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/...
Actually I have a p5 and a p6 that I like. The p6 could do it in 1.
The more I think about it the more I think the p6 always gets there.
idk p6, but I'm totally fine with you bolding it
I know I said p6 before but I doubt it gets it in 1(and could confuse) so I don't think we have the same one
Is it in the domain with p5?
P6 and P5 are in the same domain and my confidence is high on P6.
It was one of my first thoughts but I'm thinking r7 is better...it does hit stronger and they could figure out the Ps maybe
I must be thinking of a different r7 to everyone else lol.
I’ve got a few different r7s from y’all in mind
Not sure if any of them work tho
I guess my only concern is, how well-known is it? It was literally the first thing that popped in my head, but I could be biased.
I guess my only concern is, how well-known is it? It was literally the first thing that popped in my head, but I could be biased.
It came to mind for me! But yes, runs the risk of being esoteric. I still probably like it better than the other one. I have no idea what these Ps are that people are discussing, but I still think we should clear the right side.
Ok so fire r7?
Someone fire something or I’m gonna bold something
recluse
I'm gonna fire my P6 in about an hour if someone doesn't hit R7 before then
r7 has been hit and bolded
And if Nich could figure out windshield wiper in 1 guess I have high confidence he can put a P6 together here.
Well there is the brown recluse spider and then i6 is insect and b5 is bites and p6 is poison etc all pointing to venom maybe
And then the more likely hermit/solitary/anti-social/manifesto/unabomber meaning for recluse
Will take closer look this afternoon/evening
coming back to the hermit version, pariah could be the p6 and the word could be something like outcast
if that's the case, I'd be disappointed if nobody wanted to clue an Outkast word so I don't think it's outcast
the other r7 could be refugee, which could have some overlap with recluse
also h8 to clean up could be homeless
they didn't mention h6 so maybe it is just hermit
we can guess hermit crab if we go that route, tho they didn't clue horseshoe h9 so crab prolly not needed
no mention of hobo tho, but there is an h5 mentioned which I haven't figured out yet
no mention of b3 bum either
dunno, don't think we are there yet
Recluse = hidden away
If its soemthing like outcast i dont think bum or hobo would fit which are specifically homeless people- whilst outcast is very much a withdrawal instead of a dehoming
I dont like spider
