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/...
Ruff arf grrrr and growl
Tree for the confirmer that it’s bark
The time I played this in person we had one card left to end the night and it was RG
So someone clued (saying out loud) rrrrrrooof
For doghouse
Not really legal but last card so had fun with it
Spoiler
they did not get it
bark
Yep, nice job
Round 5:
Cards used: 5
Guessers: nich/ervin
The Board:
C | S | JOVW | B | EF | A | T
The target word:
Someone rand a word from the sheet and pm it to d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus and bolt2112
sheet link:
Search spreadsheet column H or this thread to verify word hasn't been used before
Sent
C3 seems decent
And c6 as a confirmer or the other way around
T3 another confirmed
S7 if they don’t get it from the c’s
Yeah, seems pretty easy.
C3 seems fine imo.
just cause fun to try to figure out what the clues could be
hat: cap/cowboy/top/Stetson
cap
Btw, I don't really think you should be doing that sort of thing because it can influence the clues.
true; can just play and not post guesses
hat
Round 6:
Cards used: 6
Guessers: ervin/d1
The Board:
S | JOVW | B | IH | EF | A | T
The target word:
I've pmed to ibd/zeus/bolt
s7
t3/t11 confirmer
t7 another
t6 another
s8 is another route to take, similar to t5
No need to go at this from a different angle, even though S7 comes to mind as a shadowfax that absolutely everyone definitely knows.
S9 for the win. This is pretty much as close to a no-doubt as there is.
S9 isn’t coming to me yet for some reason. I think S7 is great.
Yeah I don’t know s9 tho I trust you
I realize that my s9 could yield a different answer that would be on track but wouldn't be the right word. I still like my chances though.
T3 seems like easy enough confirmer even if I wouldn’t clue it itself
Still waiting on Zeus.
I'm still high on S9.
I realize that my s9 could yield a different answer that would be on track but wouldn't be the right word. I still like my chances though.
I know s9 and don’t love it for this reason. Tho we’ve discussed enough solid clues and confirmers that maybe it’d be fine. On its own, it’s not nearly as good a clue as something like S7.
I think s9 is good
