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/...
I feel like if I was presented with U8 as a guesser, the first word that would come to mind is the answer we're hoping for.
Yeah
With f4 as a confirmer
Yeah U8 with F4 or F6 as confirmers
p13 is a direct hit but not really fun
f5 also comes to mind
but u8 -> f4 confirmer seems good
I don't think we really need to overthink this one
let's see if DZ has any ideas and then we can move this along
U8 is good
Happy to bold dont wanna leroy jenkins again
Go for it
Umbrella
Hmmm I mean first thought is rain
What other stuff comes to mind, a parasol? I feel there's some phrases like an "umbrella something" that's on the tip of my tongue but eluding me
Like corporation heh
F4 = fall
F5 = flood
F6 = forest
P13 = precipitation
P6 = puddle? Except that's not really fun...probably something Mario related
Rain does make a lot of sense doesn't it haha, you wanna fire that?
rain
I only want to see you laughing in the Purple Rain
And yeah, if they trusted you meant to capitalize Umbrella then they woulda had to guess Academy or some music/Rhianna connection or something, so be careful with caps as we take them seriously in these parts
Nice job!
Woo nice easy clue!!
Round 14:
Cards used: 18
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
A | RG | M | P | DL | P | EF
The target word:
I've sent it to pogcrazy94, ibedrummin, doctor zeus, amazingervin
Only thing I can thing of right now are E3 and F5
ah, so we made a rule at some point that we can't talk about any cards more than 1 in from the sides
so we can clue A, E or F and we can discuss options for R, G and P for discussion or for confirmers...but we can't discuss M/P/DL cards at all
if we clue A and they don't get it, then M will be one from the (new) side so we can then discuss M options
this could be a tough one
I think p10 gets it ~ every time, but that's if we go through EF first
don't expect anybody to know what the p10 is until it's posted, though
I've edited it, hopefully d1/bolt never saw it lol
hmm I have an a9 that's really really shadowfaxxy but I think works quite well?
I have a p7 thats probably not as good as your p10
f9 -> p10?
