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 remember now that I had thought of manicure initially but it was 3 words in

That did make me think of pedicure but the problem was it’s the same letter as paint and if you didn’t get it from pedicure (which can do foot words etc) then there wasn’t a correction available so I abandoned it

With our meta we coulda mentioned p5 and clued pedicure and prolly got it


Round 8:

Cards used: 9
Guessers: ibd/bolt

The Board:

M | JOVW | A | UNKQU | S | IH | UNKQ


The target word:
I've sent the word to d1, ervin, zeus


Hi 5 IBD good teamwork!



M7 ok


m6 was my first thought which I think is in same domain as your m7 but I think this is more associated with it


also like k5

and m7/m8 which may be the m7 you were thinking of and is better than the m6 domain I have


I mean m7/m8 is good
k5 still more fun tho


o6 good for confirmer or if need a 2nd clue


I have a funny k6

But my m7 is good.

Unsure on m6


I mean m7/m8 should be a bink

k6 is just fun
o6 is a good backup

we'll see what others say but I imagine we'll just go m7 in the end


M7 imo


I haven't thought too much here but if y'all agree I'm on board


I meant k5 is fun; I don’t know k6


mollusk


M7 mollusk
M6 mussel
O6 oyster

K5 is not coming to me at the moment.

But this feels like clam. I’d say pearl could be in the mix, but mollusk doesn’t bink pearl, at least not in a vacuum.


clam


Well o6 won’t help but o7 would (or k5)

I wish I hadn’t clued so I could fire one of those


They are halfway there but we need to a clue to get them there


J6 would be funny


Coming at it from another domain would prolly be useful


Can i do j6?

You might hate it


Its really funny


does it get the word?


Oh I know k5 and that one is fun, should I try that?


Yeah, I think it binks


Do it erv


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