tl;dr: I played a game with strangers, made a (correct) judgement call, and a guy on my team got so put off by me not gaining team agreement that he quit and left the board game room
So anyway the gist of codenames. You have a grid, like 6x5 or something of cards with random words on them. Kangaroo, compound, poison, sink, shoe, etc. were examples.
Two teams. Each team has a code master. The code masters see a layout of which words are their team's words and which words are the other team's words, and which are neutral.
On your team's turn, the code master gives a single clue word, along with a number which indicates how many of your team's words are supposed to connect to that clue. You talk amongst yourselves and decide which words your clue master is indicating, and touch one at a time. As soon as you touch a word which isn't your team's word, your turn ends and passes to the other team.
I'd met some people and was playing this game. Having a good time, it's 4am, whatever, we're all saying dumb shit and not really caring how the game goes. Just laughing.
Well one time our clue from our code master was "Dancing, 2", meaning 2 words on the grid which are our team's words correlate to dancing. One word was "square", which we all immediately agreed upon and touched it and had it confirmed correct. So then we had to decide on the other word.
One of the words was "shoe", and I was like "Ok, it's clearly shoe, right guys?" I can't possibly remember the full grid but the other words were like...bell, force, sink, compound, kangaroo, platypus, dog, row, cross...idk, like 10 other words which just had no chance of being correct. I said each word aloud and nobody could present a case for a word other than shoe. My two teammates continued scratching their heads thinking hard. After like 30 more seconds I basically repeated myself and was like "how can it not be shoe?" Again nobody had an answer but they just WEREN'T READY to commit or agree.
Out of impatience I just touched the "shoe" card without their consent. Our code master was like "finally" and marked a point indicating I was correct. But my teammates were so put off by me not gaining their approval first that one of them literally got up and left the board game room and did not return. Under the basis of since it was my first time playing the game, I obviously didn't have the authority to make such an audacious call. Even though I was literally confirmed right immediately, and it was a blatantly obvious clue.
This is way off topic really but I just had to vent about that. Jesus.