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/...
bump
Our best chance is somewhere between slim and none. Let's move to the next round.
towel
Close! But no. Not sure if it’s possible in one, but you got impressively close.
Spoiler
sponge
yeah, just so hard to get that in one
w6 fun one was worthy for the classic Seinfeld episode about being sponge worthy; obviously 'worthy' is not a good clue for sponge on its own
the o options were scientific words for sponge parts, which again is a very specific niche for you to know those, so weren't really options
O-Cedar is a cleaning supplies company, but doesn't narrow it down to sponge
my w4 was wipe
Joconde was my best option for a hail mary; if you know that sponge cake then you could guess sponge or sponge cake and get it; do either of you know Joconde?
18 still a great score
Game One: 15 points
Game Two: 19 points
Game Three: 16 points
Game Four: 19 points
Game Five: 22 points
Game Six: 19 points
Game Seven: 18 points
Game Eight Start
Player Order:
d1iabol1cal
bolt2112
ibedrummin
doctor zeus
nicholasp27
amazingervin
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
UNKQ | IH | RG | C | T | DL | EF
The target word:
I've pmed the word to ervin, zeus, ibd
yeah, just so hard to get that in one
w6 fun one was worthy for the classic Seinfeld episode about being sponge worthy; obviously 'worthy' is not a good clue for sponge on its own
the o options were scientific words for sponge parts, which again is a very specific niche for you to know those, so weren't really options
O-Cedar is a cleaning supplies company, but doesn't narrow it down to sponge
my w4 was wipe
Joconde was my best option for a hail mary; if you know that sponge cake then you could guess
Oh man, joconde was a great thought. I for sure would’ve gotten that if I were guessing.
Question on worthy, because that came up for me too. Would doing something like w8 = “worthy” be legal? Or are we only allowing hyphens and apostrophes as non-letter characters?
F5 obv, but need confirmers
damn, shoulda pushed for j7; food items are prolly one of the shadowfaxes that are more likely to hit
I'm not sure on "worthy"; it's prolly not legal by default, but if we want to make it legal then I'm fine with that; hyphens and apostrophes are part of the word; the quote is not part of the word but to just give more info on how we are using the word, which is why it's not legal by default
N9 and k7 decent confirmers
damn, shoulda pushed for j7; food items are prolly one of the shadowfaxes that are more likely to hit
I'm not sure on "worthy"; it's prolly not legal by default, but if we want to make it legal then I'm fine with that; hyphens and apostrophes are part of the word; the quote is not part of the word but to just give more info on how we are using the word, which is why it's not legal by default
Makes sense
n9 seems best
gotta help them out more tho
No great ideas on first thought hmm
DZ, any thoughts?
may need a combo to get them on this
n5 f5 combo seems decent and they can prolly deduce f5 a good % of the time
d5 may narrow it down some as well if we need to get there
I've got an ok f8
But n9 is right
Somebody do something
nectarine
Assuming f5 is fruit. Other than the fact that the cluers aren't optimistic, any reasons this isn't orange?
Nectarines are nothing like oranges. Are you thinking of mandarins?
First thought is peach, but that seems way too obvious. Apricot? Plum?
D5 is probably drupe, which doesn't really help. I dunno about the others.
K7 could be kumquat? You use those to make jam. Same with apricots and plums.
N5 seems key to figuring this out. N____ fruit = ?
I was thinking of tangerines, which is like an orange. Nothing comes right to mind on n5.
So what ya thinking?
Peach is certainly the closest thing to a nectarine, but the convo was too weird for it to be that imo. I can't differentiate between apricot and plum really, but apricot is closer to a nectarine than a plum, so maybe go with that?
N5 would be very helpful obv, but I got nuthin'.
