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 think it’s easier to think of l7 when you know the word than to get the word from l7
I’d be for trying it if g was next to that card, but it’s not
We either go a5 and hope one of them has heard of it or we go a9 and hope they deduce g5
That way we get it in one; or two at most if we have to clue g5
Starting to think if we clue a9 they can figure out what g5 is tho so maybe leaning that way
They can probably figure it all out yea a9 actually does seem strong
They'll think of a few including the target and even without many confirmers not sure what else they'll land on, it's not g5! We're talking about it!
Yea do a9 u should bold it imo, if they know the shadowfax a5 thing great, L7 is actually in the "very solid confirmer" category, which yea it's of course easier to think of from our side - why I was asking what you would think of from their perspective but this should all work
think a9 go
Actually maybe pluralize it cause it's teeeechnically not us but they'll think of us
Yeah
I don’t even know what it means but does seem sus
Riiiight lets go for a9 or a5
I still prefer A5 but fine either way, someone bold something
Bold it PC
power of a noobie
I already did something questionable so I'm not posting anymore this turn :p
Ok I lied I'm posting again to
BUMP
Someone bold something lol
I still domt know a5 lol
bump
Oops forgot about this
anole
Lizard? G5 gecko
A9 alligator
What's an anole?
It’s a lizard
L6 is conspicuously missing. Bold lizard?
Yep!
lizard
Correct!
Nice job!!
Did I cross a line? The a9 I was thinking of was actually amphibian haha, I never expect to get the bigger words
Nice!
Erv - to be safe, never give any specifics about a clue, just stick to letter+number. No mention of capitalization, pluralization, hyphenation, etc.
