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/...
Nice job!
m8 was monokini
good clue
Round 9:
Cards used: 12
Guessers: nich/ibd
The Board:
M | C | RG | C | B | S | EF
The target word:
Someone rand one from the sheet and send to d1iabol1cal, bolt2112, doctor zeus and amazingervin
sheets link:
on it
F7 is kinda ok but a bit bad
I assume [redacted] is illegal?
E5 is average
Yea that's gotta be illegal but I think
E8 is kinda trolly and fun with F7 as a confirmer
Like maaaaybe we could go backwards and clue F7 and hope they figure out E8?
Idk that's one plan, there's a lot of words that help of course so this seems gettable
m5 could be a slam dunk
M5 came to mind immediately.
Yeah I think m5 with f7/e8 confirmers should be enough?
modem
yeah, I think internet is the winner
ethernet is illegal but ether would be legal but average clue
I guess he's saying f7 firefox is a bit bad because it can get us to clue browser; but as confirmers, explorer/firefox are great even if not great as first clues
No harm in bolding internet browser, that’s certainly not a penguin seagull.
But yeah, really feeling like it’s internet.
Yeah do it
Internet browser
Correct, nice job.
Great clue and confirmers 👍
good clues and good job ibd
Round 10:
Cards used: 13
Guessers: ibd/d1
The Board:
C | RG | C | UNKQ | B | S | EF
The target word:
I've pmed to bolt, zeus, ervin
welp
f4 gets the domain at least
c4 could be a winner assuming they know it; F5 prolly a better version of that and then they can deduce f4
s5/s6 is ok if we get that far maybe
Haven't thought much on this yet beyond the obvious domain of f4 but that's nothing on its own of course...there's f8 in a similar light/domain that also does nothing on its own but could help
Pretty sure we won’t find a better clue than f5 but we’ll see
Oh baby
f6(which no one has heard before)/f8 with f8 for the slam dunk
I've got an r6 thats really shadowfaxy unless [redacted]
