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/...
Ok well.
This is a thinker
First word that comes to mind is stalk. But I haven't thought it through at all.
shoots
deciduous
hut
cane
lucky
Is it like....straw?
I am really struggling though and feel we're really far away.
Hut fits for straw, so does shoots...unsure about cane or lucky.n
Is it like clover?
Tried to post configuration but the words got corrected and indented so a pic of the post attempt
That will surely help!
Seriously though, either they think of the word or they don't, and I doubt any more clues will help. Seems to be a mental block more than anything.
If they don’t get it I want to see if c5 helps
I mean I wouldn't say any mental block, it's just one of those things where if the word is thought of "omg it's so easy!" And if the word isn't thought of "omg it's impossible" and either one could happen
Yeah I agree
The difficulty of this game comes from lack of word list…and sometimes that means situations like this, through no fault of anybody
If there were a word list it’d be trivial
lol, we’re lamenting finishing the game like 6 cards off of a perfect score or some ****. I think we’ve done quite well for the first time playing!
Yeah we’ve done great
Crushing the in person game I played
Woah, a crossnerd sighting! Welcome back
Like fr i have quite literally no idea .
Id go like straw or charm but purely because im so thrown and nothing is helping me ��
deciduous
I thought deciduous was a fine clue/combo w shoots after looking up what it meant
Nuts???
Yeah, just guess something when you get a chance so we can start a new game
There is a reason I like c5 so much but I can’t say why during the game (not that it really matters)
My L5 was different than IBDs but I feel just as obscure
I've got a donut here.
Santa Claus
does China help?
Does your own post help? 😃
