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/...
If bolt thinks Passover is a 1-ball, maybe it’s something as simple as meal. Will look back at confirmers to see if that fits at all.
No b9 breakfast or b6 brunch, so meal is dead as a firstborn Egyptian son at Passover.
Ibd with the knowledge bomb!
Ok we have quite a lot to work with here so maybe we can figure it out.
Bolt said there was a p5 which is very much related to passover. Any ideas what that might be?
I mean, plate has five letters, but that gets us back to meal haha.
Maybe it’s supper or dinner, which is why they didn’t go with breakfast/brunch.
He did say p5 was a shadowfax so prolly not plate.
But yeah, hard to know if we should be focusing more on the meal or the story or just the religion in general.
Tradition or ceremony or something
Maybe even religion. Since r8 wasn’t mentioned.
R6 could be ritual.
I'm quite liking tradition at this stage even though I don't know what the other clues would be.
Oh yeah, good call!
I really would like to figure out what a couple of these words could be, but it does feel like that is probably on the right track at least.
Could it be as simple as holiday? P6 could be public, b5 break, r6 resort.
Hmm, could be
B6 could be Billie.
Can you think of anything for p9 or p11? If we can make either of those work, I think that might be it.
I’m fine going that way if you are. No use in spending too much more time on it.
Do you have any public holidays that could fit? Is President's Day a thing?
P9 practice maybe. I’d thought of it earlier today when thinking about tradition/religion.
No r7 Ramadan, but that’s fine. I’m not sure what DZ’s r4 was if it’s holiday.
Yeah, no idea on r4 either.
I think we might have enough to just go with holiday anyway? There could be some semi obvious stuff that we just haven't thought of too.
