Initials: B.W.
Host: Cory Cove
Players: Chris Hawkey, Paul Lambert, AJ Mansour, Patrick (Rube)
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| Item | Name | Correct | Clues | Incorrect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben Wallace | AJ Mansour | 1 | – |
| 2 | Blair Walsh | Paul Lambert | 2 | – |
| 3 | Bill Walton | Paul Lambert | 1 | – |
| 4 | Black Widow | Chris Hawkey | 1 | – |
| 5 | Betty White | Paul Lambert | 5 | AJ Mansour |
| 6 | Best Western | Chris Hawkey | 5 | – |
| 7 | Barbra Walters | Chris Hawkey | 4 | – |
| 8 | Barry White | AJ Mansour | 6 | Paul Lambert |
| 9 | Bill Walsh | Patrick (Rube) | 4 | – |
| 10 | Bruce Willis | Paul Lambert | 4 | Chris Hawkey AJ Mansour |
| 11 | Blue Whale | Patrick (Rube) | 4 | AJ Mansour |
| 12 | Blair Witch | Chris Hawkey | 4 | AJ Mansour |
| TB | Boy Wonder | Chris Hawkey | – | Paul Lambert |
| Place | Player | ✔ | ✘ | 1C | 2C | 3C | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Hawkey | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | Paul Lambert | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| 3 | AJ Mansour | 2 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 3 | Patrick (Rube) | 2 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Notes & Quotes |
|---|
| Patrick (Rube) won the chance to play Initials via the 2015 Sludgeathon. His winning bid was $1,850. |
| Hawk: “Everybody think I’m joking, but I’m not kidding. If I lose this game, especially to Meatsauce, it detracts from my weekend!” |
| Cory, before the first item: “Chris, I’m sorry. Just buckle up. [Number one.] NBA champion—” Hawk: “—COME ON!” |
| Cory: “You want to see fury? Ruin this game for Sauce and he will cut your head off.” |
| AJ: “I was sitting on that one.” Meastauce: “Hawkey got a Groupon for that.” |
| AJ, to Hawkey: “So we get the basketball ones, and you get the sexual cannibalism ones.” |
| Cory: “Patrick has a real nice heart, and that is worth something. It’s not worth any points in the game, but it is worth something.” |
| Two tough misses: AJ guessed “Beluga Whale” for “Blue Whale,” and Meatsauce guessed “Bruce Wayne” for “Boy Wonder.” |
| AJ, after Meatsauce lost the tiebreaker: “Bruce Wayne?!” Meatsauce: “I don’t know. Who cares? Good job, Hawk. Have a good weekend. At least it’s not ruined by a meaningless game.” |
| Meatsauce: “I know one thing: kicking ass in this game.” |
| Cory: “I just will never forget Sauce cheering for you when you got Blair Witch.” Hawk: “Yeah, I don’t know what happened.” Cory: “That backfired.” Meatsauce: “I’m glad he won.” Cory: “Oh yea, we all really believe that.” Meatsauce: “No, for real though, who cares?” AJ: “Tell that to the broken headphones you chucked at the computer.” Meatsauce: “I can hear out of them. Obviously yours are broken. How many times did you guess, once?” Hawk: “God, you are so mean.” Meatsauce: “Of course I’m mean! All you guys do is pile on me!” Meatsauce: “Ohhh, says the guy that rips every one of these guys all day long about how bad they are at this game.” AJ: “All day? How about week!” Hawk: “Yeah, when you win, you send me pictures of your middle finger by text, all weekend.” Meatsauce: “That’s not my finger.” Hawk: “It sure looks like your finger, a pinky finger.” Cory: “A pinky toe.” |
| This was Meatsauce’s first ever tiebreaker loss. |
Game 54: June 12 2015 The Initials Game Show
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Initials: S.A.
Host: Cory Cove
Players: Chris Hawkey, Paul Lambert, AJ Mansour, Ben Leber
| Item | Name | Correct | Clues | Incorrect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Antonio | Paul Lambert | 1 | – |
| 2 | Soul Asylum | Chris Hawkey | 3 | – |
| 3 | South Africa | Chris Hawkey | 2 | – |
| 4 | Sam Adams | Chris Hawkey | 2 | Paul Lambert |
| 5 | Steve Austin | AJ Mansour | 1 | – |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia | AJ Mansour | 2 | – |
| 7 | San Andreas | Chris Hawkey | 2 | – |
| 8 | Sean Alexander | Paul Lambert | 1 | – |
| 9 | South America | Ben Leber | 2 | – |
| 10 | Sleep Apnea | Chris Hawkey | 5 | AJ Mansour |
| 11 | Salvation Army | AJ Mansour | 2 | – |
| 12 | Southwest Airlines | AJ Mansour | 5 | Paul Lambert |
| Place | Player | ✔ | ✘ | 1C | 2C | 3C | BF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Hawkey | 5 | – | – | 3 | 1 | – |
| 2 | AJ Mansour | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – |
| 3 | Paul Lambert | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
| 4 | Ben Leber | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Notes & Quotes |
|---|
| Only 26 clues were read throughout the entire game. (Sauce: “Is there weed in these donuts? What’s going on?) |
| Leber had a “premonition.” He dreamt the night before about the game and thought he could maybe guess the day’s initials before Cory announced them. He was wrong. |
| Hawk: “We don’t hate me; we hate Meatsauce!” |
Game 54: June 12 2015 The Initials Game On
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