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/...
Round 4:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: zeus/ibd
The Board:
IH | S | M | RG | C | DL | EF
The target word:
I've pmed the word to ervin, d1, bolt, pogcrazy
d5 first to mind
L6
s6
i8 is good as well tho I like opening up d5 if we can think of an E or F word that gets us there
e11 in the domain of course
H7 and F5 are strong shadowfax clues that someone who shares my interests would get in a nanosecond.
Think I know what bolt's H7 is, unsure about F5
If i'm thinking along same lines as bolt then there is also
D6
another D6
another H7
I love d5; meh/whatever about everything else
Oh yeah just figured out what D5 is, I like that as well
Probably safer going that route
I figured out the shadowfaxy H7 and may not be as shadowfaxy/more figure out able than initially seems
I'm not sure what D5 is as I'm assuming it's not the one that also works w H7 and only kinda works if you already know the clue
i4 works also tho would need to get it from confirmers still
I figured out the shadowfaxy H7 and may not be as shadowfaxy/more figure out able than initially seems
I'm not sure what D5 is as I'm assuming it's not the one that also works w H7 and only kinda works if you already know the clue
D5 is the most obvious clue of all and is not related to the shadowfax F5 and H7 clues that I'm thinking of. F5 and H7 are incredibly related to each other.
Yeah, d5 is the one.
All I've got is e8, which gets in the domain but is too general to get it by itself.
I think I know what f5 is. Not sure this is the team to try it on, but if we think d5 is a lock it might be worth the risk?
D5 doesn't have a lot of equity unless the guessers get some confirmers figured out.
Then maybe we just go with something like e8 so we don't risk a shadowfax and they will get it 100% next turn.
I was kinda liking rolling the dice on H7...more than F5 anyway but I haven't figured out the better D5
I vote for D5
We can't do d5 this turn tho we'd need E or F first, I haven't thought of anything better than H7 but obv lots of issues with that
Oh yeah lol me
Well D5 isn't available unless we open it with E or F. F5 could bink it but it's a shadowfax and might be a complete whiff. E8 or E10 puts them in the right space for D5 to get it in 2.
E8 imo
I think we've had enough banter for a consensus.
electric
Bump
I was hoping DZ would make an appearance and nail this
Will take a deeper look. Thanks for the 658 confirmers
Ok
So e8 is the domain that should help us get there but is quite general (which is really is lol)
So it won't be something like "avenue" for electric avenue because that's very specific
It's more like "car" or "train"
