Best Idea of the Night

One of the ways to gain personal experience points or Hero Points or even possibly a few Sanity Points. This award is given out to the person whose creative on-the-spot thinking, problem solving, or pointing out of the obvious was able to "save yer ass" in a meaningful way without rolling a single die. Compare to Worst Idea of the Night.
==Best Idea of the Night==
===Season One===
Episode Eight: "Hey, can I summon zombies into the hole?" -- Ethan, faced with a large hole in the ship.
===Season Three===
Episode Three: "Try that number sequence again." Jaxil, decoding "you will find my victory under water" in The Nautilus.
Episode Eight: "Oh...that's...that's mine. Here, let me...play you...something..." Shiolay, attempting to play Tobo's banjo to divert attention from Port Brogan's newest rockstar. Also won Worst Idea of the Night.
===Season Six===
Episode Five: "Nosrep fle lalah!" -- Gabriel Tanarruk opening the door to hell on a wild guess.
===Season Seven===
Episode Three: "Maybe it's chess notation?" -- Ethan, on the organ puzzle. Also won Worst Idea of the Night.
Episode Seven: Shared among the party for solving the chess puzzle. All of them. Repeatedly. Individually.
Episode Eight: Shared among the party for solving the dream puzzle.
Episode Eleven: "How much extra gold would he need to take a detour over the yuan-ti village?" -- Ashra, hiding the theft of the delver from the drow.
===Season Eight===
Episode Two: "Don't fucking read the red runes on the side of that crate, I swear to god..." -- Valera Oak III, on those special runes.
Episode Three: "I am a sign from the god of Kord! Fear my quack!" -- the duck-omen.
===Season Nine===
Season Premiere: "Autofellatio." -- Apple's idea for a Greater Command for Leilah to use on Malicor.
Episode Two: Using Speak with Dead to interview Marcus Fairlan's corpse -- Leilah
Episode Three: Go to Landinis to blow off some steam, which ended up with accidentally stumbling into the Scarlet Brotherhood's secret hiding place -- Ethan
Episode Four: Grab the cannon, spin it around, and use it to blow up the other cannon -- Leilah
: (Runner up: Muffling the dwarf's mouth before he could repeat the Power Word Kill or similar spell the party just spent a Hero Point to undo -- Ashra)
Episode Five: Figuring out the final piece of the chess notation puzzle -- Ethan
Episode Six: "Try 'Nosrep Fle Lalah'!" -- Ethan, on how to open the door out of the fake Wroth's End.
Episode Seven: "Try 'E 5 red black silver..." -- Ashra, on Marcus's safe.
Episode Nine: "Ask if there are currently any fates under Point North." -- Ashra, suggesting questions for Anahita.
Episode Ten: Using Acid-substituted Lightning Bolt and patches of ice on the ground to make nerve gas over most of the battlefield -- Ashra
Episode Eleven: Working out through logic that Alphabet had put SR-damaging poison in the tea he sent her -- Ashra
Season Finale: Praying to Yarnwell and getting rescued by eagles so he could return refreshed -- Kruglor
===Season Ten===
Season Premiere: Immersing the Hand of Vecna in a blood-filled Chalice of St. Cuthbert -- Ashra
Episode Two: Discovering the numerical portion of Coriander Highrun's safe puzzle was "406", the total value of all cards in a Double Dragon Ante deck -- Cicero Tiberius Shadolan
Episode Three: "The stars are brightest when there is no moon." -- Kruglor. Also won Line of the Night.
Episode Four:"Cover the light sources!" -- Ashra
Episode Five: Use telepathy to Ecphrasis to communicate with the Mind Blanked Kruglor -- Cicero
Episode Six: Push the enemy Warforged off the gears -- Aether
Episode Seven: Use an Eversmoking Bottle to put the bees in the bee room to sleep -- Ashra
Episode Eight: Using Time Stop and complicated strategies involving FFF powder, force bubbles, and snapping a cure wand to save two party members and set up Xenteroth the bomb -- Ashra
Episode Nine: Tapping out "PRIME" from the letters provided by the Hand of Vecna -- Ashra
Episode Ten: Bypassing security by buying a scroll of Polymorph and turning herself into a bird, then flying up to the window of a party member's balcony room -- Ashra
Season Finale: Approaching Coriander Highrun and talking to him on the casino floor -- Prince Avimeus
===Season Twelve===
Season Premiere: Making a dummy corporation in order to give Ashra diplomatic immunity -- Semna Ashtad
Episode Two: Tying everyone together before jumping into the water so that the party could save each other from drowning and won't get separated -- Cicero
Episode Three: Taking Vishnu's speakstone -- Ashra
Episode Four: Using diplomacy and massive amounts of wine to try to pacify the balor -- Semna
Episode Five: Giving the djinni sarasin -- Cicero
Episode Six: Staying to wait for the caliph's men to return -- Leilah
Episode Seven: Using Dimensional Anchor to reverse the effects of the ghost curse -- Ashra
Episode Eight: Tracing the supply of adamantine mining tools required to mine large amounts of Futurium -- Leilah
Episode Nine: Purchasing the Swiftest Thought -- the party
===Season Thirteen===
Season Premiere: Reinventing hex code -- Helvetica "Scarlett" Hazelwood
Episode Two: Not running away from Rystil Macavia -- Lucky.
Episode Three: Saving everything forever -- Lucky
Episode Four: Solving the puzzle -- Lucky
Episode Five: Breaking into Pyotar's room and stealing his puzzle pieces -- Nicolo
Episode Six: Solving the Fibonacci room puzzle and the history trivia puzzle -- Grax
Episode Seven: Using a cast of Create Water to force Pyotar out into the hallway -- Ollie McOxen the Free
Episode Eight: Recognizing that the puzzle was not a cipher but smudged text - Grax
: Episode Eight Overtime: Tie between creating iodized colors - Kanye and answering the puzzle with "rainbow/color spray" - Helga 
===Season Fourteen===
Season Premiere: Ordering three beers, then using them as a party recruitment mechanic -- Cicero
Episode Two: Getting the demons to pay him for the privilege of walking into a trap -- Galland the Lucky
Episode Three: Talking to Tamosa 9 instead of continuing to try to kill her -- Tamiko
Episode Four: Using Leilah's guisarme and passing it around the party -- Icania Vandril
Episode Five: "Ethan despises chess." -- Leilah. Also won Nuts of the Night
Episode Six: Summoning Tamosa 9 and making an alliance with her -- Tamiko
Episode Seven: Turning on the Portable Star in the Dome of the Rock -- Leilah
Episode Eight: Using an illusory ship to sink some of the cannon fire from the Illumia -- Ashra
Episode Nine: DDooring over to the Illumia, then using Fireball to bury it in an avalanche -- Cicero 
Episode Ten: Looking under the rug in the main room, where he found the focus for Unhallow -- Felix Fineas Faust
Season Finale: Figuring out the location of the true altar -- Galland
===Season Fifteen===
Season Premiere: Start talking to The Girl with No Name -- Faust and Icania
Episode Two: See if Leilah's ears ring when someone talks about "the prophet of the god I've never seen" -- Icania
Episode Three: The compass is the key - Ashra
Episode Four: Figuring out that the boats control each other - Ashra
Episode Five: None given.
Episode Six: None given.
Episode Seven: None given.
Episode Eight: None given.
Season Finale: "Do any of the illithids know Metaconcert?" -- Ashra 
===Season Sixteen===
Season Premiere: None given.
Episode Two: Deciphering the napkin puzzle -- Faust
Episode Three: Teleporting inside the tarrasque to cast prismatic sphere -- Faust
Episode Four: TBD
Category:Game Mechanics