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/...
I guess my guess would be microwave even tho it’s not it
microwave
No. And not really close, maybe 10%?
Let’s just go with P8
Yea keep it going, I can't bold since I did last one
pressure
Cooker?
Well I just said pressure would be the clue for plate so I think we gotta go that
Pressure is p8 and nobody said it before
The plan was go to food-> p9
I guess p9 would be porcelain
If the word was cooker they woulda had p8 pressure as first word to mind, while pressure plate is not one of the main plate uses…mostly used in Minecraft
M5 metal plate like some people had in their head
Paper plates and plastic plates used more than porcelain, but food + porcelain gets you to plate/bowl while food paper could be lots of stuff (parchment/wax/wrapper/etc) and so could be food plastic (utensils over plate)
Yh its plate
Correct
Yea good job. I wasn't familiar with pressure plate and maybe someone else was but figured we wanna keep it moving rather than discuss every possible link to the target word
Round 9:
Cards used: 10
Guessers: nich/ervin
The Board:
M | A | DL | B | IH | UNKQ | RG
The target word:
someone go to the sheet and get a word; make sure we haven't used it before. Send to ibedrummin, d1iabol1cal, doctor zeus, bolt2112
sheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
Yea good job. I wasn't familiar with pressure plate and maybe someone else was but figured we wanna keep it moving rather than discuss every possible link to the target word
Agreed. Generally when someone says something like “well, it’s not [target word] because they didn’t discuss clueing X,” we might as well just clue X next turn and get it over with.
I could see that toeing the line of being abused, so guessers might want to keep from overly discussing what wasn’t considered. Words get missed all the time in this game.
Target sent
M6 or g6
I think g6 has better bink equity but also could be widely ff
Both together 100% gets it
M6 maybe? But don’t know where to go from there.
There’s a G7 and G9 that could hit if we’re lucky.
Agreed that a G+M6 might well do it. I’d say we start with a G as that’s more likely to nail in one.
I'm all about g6
Im halpy to bold g6 now i know someone else knows m6
don't forget to give d1 a chance to chime in also
it's only times like orca for whale that don't need to wait for him
I'm 90% sure I know g6, but I'll let someone else bold in case I stuff it up.
If G6 is what I think it is I don’t like it nearly as much as the group, but I guess go for it.
goblin
