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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xpost; not surprised tho

should be other options out there for this, but that's first to mind


d5 is another that works 2 ways


Yeah, T5 seems pretty lockish. D5 or L8 if they somehow miss.


toast


Bread.


Seems like bread but why is there no L4 for loaf

D5 could be donut could be bagel?


Wouldnt they go toasted? I guess thats the option for bread too

Toasted bread...


bump


bread


yep, gj

the d5 that works 2 ways is dough

dough -> makes bread
dough -> slang for money, just like bread is slang for money


Round 15:

Cards used: 18
Guessers: ervin/ibd

The Board:

A | JOVW | RG | A | M | P | DL


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


a14 seems like a lock


Mmm wonder what the L8 was. I'm rough at this lol


by AmazingErvin P

Mmm wonder what the L8 was. I'm rough at this lol

Leavened?


by Nicholasp27 P

a14 seems like a lock

Yah

L4 back up


D6/D4 are backups but won’t be needed after A anyway


We can bold A14 now as long as the guessers can agree that we don't have to hint at every possible clue that might point at the answer when the clue we give is perfectly straightforward.


Gotta wait for d1

And yeah, no need to mention others

It’s just tricky when people don’t wanna guess bread for toast bc we didn’t hint at loaf (just one recent example of many others in the thread) so even when straightforward it’s scary to not hint at other words

So yeah, what you said


Perhaps I've been overthinking too much this game or had some easier turns, I just see everyone else figuring out every word in people's posts and being dead certain and I didn't get d5 or L8 lol


antiperspirant


Deodorant? Once again I have no idea what any of the other words are haha


D4 Dove
D6 Degree
L4 who cares

deodorant


Yeah not sure on l4 but doesn’t matter yall got it


Ship it great clue!


I imagine l4 was Lynx, which you guys call Axe in America.


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