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/...
G4 -> A5 looks good
I agree with G4 -> A5, should be able to get it with all the clues given
girl
Ok, think I've got it.
A5 = adult
G6 = gender
W6 = Wonder
But I don't think that was anywhere near as easy as you guys were making out.
lol D1iab GOAT
woman
Nice job
Yeah saying a5 to the left of g4 may have made it a little easier
But we weren’t worried with the two of you guessing; main thing was to make sure you got the right word and not female…not cluing w5 is helpful as well if going through the options
Nice job
Yeah saying a5 to the left of g4 may have made it a little easier
But we weren’t worried with the two of you guessing; main thing was to make sure you got the right word and not female…not cluing w5 is helpful as well if going through the options
I thought about the a5 to the left but I didn't know if it was legal information on the 1st clue. Obviously if we had to give another clue then saying "a5 to the left" would have been legal.
We haven’t outlawed mentioning the location of our hints
It’s part of discussing which clues we may want to give so people know what word we wanna clue
I'm not sure saying a5 to the left of g4 would've helped that much anyway. You still have to think of the right word, which was really the hard part. There were so many other things I thought of before woman.
I can see how it may have looked easy on the other side when you know the word tho.
It didn't seem like any kind of a lock in 1 clue to me. Female was a real possibility as a guess. Figuring out wonder and adult (not sure which came first) was crucial.
Def wasn’t a lock
Was gettable but also missable
But they got it
Great job!! Yea female was the guess I was worried about and why I wasn't liking gender as the clue as much
Nice deducing D1!
Round 17
Cards used: 16
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
IH | DL | M | C | T | JOVW | A
The NEW target word:
I've sent to amazingervin, pogcrazy94, ibedrummin, doctor zeus
bleh
h8 is a lock
Yeah, no use waiting around imo
I can only think of H8 and J8
habanero
I thought h8 would be Honolulu.
pepper
Yup!
Yah but I can't spell it with confidence
I keep pronouncing it harbanero for some reason
Round 18
Cards used: 17
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
DL | M | C | IH | T | JOVW | A
The NEW target word:
I've sent to amazingervin, pogcrazy94, ibedrummin, d1iabol1cal
L4 first to mind
W3 and the related M6 are probably both shadowfaxes but super fun if they can figure it out
(also O14!)
Yeah L4 only other thing that comes to mind at first
There's also V6
