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/...
Like a thousand things
H4 is an ok one
C9 is very good I'd do that?
Then some ones like h12 and c12 are like distant but probably easier to tie
c12 or similar is where we should go
h5 a more fun one, but not saying we should do that
Yea seems easy, i haven't counted the letters in the Cs but seems like there's a million things we could do
I think a lot of them are much worse than others, though
c12 is better than c10 or c7, for instance
R3 which is similar to C6 the other meaning
C9 feels the most direct tbh
yeah c9/i9 are good
c12/h12 are good
don't really know that I'd wanna go away from those
I'm good with c9, but let's give time for d1 to chime in
C12 was my first thought and I'd go with that.
I don't know what c9 is for some reason, but as long as it's a lock then I don't care.
Not sure what C12 is, I assume it's the same sort of thing as C12 so i'll bold C9 if no-one is around in an hour ish
lol 😃
clinician
Seems like doctor
C12 cardiologist
I9 internist
H5 House
C6 change (other meaning)
R3 rig? (other meaning)
I agree that it's probably doctor. And I suppose clinician is a better clue than cardiologist, because clinician is a better fit for doctor and not surgeon.
I don't get how change or rig fit at all. What other meaning is there that I'm missing?
To “doctor” something can mean to alter/change it.
Fair enough.
doctor
Yup
Good clue and confirmers
Round 6:
Cards used: 8
Guessers: bolt/nich
The Board:
IH | S | M | DL | T | S | RG
The target word:
Someone please pick a random word from the sheet, make sure it hasn't been used before (search this thread or column H has most of the words we've used before as well) and send to d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, pogcrazy94, amazingervin, and doctor zeus
link to sheet:
Yup well done, I realised what C12 was like a second after bolding lol
C6 and R3 was change/rig, nicely done.
I'll rand a word now
lol lmao
I'm thinking something w R that will get them thinking along the right lines
There are several different spellings and variations, the shortest I think is r9
H6 was my first thought
g4 could be interesting, but needs some confirmers
The R I'm thinking of is very strong imo, but not easy to think of
r9/r11(tho some places spell it r12 and there seem to be some variations)
But I think r9 would get it or put them very close
