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One-word clue games · editions

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Mary Christmas ↗

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Game / activity

One-word parade balloons

Led by Curtis

Participants give a one-word clue to a desired pop-culture balloon; the others guess. Curtis explains the rules; the recording identifies the clue givers and guessers below. No score or overall winner is stated.

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What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded contributions

4 attributed voices

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Curtis

Cat: a Hello Kitty character

Curtis gives “cat.” Ryan thinks he means his own cat. Sneha guesses Hello Kitty and Ryan guesses the cat from Cats; both are rejected. Curtis distinguishes his pet from the cartoon character after which it is named; the revealed name is confirmed as “Karobi,” preserved with that spelling.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Ryan

Invisible: John Cena

Ryan gives “invisible”; Brad answers John Cena and is told he nailed it, confirmed in the recording.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

RyanSource excerpt ↗ 52:23–52:32

Who says the clue “invisible”?

uh invisible john cena yes no you nailed it god nerds you guys know each other way too well i don't

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Brad(ley)

Lasagna: Garfield

Brad gives “lasagna.” Ryan answers Garfield first, Curtis repeats the answer, and it receives confirmation.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 52:32–52:38

Who says the second word transcribed “Carfield” immediately after the first guess? If ASR duplicated a word and there is no separate audible utterance, choose that status.

Garfield.

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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Sneha

Monument: the Seattle Space Needle

Sneha gives “monument.” Curtis offers Washington Monument as an example or question; Ryan guesses Mount Rushmore, which is rejected. Curtis first proposes the Martin Luther King monument; Brad proposes the Chicago bean, preserving the owner’s wording. Ryan proposes Statue of Liberty, Curtis guesses Discord (rejected), and Ryan guesses Dr. Frasier Crane. Sneha…

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Sneha gives “monument.” Curtis offers Washington Monument as an example or question; Ryan guesses Mount Rushmore, which is rejected. Curtis first proposes the Martin Luther King monument; Brad proposes the Chicago bean, preserving the owner’s wording. Ryan proposes Statue of Liberty, Curtis guesses Discord (rejected), and Ryan guesses Dr. Frasier Crane. Sneha then reveals the Seattle Space Needle, linked to the show’s Christmas-tree opening. The recording confirms this is the clue giver revealing the answer, not a successful guess.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

SnehaSource excerpt ↗ 52:38–52:50

Who says “I don't think it's gonna be a person, I think it's gonna be a monument”?

yep i was better than ryan i wasn't now bring us home i don't think it's gonna be a person i think it's gonna be a monument what is that your one word is monument yeah like the washington monument

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 52:44–52:50

Who guesses “like the Washington Monument”?

it's gonna be a monument what is that your one word is monument yeah like the washington monument

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

RyanSource excerpt ↗ 52:50–52:56

Who asks “is it Mount Rushmore”?

is it mount rushmore no i feel like the most recent monument in dc was the martin luther king

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 52:50–53:01

Who suggests the Martin Luther King monument as the most recent DC monument?

is it mount rushmore no i feel like the most recent monument in dc was the martin luther king monument are you are you doing martin luther king who said it was the most recent one chicago b do we

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

RyanSource excerpt ↗ 53:01–53:05

Who suggests the Statue of Liberty?

have any other hint why was the statue of liberty it's why we're all conversing today oh that's

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

SnehaSource excerpt ↗ 53:01–53:05

Who gives the hint “it's why we're all conversing today”?

have any other hint why was the statue of liberty it's why we're all conversing today oh that's

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

RyanSource excerpt ↗ 53:05–53:15

Who guesses “Dr. Frasier Crane”?

confusing discord no dr fraser craint the seattle space needle you guys we started the show with the

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

SnehaSource excerpt ↗ 53:05–53:15

Sneha reveals the Seattle Space Needle

confusing discord no dr fraser craint the seattle space needle you guys we started the show with the

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

SnehaSource excerpt ↗ 53:05–53:21

Who says “we started the show with the Space Needle that's lit up like the Christmas tree”?

confusing discord no dr fraser craint the seattle space needle you guys we started the show with the space needle that's lit up like the christmas tree new plan we are no longer you can still shoot the

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailable

The Space Needle revises the float

The group changes the Santa-popping mechanism: a horizontal Space Needle balloon will approach and puncture demon Santa. Sneha is explicitly credited with suggesting the heart; the others discuss an approach from behind. No physical action is implied.

A Day in May ↗

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Game / activity

Supply, a Demand

Source excerpt ↗ 34:26–48:43

Led by Curtis

How this one works

How it works
  1. Respond to a prompt with an irrational demand expressed as a single word.
Objective
  1. The other participants try to work out what the demand means.
Recorded activity context

All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend.…

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All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend. What if we only think rationally? He's asking for me. I'm asking for Brad. In that case, you would be Spock, but you don't watch Star Trek, so I don't think that's right. No, no, I'm asking for Brad. A very normal, regular human being. Someone you barely trust, like Roz, wants to borrow your car. What do you irrationally demand, Ryan? Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.

RESULT STATUS

This one was not a competition.

Taking part: CurtisBrad(ley)Ryan

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What everyone brought to the table · 8 recorded exchanges

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RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 35:03–35:15

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What do you irrationally demand, Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:27–36:35

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Brad(ley), what's your word?

Question / challenge

Flower. Is Brad the kind of guy who just wants a nice bouquet? That does sound like an irrational Brad thing. Like he would call it a power move.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:28–36:39

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Is Brad(ley) the kind of guy who just wants a nice bouquet?

Question / challenge

That does sound like an irrational Brad thing. Like he would call it a power move. Like, ah, I made them give me a bouquet of flowers. It really threw them off.

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RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:08–37:17

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Brad(ley), are we, can we go warmer, colder?

Question / challenge

You guys are warm. You have two separate ideas that you just got to combine into one, but you're close. You're warm. You want a bouquet of weed?

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 38:11–38:19

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Curtis, what's yours?

Question / challenge

My word is duck. You're willing to lend them your car, but when they drive by ducks on the road, they have to quack. Doesn't make sense. Not in an irrational way.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 42:15–42:29

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Can you stop eating food while talking, Brad(ley)?

Question / challenge

That's what Curtis calls funerals. That's funny. What's the irrational answer, though? He wasn't answering for the game. He was just informing you about my habits. You demand that your significant other also calls a funeral a finale.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 46:32–46:40

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Well, he would just call Brad Harbor, right?

Question / challenge

He doesn't he doesn't apply the lead. Yeah, you're in his name. There's no way he would demand that. That's too irrational. You're right. It would be Brad.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 46:54–47:06

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That is like extremely Brad(ley), though, isn't it?

Question / challenge

Sure is a good answer. Thank you. You guys did well on this. Ryan, bring us help. Two. Your irrational thing is you with two of every animals because then you want to take them

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Source excerpt ↗ 34:09–49:06

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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 35:03

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What do you irrationally demand, Ryan Sansone?

Wiggle.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:27

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Brad(ley), what's your word?

Flower.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:08

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Brad(ley), are we, can we go warmer, colder?

You guys are warm.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:16

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You want a bouquet of weed?

No, it is my attempt at a power move, Curtis, and it does involve marijuana.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 39:32

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I designed a game in which at least my first answer followed the prompt.

That is revolutionary.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 40:47

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What would it be?

What would it be?

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 42:16

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Can you stop eating food while talking, Brad?

That's what Curtis calls funerals.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 42:29

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Is that what it is?

It's not that.

View source wording — how it was explained on the show
  • All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend. What if we only think rationally? He's asking for me. I'm asking for Brad. In that case, you would be Spock, but you don't watch Star Trek, so I don't think that's right. No, no, I'm asking for Brad. A very normal, regular human being. Someone you barely trust, like Roz, wants to borrow your car. What do you irrationally demand, Ryan? Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.
  • A moderator reads questions or prompts and players answer them for points.
  • And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean.
  • Maybe you need to like, but you have to like jiggle the keys to get them in or something.
  • I think your seat's so broken, you kind of have to like wiggle into the driver's seat.
  • When you put a car seat in, you have to get it very secure and firm.
  • I mean, I can get that thing cinched in, but you really have to, you have to fight the damn
  • You have to go to bed.
  • says you don't have to.
  • I just need to know you would.
  • I think we need to tell us.
  • You don't have to manage Monopoly money.
  • There are shows that will test me, but they have to be really bad like that.
  • Oh, your irrational request is they have to watch every episode of the TV show The Crown?
  • Just to clarify, Brad, what you're asking for doesn't have to help with the hostages.

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Game / activity

One for All

Source excerpt ↗ 59:20–1:15:11

Facilitator not identified in the reviewed source.

How this one works

How to play
  1. Now we are going to answer some questions that are based on some of the storylines in this episode.
  2. However, our answers will only be one word long.
Context and recorded outcome
  1. But even that's like, I don't know where I just go get like a Pittsburgh shirt. Okay. Shall we do another question? Let's do another question. What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off? Should I keep going first? Sarah, all your answer is terrible. Yes. Tire. Your car? It has to be your car. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing else that is tire. Okay. A little bit more specific. Your tire pressure? Because you never drive? It can't be tire pressure. It would just deflate, right? It's got to be. I mean, he never drives anywhere, so it could have been deflated for like a month. No, he's probably just worn his tread to like zero. Okay.

RESULT STATUS

This one was not a competition.

Taking part: CurtisBrad(ley)Ryan

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What everyone brought to the table · 8 recorded exchanges

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RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:53–1:00:58

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Is it Ryan? Water. Oh. You don't drink enough water? Yeah, I guess. No?

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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:54–1:01:04

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Is it Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Water. Oh. You don't drink enough water? Yeah, I guess. No? If you're trying to fix something, it'll be something like you have something wrong with the water line in your house.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:27–1:01:43

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

To quickly go back to Curtis's, isn't this one that we're, like, putting off?

Question / challenge

Correct. He's putting off the birth of his daughter. I'm putting off breaking the water? Okay. No, I just got a water pipe backed up in the main sink of my bathroom, like the one that I use.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:02:19–1:02:27

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Brad(ley), what about yours?

Question / challenge

This could be so embarrassing. Okay, I'll go with this one. This one's more fun. You can see. It's going to be so embarrassing and then not know what you're going to say.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:59–1:08:09

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Is it exactly what Curtis said?

Question / challenge

I wouldn't say exactly, but close. Is it? Okay. I mean, there's no other use of it. I, I guess the, I guess the other version would be less about the labels and just about

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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:09:50–1:10:01

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Uh, Ryan Sansone, do you have one for us?

Question / challenge

Can I do a reverse one for this? Oh, interesting. It's not really the prompt, but I'll allow it. Um, fun. You're not good at being fun when you're drunk?

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:11:35–1:11:46

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Brad(ley), what, what is yours?

Question / challenge

Let's bring this home. Defending. Oh boy. You're not good at defending anything. So it's hard. I don't think, I don't think you become a worse athlete sober.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:13:10–1:13:27

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And now Brad(ley), why don't you tell us how to use that?

Question / challenge

When we cover the previous episode of season one, episode seven. Freddy's birthday. Frasier will get really excited about spending Freddy's birthday with him, but instead he will get into some weird snafu and miss the whole entire party and then Freddy will be

The rest of the round record

13 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 2 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

Recorded turns
Source excerpt ↗ 59:01–1:15:12

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:27

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

To quickly go back to Curtis's, isn't this one that we're, like, putting off?

Correct.

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Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:02:19

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Brad(ley), what about yours?

This could be so embarrassing.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:18

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The game is not, it's not, what do you get sick of?

That's not the round.

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:59

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Is it exactly what Curtis said?

I wouldn't say exactly, but close.

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Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:09:59

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You're not good at being fun when you're drunk?

So he's saying reverse.

Source alternatives (2)

Matching wording within the same recorded interval supports these overlaps. They are not additional primary exchanges.

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  • But even that's like, I don't know where I just go get like a Pittsburgh shirt. Okay. Shall we do another question? Let's do another question. What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off? Should I keep going first? Sarah, all your answer is terrible. Yes. Tire. Your car? It has to be your car. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing else that is tire. Okay. A little bit more specific. Your tire pressure? Because you never drive? It can't be tire pressure. It would just deflate, right? It's got to be. I mean, he never drives anywhere, so it could have been deflated for like a month. No, he's probably just worn his tread to like zero. Okay.
  • Participants perform a structured creative or improvisational activity tied to the episode. No competitive scoring or winner is stated.
  • What is something you need to fix, but keep putting off?
  • So, I think there's a very slow leak that I just need to get either fixed or replace the wheel, but I just haven't.
  • Ooh, you need to hire somebody.
  • What would you need to fix?
  • I have to assume you're just bastardizing the word for hosting.
  • And I think that you maybe have to do a decent amount of returns and that requires like boxing
  • during the summer and I lose so much weight during the summer that I really need to rationalize
  • Um, I need to like ration out my calories a little better because what happens is,
  • And then I, and then I get super tired and I need to like better prioritize.
  • I want, I just need to see this in live.
  • You have to have fun here.
  • I'll have to text him.