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 diff
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Our best chance is somewhere between slim and none. Let's move to the next round.
towel
Close! But no. Not sure if it’s possible in one, but you got impressively close.
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sponge
yeah, just so hard to get that in one
w6 fun one was worthy for the classic Seinfeld episode about being sponge worthy; obviously 'worthy' is not a good clue for sponge on its own
the o options were scientific words for sponge parts, which again is a very specific niche for you to know those, so weren't really options
O-Cedar is a cleaning supplies company, but doesn't narrow it down to sponge
my w4 was wipe
Joconde was my best option for a hail mary; if you know that sponge cake then you could guess sponge or sponge cake and get it; do either of you know Joconde?
18 still a great score
Game One: 15 points
Game Two: 19 points
Game Three: 16 points
Game Four: 19 points
Game Five: 22 points
Game Six: 19 points
Game Seven: 18 points
Game Eight Start
Player Order:
d1iabol1cal
bolt2112
ibedrummin
doctor zeus
nicholasp27
amazingervin
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
UNKQ | IH | RG | C | T | DL | EF
The target word:
I've pmed the word to ervin, zeus, ibd
yeah, just so hard to get that in onew6 fun one was worthy for the classic Seinfeld episode about being sponge worthy; obviously 'worthy' is not a good clue for sponge on its ownthe o options were scientific words for sponge parts, which again is a very specific niche for you to know those, so weren't really optionsO-Cedar is a cleaning supplies company, but doesn't narrow it d
Oh man, joconde was a great thought. I for sure would’ve gotten that if I were guessing.
Question on worthy, because that came up for me too. Would doing something like w8 = “worthy” be legal? Or are we only allowing hyphens and apostrophes as non-letter characters?
F5 obv, but need confirmers
damn, shoulda pushed for j7; food items are prolly one of the shadowfaxes that are more likely to hit
I'm not sure on "worthy"; it's prolly not legal by default, but if we want to make it legal then I'm fine with that; hyphens and apostrophes are part of the word; the quote is not part of the word but to just give more info on how we are using the word, which is why it's not legal by default
N9 and k7 decent confirmers
damn, shoulda pushed for j7; food items are prolly one of the shadowfaxes that are more likely to hitI'm not sure on "worthy"; it's prolly not legal by default, but if we want to make it legal then I'm fine with that; hyphens and apostrophes are part of the word; the quote is not part of the word but to just give more info on how we are using the word, which is why it's not leg
Makes sense
n9 seems best
gotta help them out more tho
No great ideas on first thought hmm
DZ, any thoughts?
may need a combo to get them on this
n5 f5 combo seems decent and they can prolly deduce f5 a good % of the time
d5 may narrow it down some as well if we need to get there
I've got an ok f8
But n9 is right
Somebody do something
nectarine
Assuming f5 is fruit. Other than the fact that the cluers aren't optimistic, any reasons this isn't orange?
Nectarines are nothing like oranges. Are you thinking of mandarins?
First thought is peach, but that seems way too obvious. Apricot? Plum?
D5 is probably drupe, which doesn't really help. I dunno about the others.
K7 could be kumquat? You use those to make jam. Same with apricots and plums.
N5 seems key to figuring this out. N____ fruit = ?
I was thinking of tangerines, which is like an orange. Nothing comes right to mind on n5.
So what ya thinking?
Peach is certainly the closest thing to a nectarine, but the convo was too weird for it to be that imo. I can't differentiate between apricot and plum really, but apricot is closer to a nectarine than a plum, so maybe go with that?
N5 would be very helpful obv, but I got nuthin'.
