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/...
Yea fire away, I'm not feeling super strongly here
kisser
Mouth maybe? POW! Right in the kisser.
Is facehole one word? B4 could be bass (large/small mouth).
If it’s mouth, I can’t think of anything else really for EF and UNKQ cards. S5 wasn’t mentioned for smile, which is a semi-concern.
But other than lips, which would’ve been kissers, I can’t think of anything remotely as strong as mouth.
Yeah definitely a fighting term not loving term
Gonna look over the other mentions
I was thinking boxer but no f5 for Floyd or f7 for Frazier/Foreman so not that
F8 could just be fighting but not sure
Need to figure out b4
Right now I’m agreeing on mouth
Facehole for f8
Bass for b4
And kisser is just slang for mouth
Yeah I’m good with mouth
Could do loudmouth or big mouth or something but I doubt those are on the cards
F4 for face gets the region but not the mouth
N4 for nose but also not as good
Facehole and kisser are best 2 for mouth and kisser literally means mouth so don’t think we can do anything but _ mouth or mouth _
I’m fine with either loudmouth or big mouth. Can’t really think of anything else and guessing it’s just mouth.
Yeah it’s just mouth but
big mouth
I guess you're someyhing like 30 or 40% there?
Let's do the f8. There's an s6 that def gets it, but think that's a better card to hold onto if possible.
Yh go for it
I don't know what the f8 is so I'm all about the sure thing with the s6.
To be clear, I think the f8 is also a sure thing now...it's just a matter of which card we think we want to use.
S is generally a better letter to have than F, but that card also has E, so it's probably pretty close to a wash.
Yea they're on the way there
Cool with what team wants to fire, I'm on vacation a few more days so will probably more opinionated once that's over ��
forehead
Maybe the word is just face
Need to look at what all was said
Can’t be head since they used forehead
They never mentioned n4 for nose or f4 for face
If it were nose they woulda gone nostril n7
Why not n4 nose for face mentioned if that’s the target tho?
The key is gonna be to figure out what b4 is; d1 said kisser would get us to the wrong word but forehead may not and forehead+b4 definitely would work
b4 = bald? Brow?
This could just be eye and b4 is brow; but if so, why not unibrow for the U card? Hard to see d1 thinking of brow but missing unibrow
Forehead + bald = hair
Forehead + brow = eye
Are there no hair words starting with unkqef?
Fade but that could get on on the wrong track
But why kisser for hair? Unless it’s mustache or beard, but then forehead makes no sense
If we’re thinking face, then B4 could be book
They were between F8 and S6 and calling them both a sure thing.
F8 = forehead
S6 = selfie?
A forehead is part of a face, as is a mouth. It is curious that nose wasn’t suggested, seems like a big miss if this is face.
Wrinkle could fit forehead and b4 is bend, but that seems super meh
Maybe it’s just face? I feel like we are missing something obvious
I’m not sure how wrinkle would fit kisser. I think we need to go with face even though N4 (nose) and E3/4 (eye/eyes) weren’t brought up. If the mouth, nose, and eyes are the primary features of the face, then you’re 30-40% there by guessing mouth.
I’m not confident at all here given no mention of N or E. I struggle with how forehead is top-of-mind for face while nose and eyes are overlooked.
right; face doesn't seem right based on the posting
I think this was difficult which is why less people chimed in, and it's not as simple as face or nose/eye clues would have been mentioned
but kisser really is only used for a punch to the mouth afaik; but forehead doesn't really fit with any mouth words or boxing/fighting words so I'm struggling to see what word other than face would have both mouth and forehead as clues
