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/...
I feel dumb because I don't know any of these clues you guys are talking about. I've got an L4 and a D10 that I think are decent when combined with shoots.
But if filthy thinks his d9 gets it in 1, let's go with that?
I’m fine with filthy taking a shot
I don’t know what anybody’s word is except c5 but it seems like we have 2 d words and an l word and a c word so we got words for every card and hopefully we can get them there before we use them all
Actually I got a good L5 (use caps for L please because there are l and I cards on the board)
I think it gets them there
i'd say my d9 is 80%
Go for it
deciduous
if im hilariously wrong, that'll be good too lol
Hmm
Here's the cards we started with.
S | DL | DL | C | IH
Desiduous is a type of tree that loses its leaves in the fall. I can't believe that the answer is "tree". There have to be better clues than "shoots" if the answer is "tree". Can it be a type of a tree? It's not maple. Syrup would have been the opening clue. Oak? Pine? Could it be something like "Jungle"? I still don't have an answer that pops out at me.
Could it be tree? Surely there's a clue that starts with S, I, or H that's better than "shoots".
Lol I don't think its tree.
Could it be stem?
Let's assume for a moment it's tree. What clue would you give starting with S, I, or H?
Shade
Horticulture
I'm not coming up with any common types of trees that start with any of those letters. Sycamore? Is that a tree?
Yeah- it's the one with the flying whizzies I think
deciduous is a class of trees. stem is peripheral. i don't see how filthy is 80% if it's stem.
more likely, filthy is 80% confident that one of us knows what deciduous means.
Maybe it's Autumn? Because the leaves fall?
Its potentially implying the falling off of trees
Maybe forest bed or something?
If it's Autumn then the initial S6 clue is "Season". It occurs to me that if you go back in the thread, Nich said he had a "meh" S4 clue. Stem?
The only reason I'm not jumping up and down on "tree" is that Sycamore wasn't the initial clue. Or better still, spruce.
I'm good with forest/forest bed.
I think forest bed works quite well
I dunno? still around 60%? thoughts?
I like h3 a lot and c5 is a must at some point
agreed; shoots is much more useful/accurate than deciduous imo
do you know what my h3 and c5 are?
I would say deciduous is close to being an opposite clue if anything lol.
I might know what the h3 is. No idea what the c5 is, unless it's similar to the h3 I'm thinking of, but I doubt it. There is a c4 that should get it tho.
Deciduous is nothing like an opposite clue imo...tho I didn't know what it meant and it sounds like something a Disney villain would be
h3 could work, a week c3 could work, there's still the obscure L5 too
I hope someone knows c5 because it’s the clearest imo, but I can’t clue again
H3 is needed to get them on the right track I think
I don't know what the c5 is, but c4 gets it anyway.
Hopefully we won't get that far...
