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/...
Do you know A7? O4 is like A7 but not A7.
I believe so. A7 is like j7, yeah?
Yeah, they are alike. But O4 is more like A7 but not A7.
I’ll probably stop after this because I don’t want to confuse the guessers.
I still think the play is O4 and then A7 if needed, but I’d also be fine with J7.
Hmm, I still don't know it and google is not really helping me. I trust you tho.
Maybe I'll know it when I see it.
o4 is a lock IF they know it
I think they will, but def a possibility they don’t
If they don’t, then we fire A7 and are fine. Go ahead and bold O4 imo
orzo
pretty sure orzo is rice. J7 jasmine.
not sure on a7
Orzos pasta shaped like rice put in stews n soups n salads
Id good
No spaghetti so no pasta
Rice does seem best
A7 is arborio
Its rice
rice
Bink!
Nice job guys
Rice is just a billion times easier than nail polish
Its got categories of itself (jasmine), and, its a core constituent part of things (risotto), and, it has equivalences (orzo)
Nail polish has so few of that
s6 was starch in case jasmine went to flowers or scents to bring it back to right word
w5 and s7 were white rice and Spanish rice
W4 was wild obv
Round 10:
Cards used: 12
Guessers: zeus/d1
The Board:
A | P | RG | DL | UNKQ | S | IH
The target word:
I've sent the word to bolt, ervin, ibd
h7 should be a lock
i9 is ok for the domain, but not a bink
s8 is also good but a card in
p7 also good but a card in
h7 and move on imo
h6 works well also, of course; perhaps slightly safer than h7
either is a lock so doesn't really matter
I think if we go I9 they figure out what S8 and H6 are and we bink it.
There is also i11 as well
But any of them bink if they figure out h6 or we just say what h6 is
I didn’t know H7, but figured you were just miscounting H6.
