SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread

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/...

21 November 2023 at 05:10 AM
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I dunno I think we just bold parrot or parakeet or bird your choice


I was kind of thinking cracker just because that's a famous parrot food, or maybe some kinda bird seed


I guess parrot works if you wanna fire that, p5/p6 could be Polly and Paulie


parrot


Correct...nice one!


Shiiiit it!! S(keet) S(keet) S(keet)!!


P6 was pirate, p5 Polly

Great job


I meant to say ship it! (Autocorrect apparently for a not so seldom phrase)

Ship it way to go DZ!

And nice shadowkeet clue!!


Round 9:

Cards used: 10
Guessers: ervin/ibd

The Board:

A | JOVW | RG | S | IH | P | UNKQ


The target word:
I've pmed it to d1, zeus, and bolt


a9


n5 isn't bad
k7 too

THey'll know n dunno about k


Depends which side we want

K10 is a lock
K8 is a lock
A9 is a lock


I dunno n5 or k7 yet


K10 is not a lock. But A9 and K8 are locks. My vote is K8 just to get rid of the UNKQ side of the board that's been giving us fits.


If they don’t get k10 I would eat my hat

It’s the lockest of all of them imo


Actually k10 is illegal lol

I’m good with the other options


I'm all for letting D1 bold K8 once he comes online... unless he objects.


yh go for it

deffo ditch the right hand side


kielbasa


Sausage

K8 = kielbasa
A9 = andouille

Not sure what N5 is but don't really care. It’s sausage.


Yup, in complete agreement

sausage


That’s a Bingo!


I was afraid that knockwurst might lead to hot dog. Why is it an illegal clue anyhow?


Wurst means sausage in German


And in fact kielbasa was an illegal clue as well. Oops.


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