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/...
Yeah that’s a 2 second clue
I thought of taproom and was confused at t6 but it happened fast haha, easy round
Round 18:
Cards used: 23
Guessers: nich/ervin
The Board:
RG | C | B
The target word:
Someone rand a word and send it to ibedrummin, bolt2112, d1iabol1cal and doctor zeus
Sheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
NOTE: THESE ARE THE FINAL LETTERS IN THE GAME
the ban on randing has moved from bolt to ibd
Well someone rand
Even IBD
Target sent
B5 seems prettyyyy prettyyy pretty good
R3 and r7 could be decent confirmers.
I think b5 is the clue but more confirmers could help.
Yeah, b5 is the one.
G4 or g5 seem like good confirmers.
Yh b5
bones
Bones makes me think skeleton? Skull and bones?
r3 could be rib for rib cage or something, idk haven't thought too much yet
Yeah skeleton was first thought, but a bit worried that the confirmers aren’t easy
Cross for crossbones is an option but no b3 for crossbow and no Christian or Christ confirmed so nah
Skull for skull and bones but no c7 cranium mention
Not capitalized so not the show
Muscles but no ripped r6; r3 could be rep but you’d say reps not rep; no g3 gym either so nah
Skin and bones and g5 is graft; no r4 rind or r4 rash or any cosmetics or other skin word clues
dominoes are called bones and g4/g5 would be game/games; no chicken foot clue; no clue what r3/r4 would be for dominoes; also no pizza clues for dominoes like cheese or crust
For skeleton:
R3 - rib I guess; not sure why rib and not ribs
R7 - ?
G4 - gang like in Karate Kid where Johnny and friends are dressed in skeleton shirts? 0% chance this is what they were thinking of
G5 - ghost?
Thinking of the word skeleton, skeleton crew one of the first things that comes to mind but no c4 confirmer nor costume confirmer
Not thinking of the confirmers; skeleton is most direct connection to bones so prolly just guess that but gonna think for a little longer bc skeleton seems too easy; why even give confirmers if it’s that straightforward and why such strange ones? Tho prolly once we know them it’ll be super obvious.
Haven't really been able to think of anything
I'm liking rib less and less, thinking what else r3 could be
I wouldn't rule out skull due to the lack of cranium but obv would want to think of some words that make sense for it
r3 could be red for Red Skelton; not spelled the same way so not really legal, but they may not know how it’s spelled
No closet or crew for skeleton has me worried but odds are just overthinking it and they didn’t go to c clues because figured it’s straightforward that bones = skeleton…but if that’s the case then why even give 4 confirmers that we can’t think of in the first place and not give the more obvious crew or closet confirmers (tho maybe r3/r7/g4/g5 are super obvious once we know them)
So while we prolly just guess skeleton, I have huge doubts and am worried about it
Dice also called bones but no craps or even r4 roll
All 3 knew b5 was the clue so I think we just are overthinking this
skeleton
No clue on the confirmers other than maybe red and maybe ghost, which is why I’m so hesitant here, but it’s time to keep this moving
Feels like if as simple as skeleton they just go bones without the confirmers but maybe not
Bones in a museum but you just go Guggenheim or even gallery plus curator confirmer
I’m just procrastinating hitting the reply button at this point
Bink!
What were the confirmers?
R3 was rib, I’m an idiot for not thinking to say R4 instead, but I had R7 (ribcage) in my head first, so I said R3.
Ah, yeah I knew r7 was gonna be obvious once you said it
