SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread

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/...

21 November 2023 at 05:10 AM
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I’m on C11 (the right one) all day.


bold it


cheesesteak


Ok well philadelphia is first instinct


by Doctor Zeus P

Ok well philadelphia is first instinct

Same, but pretty sure it has to be sandwich.

C4=club
S3/s6=sub/subway

I'm not sure on the others, but there are tons of sandwiches out there, so I'm not too worried about it.

Only weird part is nich thinking I may not know of Subway? Still though, gotta be sandwich imo.


Maybe he doesnt knw if you have subway

Lets see if c15 works?

Two word c....


Everybody has Subway...it's the biggest ff chain in the world! I think. No way nich would ever think I wouldn't know it anyway. Maybe he was thinking of something else?

Anyway, it basically has to be sandwich. If it was Philly, they would be talking about IASIP for S, and they were so confident that this was a great clue, it must be one or the other.

I'm all in on sandwich.


The other s is sarnie

sandwich


Heyooooooooo


Nice work, boys


yeah s6 was sarnie, which is an England thing; not sure if Australia calls them that; we def don't in the US


well done, you two


what was c15?

croque monsieur was hyphenated one place I saw, but it's two words everywhere else, so couldn't be used


Round 8:

Cards used: 8

Guessers: d1/ervin

The Board:

S | RG | IH | P | JOVW | T | A

The target word:
I've pmed it to ibd/bolt/filthy/zeus


lol; that's unfortunate (I'll say why after the round)


s5 + r4 is a decent combo; not seeing a one-shot yet


by Nicholasp27 P

yeah s6 was sarnie, which is an England thing; not sure if Australia calls them that; we def don't in the US


well done, you two

Sarnie? Surely you meant subway. Especially on the heels of cheesesteak.


r8 is our best chance at an ace


r8 is 2nd word tho, so not an ace

while I like the s5+r4 combo, r8 gets it also

either way, it's in 2; we may just have to use 2 this time; can't get everything in one, especially with only 2 letters on the outside


s6 never gets it, but s6 + r8 are a lock.


there are ones like s9 but they are more esoteric so crapshoot if they've heard of them


Unless someone has a shot at an ace with their first clue, I feel good about setting up a win in 2 guesses with my S6.


by Nicholasp27 P

yeah s6 was sarnie, which is an England thing; not sure if Australia calls them that; we def don't in the US


well done, you two

You're right, I've never heard that term before.


so we decided to avoid discussing the middle card letters, right?

we're just discussing S, R, G, and A... right?


i've got a meh opposite S6

i mean it's unlikely to get it in one


i can never figure out other people's words lol

s6 r8 r4 s5

i can't figure out any of those! lol fml :(


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