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/...
d7 good start, but not happening on its own
N5 is a lock, probably want to go from the left side to open that up.
K5 also
Could go with m5 and hope they discern N/K5. Could also approach it another way with m9.
There's an M7 that's very similar to N5/K5. If some of the other cluers know what it is, it could be worth a shot. But if nobody else can figure it out, it could be a shadowfax.
I know m7, but I do think it has a decent chance of being a shadowfax.
I really like m9, and the confirmers should make it a lock.
I can't think of anything new that hasn't been mentioned already, happy to go with M9
I think I know what the M9 is. I don't love it as much as you guys. I think it's one of those clues that seems obvious when you already know the answer.
We're really counting on the guessers to figure out K5/N5.
Oh, now I see that the Sides Whisperer is one of the guessers. I'm fine with M9 and in all likelihood, Nich will be able to share a very personal backstory about M7 at some point in his life.
There's a pretty useless m3 that can sorta help confirm haha, would be one of the most pointless clue in itself
bump
I'm waiting for D1 or Pog to clue M9. There's a non zero possibility that I'm thinking of a different M9.
Otherwise I'm happy to clue M7.
megapixel
I'll go ahead and move this along
megapixel hits camera super hard, along with digital camera and resolution
not sure if others had a different m9 in mind as this seems like a lock clue
k5/n5 are kodak/nikon
m7 shadowfax is Minolta
d7 could be develop
m5 could be movie or model
don't know the m3 but I think we have enough confirmers to just guess camera (or digital camera slightly safer since works for both)
digital camera but really it’ll just be camera by itself based on the words we’ve had so far
Yup! I assume IBD's D7 was digital anyway
I'm guessing M3 was man
Oh yeah; digital makes more sense than develop post-2000
Round 13:
Cards used: 12
Guessers: nich/pog
The Board:
UNKQ | RG | IH | JOVW | A | B | D
The target word:
Someone rand a word from the list and pm to amazingervin, d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus, 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:
Yea m3 was just for cameraman haha
Yeah makes sense; shoulda known that
I'm sending the word now.
U5 is a good fit but it's too broad so it will have to be a confirmer.
I got nothin
Oh boy ok
This seems impossible at first but I actually think it's way more doable and easier than it seems
