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/...
If you ask random people about this, what are the top 3-5 things they’ll think about or know about it? C5 is one of those top 3-5
Oh ****, we can’t even do a C clue yet. I have no idea what H3 is, but if others do then go for it I guess.
Yeah h3 before c5 or c4
Hopefully that is enough, but not sure
I know what c5 is now.
But the C5/7 fits the “what comes to mind” question as well.
If ervin knows what the h3 is, then he should do it so that one of us can clue the next word if they miss.
That’s why I wanna do c5 before the last turn just in case
H3 made lead to [redacted] or our target and then c5 could lead to [redacted] or our target so with 3 turns we should be good I think
There is a pretty good h6 word too imo. Not sure which is better.
I am pretty sure I know H3 now and think it has a fair chance to get there on its own.
hut
treehouse?
log cabin? teepee?
I thought they were gunna be hay tbh
s6 - shoots
s5 - presumably is shoot
c4
h10
l5
c5
s9
There’s an H10 and an L5 that work well together but sadly can’t combo without skipping a card.
I’m not sure I know S5 for some reason, but H10 and C4 combo almost certainly get it.
Shoots was word- leaves was 60%
60% seems reasonable. I still like L5, but that might just be a me thing and I have no idea if anyone else even knows wtf I’m referencing.
We can try it
Eventually we may need to get to c5 but we’ll need to figure out an IH clue to get to c
I like an h3 clue
agreed; shoots is much more useful/accurate than deciduous imo
do you know what my h3 and c5 are?
Shoots more helpful than deciduous then on to hut
Weird.
I'm currently drawing a blank.
treehouse seems like its ok but I don't really get how shoots is ever close to tree house- deciduous is kinda better.
And I don't think deciduous and teepee ever go together.
Hut has really thrown me off.
I was thinking it has straw/thatch on top....but thats got nothing to do with the other clues.
deciduous-shoots-hut makes me think of woodlands, gardeners, forest trails
Spring time or Autumn don't work with hut
I'm wondering if deciduous has less to do with trees shedding their leaves and if it just means that deciduous is a word that's associated with trees.
Bump
Need to move this forward so it doesn’t die
Next game gonna do reasonable time limits on guesses I think; worst case it means we use a few extra cards and score a bit less; but it’ll be moving faster
Yh for sure.
Here I've got literally no idea.
I'm happy with tree house because it kinda hits some of it- but- I'm really unclear if its right?
In fact:
tree house
well... deciduous didn't work lol 😊
lol.
