SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread

What about something like emperor then?

I've kinda circled myself into confusion lol

Its samurai or katana

100%

You can pick, I've confused myself too hard lol

It is technically called the Empire of Japan

It's one of those 3, Shogun sounds so familiar too but I can't place it

samurai

Correct!

Nice job

👍

I think there's a risk we fall quite a lot in to "because they didn't say x and y and z its probably a" where the y & z are quite distant from (a) but are expected to be said if you get me

Given the games about finding the best "clue" I dont think our aim is to front load lots of potential clues to walk the guessers to it ? or am I wrong- should we max out potential clues to help the solvers?

good job

a few notes:

1. If katana was yours we would absolutely mention s7 for samurai as a confirmer (and likely the clue itself almost every time we don't clue sword); rule #1 of sides is to not mention clues that are same letter+# as the answer, so when we don't clue an obvious clue (katana is literally one of 3 types of samurai swords; names are just based on length of the sword) that gives more probability to that word being the target. Likewise, if k was on the board for clueing we would have clued k5, and if we didn't then that would give more weight to the target being k5

2. j4 was Jack for Samurai Jack, a tv show; was never gonna be a great clue or confirmer; was mostly a joke but it got you thinking of jade for a minute, so I should have just never mentioned it

3. ya'll kept asking why no soldier...well, it's s7 like samurai, so we couldn't....but also you never mentioned that I DID mention w7 warrior...as well as w6 weapon (so couldn't be emperor)

4. Great Job on eliminating sushi as clue possibility; when you first said it I was like "japanese sushi" is redundant; but then you mentioned that point and got off of it fast, which was great

Round 19:

Cards used: 25
Guessers: ervin/bolt

The Board:

JOVW

Note: This is the last card in the game

The target word:
I've pmed d1, zeus, ibd

How we doing vs target?

other than our one 22 round, we had 3 rounds of 19; this round we have 18 points and getting this would get us to 19, to make 4th tying round for 2nd best

I like w15 for this, but might be toeing the line of legality.

Christ

This is rough

Yeah, tough one.

Maybe w9 with a j5 confirmer could work? I dunno.

There is a fun w6 clue that would be great as second clue once narrowed down but would require them to think exactly the right way to get it in one

Several o words if they happen to be very knowledgeable about this; o7 and o5…true Hail Mary but gets it in one if they know it (very unlikely)

w4 and w9 are decent options to get them on the right path and make a short list of options, but not seeing how they get there on their own unless they figure out confirmers

Maybe w5 but again a few options for them to go

Ooh there is a j7 that’s also good if they know it

lol anything is gonna be just taking a shot

w9 with a few confirmers may be the safest way to go

W9 in to w4?

I don't know most of the words you guys are talking about. W4 is like w9 I suppose?

We probably aren't getting there, but let's steer clear of the shadowfaxes.

W4 is different from being like w9; that’s a different w4

w9 is good but problem is none of us know each other’s other words so hard for them to know them and figure out which word that w9 evokes is the word

The shadowfaxes are true Hail Mary plays so I agree we can stay away as I rhink w9 prolly gets there 1/3 of the time or similar

Someone just post something imo

This just feels like something we should be able to get for them

But with one card it’s tough; usually would be an easy 2-clue I feel

washcloth

Woof

First thought towel but they make it sound like it's hard

W6 probably not washer/this isn't dryer either

I just woke up, so no thoughts on this yet, except one.

Which is, it's hard, we're gonna have to get lucky even if we play this really well. Let's not take too long on this.