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/...
R6 would get it wrong I think tho it’d be killer otherwise
I understand how they could get it wrong, but I don't know what the opposite of that would be. I must be missing something.
We should just go with r6 and then they figure it out or we get it on 2nd card
Tho I gotta say I don’t know what g5/g7 are
A5 is pretty good but not as direct
No I don’t wanna clue my opposites
R6 and a5 are better clues
I think we probably just do a5 and then if needed close it out with g5
I think I may know what a5 is now. If so, it's a fair bit worse than r6, no?
I think it’s worse
I have no idea what r6 is, but you guys can go for it if you want. G5 to the left of a5 is a lock, so I’d prefer there be a plan in place for if r6 doesn’t get there since we will have used the g card.
R6 is like w7 but less obvious if that helps.
I had a few a5s
royale
Casino Royale, those are my 2 immediate royales
If it was casino, they're missing w4 (Wynn).
I haven't seen any fictional characters in this game, so not James Bond. And if it was, G10 Goldfinger is a way better clue.
A5 could be agent? But no A8 assassin. Probably not "spy".
What other meanings are there for royale?
Well the royale with cheese scene from pulp fiction was the first thing
Dunno if hamburger or something like that would work
W7 Wendy's is missing and would have been a bink clue instead of a confirmer.
It's not a burger.
Well W isn't on the outside so they couldn't have clued it yet, but the confirmer is still too obvious to miss.
What else do you think it could be?
I don't think it's cheese, Gouda seems pretty dunky there
Battle Royale is pretty famous and hunger games are sorta taken from that
Maybe battle?
a5 could be arena
I just woke up a short while ago so I'm not going to go into deep thought about this for a bit.
I do hate playing the game of "Why didn't they clue this or that?" A lot of times the cluers just come up with a good clue and stop thinking about every other possible clue that also would have worked.
"Casino Royale" works on its own, even if they didn't take the time to think of "Wynn."
On the other hand, I'm never guessing burger, because there's no way they don't think of "Wendy's" as a confirmer.
I'm not hating battle royale at the moment. Can we make the confirmers match?
bump
I had arena but idk really on others, there's no gladiators or various other stuff but that's kinda the issue with each one
We should move it along and guess something...do you have any word candidates or want to try one of these?
battle
0%
I think we just do a5 at this point and move to the next round
