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/...
J7 = jasmine?
Anyway
perfume
Got it!
Goddamn that was a great clue, Nich.
s5 was scent not smell, but otherwise all correct!
Round 18:
Cards used: 24
Guessers: zeus/ervin
The Board:
S | JOVW
Note: These are the last 2 cards in the game
The target word:
I've pmed d1, bolt, ibd
s5 ldo but to get to exact word may be tough with only 2 cards and these letters
j8 s5 combo seems a lock
wondering if we can clue j8 and they deduce s5 and we get this in one clue?
w7 is also good, but not as good and uses same card as j8
w6 is a confirmer but not worth cluing with s5 available
I like s6 and then we can use w7, j5 and s5 as confirmers.
J5 won’t be needed as a confirmer if we do s6, but yeah
J5/8 + s5 is obv, but I think s6 can get there in one with that info
not sure I know s6 but I'm good with it if you are confident (after we wait for others to chime in, of course)
also there is a j4 that gets it another way but it's not enough on its own so maybe just a good confirmer if they know of this
Yeah, I like s6.
shogun
I imagine the j5j8 stuff is Japan(ese)
First thing was anime but I don't actually know what this is exactly
So yh
Shogun = Japanese king/ruler
j8 s5 combo seems a lock
wondering if we can clue j8 and they deduce s5 and we get this in one clue?
Japanese = j8
S5 = sushi?
w7 is also good, but not as good and uses same card as j8
w6 is a confirmer but not worth cluing with s5 available
?
Shogun with w7 (dunno) j5 (Japan?) and s5 (sushi?)
Japan/Japanese Sushi but shogun can get there with one?
not sure I know s6 but I'm good with it if you are confident (after we wait for others to chime in, of course)
also there is a j4 that gets it another way but it's not enough on its own so maybe just a good confirmer if they know of this
Jade = jade emperor?
I can't imagine the s5 is sushi, seems sorta redundant with the Japan thing
I could see it being sword and we need something like samurai, I could also see us needing to bink something like emperor
Samurai seems like it would be Japanese soldier tho
Could be something like a katana lol but that's a pretty tricky word to have on the list
Yh thats wild
Samurai sword is a famous thing- Samurai soldier not as obvious
Im pretty hard for samurai(s)
I'm kinda talking myself into katana
Like I would think we would see s7 since Japanese soldier we would guess samurai, if we assume the s5 is sword - maybe there's something else but that's kinda the only thing I can think of that would fit for "Japan(ese) sword"
Katana wont be a word lmao
Im convincdd on samurai
Its the same question.
Why no soldier; why no samurai.
Japanese sword is kantana
But....
What is j4 and j5?
Jade emporer
..... alot closer to samurai
Irs basically a ciin flip
You choose
