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/...
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Round 12:
Cards used: 15
Guessers: zeus/ervin
The Board:
RG | C | DL | P | UNKQ | B | S
The target word:
I've pmed to bolt, ibd, d1
r5/r10 with r10 being better
c7 confirmer or backup but I think r10 gets there so won't need it
b5 on 2nd turn if went from right side, but I doubt we go from the right; s8 is shadowfax's shadowfax
I never heard of R10 but I agree it's the best clue. S8 is not as obscure as you make it sound and would work for me if I was a guesser.
Yeah, r10 with c7 confirmer is the way
I don't really consider s8 to be much of a shadowfax at all tbh, but agree they should be able to figure out r10.
rotorcraft
Helicopter?
C7 = chopper
B5 = blade
S8 shadowfax = sigorsky lol
Read a lot about these things after Kobe's passing
Also think I clued Sigorsky in a codenames game here once
Lol seems a lock then
helicopter
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I played my part
Round 13:
Cards used: 16
Guessers: ervin/bolt
The Board:
C | DL | P | JOVW | UNKQ | B | S
The target word:
I've pmed to zeus, ibd, d1
this may not be easy
s6 obviously comes to mind but not by itself
b5 is related as well
s6 to the right of b5 is a pretty good combo clue; I think they can deduce that it's not the other option for that combo
Several s words for this. S3, 4 (two), 6. Probably s6 with the s3 confirmer works best.
yeah s3 confirmer like c5/c6 is nice
D7 could be a good confirmer if there's a good c one?
Maybe c4?
s5 is pretty poor but might be ok?
I don't really have anything to add. S6 followed by b5 sounds as good a combo as any.
Yeah I think there are enough clues out there if they think of it
Seems like any path to the answer goes through cluing string so let’s just do that
this may not be easy
s6 obviously comes to mind but not by itself
b5 is related as well
s6 to the right of b5 is a pretty good combo clue; I think they can deduce that it's not the other option for that combo
Several s words for this. S3, 4 (two), 6. Probably s6 with the s3 confirmer works best.
D7 could be a good confirmer if there's a good c one?
Maybe c4?
s5 is pretty poor but might be ok?
I don't really have anything to add. S6 followed by b5 sounds as good a combo as any.
Just for consolidating all the clues into one post. Time to have a think.
I don't think it's guitar, theory, balloon, yo-yo, or kite. I'm struggling here.
Any other words we can think of?
First one to me was cheese but I don't see how that would be it, maybe something to do with warn or cloth?
'Ive got the World on a String' is a nice tune tho I doubt it's world
I feel inadequate in that I don't have Nich's superpowers. Let's bold yarn and move on to clue #2.
