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/...
Lots of Ps I can think of
P4/P5/P6
D5 for confirmer if we go P route
I've no idea what P8 is yet
W6 dece yh
98 good
let's give ervin a bit of time, but otherwise p8 can be fired quickly with no fear
Is P8 related to any of my Ps?
I haven't thought of it yet but if it's great go ahead
premolar
Gotta just be tooth, with wisdom the confirmer.
we decided in this thread it's exact match (plural sport/sports would be fine)
deer hunter = good; because exact word was guessed (but you can't guess penguin seagull; if 2 word guess gotta make sense together)
deers = good because just plural
reindeer = bad
in the actual game, they say if same root it's fine, so they give example of prince/princess as acceptable for either target word....but in this thread prince would be wrong for princess and vice-versa
I know this is how we've been playing, but I do think it's a bit backwards. Guessing stuff like deer hunter is really having your cake and eating it too because you know that would never be the answer, and princess is way closer to prince than deer is to deer hunter.
I know this is how we've been playing, but I do think it's a bit backwards. Guessing stuff like deer hunter is really having your cake and eating it too because you know that would never be the answer, and princess is way closer to prince than deer is to deer hunter.
I don't think we've ever been close to a situation where:
- The answer was hunter
- The guessers thought it was deer
- They guessed deer hunter
- The team got a lucky checkmark because of this
I don't think we've ever been close to a situation where:
- The answer was hunter
- The guessers thought it was deer
- They guessed deer hunter
- The team got a lucky checkmark because of this
I can't remember the exact situations, but there have definitely been times where the guessers weren't sure of the answer, so they guessed 2 words in the hopes that one of them was right. Hay farm comes to mind, but I know there have been others too.
I can't remember the exact situations, but there have definitely been times where the guessers weren't sure of the answer, so they guessed 2 words in the hopes that one of them was right. Hay farm comes to mind, but I know there have been others too.
I think generally we’ve been pretty good about avoiding penguin seagulls. Hay farm happened, but they don’t happen much (and bs was called immediately). It also seems to me that, if we want to avoid penguin seagulls altogether, we should just eliminate two-word targets from the list. The whole reason why the two-word angle is possible is because the target could be two words.
I think generally we’ve been pretty good about avoiding penguin seagulls. Hay farm happened, but they don’t happen much (and bs was called immediately). It also seems to me that, if we want to avoid penguin seagulls altogether, we should just eliminate two-word targets from the list. The whole reason why the two-word angle is possible is because the target could be two words.
It was more than just hay farm, but the thing is that 2-word targets are almost non-existent. The only one I even remember is windshield wipers, and that makes sense as a single thing. There doesn't seem to be any reason why you could answer deer hunter for either word and that is fine, but answering bakery for baker doesn't count.
Seems like the solution is to just axe the 2 word answers from the list. And ban 2 word guesses. Win-win.
Spoiler
but maybe keep "penguin seagull" on the list
Keep penguin seagull on list
1 word
No punishment for plural but if some grammatical crime like deers is committed shame the guesser
you've never been to a hay farm!?
So question is do we accept teeth for tooth and vice versa?
If we allow plural when it’s just an s at the end then seems we should also accept for tooth/teeth since just plural even if changes more than one letter
Anyway, it’s tooth not teeth, or clue woulda been premolars
Good job
Tooth = Teeth
It's not teethpaste though :p
Round 10:
Cards used: 9
Guessers: d1/bolt
The Board:
JOVW | T | M | UNKQ | A | B | D
The target word:
I've pmed the word to amazingervin, doctor zeus, ibedrummin, pogcrazy94
v6 comes to mind, but we'll need confirmers to get them on the right one
in another domain, t9 would work
gonna be more options thought of
D4 as a confirmer for v6 could get them to the right one
