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 was thinking yesterday it’d be cool to use zero cards in a turn. Then this popped up, so I took a screenshot for posterity. 😃
That’s not the official guess, btw. Just what I thought when I saw DZ’s opening post.
I’ll certainly wait for Nich and we’ll end up bolding something like commercial airplane
Airplane engine imo
Doesn’t really matter; the answer is airplane
If it was engine then they’d discuss jet and automobile and other words
By if being just jet right away, it really can’t be anything but airplane
A is a side card, so they woulda had to mention a7 if it’s
anything other than airplane
Yeah, A8 for aviation could’ve come up, but they didn’t need it. I’m fine with airplane engine
Round 11:
Cards used: 13
Guessers: nich/bolt
The Board:
M | M | T | C | EF | T | A
The target word:
someone choose a random number between 1 a 440 and get that word from the spreadsheet and send to d1iabol1cal/ibedrummin/doctor zeus/amazingervin/filthyvermin
Target word sent.
It’s recliner isn’t it
M8, but that doesn’t narrow it really at all.
Tough one
I don't know the m8, but I've got an m4, m7 and m9. I got nothin' for the other side of the board really.
Yea there's stuff like M4, a different M4, but kind of tricky in just 1. I kinda like an A7
I have another M8. Don’t actually know yet what any of these other Ms are
M6 similar to M8
Well, one of them
M4 into m7, or m7 into m4 definitely gets it. Not sure which is more likely to hit in 1, but I think we should stay on that side of the board if possible since it kinda sucks to have 2 of the same letter next to each other.
I don't know either of the m8s or m6 heh.
M4 should be pretty obv, I can think of a few things for M8.
Think about my A7 I think that may be the best one
I might know the a7, but not sure. Still think we should give an M clue for the reason I already said tho.
There's an M8 that's in a similar domain to the A7 but I think the A7 works better and a chance they bink it off that with the other clues
I think it's spew to not go with an M clue while we have so many good ones available to us unless the a7 is a slam dunk can't miss, and I don't think it is.
I still like m4 or m7, but again, I'm not sure what the other m words are...I might know one of them, but it's kinda meh so maybe not.
Actually I was thinking of a different a7, but now I'm pretty sure I know what it is and I don't like it at all.
Nvm, that's 8 letters. Not sure I know it.
