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/...
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Yh see i dont know either filthy
Id b happy going with space ship if they werent so concinced we'd get this
or maybe missile silo
but i think rocket ship is better
bold it
rocket ship
good job
launcher: rocket launcher first thing that comes to mind
still interested in what a7 is; can't be aircraft
Apollo; same domain but gets you to guess space shuttle, not rocket
launchpad better than launcher; both similar to l6 launch
when you think of our target, you think of L8
but when you think of L9, you think of our target
I still haven't figured out a7
when you think of rocket, you think of launcher, but when you think of launchpad, you think of rockets; space shuttles and other things are options also, but you don't launch anything off a launchpad unless a rocket is attached to it (and apollo would be the space shuttle clue, as you said)
nice job working it out
Dece clues n logic
Also props to filthy
Round 7:
Cards used: 7
Guessers: zeus/d1
The Board:
C | S | RG | IH | JOVW | T | A
The target word:
I've pmed it to ibd/bolt/filthy/ervin
oops, I sent to d1 instead of bolt
ignore first word (bar); i'll send a new word
(too bad: Cheers woulda been lock clue for Bar)
c4 is ok but lots of ways they could go; s3 would get them back to the word, but that's 2 turns
s6 would be a term zeus knows; not sure about d1; I think it's a lock if we get to that letter
I didn't know arugula was called rocket; that was def a high risk line to take
What we yanks know as arugula, DZ knows as rocket. It was just a matter of whether DZ knew that arugula = rocket. And also could’ve just led them to greens/lettuce/salad, etc. So it was fine that we didn’t go with it.
It’s like eggplant/aubergine and zucchini/courgette
C11 could be a winner
yeah, c11 is a winner
and s6 will be a slam dunk if c11 fails
but I think c11 works great
Nice job on rocket!
My other L6 was League so if they thought of it would just serve as confirmation
Having trouble thinking of the c11 but if it's a winner go for it
I thought of c4, a c8. S3/S6 could help too but yea, sounds like u guys know an extra good one
If C11 is what I think it is then I like [strike]C13[/strike] C15 better.
I'm not sure what c13 is; can't think of a one word answer that has 13 letters
c15 is what I was thinking of, but it's 2 words, not one
Well now I have 2 different C11 clues and I hope you're thinking of the right one.
