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/...
d1 said we didn't need to wait for him when it's obvious so you can fire away whenever doctor zeus
Yea maybe saying that will be confusing now that I think about it, perhaps best they don't even bother with what I said and just get it off o4
orca
J5 = Jonah
W5 = Willy
whale
whale tail
Innit
GJ
It was whale tail; hoped you’d go ahead and not just guess whale
Haha yea whew close one
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
Yea maybe saying that will be confusing now that I think about it, perhaps best they don't even bother with what I said and just get it off o4
Should probably avoid saying stuff like this in future. You basically just told them that the answer was whale with these posts.
Yea I didn't know a good way to take it back, as after I said it thought they mighta thought Whale was the W5 instead of Willy
Whatev, they knew it all so don't think it mattered
Agree it didn't make a difference this time, but it might in future rounds. I think it's best to just avoid mentioning clues that are the same letter/word length as the word unless it's necessary.
Round 7:
Cards used: 7
Guessers: ibd/zeus
The Board:
M | A | DL | RG | P | EF | DL
The target word:
I've sent it to d1/bolt/ervin
No good clues coming to mind for a bink. D5 opposite clue might work.
F5 is a good confirmer.
M7 comes to mind
L2 works but has way too many ways for them to go
Maybe D7 instead but also lots of ways to go
A6 is nice if we get there
A4 a good confirmer/2nd clue
Lol
We can just do d5 opposite clue
I'm on board with the d5 opposite. Hopefully we're all talking about the same one because there are 2 it could be, but one of them is way better.
Yeah I like d5/d6 not d5
And my earlier d7 was a d8 actually; need to learn how to count
I'm on board with the good d5 and not the less good d5.
Is the good d5 the one we could even do d7?(Opposite of course)
