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/...
Voyager seems slam dunk for space shuttle type words
Oh and that is a v7
Now I’m liking astronaut, space shuttle, space ship, rocket, etc more than satellite
I still like astronaut best
An astronaut is literally an orbiter; 99% of them go up to ISS and orbit the earth or orbit in a space shuttle
Only a handful ever went to the Moon instead, and I think those then orbited the Moon
They said o5 first and we wouldn't really think astronaut for just orbit would we?
Also wouldn't maybe there be some kind of w6 walker clue
I'm kinda back on the satellite and we may be overthinking
astronaut is someone who goes into orbit
Voyager gets me to astronaut
video gets me to satellite
orbiter and orbit is both
I think you clue orbit for satellite and orbiter for astronaut; they both agreed o7 was the superior form
they said o7 first
d1 said o7
zeus said o5 or o7 (the way you let someone know it's the same word with a suffix) and said he likes o7 best
we have to assume orbiter is >> orbit because that's what they chose to bold
a satellite is something that is in orbit of something else; that's it's definition...feels like they'd go orbit for satellite, not orbiter
still wish we had a v5 for astronaut or a v7 for satellite
I don't see much with the electron/atom route
It’s been long enough; need to start new game this evening
astronaut
HOW DOES HE DO IT
I mean orbiter was a banger clue
Nich is the Sides Whisperer.
My v7 that I was lukewarm on was Voyager. And then I thought of a much stronger v7 with "voyager".
yeah I was wondering which you were thinking of
I think Voyager gets the space meaning due to capitalized and then can still assume voyager is in play also, like with Codenames
going voyager denies capital Voyager so keeps us off space and onto explorer, sailor, etc.
either way, v7 confirmer was great, as that was the main reason go to astronaut over satellite, because otherwise v5 for video woulda tilted the odds in satellite's favor
we sure do love to hit 19 points exactly
thinking my pms have been calling the last one game 8 but now we actually will move to game 8
Game One: 15 points
Game Two: 19 points
Game Three: 16 points
Game Four: 19 points
Game Five: 22 points
Game Six: 19 points
Game Seven: 19 points
Game Eight Start
Player Order:
amazingervin
ibedrummin
d1iabol1cal
bolt2112
doctor zeus
nicholasp27
pogcrazy94
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: ervin/ibd
The Board:
C | P | B | S | D | P | RG
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, zeus, bolt, pogcrazy
c3 is pretty pretty good
g2 is a good confirmer like p7
I don't mind c11 but really think c3 is best
maybe someone has a different banger
well, slight problem with c3 is they may think it's for the wrong thing
let's see what else we got
G5 is a horrible clue and a decent confirmer.
No clue what you guys are suggesting lol.
I think I know what C10 and G4 are but no idea on the others
C10 seems like the best clue we've got
Not sure what c10 is; I have 2 c11s but no c10
If y’all got one tho then I’m good with it
G2 could be a nice confirmer if they think of the target
Let's go for it, with a reminder to the guessers to take the time to figure out what nich's G2 confirmer could be.
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