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/...
So we guess Captain or wha?
Yes?
captain
Yeah, good job
Police and pirate were the 2 non-1clue p6s
Picard was clearly best and then Planet but could go with Planet Earth over Captain Planet
S/L were sergeant/lieutenant
Round 5:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
S | JOVW | M | A | P | EF | DL
The target word:
I've sent it to ibd/zeus/ervin
S6 -> j4?
s6/s7 -> j4/j7 is nice
s7 better than s6
Yh agreed makes sense
I like s7 a lot assuming we're thinking same thing...way better than the s6 yea?
Yeah
Let’s give IBD time to weigh in; he may have a better plan, but I think ours is solid if not
Sounds good, we gotta the clues for the other game I'm about to submit mine
springy
Trampoline maybe? With j4 being jump.
I slept on it and I can't think of anything better. You can bold it.
[strike]tramapoline[/strike] trambapoline
Good job
Coulda been a killer word if we had different letters to work with
A neighbohood friend had a 6' x 10' trampoline in their backyard when I was a kid. It's a miracle that none of us were ever seriously injured or worse.
Round 6:
Cards used: 6
Guessers: bolt/ibd
The Board:
JOVW | M | A | DL | P | EF | DL
The target word:
I've sent it to d1/zeus/ervin
O4 right?
my first thought was j5 but yeah, o4 is the safest/best
Yea o4 is great. There's W5 as a confirmer but obv we're not doing that by itself
w5 is just going to confuse them and isn't a subsequent letter card
let's leave it at o4 or j5 with o4 much better