SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread
In this thread, we will play a new word game called Sides. It's somewhat similar to codenames, but cooperative and different.
Sign up with /in below if you want to play.
In this game, a target word will be randed as will a row of 7 cards that have letters on them (most 1 letter, some 2/3/4 letters).
2 people will be the guessers and everyone else will be able to give a clue.
The clue given must start with the letter on either the first or last card (the 'sides' of the row).
We discuss as a team who will give the clue with open discussion in the thread such as "I have a 7 letter word starting with a C"
Once there is some agreement on who gives the clue, that person will bold the clue they want to give in the thread.
The two guessers will then discuss in the thread and bold their guess. If it's correct, we move on to the next guessers and the next word. If wrong, then the clue givers post some info like "you are warm" or "you are about 30% there" etc to give directional info on how on track/off track their guess is.
Then they discuss and give another clue. But the person who bolded a clue cannot give another clue for the same word until everyone on the cluing side has clued a word (if we take that long to get the word), so one person can't hog the cluing.
Clues have to be one word, or an acronym, etc like in codenames; they can be hyphenated words
We can also give some info on how the clues relate to each other, or even say a clue is a 0 clue, so the opposite of what cluing for (e.g., clue 'colorful' as an opposite clue because the word is zebra)
I'll provide more details and examples in the thread in the morning, but this should be enough info for you to /in and join so we can play.
link to official rules:https://captain.games/wp-content/themes/...
yeah I shoulda known that it was likely a different W6; I mentioned 'if it's the same' but I shoulda assume it wasn't the same and just pushed harder on Oscars with ibd
I was on Solomon and Oscars with ibd, but both times didn't stand ground with him :(
no 3rd time is a charm for IBD because he is up to guess!
Round 8:
Cards used: 8
Guessers: bolt/ibd
The Board:
IH | S | T | M | C | EF | A
The target word:
I've pmed to d1/zeus/ervin
Hi there hello, room for one more next game?
Will give me plenty of time to read the rules etc cos the past few pages are just gibberish to me 😃
yup, I dealt you in
you should have a pm with the next round's word
we will then discuss what clue we could give from the letters on the left or right side of the board in the above post and then someone will bold one and bolt/ibd will guess and we'll go from there
any questions, just ask
H9 and a couple of h4s spring to mind.
Nich, pretty sure it’s on you in all three threads I just bumped
Ok; been swamped at work this week and have to go get daughter from school
Will catch up on all this evening
I have received the word
What the hell is a h9 and a h4? A 9 and 4 letter word starting with H?
Yeah
Think I know what the h9 word is, no idea on h4s
My first thought was [redacted]
Oh wait we can only do IH or A words to start with as they are the 2 clues at the ends?
We can discuss letters that are 1 off from each side, but yeah can only clue from the sides unless we wanna waste a card for some reason.
Actually have 3 h4s lol.
pogcrazy,
we get to give a one word clue like in codenames but it's like we are all spymasters
so we discuss by mentioning first letter+# letters in words that we may want to clue or have the guessers deduce as confirmers once they think of our word
once we've discussed, someone will bold an actual clue
NUMBER ONE RULE: Never mention a clue for the letter+# that matches the actual target word in the pm. For example, if the word was Hollywood, don't mention h8 as an option, because otherwise the guessers will think that was one of our clue options so couldn't be the target
h9 is the obvious and likely easily deducible so probably a confirmer and not our clue
will need to think of options for actual clue
f4 and s3 are great confirmers
need to just figure out best actual clue lol
One of the h4s is like f4, but it's not good enough on it's own. I think h9 is the best clue if they can deduce the confirmers.
yeah H9 prolly best and they can deduce
if they miss, s3 will 100% get it after h9; 0 chance they don't with those 2
s3 best confirmer imo
So h9 then s3
agreed
but we need to wait for zeus and ervin to get a chance to chime in with a banger
i4...def works as confirmer
As clue itself idk, still prob lots to work with here
1000 good conformers
I like h4 the most- but maybe a different h4 lol
What do you think of H9 then S3 DZ and AE?
I dont know what either H9 or s3 are....so I think go for it
