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/...
Well I feel good u know it...and a8 is anaconda I imagine so we're good to go
snake
Yeah
It’s an Australian snake, so that’s why I said d1 and not you, Ervin
Round 14:
Cards used: 19
Guessers: ervin/bolt
The Board:
A | UNKQ | C | S | M | IH
The target word:
I've pmed the word to ibd/d1/zeus
NOTE: THESE ARE THE LAST 6 CARDS IN THE GAME
a7 more direct
h4 is good but could go different ways, but def confirmer and gets it on 2nd turn after a7 if they miss
A7 or related A8 seem like good options for a one-ball.
I9 could work as well, and is more direct than I11
A7 seems ok. There's also a couple of h8s that probably work.
Yh i have one h8 i thinks a lock?
I know a7+ h4 is 100% lock but h4 by itself isn’t
I don’t know the h8s
Oh, just figured out an h8 that is an absolute lock
ProbS the same
Bold ?
Yeah I think we bold h8
There are 2 h8s that are basically locks imo. One is maybe slightly better than the other, but I'm fine with either.
The h8 that h5 and h8 and h6 are associated with is a lock
Dunno the other h8 yet
That is tmi imo.
Hogwarts
Well it's a school of magic
H5 I imagine is harry
I can look more later but I have read all 7 and if it's a dunk we should get it in 1
A3 would be act so it's not magic, maybe wizard school or something there
But again we don't see history h7 or art a3 so maybe just wizard, thought a hat was something but maybe it's cap
a7 more direct
h4 is good but could go different ways, but def confirmer and gets it on 2nd turn after a7 if they miss
I9 could work as well, and is more direct than I11
The h8 that h5 and h8 and h6 are associated with is a lock
Dunno the other h8 yet
When I'm a clue-giver and already know the answer, my teammates give suggested clues all the time and I have no idea what word they're thinking of... so I'm not going to worry about the fact that we can't get all of the words these guys might be hinting at.
My first instinct is that the other H8 is Hermione and that the answer is "witch".
I suppose H5 and H6 could be Harry and Hagrid. Maybe it is "magic".
I'd like to get some idea of what I9 or I11 might be. I'm not going to worry about H4, since it seems like it might not be the strongest clue out there.
A7 could be Azkaban.
Right now I'm thinking "magic" is more likely than "witch" but I'd like to take a little while to think about I9 or I11 before we lock in a guess.
Illusionist or illusion isn't I9
I don't think it's "magic" for the reason I mentioned that a3 was never mentioned(act)
I like your H8 Hermione idea, def makes sense
Same w hagrid
Act is a pretty broad clue and could be used for dozens (hundreds?) of possible answers.
Hogwarts is either a school of magic or it's a school for wizards and witches. It's foolish of us to guess anything else.
Have we seen any proper nouns as an answer in this game? If so, I wouldn't rule out "Harry Potter" as our guess.
We haven't seen a single proper noun and they did say h5 which I assume is harry
Idk, just feel there would be hints of magic act a3 or abracadabra or something like that
I'm thinking something like wizard or sorcerer or something
The answer is "a lock". Hermione, Harry, and Hagrid are associated with Hogwarts.
The answer is magic. "Act" is a low quality clue that could point to just about anything. They didn't think of Abracadabra, which would have been a good clue.
This is never sorcerer. It might be witch or wizard, but magic is the obvious choice.
Let's just bold "magic trick" and move onto the next game.
