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/...
I didn't even know we were doing well lol
We'll see how it looks after I'm a guesser and it takes 7
Was also unaware of the streak haha. Wow.
I noticed it had been a while but didn't think it was that long lol go us
D1iab, Carl Spackler, and I once went 27/27 in a codenames tournament, which was pretty ****ing tight. This rivals that for sure. Insane that we were perfect for so long.
Round 19
Cards used: 19
Guessers: zeus/nich
The Board:
C | IH | T | WF | UNKQ | JOVW | A
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:
Note: These are the last 7 cards in the game
Sent
I'm fairly confident that we've already had this word as a target some time ago.
I searched the word in the thread and nothing came up for me
This is not a repeat
I did a search myself and I figured out that I was confused. Game on!
H3 and W9 are decent confirmers. I don't have anything yet for either C or A.
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Can't think of anything atm, will come back after tea
An a-word that sets up w9 is the ticket. H3 helps a lot as a confirmer for sure.
Something like clueing a7 (with h3 confirmer to the left) could give us a shot. W9 will need to be figured out, obv, but yeah.
While w9 is a more specific confirmer w5 will help get them in the right direction.
A7 seems like about as good a clue as we'll get before w9.
No idea what A7 is but go ahead if it's good
All I can think of is the already mentioned W5/W9 and H12
Let’s see if Erv comes in with a banger otherwise I’ll bold a7.
I haven't been able to think of anything besides h3 and kinda hope for next turn
Idk what a7 is...one issue is would we maybe prefer to start from the other side since this is tricky?
Nah, left side is terrible. We have no c clues, and h3 only works as a confirmer. A7 > W9 is way better.
This isn't a shadowfax is it? It's like a decent generic word? I haven't thought of this still
Oh like a h3 a7? Ya ya ya let's do it
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