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/...
Not sure there's any locks here. Maybe d6 to get them in the domain and something like t4 to finish off if they miss?
Unbelievable get
Ive got two words??
my first thought was d6 and t4 as domain words but neither gets by themselves and even together doesn't narrow down enough
L6 is a confirmer that may help, but there are a few L6 so not ideal as a confirmer to have multiple options
p9 would be a lock after d6 or t4, but gotta find a lead-in with A word in order to get to the p9, but that would def get it
well if someone goes d6 then we could go a7 to get them to the right word; I think a7 d6 is a lock
ah there is a different t4 that you may have been thinking that is similar to my a7 that could work; not sure if you were thinking of the obvious t4 or the clarifying t4
either way, unless someone figures out a banger, we should start with d6 and then we can finish with a7
lol I missed that
Someone do d6
duffel
Well this seems more complicated than bag
Thought of stuff like luggage or cargo, some kind of airport travel or suitcase
Initial thought was t4 could be tent and the target could be camping or something
Or t4 is trek and it’s hiking
But no t5 trail, so hiking is out
Gotta think about p9 and a7
t4 could be trip?
Could be trip, yeah
Uhhh
Backpack
Camping
Hiking
Travel
Luggage
Baggage
Airline (would be surprised if this was on the list, knowing we already had airplane)
Could even get into military words if we wanted to. Can pause on that while we try to come up with a compelling A7 and P9
Safari
Adventure
Journey
Expedition
African a7 works for safari
Safari actually starting to sound good to me
Maybe just spitting out a bunch of words is the way lol
I’d be pleasantly surprised if it was safari, but I’m good with you bolding it if you’re so into it.
I don't have much better so let's roll the dice and see how it goes
Safari
0%
academic to the left of duffel
So, seems like backpack
Yea that makes a lot of sense
Down with that unless you have other thoughts
