ah, you know,
I don't wanna sound too like smug or cocky
but I'll just say, middle of the line.
(group laughs)
- You set the expectations low.
That's what we like to do here at Poly.
- Also that has nothing to do
with this game that we're playing.
- All right, so in this first round,
I am team leader for team Red.
Jenna is team leader for team Blue
and she will be starting.
- Yeah, and I'm looking at the board.
And it's not a friendly
board, is what I'll say.
- I agree with you, and now
you and I will be silent.
- I love it when we can forcibly ask
our co-workers to be quiet
for long periods of time.
- It's the only time we do get to do that.
Are there oh, she's given a clue.
- And just double
checking, both Simone and I
are allowed to try to throw
people off if we want to.
Yes, great, okay.
- Oh, those are mean rules.
- Don't get in my head.
No one's gonna believe a thing I say.
- Eye, are any of these jumping
out as "Eye" to you Mari?
- Eye, oh my gosh, we're
up, I didn't even realize.
- Yeah, we're up, ice cream, no.
- Eyeglass?
- Like an eyeglass?
- Or a glass eye, yeah.
I think that's a pretty safe one eyeglass.
Okay, cool.
- But also scientists have
eyes and so do soldiers.
- A lot of things have eyes on this.
Cat's eye is a type of gem.
- I was also thinking of Cat's eye, yeah.
- Don't get in our heads,
I see what you're doing.
- No he's trying to reverse psychology us
it's what's happening.
I think eye cat is legitimately
a good option here.
- Memory is the mind's eye.
- All right, shut the fuck up.
(group laughs)
Mari do you feel good about
Glass as our first choice?
- Yeah.
- All right.
- Yeah, I do.
- I'm gonna hit it.
(buzz)
- Yeah.
- You're safer now.
- Fuck yeah.
Simone, I'm sorry for telling
you to shut the fuck up.
(group laughs)
- Does that mean I get
to make another dumb pun?
- Yeah, go for it.
How do you feel about the cat.
Do you wanna go for cat?
- Oh my gosh, why is there two?
Cat eye, I think so.
- Cat eye.
- Yeah, I think so.
- Nice, get us those Lisa Loeb glasses
Shit.
- What!
- Oh, how interesting.
I'm pretty sure I know
what Jenna was going for.
- Oh fuck,
I see the fucking one.
Okay, goddamn it.
- What was it?
- I mean, blind.
- Blind, oh my God.
- Jenna can't talk
a Jenna shouldn't be
motioning in any sort...
She should be as cool as possible.
- This is her losing her mind right now.
- And also the irony of us
not being able to see the word blind.
- The irony.
- Shut up.
- This is why I come out
and say okay I'm illiterate, irony
Pat it's okay, we'll get
blind for the next one
and then we'll get another,
we're good, we're fine.
- We got it, we're good, we're great.
- At least you didn't get
the complete wrong one.
That's the one good, okay, whoo.
All right, Stake two.
- Iron stake.
- Vampire.
- Vampire stake.
- We'll start with vampire?
- Definitely.
You click it, click Vampire.
- Okay, I'm clicking it.
(buzz)
- Yeah.
- Perfect, awesome.
- Stake farm is an insurance company.
- Yeah Stake farm and also
steaks come from farms.
Here's my problem, Brian.
Forests are full of
trees which makes stakes.
Soldiers carry stakes
and an iron stake sounds
like something real.
- Sorry, soldiers carry stakes?
- Sure, like, to stab you with.
- Soldiers do that, is
that a common thing?
- Choose your weapon.
- In medieval.
- Okay, yeah.
- There AR-15 or stake?
- I'm trying to think
the way Clayton thinks
and I don't know if I'm
capable of being that smart.
So I have stopped that.
- I-ron stake.
- Where would you put
the stake in a vampire?
- That's already correct
so we don't need to worry about that.
- Look at the board.
- In the crown of the vampire
is that you're trying to get at?
Oh, the chest is a vampire.
- Desk.
- The desk of the vampire?
- I don't know if I stake make...
- Please iron.
- Okay, sure.
- Yeah, sure, tap iron, why not.
- Yes
- What!
- Like holding down a hot air balloon.
- Okay, yeah, okay.
Now that we've already
gotten that correct, I agree.
Yes, that seems correct.
- It was obvious all along.
- Yeah, for sure.
- All right, Jenna, first
of all, we're sorry.
- I'm sorry, it's just so hard.
- It's it's so difficult as-
- If you want we can
have a moment of silence
so that you can...
- No, the pressure is on.
- Du du du du du du du.
- Is that helping?
- Mari are you self
sabotaging your own team?
(group laughs)
- That was like, it was a shuffle
on spotify.
Door.
- Okay, door.
Door
- Now there's an open Swing.
Swings open.
Okay, wait hold on.
- Let's grab blind before
we grab anything else.
- Yes.
That's by way of apology
- Fantastic
- Fair enough.
- Saloons have doors.
- Saloons have doors.
- Saloon doors.
They have iconic doors.
- Yeah.
- Cuckoo clock has a door.
- It does.
- Chest has a door, no
chest does not have a door
Chest has a top to it.
- Leather door sounds-
- Hot.
- It was the second most beautiful phrase
after cellar door, was leather door.
- Back door, how many doors do we have?
Only two, a lot of these could be door.
I feel good about backdoor.
- I'm liking Saloon and Swing.
- What about backdoor?
- Backdoor, that's a good one.
Who's team are you on?
- And also again,
a door is made of forests.
- All right, all right Simone.
Do we wanna hit backdoor?
- I don't know if I like backdoor
more than I like saloon.
But Saloon, no I don't know.
Maybe not saloon.
- I feel like saloon's a
bigger jump than backdoor.
I feel like backdoor is
like a common phrase.
- A backswing.
- What the hell.
- Wait, what?
- Isn't backswing like a tennis thing?
- How does back relate to swing?
- You guys are working on door.
No, you're right, you should do some...
Backswing, back swings, correct.
- I'm gonna hit back.
Shit.
- Oh no.
- All right Mari, I'm gonna
let you pick the next one
'cause I can't be trusted.
(group laughs)
- Backdoor was not it?
- I am so excited for Clayton to edit this
I just have the slow
zoom of Jenna like this
for the past three minutes.
(soft music)
- Just for the record I
would have gone swing.
'Cause doors swing open.
- Pick swing or saloon
we have another pick.
- No you don't 'cause it's now our turn.
Because you chose the wrong thing.
- 'Cause you dipshits
chose the wrong thing.
Okay, okay, Wicker two.
Okay, well...
- Wicker chest.
- Okay, yeah, I'll be honest with you.
I don't know enough about furniture
to decide which things
are made of wicker or not.
- Can I, I'm pretty sure Chests can be.
And should.
- Se me a Crate and Barrel link.
Oh, you've already clicked it, great.
- Sorry, I thought that
was consent on your part.
- You know, it worked
out, I'm fine with it.
That was okay, so, wicker.
Ooh, this is, wicker chair.
Wicker chair's a for sure a thing.
Everyone's got a wicker chair.
- Hell yeah, go for it, do it.
- No I hate that answer don't do that.
- Yeah!
- Fuck, Mari we're doing bad.
We're in trouble.
- Let's get the clue first.
Just in case.
- Chicken
- Chicken, okay.
- Farm.
- Yep.
- Chicken farm.
- It's gotta be farm right?
- Cuckoo.
- Cuckoo sous like chickens.
- Cuckoo chicken?
- Yeah, I mean, in in Zelda,
they're called Cuckoos.
- That says, not that.
I'm gonna hit farm.
- Yeah, let's, chicken farm.
Boo yeah.
All right.
I'm seeing if there's any.
You could technically
take a chicken to the vet.
Or have the vet come to your chicken
but I don't think...
chicken balloon sounds
like a Burger King product.
(group laughs)
- I would regrettably
eat the chicken balloon.
(Pat laughs)
- Chicken leather sounds terrible (chuckles).
It's like fruit leather made of chicken.
- I suppose the right
chicken scientists out there.
- I kind of want to go with Cuckoo.
- Okay, doing it.
- Boo yeah.
So we can pick one more extra.
Do we wanna try saloon doors.
- Saloon door or swing.
Saloon, you wanna go saloon?
Let's go saloon.
- Let's go saloon.
(team blue celebrates)
- Honestly, I was rooting for you guys
a I'm really happy for you.
- No, it worked, I'm alright with this.
- Here's the comeback, Pat.
- I was an underdog.
- This is it.
- This is a run back.
- Oh, Cow two.
- Okay, Cow two.
- I'm glad that, oh, Clayton,
thank you for waiting until farm was gone.
- Yes, that was I think a big one.
Leather probably, right?
- I agree.
- I love some cow ice cream though.
- Yes, so good.
- Um, now things are a little difficult.
- Cow scientist.
- I'm kind of into patient cow.
- I feel like vet more
than patient cow, but I-
- You know, I think you're right.
- A I think what happened was that
I think Clayton was waiting
for farm to get knocked out
so that way he could say cow
for both vet a leather, right?
'Cause I don't see anything
else on here that like-
- Ice cream.
- Soldier cow up in this ho
(group laughs)
- Isn't Ben & Jerry's logo cow?
I do think...
Oh no, I've convinced myself.
I think Vet's strong but I
also think ice cream is strong.
- Yeah, I do, I am
getting sold on ice cream.
- I know I made jokes that doors a stakes
come from forests but ice cream
really does come from cows.
- Yes, that is correct.
Okay, I'll let you click
vet, or ice cream you choose.
- I don't know why you're doing this to me
but I am gonna click ice cream
a I'm not looking at Clayton right now.
I hope to God...
Yes!
- Shit, all right Mari.
We gotta dig ourselves out of a deep hole.
- It's go time.
- Also, sorry, the team
leader for the red team here,
that's 100% just Angelina
Jolie from Hackers, right?
- Oh yeah, for sure.
And then Marc Maron is up there
on the top left.
- *italian voice* Marc Maron.
- Oh that's good.
- Oh boy.
- Memorial two.
- There's memory.
- Soldiers memories.
- Soldier Memorial, soldier a memory.
- Yeah.
- Wait, hold on there's a Vet.
- Ooh, Vet, I think, I'm guessing Jenna
is probably thinking of
Vet as a veterinarian
rather than veteran.
- A veteran as we...
- Oh, I don't know, dude.
- Do you feel good about soldier?
- I think I feel good about soldier.
- Okay. All right.
- Oh, thank goodness, okay.
- Vet memorial, ah shit.
Memory Memorial.
I think it's gotta be a memory
'cause memorials are for (mumbles)
- Yeah, what are they for?
(mumbles)
- Memorying, you go to them to memor.
- Oh yeah, I memor now.
Memory, vets are soldiers.
Sure dude though.
I don't wanna make this decision at all.
- You have to, it's in your hands.
I'm putting this one in your hands.
- No don't you dare.
- No but.
- No you asshole.
Don't you dare do this.
(group laughs)
- I say memory and I
take full responsibility
if it's the wrong choice.
- Oh man should we just swing first?
- I don't think you can 'cause...
- No, you can 'cause they
still get an extra guess.
- Swing.
- Oh, jeez, damn.
- All right, so this could
be the winning shot here.
- No, you still got two.
- We have two more.
- Okay, shut up.
(group laughs)
- Calm down Pat.
- We haven't forgotten.
- Memory or vet.
Memorial, you go there...
- Well done.
- All right.
- Come on, we can do it,
just two more.
- We go there to memory.
(Pat laughs)
I'm gonna remain dialed
in to Clayton's mind.
- We've got it.
We've done so well so far.
- This is when you choke.
- Yeah, no one's ever
gotten right up to the end
and then thrown away
their entire lead before.
It doesn't happen.
- I'm really worried about
what the kill card is.
Because it seems like
both Jenna and Clayton
are dancing around it.
'Cause I feel like
you could probably get something with two.
But I'm afraid that there's like one
that's like really close to it.
- What I like about the
when you have two left
is that it's a lot like
trying to think of a pun,
in that you're trying
to find the Venn overlap
between these two desperate objects.
And sometimes it's there
and sometimes it's not.
- [Team Red] Decompress two.
- Okay, decompress.
- Balloon?
- I was thinking balloon.
- A lot of people go out
to the woods to decompress
including people like Clayton.
- That's what I was thinking,
is that forests are a major
place to go to chill out.
- Forest Park in Queens.
- If you walk for like miles and miles.
- I don't think it's a scientist.
It's definitely not.
- I agree.
- Okay, so we've knocked out one.
Good for us.
- I also don't think it's mug.
Decompress mug, like.
maybe you drink tea to decompress,
but I think there are
too many other things
that you drink in mugs,
such as hot coffee.
- I do think it's balloon and forest
just because I was thinking about
how hard it would be to combine those two,
like what you would choose.
I personally can't think of a
better thing than decompress.
- Patient.
Medical patient, don't you decompress.
- Being patient was what
I was more thinking of,
yes, but...
- Okay, first of all, I do
think that balloon is right.
- Okay, let's touch balloon.
- And if you wanna choose balloon-
- I'll do it.
Okay, we're good.
- Wow.
- Let's do forest, come
on, let's do forest.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Oh no.
- All right.
(buzz)
- Yes.
- No!
We threw it away.
- Patrick.
- We got this Mari.
- Furniture 1.
Clearly crown— the furniture of the head.
I'm gonna go ahead and click it.
(buzz)
(group chattering)
- What a comeback, good job.
- Yeah, that was good.
- I played too cautiously
'cause I thought it was too hard...
No, I played too cautiously
because patient was the last one
and vet was sitting there the whole time
staring me in the face.
- Yeah, that was what
I was worried about.
- Same with me and soldier.
- Exactly, we both had.
- We were so close to doing...
Both of our teams were this
far away from touching that.
- I know I had my moment right died inside
and Jenna had her moment.
- Oh my gosh.
- I'm very impressed with
everybody's instincts.
- You had some really good clues for,
I don't know what I would have done.
- It was infuriating to see
you guys miss blind entirely.
- That was beautiful.
- I felt okay reacting to that
'cause I knew the other
team saw it for sure.
- And I did too, they just didn't see it.
- That was great.
- Let me get into the mind of Brian.
- No one wants to be in his head.
- It's messy in here.
There's a lot.
- We get to learn about the mind of Mari.
- You don't wanna come in here.
- Mari you had really
good instincts last game
so I'm glad.
- I don't know I was
pretty close to hitting Vet
instead of memory, memory.
- Yeah, that was infuriating.
- All of us are never gonna be
able to say memory correctly
for the rest of our lives.
- All right Brian, get
us to the promised land.
- And now our team leaders,
do your best to stay silent.
- It's hard so good luck.
- It is tough, I'm glad
to be free of the spell.
- Me too.
- All right.
- Camera.
- Camera two, Jenna.
- The thing that pops out
at me first is battery.
- Yep, and record.
- I don't see record but I
trust you that it's there.
- Amazon sells cameras.
- Yeah, Amazon sells everything
you can only use that line once, buddy.
I feel great going with record for sure.
- All right, I feel really
good about battery too.
Which one do you wanna hit first.
- Record first, record first for sure.
- I love recording my memories.
(group laughs)
All right, you wanna hit that battery?
I don't think there's anything better.
- Yeah, do you see anything
else, patient, bread,
mile, what uh, recurring words.
This should be fun.
- Hell yeah.
- Okay.
- Good job guys.
Great work Brian, good
works spymaster or Brian.
(group laughs)
- It's okay.
- This is Brian erasure
- Good work Clayton
trying to throw them off with Amazon.
You tried.
Perfume two.
I'm thinking smell and spray.
- Yeah, I think I agree.
You can go smell first
if you want, I think you-
- You can buy perfume from Amazon.
(group laughs)
- Okay, wait, before we do
spray let's really carefully-
- Yeah, just rush into it now.
- No, I don't see anything else.
- Love.
- I was actually gonna say leather,
'cause leather is a very common...
- I'm confident.
- Actually yeah, leather smells...
- I like leather, it's notes
in perfume is a thing.
- I don't know if you guys wanna do this.
We don't have to do this rule
in the middle of this game.
But the fact that there
are cards coming back up
I don't know if we wanna
ban past-code phrases.
- Yeah, we should probably do that.
- I just googled this to
make sure it is one word.
- Interesting.
- Wow Brian.
- Racewalking two.
- Okay.
- Lap,
- Step,
- And mile.
- Step, I feel strongly.
It's gotta be, right?
- Let's go with step.
- Okay, I'm gonna start with step.
- Good stepping.
- I do feel like lap is
a better bet than mile,
just because it's not-
- Now that I've heard mile I
feel like mile is a better...
- Well let's talk about
the phrase racewalking.
I don't know what that is.
Is that just like where,
all I'm thinking is that
Malcolm in the Middle episode,
I think where Bryan Cranston
does like racewalking
and I thought that was fake.
- No, it's real.
- No it's an Olympic event.
There's a wonderful Vox video about it.
- I can't wait to watch that,
after recording this episode.
- I think most of the
racewalking I've seen
isn't around a track, it's
usually along a course.
It's usually more than a mile, fuck.
- Yeah, that's true.
- I don't know Jenna, what do you think?
- Round the course.
- Well, let's talk through
the choice of racewalking
as opposed to like marathon
or some other words
that he could have used.
- Yeah, but maybe Brian
saw lap and thought
the top part of your
legs where your cat go.
- Yeah, it's very possible.
Umh lap or mile.
This is an interesting one.
What I like about this is
I don't think Brian thought it through
before putting it in.
(group laughing)
- You can tell that by looking at him.
- I'm taking off my headphones.
- I say mile, can I click it?
- I support it, yeah.
- Shit.
- Thank God.
- Okay, all right, no this is good.
- All right well we know for next time.
I feel like what has been true
when I've been the spymaster
and now also as the player is that
our first instinct is
usually the best, but...
- Yeah, you're right.
- So we should choose lap
next round is what I'm saying.
- Okay, I texted my
friend the other morning,
another scorcher, and he said
I literally just said that out loud
14 seconds before you texted.
(group laughs)
- Why aren't we playing
Codenames with that person?
- Interesting.
- well shit.
- Okay.
- I hate myself but my
first thought was astronaut
and I need to do some self reflection.
(group laughs)
- Interesting.
- Alien.
- So I guess like,
I'm thinking literally like
comic style alien and Amazon.
Like mythical Amazonian.
Alien is the one I feel confident about.
I'm not sure about the other yet,
so do you wanna just hit alien?
- I do wanna hit alien
and I will hit alien.
The problem that I am seeing
is of course that technically,
most of these things are inhuman,
besides the astronaut.
- Well it says nonhuman
which I feel is different from inhuman.
- But why would you need to
use the the term nonhuman,
it's to distinguish between
something that seems like it
could be human but is not.
- A lot of people
theorize that the pyramids
have nonhuman origins.
- Or Noah, who is a mythical figure.
- His whole thing was animals.
- Jenna the fact that I was thinking that
means it's definitely not.
Are astronauts human?
(Clayton mumbles)
- If we, no, I can't...
- Your instincts
said astronaut so,
you should go with astronaut.
- That's true in first guess.
- I don't understand.
(group laughs)
- Is it that the suit look
like a robot, I don't get it.
- I just love the philosophical question.
Are astronauts human?
- If this is an alien pyramid
conspiracy theory, I will die.
However, I think Amazon
and I think that was
actually our first instinct.
- Yeah, I think we should do it.
- And I want you to do it.
- I'm doing it, I feel it.
There we go, boom.
- Yes!
- Yay.
- I keep doing this like golf like...
- It's the silent.
- Golf claps.
- Oh wow.
- Corgi three.
- Wow. Okay.
Tail.
- Tail yeah, they don't got one.
- They got a tail little nubs.
- They got a lil nubbin.
- They got little nubs, they're so cute.
- And we love them.
- You can make leather out of them.
- Okay, Jesus.
They lap water out of bowls.
- Crazy.
I am gonna go ahead and click lap though
for our last one, do we wanna go for that?
- Yeah go for it?
- Well done.
- All right there-
- There was definitely
two of them on the ark.
- They're round little doggies.
But I guess they're longer
than they are round.
(Jenna laughs)
- Sorry, Clayton just
said a ridiculous thing.
And that is the specific
dog breed of corgis.
Were here during Noah's ark
- Do you not remember that in the bible?
- Not a matter of modern
genetical evolution.
- There's two corgis.
- Well everyone knows all dogs
descended from wolves and corgis.
- Long legged dog short legged
dog, there're two breeds.
- Jen, for the second corgi
clue, I genuinely don't,
like I feel like the
first one's gotta be tail.
'Cause dogs have tails.
- Yes I'm good with going with tail,
if we wanna just go for that.
- Yeah, punch it.
- Okay.
I wanna say things to mislead you,
but I'm afraid that I'm right.
- That's tough.
- So here's my question for you Jenna.
Do you know of any like celebrity corgis
who might be named Bill or Noah?
(group laughs)
- I don't.
And I do have friends who
are hugely into corgis.
So I feel like that's a boon.
- They do look kind of like
a little loaf of bread.
- They do.
I don't think round because,
I mean they are round in a
way but they're more ovular.
- Oblong?
- Pat pointed out that
they don't have tails
but their little tail stubs are round.
- We already chose to tail, Simone.
- I know but round a tail are connected.
- When they get in the water,
they like paddle with
their little tiny feet.
- They do paddle.
What's distracting about this
is that corgis are so cute.
(group mumbles)
Maybe love.
- I think love cause
when I when I think Corgi
I think I love those little dogs.
- I do love corgis.
They do have nails.
- Yeah, but like you don't
think of a dog's nails
when you're thinking about
all the things a dog has.
- Yeah, when I think of corgis,
I think of their cute little drumsticks,
which you do end in nails,
but that's not what I think about.
Okay, let's say it's
definitely not astronaut right.
- No.
That's a really cute idea though.
(group laughs)
- Oh, astronaut I love it.
- Little (indistinct)
- Wait, wait, wait,
wait, there's one in row.
Cowboy Bebop, it's a space astronaut dog.
- That's true, they're not
really astronauts though.
- All right.
- Brian hasn't watched Cowboy
Bebop, and we know that.
- I have watched Cowboy Bebop.
- Oh you have?
- That has nothing to do with this.
I just wanted to say that I
have watched Cowboy Bebop.
- It's probably not pyramid,
probably not contract or racket, right?
- No.
- Slip, I don't feel
like slip is anything.
- Yeah.
- I've watched enough corgi videos
that I specifically know
one when they slip around.
- They're so cute.
- I'm still on love.
- Okay, um, okay.
- Wait, there's three
four Corgi, holy shit.
- Yeah, that's the thing though.
- What the fuck.
- So maybe nail, love
feels like a better bet.
The loaf of bread possible.
I feel better about bread than I do round.
- Me too.
All right, I'm gonna put one out there
for the power of love.
- Okay, go for it.
- Wow.
Wow, oh my god.
- Okay I think for the last one
either nail or bread is how I'm leaning.
But I guess corgi are so specific.
Yeah, I guess okay, I'm
leaning towards bread
because corgis are such
a specific dog breed
to choose for this.
- Right a they're such a specific color
and length and...
- Shape.
- Shape, yeah.
- They're just bread-like.
- I'm just so happy thinking about corgis.
This is, I love recording with you guys.
(group laughs)
I like bread.
- Recorging.
- I'm gonna punch that bread.
- Recorging.
- Oh not bread, okay.
- We got a chance.
- Can we have a moment
to talk about how Brian was so offended
that I said he hadn't watched Cowboy Bebop
that he automatically instinctively
broke the rule of silence to correct me?
- If I had to guess now, I
don't want to speak for Brian,
but I am literally gonna speak for him,
my guess is it's so he doesn't get tweets
about how he has to watch Cowboy Bebop.
- In that case, I've
definitely played Undertale.
(group laughs)
And I know what Homestuck is.
- And you're gonna tell us
the whole plot right now.
- I know enough about Homestuck
to know that's impossible.
- I do know that like thinking
about little corgi astronaut
is gonna be my happy place
for like the next month.
- The next time we play this
and you say astronauts are
nonhuman now we'll know why.
You think they're corgis.
- Oh my God.
- I love my face Mari's on.
- Moo two.
- Love it, okay.
- Spoon.
- I guess leather it makes sense.
But like I have no idea what else.
- That yeah, I'm in the same boat Clayton.
- I guess Noah.
- Noah's Ark if you will.
- Should we do leather first.
- Whoa, moo two is what Noah did
when he brought two cows onto the ark.
(group laughs)
- Simone there's another step to that.
- That doesn't make sense to anybody
who doesn't know how
much you love U2.
(Jenna laughs)
- Whoa.
(Simone laughs)
You are right about that.
- I don't disagree with
that premise though.
That's a good point.
Moo two.
- I did not make that step in my mind,
but it is true.
And now that Jenna has verbalized it,
I see that it's true.
- All right, so do you
wanna start with leather
do we feel like we're
comfortable with leather?
- Yes we should start with leather please.
- I'm turning so red and sweaty-
- I'm convinced it's gotta be Noah.
- Do it, fucking do it.
Yeah
- It's Moo two.
I feel like three cards left
against two cards, it's so tough.
- Oh, God.
- 'Cause you've got, you
have a leftover clue.
But and I'm just saying this
cause it was experienced last time.
if sometimes your team
picks the right card
but not because of the clue you gave it.
And their accounting for
what the last clue was
is actually off.
- Yeah.
Is that, was for stake
did you mean them to choose
chest instead of iron?
Yeah, I saw that and I was like,
Oh yeah, it's gotta be stake
and then they were like iron
and I was like, okay.
- Yeah.
- Interesting, okay.
- Clinical two.
- Patient.
- Yep.
- Okay.
- Contracts are clinical.
- I'm just gonna go ahead
and click patient cause I feel strongly.
- Both bills and contracts.
- See, I was leaning towards racket,
which reflects my feelings
about our current healthcare system maybe.
- Clinical contract, I think contract
is the one that seems like
it's my first instinct here.
- Yeah, more so than bill
cause Clinical, even the phrase clinical,
suggests something very formal.
I guess, bills are but contract
just feels more accurate.
Probably not pyramid
or paddle or astronaut.
- Or nail.
- Or nail or spoon, probably not slip.
I'm okay with contract.
I don't love it, but I feel okay about it.
- I feel like if it was a...
Yeah, Brian would have
picked a different word
if we weren't supposed
to go near contract,
let's go with it.
- Okay.
- Yeah..
- Okay.
All right, so we have one guest left.
- All right, for this beautiful round dog.
- For our sweet corgis.
Do we wanna go with round?
We're going with round?
- Doggy paddle?
Ooh, I don't know.
- Why would you say that?
- Corgis aren't the
only dogs that do that.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with round.
- Yeah!
- Damn!
- Good job guys.
I was convinced that it was doggy paddle,
I was so convinced.
- But if I were to do that
I would have just said dog.
'Cause they also love tail paddle.
But corgis are made of round
and they have tails and they're love.
And those are the three
things that make a corgi.
- That was a really, really good clue too.
- I had a good clue ready
for the next one too.
What was your last clue to be?
Handheld.
- Oh damn!
- It's close.
- So we'll move on to our final round.
- This is a real interesting board.
- Oh wow, this is hard.
- I'm trying my best to figure out
what kind of iron stake combination
Simone's going to give to
Mari and I during this game.
- Oh wait, I'm up first, okay shit.
(group laughs)
It's fine cause I've been sitting here
staring the whole time, trying
to come up with something.
(group laughs)
- I'm loving this energy.
- Look, starting with a threer.
- I got two that struck me right off.
- Let me see if I have the same ones.
- And a third that I think is likely.
- If I was just, first
thoughts are beach and salsa.
- Salsa parties.
- Salsa parties?
- Salsa party?
- Yeah.
- Beach party was one of mine.
The other one was party crash.
Pool Party has to be one.
- oh I guess if you're thinking of them
as like beach party, Pool Party.
I think salsa is just like
always feel like I see it
snack at parties but...
- Is barbecue party a thing?
- Oh, I was thinking of the dance, salsa
and I was like, fucking salsa party.
Hell yeah, when we reopen
polygon does salsa.
- That's it.
- Yeah, you guys have a...
Barbecue is a party.
- Barbecue I thought might be-
If you're barbecuing it's a party.
- Yeah.
- But I think there's something
about that similarity of
Pool Party, beach party...
- Okay, I'm gonna click pool.
I feel great about it.
Beach I feel pretty strongly about...
Between barbecue and crash
I think it's I don't know.
- Yeah, let's see if we get beach.
- Okay.
(buzz)
- I'm sorry.
- No, it's okay, that's not on you.
It was a good clue.
- No, it wasn't because
I didn't see, anyways...
- Pat forgets that you
can have a party anywhere.
As long as you bring the vibes.
All places can be parties.
- Greenhouse, pentagon?
- Yeah if that were a Simone clue,
I would have said horse
party, greenhouse party.
(group laughs)
- Okay growing.
- Growing.
- Two.
Oh, okay.
Oh boy.
- Definitely no obvious ones.
- So if you start growing squash
you will be giving that shit away forever
because it never stops growing.
- You're a spymaster Patrick.
- Oh shit.
(group laughs)
- I agree with greenhouse,
I think that that's the most clean-
- Hilarious.
- The thing is, I know how we give tips.
I don't know if that was helping or not.
- That's true.
Let's click greenhouse, right?
I think that's a solid one.
- Yeah, I think greenhouse is,
greenhouse is good.
- Okay, great.
- Sweet.
- So we got one.
Now we're venturing into Simone territory
of what do we thinks Simone thinks grows
the fastest or the most to be considered.
Horses grow, you grow things in a lab,
squashes grow.
- Cotton.
- Cotton grows.
- Where do things grow from?
- Oh, the ground.
- The ground.
Ants grow.
- How does, Simone just put her head down
at the very beginning of this round
or it's something you guys said.
- I feel like okay, so.
- Oh man, there's a lot
that we can go here.
- There's a lot that can happen.
I feel like okay, let's
imagine for a second
that greenhouse was the thing
that she was specifically talking about.
Things you can grow in a greenhouse.
I feel like squash is probably right.
'Cause you can grow...
- Squash is probably uh,
you need the ground in
order for things to grow.
Not necessarily inside of a
greenhouse, necessarily but,
- Yeah.
- But it's not like it's a soil, so.
- We're all internet people here.
We care about sub growth here,
we're trying to get those subscribers.
- Yeah the first one that I saw
after greenhouse was squash.
- Let's do it, let's just go for it.
We're early enough on.
(buzz)
- Aah!
- I'm sorry put my thumb
on the scale there.
I didn't know.
- I was absolutely gonna
tell them it was squash
'cause that did not seem like
it was right at all to me.
- Oh my gosh.
I cannot believe that.
That was so quick.
- Simone, please tell us
what you think grows the most on this.
- It's cotton, right?
- It's cotton, yeah.
- Did you not see squash.
- Verb, squash the verb.
- I got spaghetti squash
on the mind, you know,
I've been cooking that sometimes.
- I totally relate and I acknowledged that
it is my brain that has defeated us.
I was so happy because cotton
was right under greenhouse
and I was like, they're
gonna choose greenhouse
and then they're gonna see cotton
and they're gonna be like, wow.
- It's totally fair that
second meaning sometimes you just...
- It just slips right out.
Yeah you don't grow cotton
in a greenhouse though.
- Yeah, that's...
- That's true.
- And I assume Pat, I
assume barbecue and crash
were the other two clues that you had.
- Yeah, I just missed
beach, I didn't see it.
- Now that's a good I should have assumed
those above beach I think for a pack.
- It could have also been salsa party.
Clayton was right.
- Sure it could have been a Salsa party.
- Honestly, yeah, and
they would have been fine
'cause that is your card.
- (Jenna laughs) That's true.
- Thanks, everybody for joining us.
Thank you Mari for joining
us as our special guest.
Be sure to check her out
as a special correspondent.
Is special correspondent,
is that this specific term?
- Just correspondent.
- Yeah she's pretty special.
- On Quibi's Speedrun.
- Oh, thank you.
You can find me on the
internet @atomicmari.
And yeah, see you around there.
- This has been Overboard
polygons board game show.
Bye y'all.
Bye!
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