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/...
Frye?
Sent
Woof lol idk
Doubt this is gettable in 1, but I think we wanna use the left side so we can get to g4/5. V5 is a pretty good starting point imo.
I knew we should have saved M last round!
Literally no idea
V3 might be best?
Ya idk where to start and not sure of any of those yet
I'm fine if it's a good plan cause I got nothing lol, I googled and there's some shadowfaxy stuff but nothing realistically helpful
I can do the v5 if somebody knows the g4/5, which I'm quite confident will get there.
I’m like 70% that I know G4/5
ok D1iab -> IBeDrummin
Vespa
The only Vespa I know is a scooter. But we're not supposed to get this in one, so it's probably not motorcycle. Could G4/5 be gear/gears?
Maybe it's bicycle?
A9 for Armstrong wasn't hinted at, even though that could be either Lance or Neil. And C9 for Canondale would have been an ace for bicycle. Or is it a C10 Cannondale? Either way, I'm not getting bicycle vibes.
Vespa is a cute colorful expensive Italian scooter
gondola another Italian form of transportation, but Venice woulda been clued or mentioned
we already had rocket so not pocket rocket connotation
g4/g5 could be grip/grips and the word is handlebars; Vespa is really just handlebars, a seat and wheels...but v3 seems like van which doesn't have handlebars...can't think of any other v3 words that also are in same domain as Vespa, tho maybe one of us can think of something
or it could be gears, but there was no mention of bike stuff, which definitely have gears...not sure that Vespa actually has gears and a transmission, tho it seems likely
I kinda like handlebars as a gut thing but it's prolly not right with v3 out there
Or maybe throttle works for Vespa and van
Let's go with your gut. I like handlebars for a first guess.
ok; don't like that it doesn't fit v3 that I can think of, but I can't think of anything else that it could be that does fit, so may as well move on to clue 2
handlebars
unreal
lol wtf
my v3 was vee...a similar shape to handlebar
oh wow; didn't think that would be it with v3 but couldn't get Flobots out of my head the past day thanks to this
great clue d1
Round 19:
Cards used: 21
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
RG | A | C
The target word:
I've pmed it to d1iabol1cal, ibedrummin, amazingervin
NOTE: THESE ARE THE LAST THREE CARDS IN THIS GAME
c8+r4 is a 2 clue lock
Great clue and guess, you coulda had 10 clues and I don't think I would ever guess handlebar(or saber from before)
I can think of a c8 that would be half of an idea and wildly misleading on its own?
Not sure the r4 yet
