The Worst Hint Ever

[@emerald3616]

It was so fucking funny for this hint to be so utterly horrendous and for everyone to be so confused at NL’s logic just for MALF to somehow find the logic word for word.

[@torak49]

Irrefutable proof of nurture over nature. They're not related but growing up in rural Canada wired them similarly.

[@jackl8025]

@@torak49 They also went to high school together. Canadian rivers run deep

[@Aefax]

im in denial and im convinced malf read NL's chat or had the logic fed to him

[@CycleMantis]

They call them operatives, but MALF is definitely an opp

[@coledorillo6685]

SO FUCKING TRUE +2

[@kiltedjade]

NL could have seemed like a reasonable human if he lied and said he just didn't see scarecrow.

[@JesterWDE]

“You had Animal 3” He’s never coming back from that one holy shit

[@ThatGuy-c]

Amazon would have been picked potentially

[@OverlordZenith]

​@@ThatGuy-cover Buffalo, kangaroo, and bee?

[@dontuserachelslurs]

​@@OverlordZenithit's begging malf to say "bees aren't animals they're bugs"

[@GEM4sta]

@@dontuserachelslurs Funnily enough, bug 3 is also not that bad, because you should get Bee, Squash, and then Mass and Box are both reasonable guesses

[@junipre985]

@@GEM4sta squash is a fruit though not a bug

[@k-nun]

This is definitely one of the greats that will be lost on the mainstream. since it's not a short bit. NL silently miming his reactions, losing his mind as MALF initially goes off the rails, then the moment there was a planetary alignment and MALF and NL synced like Pacific rim, and then the moment ended and NL loses his mind again.

[@LordBigSlime]

I want to enjoy this clip so badly because it has so much buildup in it, but I think I just so don't understand the game they're playing that I can't figure out the joke inside of it.

[@hyenamehlk5543]

@@LordBigSlime the field of cards is split into three: orange team, blue team, and neutral with 1 bomb card. Orange and Blue captains can see the whole playing field, and teammates can see the words but NOT the colors. the goal is for the captain to lead the teammates to selecting the most correct color word cards without using one of the words on the field. if they select any other color besides their own, the turn ends. if they select the bomb card, the game ends. the captain will give a prompt with CLUE, NUMBER, with the NUMBER referring to the number of cards related to the CLUE.

[@hotving]

"You can't be mad about that, war is fine." Ryan "NorthernLion" Leterneau, 2023

[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

Birdie -> bird -> beak -> leak -> gas leak Using NL's own logic model, I think he's trying to tell us to send help

[@michaualtington]

no fucking way

[@GEM4sta]

This is old AF but probably the funniest part of this is that birdie and gas leak are actually pretty closely connected and it would be a good clue, canary in a coal mine.

[@Aidprimero]

Gas leak era going to another level

[@seaofscissors]

from the person who brought you "there really are only 8 types of animals" we present "badminton squash tennis and pickleball are all racket sports"

[@hmm_okok]

to be fair to him malf got it perfect they just didnt click always be clicking

[@KyoPewz]

@@hmm_okok except for when you be slam clicking hawaii when u think the rock is from hawaii but hes actually not, dont be clicking then

[@loggersviii1228]

aren’t they, though?

[@peytonalexander5300]

Yeah, but only one of those is a true statement.

[@SimonDoer]

​@@loggersviii1228the rock is from samoa not hawaii

[@svenpoletka5236]

Malf was forced to understand him with time

[@kuatokuatokuato]

of course birdie makes sense for scarecrow, its the name of the scarecrow in bad fur day. he's called birdie because "I scare the birds"

[@Blobertbigly]

"Beardy? But you haven't got a beard?" My first thought as well, Conkers Bad Fur Day Scarecrow Birdie

[@DynnJavier]

This is one of the most infuriating clips ever. Subscribed

[@WikiED]

NL's clues while they do connect to what he is going for, it requires so many leaps you can reach different answers with amount of these leaps. NL is not bad at connecting things, he is just atrocious at considering alternative connections you could make.

[@Ulticow]

my mortal mind can't comprehend the ideas nl is trying to convey in this clip

[@eyecatcher647]

This is one of the NL moments of all time

[@PhantomThiefXI]

giving CBT 2 as a hint and have my operatives correctly guess clock flat

[@oatmonster]

Holy +2

[@papabaddad]

Hawaii was an absolutely abysmal guess lmfao

[@brendan7030ify]

Birdie to squash is an insane leap

[@CycleMantis]

I pegged the clue immediately, and still thought it was absolutely insane.

[@MM-vs2et]

I mean as a badminton player, my mind immediately went to that, and squash shortly after. But yeah, badminton player is not a general criteria

[@cosmic3689]

u see malf highlight hawaii and u just know hes gonna send it 2nd immediately just like the previous guess even though the logic is way more tenuous and u have like at least 3 things from previous turns as good guesses, some of which also work for multiple of them .

[@isaactfa]

Am I so out of touch? No, it's the operatives who are wrong.

[@reccaman]

Gotta love it when ryan gets audited

[@nottherealnorthernlion9893]

sanest Librarian thumbnail keep up the great work 👍🥤

[@NolenJacobson]

Scarecrow is the obvious reason why the clue is bad, but any normal person would also think about cuckoo clocks or the Amazon rainforest for birdie before a sport that doesn't use birdies and a movie from half a decade ago with no cultural impact that doesn't have birdie in its name.

[@GrapeManFan]

they just made a birdbox sequel

[@deetvleet]

no cultural impact??? you don't remember the viral birdbox challenge?

[@Zooropa_Station]

I also thought of tuxedo for penguins.

[@CrackedDota]

I still do not believe there's a chance Malf made that leap on his own. How the fuck do you get past the clear hurdle that there is no such thing as a birdie in squash

[@peytonalexander5300]

It's more that he miraculously came up with both "Box" and "Squash" at the same exact time, quoting Ryan's exact logic as to why he selected them. Chat definitely tipped him off, and it's not like it really matters at all, but it's so obvious lol. He even gets defensive when he's challenged on them because he knows they're right.

[@sirondium]

Birdie for squash is easy enough, though maybe I've just played too much of this game, it's box and scarecrow that really pulled the clue apart.

[@heysimone]

They’ve been close friends since grade school, i buy that they soul linked

[@coledorillo6685]

NL and MALF are childhood friends. Pacific Rim neural link type shit

[@TBH_Inc]

​@@peytonalexander5300 So his chat wasn’t just saying the answer but also NL’s logic, Malf read that logic topic in chat, then announced that logic for 2/3. And then immediately moved on, not guessing it or anything? Seems kinda a stretch, I don’t see why he could’ve have just made a guess about what his friends clue was supposed to mean, even if other people were struggling to connect them?

[@demujo]

11:48 ICANT HE SAID THE WORD WRONG ICANT HE LOSES

[@highlandersteve9953]

don't pick the bird related ones except the ones i want you to pick i have officially matriculated NL into the tism community

[@rhythmicshooter318]

He is not beating the "Worst spymaster" allegations.

[@lr-]

The facecam expressions just keep coming holy shit its so good

[@protogon]

11:48 classic he said the word wrong moment

[@gungy_vt]

"War, you can't be mad about that, war is fine"

[@fungusfungi5900]

Birdie sucks but after responding to animal 3 with “that’s boring” I’m starting to respect it

[@pwndnoob4937]

I mean, he had "living" for 5, which would be way better than anything he's ever done.

[@FranXiT]

​@@pwndnoob4937 I'm sorry but... Soldier, Kangaroo, Buffalo, Bee.... and what's the 5th one? Don't get me wrong 4 is still insane for codenames, but I can't find the 5th living word, and if I had to throw in a guess I'd say root, but it's not red, so yea I don't get it.

[@ertchin]

@@FranXiT Squash, the vegetable. (or fruit or gourd or whatever it is)

[@FranXiT]

@@ertchin dude. Root is way more living than squash. People hear squash and think of the action. Should be living 4 tbh

[@ertchin]

@@FranXiT dude. I was just answering your question. People hear "Buffalo" and think of the city. Root is a good reason that "living 5" isn't a slam dunk. All these things are true.

[@ChadEichhorn]

it wasn't until 7:10 that I realized NL was clueing for the red words. All his clues made perfect sense for the blue words 😂

[@jenm1]

His crutch is hockey teams when they only seem to know a couple lol

[@the_beast_and_the_sovereign]

"Squash" applies more to wrestling than it does "birdie," a "squash match" is a very common term for a booked match where a popular/strong competitor gets put against a jobber/nobody to make him look stronger.

[@astrid9920]

7:13 DRIFT COMPATIBLE

[@stained_scutcheon]

it was the best of MALF; it was the worst of MALF.

[@mauricioacevedo9175]

mfers really mentioned all the words they hadn't gotten yet then proceeded to go with the death word instead

[@OopsAllFrench]

The moral of the story is to learn about the Polynesian Islands.

[@itsmaddiebee]

To be fair to MALF, while the Rock is Samoan, he did spend some of his high school years in Hawai’i.

[@Q_z_]

Bro could've just hit em with the "Biological 5" and it would've been the greatest play but instead we got "Birdie 3" and got something even better. Just goes to show god knows whats best

[@scp3999]

birdies and the (b)ees = bee box buffalo i wouldn't have budged on it

[@jonashall7322]

the cam is amazing

[@Taylor-gb5gf]

insane that he figured out all the clues and then just didn't click them

[@vegabega]

This man is just in another level

[@JWar-]

Wresting = Action Figure? Dude, Wrestling = Figure-Four Leglock

[@aernlor]

She doesn't need to smoke weed before she goes to Walmart, she wants to

[@kineticcat5557]

Librarian's thumbnails are the best on youtube

[@MajorCrasher]

I still wanna know what sabre has to do with buffalo

[@NotASummoner]

Buffalo sabres is an NHL team.

[@MajorCrasher]

@@NotASummoner of course it is 🤣

[@Forbizz]

Kory is the imposter

[@garrettw6532]

Remarkable thumbnail, as always.

[@Zedd8787]

I saw this live, but I still had to watch it again XD

[@TheSpamSlam]

The Birdie Incident

[@TheMacaroniPanda]

I would do these types of clues so I can't be mad

[@crunchs0ft]

his brain is just like mine

[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

Birdie in a Box ISAAC REFERENCE 👈😲

[@vortex_master]

EGG WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!

[@Tallglassofsoymilk]

Dog NL should just HIRE librarian

[@SomeGuy-tr2hi]

God I love NLSS Crew Codenames

[@shantheman9922]

Also Australian slang ends in ie so it could've been kangaroo too

[@SirValoso]

Peak neurodivergent arc

[@nicholasbeshel813]

The fucking thumbgot me😅

[@SemiIocon]

I would also not have gotten that, lol.

[@Precious_Jules]

Cannot believe the 1st clue wasn’t animals 3

[@jacobnussbaum2309]

He is beating the hinged allegations (he is unhinged)

[@sscswimmer1]

I don't know what any of this shit is and I'm fucking scared

[@dangerchrist123]

Mf could've hit Squash and Kangaroo with Court

[@Queasy.]

NL possibly the worst clue giver in history. Why didn't he just go animal 3?

[@Ant12468]

SQASH ICANT

[@B2Roland]

Don't pick scarecrow because i said birdie pick box because it has bird in it! WHAT

[@salayah8443]

ok maybe i’m neurodivergent because i thought the birdie clue was perfect i would’ve done nl right

[@espresseaux]

"Animal 3" was right there.

[@jeremy.N]

Why not just go animal 3, there are only 3 animals ahhh

[@cobaltbeau]

i want you to connect birdie to bird for birdbox and NOT scarecrow is hilarious

[@mysticjuicer01]

he's unhinged

[@Gorbgorbenson]

I was 100% with NL and Malf when it came to Squash. As someone who knows nothing about squash 😂 The birdie and the bee and the birdie box was insane though

[@Chororoar]

Can anyone explain this game to me? I never played it

[@lukaf5]

The full rules are available on the game's official site (where you can play it for free). It's codenames (place a dot here) game The short version in my own words: Players split into RED and BLUE teams. Every team has one Spymaster. The game board is a 5x5 grid of words. Every word is either RED Agent, BLUE Agent, An Innocent or An Assassin. Only the Spymasters know who is who, but they cannot communicate it normally to their teams. Every turn, the Spymaster gives his team a one-word hint that cannot be on the board already. Together with the hint, the Spymaster gives them a number, that correlates to the number of Operatives connected to the hint. It can be 0, it can be Infinity. Then, the rest of the team picks between 1 and one-more-than-the-number-Spymaster-gave words on the board. * If they pick the Assassin, they instantly lose. * If they pick their Agent, they can continue. * If they pick An Innocent, their turn ends. * If they pick an enemy Agent, their turn ends. First team to have all their Agents revealed wins.

[@moldybongwater3808]

board of 25 words. each team has 8 of the words. the spymaster's goal is to give a one-word clue that connects as many of their team's words together as possible, in order for their teammates to guess all their words before the other team. 8 of the remaining words are neutral, they don't award points but accidentally guessing one would end your turn, kinda like missing a shot in battleship. the last word is the death word which, if guessed, ends the game immediately giving the win to the other team.

[@Funkyent]

Wrestling and KANGAROO. WHAT

[@Mulch4321]

sqwaahsh

[@json_bourne3812]

I'd the mad about "War" - if I were given a clue for just 2 options, got Soldier, and then saw War, I would think: "why wouldn't you use a more obvious war-related word to get these two, if these were the intended answers?"

[@Nightknight1992]

so let me get this straight - he had to use birdie, so he gets squash, and it isnt bird for scarecrow ... and his other 2 hints were birds and bees and birdbox????????

[@WalterKay]

Ryan is possibly the worst codenmes player I have ever heard of But I have heard of him

[@professormagma4287]

Not NL using birdie when he could’ve just said animal

[@drflaggstaff9008]

I don't even understand how this game works but I know Ryan is bad at

[@SaintSabre]

SQASH

[@superguy183828]

It's not a bad clue when your teammates literally say out loud the full logic. Animal 3 is better because it's more obvious, but they fully figured out and vocalized birdie 3. But wrestling 6 kinda cracked. I don't know how they talked themselves into Hawaii for wrestling, but otherwise they'd have caught up

[@NytFantom]

It's not a great clue either though when 2 out of the 3 still relate back to bird. You know... the very thing he was trying to avoid with scarecrow. You really can't blame them for picking that.

[@acemind1]

That's not how this game works. You're just picking the correct logic. They also said out loud logic that leads to almost any clue on the board based on birdie.

[@GolemCC]

@@acemind1 Yeah, this exactly. You can't say "well it was a good clue because at one point they said out loud what the answer might be, because they said almost every word on the board as what it might be. It's not like once you say it it's locked in. You still gotta pick which connection you thought of is the right one!

[@Psycho5275]

Hawaii used to be a big wrestling territory. Malf mentions The Rock who isn't actually from Hawaii but the Rock's Father/Uncle Mother and Maternal Grandfather all have ties to Pro Wrestling in Hawaii. Kind of a big leap, but it isn't total Moon Logic

[@superguy183828]

@@acemind1 well, I didn't say it was a good clue. If it was a great clue, they would have guessed only the correct answers. If it was a good clue, they would guess some correct answers. If it's a bad clue, they wouldn't understand what you are going for and guess opponent answers. He was in the ballpark because they vocalized his logic. Obviously it wasn't a great clue, because they didn't guess the right answers.

[@bradwurst8141]

Great video when you dont understand the game theyre playing at ALL

[@peytonalexander5300]

I like how they're giving NL so much shit for expecting them to have such roundablut logic for the answers, but then they use the most insane, broken logic ever to somehow glean "Hawaii" from "Wrestling".

[@Swingel]

Look up the Anoa'i family (which includes the Rock Johnson). They are all from Hawaii (well they lived there at least) and had a lot of shows there. The Young Rock tv show plays there too.

[@peytonalexander5300]

@@Swingel That doesn't make the logic any less ridiculous. That would be like giving the word "Dictator" to try to get someone to guess "Amazon" because Hugo Chaves was the dictator of Venezuela.

[@tanngrisnr5076]

he was right.

[@OverlordZenith]

Mfw he could have said animal and got buffalo, kangaroo, and bee no problem

[@strangeshotgun]

I still think about how bad BIRDIE 3 was.

[@lukaspip10]

im with chat, what the fuck is birdbox?

[@kingcrimson4133]

it was an extremely popular movie in ~2018, the image of the characters wearing blindfolds became a meme for a few months. if you're older than 20 and you're american ask any of your peers if they've seen it

[@lukaspip10]

@@kingcrimson4133 then what the fuck is birdiebox?

[@jamesmccomb9525]

You really need to edit the chat in these clips to be later. They're LUL-ing at stuff we haven't even seen in the video yet.

[@drixiss]

absolutely horrendous guessers lmao holy shit, hawaiian and scarecrow?? The clues weren't even bad

[@WSLSolo]

Apollo is so obnoxious lol, I can't stand watching him in group content

[@RockAli22]

Agree, obnoxious, whiney and almost never funny. Everyone else is always chill.

[@parsnipappendectomy]

which voice is apollo

[@monster_misfire]

It's crazy how rational and logical NL is in something like React Court, yet he consistently gives the most unhinged clues in Codenames history