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/...
We can bold ginger spice if you want.
Oh yea wannabe nice job deducing that
Ya whatev
ginger spice
Indubitably
Nice, great clue and confirmers
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T7 was supposed to be tumeric, if I was on laptop when I posted i'd have the spell check function on to realise it's T8 turmeric lol
T8 was actually tamarind, didn't even think of thyme or tarragon lolme
Turmeric and tamarind are better for spice anyway, I just had herbs on my mind with tarragon and thyme. Your Spice Girls confirmers were elite.
Well done
With spice girls I stopped at “no p, s, g, b for their nicknames so moving on”
Round 23
Cards used: 23
Guessers: ibd/d1
The Board:
IH | T | WF
The target word:
I've pmed it to amazingervin, pogcrazy94, doctor zeus, bolt2112
Note: These are the last 3 cards in the game
h11 should get it
i10 the domain good as confirmer but not clue
I9 and T7 first things that come to mind, will think more later
H9 works
if h9 is the one I'm thinking of, it's related but not gonna get to this on its own
h11 is basically a lock
I figured out h11 and that does seem strong
Opposite f5 is kinda cute and would get it with these guessers imo
Oh yh h11
I'm basically worthless on this one. If H11 is a lock then let's do it.
harpsichord
Yeah, piano seems right.
But how is forte the opposite of piano? Also, any ideas on t7?
Though piano is really the only word they would expect this to be a lock clue for, so probably doesn't matter anyway.
In terms of musical dynamics (the volume at which to play as indicated on sheet music), piano = softly and forte = loudly.
Func fact: the early piano (what the classical era greats like Mozart played and wrote for) was an instrument called the fortepiano. And the modern piano’s full name is actually pianoforte.
Not sure about t7 or h9, but I’m probably missing something obvious.
👍 I even used to play the piano, but I guess I managed to completely remove that from my memory bank. I remembered the forte part, but not the piano part.
piano
Nice job! Wasn't sure about D1's musical proficiency but was very confident IBD would know the forte thing and he did not disappoint!
Nice. Great opposite, Erv!
