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/...
Yea opposites I haven't thought of anything besides 'antiquated'
Electric voltage?
Electric voltage
Id say like 75%?
75% seems in the ballpark
I think p7 gets them on the right track
Wooo yea! I was expecting like 7%!
P8 as well- and feels combined together gets there?
P7 perfectly fine too
Actually i miscounted
I have two p8s
Dunno what this p7 is
75% seems a little misleading. I mean, it is in a sense, but it's more likely to send them down the wrong path imo.
I'm all about the p7.
Yeah it’s tough to do ballpark % especially bc we don’t do them often so don’t have any kind of calibration
But I can see anywhere from 25-75% being justified
Hopefully they don’t read too much into it
Go p7 d1
protest
Now I'm on something like roadblock/traffic jam/gridlock type thought
Yeah, roadblock sounds decent. Not sure how tf electric voltage is anywhere close to 25% for that much less 75%, but here we are.
Time to figure out the O3 that is a complete lock.
Resistance keeps coming to mind for me, which is pretty good for protest and connects well with impedance.
Bump
Still have not figured out this O3
Should we try some kind of traffic resistance? Maybe electric cars could cause a jam of some kind?
Yeah, not sure how to connect that to protest tho. And I’m lost on O3, which is what we’ll get if we miss this round.
I keep coming back to this. If impedance means something that blocks/hinders/resists/halts progress, then seems like we’re looking for another word that also has this definition, but it’s not the most common usage of the word.
And O3 is a lock.
Oil
Oar
Own
Old
Ore
Oak
Off
Owl
Orb
Orc
Ode
Owe
Oat
Ohm
Oaf
One
I don’t see any of these hitting impedance/protest. I wonder if we’re looking for an acronym.
Power grid keeps coming to mind too but idk what that's have to do with a protest.
Think we probably just gotta guess some blockade/resistance/opposition(ideally in the road) and see what we get
I had a thought last round that P7 could’ve been passive, because I was thinking passive resistance (which actually would cover protest and impedance pretty nicely - as well as the whole traffic blockade sort of deal). But I don’t think our target word/s is passive resistance, so now I’m not really sure what to do.
In the same way we got electric incorporated last round, I’d like to get resistance incorporated this round somehow. But I’m not too sure how to do that through the lens of blocking the road.
Traffic resistance? Idk haha, think we'll need another clue so im cool if you find a good pairing to go with it that you wanna try
