arrow_circle_left arrow_circle_up arrow_circle_right
Wizards' Duel
help
I think I'll just repeat what I said in the chat:

You have two teams of wizards. In order to make a move you must change shape into a creature or thing that beats, defeats or otherwise trumps whatever the other side has just changed into. So you might get a sequence like

Wizards: Elephant
Witches: Mouse
Wizards: Cat
Witches: Dog
Wizards: B - A - T - H
Witches: Telephone

at which point I have to admit I'm stumped so presumably the witches win that round.

arrow_circle_up
goldenrod
A written response to the opposition
aqua
Illiteracy
Olive
More investment in education
Goldenrod
A Tax Hike
white
The Cayman Islands
Goldenrod
High-speed, Cyclic Storm Systems
Azure
Temperate Climate
Goldenrod
Flatulent Fresians
aqua
A Dog With No Nose
white
Korean Chef
[juxt] How does it differentiate odours?
Green
Béarnaise
[Simons Mith] With great difficulty.
BurlyWood
Grizzly Béarnaise
Azure
Rotting Salmon
Green
A fish and chip shop
aqua
A Health & Safety Inspector
Olive
A machete
Puce
A sword
Goldenrod
A pen
Green
Writer's block
Azure
Single Malt
Green
Coca-cola and a slice of lime
[Just a thought] If Coca-cola "beats" Single Malt, this iteration of the game has no winning move. I'm not much of a drinker and I loathe scotch, but I can't make a case for Coke beats Glen Invercockileekie other than in the most narrow circumstances.
[SM] I was thinking much the same thing myself. Perhaps we should give this round to the Azure team?
Okay with me.
[SM^2] No, I think you missed my point. Coca-cola and lime defeats single malt by being mixed with it.
[CdM] Ah. But that introduces another quandry, namely: is the next move supposed to beat "Coca Cola and a slice of lime" or "Single Malt mixed with Coca Cola and a slice of lime"?
[SM} Presumably the wizard that had previously taken the form of single malt now has to change into something else, so it is just the Coca-cola + lime that needs to be defeated,
Puce
All right then, rum and coca cola.
*Bewildered* With, or without, a slice of lime?:/
Lime
A ten-tonne lime come on, draw a line under it!
Olive
A candle
Green
The wind
Goldenrod
A bit of stripey canvas nailed to four wooden stakes.
Azure
A match
[all] In this gale? :)
aqua
A rematch
FIFA
Olive Drab
FOFUM
Olive
A beanstalk
Goldenrod
Agent Orange
Azure
Mr White
Puce
Professor Plum
Green
Lead piping in the kitchen
Olive
Health and Safety
Puce
Common sense
Goldenrod
An embedded hyperlink
aqua
Your nephew, who despite being only eight knows more about computers than you ever will
Azure
Napalm - It's the only language they understand.
Puce
Fuel-Air Explosives
aqua
The cold vacuum of space
Green
The total perspective vortex
Olive
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Puce
Ace Rimmer. What a guy.
Olive
Victory for Simons Mith I feel.
Puce
Thank you. I was quite pleased with that one.
Marmite
aqua
Dynamite
Azure
Jamiroquai
Lime
A ten-tonne lime
Puce
The invincibility of the ten-tonne lime is something that surprises me, but I haven't thought of a satisfactory counter. Time to award this one to Tuj … and put the game into storage ready for next time.
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Simons Mith
Puce
… An eleven tonne lime. Dammit, l'esprit d'escalier rides again.
aqua
All I could think of was Lyme disease.
Lime
A million gallons of G&T? But that'd just be getting silly, eh?
goldenrod
I'm a tad rusty in my French. I translate l'esprit d'escalier as "the phantom staircase". This is obviously a cunning metaphor for something to do with eleven tonne limes (or perhaps twenty-one tonnes of limes), but the meaning escapes me.
L'esprit d'escalier
It's an idiom for thinking of some witty retort just after the last moment.
#66FFCC
Isn't it "the spirit of the staircase?"
Puce
Let's start a new one. An eleven tonne lime
An industrial lime-squeezer
Blue
A hell of a lot of Mojito Mix
puce
Prohibition
Blue
President Franklin Roosevelt
aqua
A Fourth Term
Lime
The Fourth Estate
#66FFCC
The Saudi Monarchy
Lime
The taliban.
#66FFCC
Bacon.
Blue
A London Cabbie
Blue
Want to play? Online Crescenteering lives on at Discord