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/...
Just bold something. If I bold anything it’s going to be peepee poopoo
ok dungeon
Went backwards a bit with 16, but still very respectable
Game One: 15 points
Game Two: 19 points
Game Three: 16 points
Im glad i insisted
C4/6 was Clue/Cluedo
Oops
Was thinking of types of rooms (bedroom, hallway, judge’s chambers, torture rooms, etc) and not about how not many good words for plain “room” start with c
My approach woulda been to clue to bedroom bc that has room in it and counts
Chamber was a good clue and if we thought about it more we should get there
Exactly
All right, next game gogogo
Also, at what point do we start stealing from the codenames word list to keep things interesting? I don’t know how many words we’ve gone through thus far but my last rand (when we eventually landed on rollerskate) took me four spins to get an unused word.
My C6 was cellar
I was actually just thinking Copy Room
we cant clue the word in our clue can we?
No but if you are one of the cluegivers you can bold the word and try to win it for the guessers if they are struggling 😉
No but if you are one of the cluegivers you can bold the word and try to win it for the guessers if they are struggling 😉
You can also give an alternate spelling as a clue. So if the word is parlor, you can give parlour as a clue.
Game Four Start
Player Order:
bolt2112
doctor zeus
amazingervin
ibedrummin
d1iabol1cal
nicholasp27
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
EF | S | C | IH | M | B | JOVW
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, ervin, ibedrummin
f10 comes to mind
there is a B8 if we get to that letter
A few F options, but I like F10 the best. V10 is a good one too imo.
Agreed on those and I actually know what they are!
Maybe d1 comes in with a banger; otherwise f10 it is
Unless you want v10 to unblock b8, but f10 seems safer than v10
This could easily go the wrong way with any of what we’re discussing, so opening up a good second card might not hurt.
