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/...
B6/B8/M4 all related
T6 an option like b8
T7 seems best imo, with b3/b8 as good confirmers.
hmmm i haven't thought of any of these immediately
d7 was first thing I thought but it only works if the word is known, would be hard to get target from the other way
Do y'all know t7? Ibd doesn't seem quite as confident as I am, but it seems pretty lockish to me.
T7 could be good
It could go another way, of course, but if they think through confirmers it has a decent shot
May be best of the options
Unsure what T7 is but can go ahead and bold it, we've given plenty of info
there is also a t7 that is the same as b8
but d1's t7 is prolly best
trapeze
Artist, Circus, Swing are the words that come to mind.
Don't think it's circus since no B3/T3 for big top.
I feel like artist is a stronger fit than swing, but none of the confirmers have come to me yet. Then again, when I'm the one giving the clue I can't figure out other people's confirmers half the time anyhow, even when I already know the answer.
Acrobat is another one to consider.
Options were T and D with B and M confirmers
Swing I'd say no- would expect them to mention b4 (band) as a confirmer
Artist I dont really like - wouldn't you just do Dali?
I don't think you'd do Big Top as they are two words so not legal
I like acrobat or circus tbh we just need the confirmers
I don't mean that big top would be the clue. But two clues. Like a few rounds ago when we told them e4/g4 was the answer for earl grey and nich figured it out.
Also there's one B6, and not two. Barnum and Bailey would be a gimme.
I feel like trapeze hits artist harder than it hits acrobat. I'm not on board with circus for reasons I already gave.
If it's acrobat then B6 could be ballet. Here's the confirmers in one list.
T4 (x2) D6 M4 T9 B8 M6 B4 T6 B3 D7
But, ugh. No Michelangelo or Monet as a confirmer either. So I'm no longer on Team Artist.
B3 bat
B8 baseball
T6 tennis
It's swing
T4 turn
I'm going to the dentist for a regular cleaning in about an hour. I'll bold swing when I get back unless Zeus checks in before then with a strong objection.
swing
yep, good job
goal was to get swing in your list of 3-5 options for trapeze and then you to use confirmers to get to it, which you did
t4s were tire swing and tree swing
t7 like b8 was teeball like baseball
m4 is miss (swing and a miss)
you got bat and tennis
Yup good job!
My T9 was turnstile, D6 dangle
My d7 was for swing dancing, nice job getting there!
Round 12:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: zeus/nich
The Board:
M | UNKQ | RG | IH | A | B | D
The target word:
Someone rand a word from the list and pm to amazingervin, d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, pogcrazy94, bolt2112
be sure to search this thread to verify the word hasn't been used before (also column H in the sheet is a fast check for 90% of the used words)
sheets link:
Randing now
Sent
