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/...
ooh yeah.
Moo = Cow
= Milk; Farm; haystack
Are there any better Farmyard or Farm with IHM?
What would H9 be?
Could be something like horse/horseback
House maybe
Maybe it is just farm? Aka moo-house
I haven't heard of moo-house lol
Maybe we do farm house because covers farm and house?
I just made that up haha, sounds like a good name for a farm lol
Just thinking it's moo-straw then we'd wanna guess something like hay
We could guess something like Hay Farm right?
hay farm
Where they dry grass on an industrial scale
Everything about this sounds right lol
Well, half of it is right!
It is hay, well done.
I do think we need to draw the line on guessing multiple words tho. If a hay farm is a thing then fine, but otherwise it's just too much of an angle imo.
What were the other guesses?
And agreed lol. Should be a legitimate and definite thing
Yeah that’d be like us guessing penguin seagull.
according to this, hay farming is a thing and hay farms have been around for centuries: https://smallbiztrends.com/2023/09/hay-f...
but yeah, we can't use the 2 word thing to guess for two different concepts just as an angle to hit two different ideas for what it is, so let's stick to things people actually say or use...spring water, flying lizard, house cat are all fine...hay farm is prolly over the line since nobody has heard of that even though they seem to be an actual thing
Yea we can prolly get some stricter stuff in place for this...hay farm half sounded like a thing so seemed ok
Let's go moo-straw!
Nice job getting there, guys 👍
Round 16:
Cards used: 21
Guessers: zeus/bolt
The Board:
S | DL | DL | C | IH
The target word:
i've pmed it to d1/filthy/ervin/ibd
NOTE: THESE ARE THE LAST 5 CARDS IN THE GAME
s6 is pretty good
c4 also
not seeing anything else atm
s6 same as s5?
Idk why I feel it's different, I can think of a meh s4 as well
This seems a lil tricky
s6 same as s5 but I think s6 is more likely while s5 has more connotations
There’s an H10 and an L5 that work well together but sadly can’t combo without skipping a card.
there is also just c5, but that doesn't get it in one
s5 is the only thing that I can see with a chance to get it in one
I’m not sure I know S5 for some reason, but H10 and C4 combo almost certainly get it.
We could go for something like S9 if we’re feeling saucy.
I like the s6.
Ya idk here lol so I'll def sign off on some confidence
Nich, make your picks in the box office draft.
