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Game 108: Codenames Pictures

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Codenames Pictures  is a game played by two teams, each of which has a spymaster who provides one-word clues in an attempt to guide their team members to select as many cards as possible in the set they are tasked with finding.  The cards represent locations of secret agents, and the team members are field operatives seeking to find these agents.  It's quite challenging and demands a lot of creativity to come up with one word connecting as many of the correct cards as possible while at the same time not leading team members to select incorrect cards.  More on all this in a moment. First a story about how we came to play this game last night.  I visited a dear friend yesterday afternoon (with proper social-distancing, of course), and while talking she used the word "dauphin" completely naturally in the midst of conversation.  That made me ridiculously happy! "Dauphin" is one of the words I've used as a clue in this game in the past, only to find that my