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/...
e7 first to mind
g9 also
great clue d1; that is a super hard word to clue for normally; shouldn't even be on the list
maybe Acrostic -> Jumble gets us to guess crossword and then sudoku as other newspaper puzzles?
I actually know what these are!
And there's a6 and the similar a9/a10 but we probably start with the g to unlock e
great clue d1; that is a super hard word to clue for normally; shouldn't even be on the list
maybe Acrostic -> Jumble gets us to guess crossword and then sudoku as other newspaper puzzles?
Yeah, I think we lucked out with the right letter for the right team there because I could see that turning into a disaster rather quickly lol.
Lol at that pm btw.
Agree that the g side is the way to go here.
Gotta do G9 imo
Galapagos
Feels like it's island/islands. But I'm thrown by e7.
A8 (Aleutian) or e4 (Elba) would make more sense.
Still, the only word I associate with Galapagos is "islands".
Islands...or evolution?
yh I think we go islands in review
I'm pretty sure it's not islands for reasons already mentioned. I'll stew a while on e7 possibilities and will bold "islands" later today when I get frustrated and give up.
island
0%
Someone fire e
Lol
emperor
Bold "penguin" if you agree.
penguin
100
I had animals in mind as things I associate with Galapagos, but I didn't realize penguin was one of them. I might have guessed turtles and gotten a 75% response instead of our 0% island.
Yeah Galapagos penguins are the only warm water ones
But more importantly, we needed d1 or IBD to be on the guessing team bc it was also a reference to an earlier game in this thread where we clued beach and hinted g9 Galapagos and they went penguin
You hinted Galveston and we thought you were hinting Galapagos!
But yeah, going with G9 here was a meta-clue.
Oh that’s right
G9 was Galveston; wouldn’t clue Galapagos for seagull
Round 14:
Cards used: 17
Guessers: zeus/ervin
The Board:
A | JOVW | RG | M | P | DL | T
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1, ibd, bolt
T5 seems about right
t5 pretty good
