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/...
Yah
0%
we should do a5 with w7 confirmer and move on
angus
I suppose it's a burger after all.
hamburger
yeah
d1 mentioned w7 in his post before bolding the clue
of course, he prolly meant whopper, not Wendy's
my opposite clues were g5 gouda and a8 american because I thought whatever clue we gave distinguishing between hamburger or cheeseburger guess would be the decisioning, so I wanted to have opposite clue for cheeses to help decide between hamburger and cheeseburger
Round 8:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: bolt/nich
The Board:
JOVW | M | C | RG | B | S | EF
The target word:
Someone rand one from the sheet and send to d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus and amazingervin
sheets link:
W7 Wendy's is missing and would have been a bink clue instead of a confirmer.
It's not a burger.
Well W isn't on the outside so they couldn't have clued it yet, but the confirmer is still too obvious to miss.
On the other hand, I'm never guessing burger, because there's no way they don't think of "Wendy's" as a confirmer.
Yeah, was a very strange game where you wouldn't fire burger because there was no w7 even though there was one, and yet you didn't mind blasting off battle even though there were tons of obvious clues that weren't mentioned.
Also, no capital meant that casino should have never been in consideration.
My w7 was for whopper tho.
randing
Round 8:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: bolt/nich
The Board:
JOVW | M | C | RG | B | S | EF
The target word:
Someone rand one from the sheet and send to d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, doctor zeus and amazingervin
sheets link:
O7? or is it illegal?
W7 is pretty good too
Think one of those should do it
Haven't figured those out yet, e7 maybe not even as a confirmer and nothing on its own
O9 is absolutely where it’s at
I was also on O8
Do o9
Oh ya ok o9 does seem like the way to go
I’ll let someone else fire it off because if it doesn’t hit (unlikely) I’ll be ready to go with m8.
Officiant for o9 was my guess but no m8 confirmer had me off of it
one-piece
Seems like swimsuit is the obvious choice
Wetsuit being illegal af
No clue on illegal e7, m8, or non-illegal w7 yet
w7 could be webbing
Seems like swimsuit or bathing suit are the obvious fits. But I'm unsettled about M8.
not sure about m8 but not too worried about it; he wanted to not bold one-piece so that he could do m8 if needed because he knows it and it's not so obvious that everyone will know it
w7 webbing and w7 wetsuit being illegal af are good enough confirmers for me
i'm good with swimsuit and adjust if it's incorrect
swimsuit
