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/...
Ok, here is where I’m at
Princess has a word for every clue but I don’t think we can guess it
They all know the target and all thought of Earl right away, which isn’t really one of the first 20 things you think of for Princess
Additionally, d1 said that Earl only hits the word or a shadowfax
For that, Duke is first thing that comes to mind; or countess (not sure that would be a word on a list tho)
If it’s Duke then maybe g4 is game for Duke basketball games and g5 would be grand for the Grand Duke
No clue what p3 and p5 are for Duke and it seems like the school/team words woulda come to mind anyway
Other options that are directly earl:
Noble
Rank
Title
Royal
Royal is more Princess than Duke while Duke and Earl are more noble…and both are ranks or titles
When d1 said Earl only hits one thing, I think he could have been thinking of noble, rank or title
So gonna see if any of the other words work for those 3
If it’s title, then:
g4 is game for title game
G5 could be Grace as it’s a title or grand maybe
P3 pen like pen name
bump
What do you think Zeus? I think we prolly need 2nd clue so I’m fine with any of noble, Duke, title, rank, royal and open to other options
WAIT
Earl Grey Tea
G5 green
P3 pot
I feel silly not thinking of it earlier, but I only drink sweet tea, not hot tea, so not something I think of I guess
tea so we can move on
P5 Miss Potts from Beauty and the Beast?
Or just pound of tea? do you buy by the pound like coffee (which I also don’t drink)?
Yep! Lightbulb moment with the WAIT lol
P5 was party
Jesus Christ
Round 6:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: nich/pogcrazy
The Board:
A | S | JOVW | T | D | P | RG
The target word:
Someone please rand a word from the list and pm the word to amazingervin, d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus, bolt2112
Link to sheet:
Woooow I thought we had no chance lol
Was thinking we shoulda gone lowercase and there was no coming back from Duke on the uppercase, nice get!
Good job.
Pretty sure earl would be lower case if just for the rank.
I never considered lower case on Earl.
We just got caught up on the Royal meaning of it
D1 saying it only hit the word didn’t sit right with me given multiple options for the noble Earl, but it took throwing in the towel to have an epiphany
Round 6:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: nich/pogcrazy
The Board:
A | S | JOVW | T | D | P | RG
The target word:
Someone please rand a word from the list and pm the word to amazingervin, d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus, bolt2112
Link to sheet:
Sent
R5 not bad, need some confirmers and ****
Lots of ways we could go with this. A7 or a8 or a9. Or going in a different direction there's r13/g6.
Should be pretty easy.
Round 6:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: nich/pogcrazy
The Board:
A | S | JOVW | T | D | P | RG
The target word:
Someone please rand a word from the list and pm the word to amazingervin, d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus, bolt2112
Link to sheet:
R5 decent yeah
S5 is a good confirmer if anyonenhas an a?
P5 is a good confirmer for r5
Make that p6
R10 is a great confirmer and could be the lead clue.
If we lead with r or g and miss, I think P8 is absolutely the way to go.
Maybe I'm just dense but I'm having trouble coming up with most of the clues I'm seeing. Probably I'm just coming at this from a different angle.
My R10 is definitely not a shadowfax and even though there are other directions it could go, it hits the target very hard. Especially if the confirmers are any good.
