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 think t4 getting us to b5 is the ticket. And t4 probably has some ace equity.
I’m good with either of the Ts to open up B
I feel like f12 is really good; should be easy to get with the other hints in one
S5 is as good as b5 for follow up too
Wish someone else knew f12 bc I think you’d agree
Btw it may not be related to the f4 you were thinking of as there are 2 f4s
I know what the f12 is and I'm good with it.
fine-grained
Oh boy what is fine grained
Hopefully my wonderful partner takes a break from trying to help the opposing team in codenames and shows up to help here!
Fine grained makes me think of a diamond, or maybe something multigrained like bread
Particles, rice, think something to do with food or gems? Unless clothes?
Oh i thought i was cluing
Yh rice is my only thought
Or sand? But like what does that mean?
Sugar?
Could do like rice field or instant rice or caster sugar
Yea those are good ideas, thinking a little of what their clues can be
Like we need T4 and B5
If it's sand b5 could be beach, but then what is t4
Trip?
Does work for beach but trip wouldn't really make us think of sand tho
I was thinking of tofu before if it's a good word but hmmm
Diamond idea seems wrong, no mention of topaz or that stuff. Something like salt also seems wrong, we don't have Table. Pepper?
Not pepper since no mention of salt haha
Maybe it's something in clothes angle? Trying to think of more fine-grained stuff
If salt could bt table aka table salt?
But id say taste for salt
And its too many letters
It ain't rice, would be something like fried mentioned
Maybe it's something with clothes, or back to the sand beach idea but feel we're missing something obvious
Some kinda powder or flour maybe? Nothing from before seemingly fits
Egg-fried would get us to rice yh and is legal
S5->b5 is interesting
Bakes = flour, but id think b4 is more intuitive
What about cous cous
I want sand now
Sand I just thought there could be some mention of Sahara or Egypt or something and we didn't get that
