SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread

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/...

21 November 2023 at 05:10 AM
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I know b9 that’s like b8, so I’m not sure it’s your b9. But I like my b8 for this and it absolutely gets the target if e8 doesn’t do it.


you sure it's not a b9/b10? b10 the actual one to go with

but if you have a b8 that you like then I'll prolly just fire e8 to keep this moving


electron


bump for bolt/zeus


Atom
Cell
Charge
etc.


This could be microscope.

B8 bacteria


Eye for e3?


Let's cross our fingers and bold it.


Microscope


Nice job!

Yeah, my B8/9 was bacteria/bacterium


nice job!


my b9/b10 was binoculars

in case you went on atom/cell/charge path then binoculars would get you back to the equipment track; and microscopes with 2 eyepieces are binoculars


Round 4:

Cards used: 4
Guessers: zeus/d1

The Board:

B | P | IH | M | UNKQ | JOVW | C


The target word:
I've pmed the word to bolt, ibd, ervin


Great job! I was worried that could go in any direction sorta like Zeus's first post but you both figured it out great!


c5 and b6 kinda jumped to mind but don't think either get it


I think C4/ 5 is the way to go, but my C5 is different than Ervin's.

More importantly it opens up J7 for the 2nd clue.


b6 is a 100% bink


c5/c6 is the way to go for c but c5 >>>>> c6

but b6 is already there so why bother


I can't think of a b6 bink but if you're confident then go for it.


Agreed


bangle


Bracelet?

J7 is jewelry. C5 is cuffs or something maybe.


Yh its the onky thing that fits
bracelet


Nice job!! I was thinking charm and brooch, way to get it!


I didn’t know what a bangle was until I looked up a b6 option for bracelet. Nice job


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