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/...
lol s8 and h7; gotta be more careful with these numbers
Gonna need more info
s4?
Man im stumped
IBD any thoughts? If they see the confirmers I think my s4 should do it
I don’t know your S4 for some reason, but A5 as a confirmer seems pretty strong while not a great clue on its own.
I say just fire s4
slab
s4 slab
"s6 ok but not great"
"a5 and s7 are confirmers but on their own won't do it obv"
"s5 another confirmer"
"s5 that I never knew was...something...idk if they know it"
"s4 seems great actually"
"a7 hits decently from a different angle but not a bink"
"a5 as a confirmer seems pretty strong while not a great clue on its own"
a5 angus and s7 sirloin are first things to mind which would make it slab of beef, not concrete slab
asphalt is an a7 but I don't see a5 or s7 for concrete angle yet
s5 sauce a confirmer for steak
but if it's simply 'steak' then sirloin seems pretty obvious so I don't think this is as simple as 'steak'
Yeah and the s5 probably is steak if those others are correct.
Could it just be meat? Although they never mentioned p4 for pork so prolly not.
It could just be beef but not sure it’s that simple
P4 opposite woulda been good confirmer for beef
They would just bold angus if it was beef. Plus, haven't we already had that word before?
What other domains are there for slab besides meat and concrete?
Wanna make sure we aren’t missing anything
If not, and if we can eliminate concrete domain then it’s just about figuring out which meat word is ours
Yeah it’s not beef; you clued corned
It could just be meat and they didn’t think of going to next words like pork since lots of words on outside letters
You get slabs of beer, but there are way better clues for that.
I feel like we might be on the wrong track here, but it's really hard to unsee sirloin/angus/steak, and it would be really unlucky if they are something totally different.
I’m thinking marble
Stone/asphalt/etc
I woulda capitalized Slab for Marble Slab ice cream shop but it’s not a super popular one; Cold Stone Creamery is much better known depending on part of the country
Yeah plus they wouldn’t seem to struggle with meat; I don’t think it’s exactly meat
Maybe hamburger but no sandwich
Maybe bacon but no sausage
You have sausage patties but not a slab of sausage I don’t think; plus no pork
Marble or tablet options is what I’m thinking of right now
Have we had marble before? Feels like we may have but I can't be sure.
