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/...
First thought is lightbulb, with g2 being GE. Need to list out c3 options.
I haven't been able to figure out any of the other confirmers
Cab
Cad
Cam
Can
Cap
Car
Cat
Caw
Cay
Cel
CEO
Cis
Civ
Cob
Cod
Cog
Con
Coo
Cop
Cot
Cow
Cox
Coy
Coz
Cub
Cue
Cum
Cup
Cur
Cus
Cut
Cuz
Cry
Che
Cho
Your light bulb idea made perfect sense for the clue and it works for some stuff
I can't figure out c3 and car ain't it but idk I like your light bulb idea the more I think about it
Bump
Anything else coming to you, Erv? If not, I’m fine with you bolding lightbulb so we can move onto the next clue. I’m missing something here with c3 that I’m just running in circles on.
light bulb
CFL
But could make you think of Canadian Football League
I thought of candlepower and candlelight but not candescent
Good clue and GE was indeed g2
Nice get guys
Round 2:
Cards used: 1
Guessers: ibd/d1
The Board:
P | B | S | EF | D | P | RG
The target word:
I've pmed the word to ervin, zeus, bolt, pogcrazy
Hey nice! And I don’t think I’ve ever thought of the Canadian football league, so why start now?
R4
P6
R6 is probably best but might take a wrong turn
I've got a P5 and a P8 that aren't Shadowfaxes but I don't know how well known they are, although they hit the target pretty hard.
If we go the RG route then we're stuck with two P clues on either side so let's try to avoid that.
I've got a p11
perhaps p11+b8 combo works
b6 is good
seems like p11 could get it; if not, then b6 after that should (or the b8 combo, depending on where their head is)
other option is r5, which gets it if they think of it right, but could also go very wrong
P6 then B5 for confirmer only thing I can think of currently
I think P8 gets us there in 1
I’m fine with p8
Let’s see what Ervin comes up with
I'm good with waiting for Ervin. Nich, do you know what my P8 is? Or my P5, which is very much related?
Hmmm I haven't been able to think of anything so far, not even sure what these are yet
No I only know my p9 and p11, which I like; both are pretty direct
Passover
Ok, gonna need some help here. Like I know what that is...kinda. All I really know about it is that it's a Jewish meal and associated with Easter? I might even have that wrong lol.
Passover commemorates the moment preceding the Hebrew peoples’ exodus from Egypt led by Moses. In the final plague, all firstborn sons inside of a residence died unless the door frame to the residence was painted with lamb’s blood and as a result being “passed over” because the lamb’s sacrifice took the place of the son.
The Passover meal is called Seder, which consists of things like lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, etc.
In the Christian tradition, the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples was a Passover Seder. Thus, the timing of Easter (celebrating Christ’s resurrection) is linked to Passover. It’s also symbolic of Christ’s (the Lamb of God) sacrifice at Calvary.
With all that said, I have no idea what the confirmers are and less of an idea what our target word could be.
