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’ll rand a word and send it to cluers now
Round 4:
Cards used: 4
Guessers: nich/bolt
The Board:
B | DL | C | JOVW | T | A | S
The target word:
someone please pick a random number in your head between 1 and 439 and then look at that row in the google doc and pm ibedrummin/doctor zeus/d1iabolical/filthyvermin/amazingervin the word
Target word sent
There's a pretty good s8.
S5 jumps out at me
I think ours are related
I mean, they ****ing better be since we’re clueing for the same target word, but you know what I mean.
Oh, well then I have an S8 that’s like my S5 but maybe a tad better
b4
j7
Yeah I used that example on purpose so it comes up now not later
I’ll pull out the rule book shortly and quote what it says for similar words counting
It just says when close enough like actor for actress
Facial would be not close enough but we’d prolly just say you are 99% there or something
C9 is my best but think one of the s's works
So what are we doing?
Seems tricky, the S stuff is OK, maybe would get us there but also could go anywhere, I'm not sure follow up
Yeah, but S is really the only letter we have any decent words for unless we start skipping letters.
Does anybody actually know what my s8 is?
No- sorry
I like s5
But i doubt thisll be a one-r
I'm not sure what ur s8 is and assume it's different than the s5/s8...I can think of some random stuff but would hint at other words first
If urs is great I'm not against it
