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/...
Let's move this along.
grill
I wanna say barbecue, but wtf is KC? Or the q words. Or the g6.
R4 could be ribs.
Maybe Kansas city famous for BBQ or some KC BBQ?
Seems like that should be the word tho and ribs does make sense for R4
Idk what the q is either or the opposite stuff lol
I've heard of Texas bbq and maybe 1 or 2 others, but I've never heard of KC bbq. That really doesn't mean anything tho. Are you saying that's a thing or just guessing?
I'm guessing sorta but also sounds vaguely like something Ive heard before
It's prob super famous and they expected me to know it and I didn't
K7 is probably ketchup. Yeah, I say we just guess bbq sauce and be done with it.
barbecue sauce
Bingo
What was kc?
KC bbq is a thing
good job!
Knew it all along!! Way to go D1!
I have a bad beat story when it comes to bbq. I took a road trip from Los Angeles to Florida in 2010. I passed through Memphis on a Monday. Rendezvous BBQ (the most iconic bbq restaurant in the city) is closed on Mondays.
I moved from Florida to Denver in the fall of 2021 and spent the night in KC along the way. Yep, Tom's BBQ in KC is closed on Sundays. Both times I got bbq, but not from "the place" to have bbq in that city.
For those that aren't from the US, the regions that are best known for bbq are Texas, KC, Memphis, St Louis, and Carolina. Georgia should probably be on that list as well.
I'm going to Austin, TX later this year. Hopefully Franklin's won't be closed the day I show up.
Yeah in the US we refer to what kind of barbecue a restaurant makes by region
KC, Memphis, Carolina, etc
KC uses thick sweet molasses like sauces
Memphis uses rubs
Carolina uses vinegar based sauces
Etc
And yeah, I think q is legal but didn’t wanna risk it if others felt differently
The word is barbecue so q isn’t in the word and q is a synonym of barbecue
What do Americans think of a south african braii
Yeah I like sweet bbq sauce
Whats funny is in the uk you spell it barbeque so q would not be allowed
And yeah, I think q is legal but didn’t wanna risk it if others felt differently
The word is barbecue so q isn’t in the word and q is a synonym of barbecue
Ironically if there was a q1 I would have thought James bond's q and with kings counsel would have pushed for agency or something like that
lol true
Q gets barbecue, bond and q anon; barbecue prolly the last one you think of
I would have thought of Q from star trek
So many Qs
I've never heard of q being used for bbq before.
