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/...
Good job
19 points!
Too bad about the word list mixup
I guess we can keep a longer list of all words used in thread so that we don’t dupe across games
Nice job, everyone
Game 1:
Game One Complete
We got 15 words with the 26 cards
According to the rule book, that is the 3rd place BIG trophy!
The rule book only goes to 17 points as max score, so we did very well
Game 2:
Good job
19 points!
Too bad about the word list mixup
I guess we can keep a longer list of all words used in thread so that we don’t dupe across games
We're slaying haha
We going again?
Yeah sorry been a busy day
I’ll start next round tonight
19 is off the charts! Well done everyone
Game One: 15 points
Game Two: 19 points
Game Three Start
Player Order:
amazingervin
bolt2112
doctor zeus
nicholasp27
filthyvermin
ibedrummin
d1iabol1cal
Did I get booted? 
#justiceforErvin
oops; updated; random.org actually kept everyone the same order but put ervin first; odds of the other 7 being in same order are pretty pretty low
I also went through thread and got all the words from round 1 into the sheet so now all prior words are in column H starting on row 27 so the button will ensure we don't get dupes (when I'm guessing and ya'll choose randomly, just search column H to ensure not used before or search this thread for the word(s) to ensure not used
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: ervin/bolt
The Board:
JOVW | B | DL | EF | M | JOVW | S
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, doctor zeus, filthy, ibedrummin
s6 but they prolly don't know much about that
this is gonna be tough unless I'm missing some good clues
actually, they prolly know s9 and it could get there
Yeah I think s9 is best
Then if not quite there, we can go for other definition with o6 or multiple other ones
I don't know what the s9 is, but there's an o10 which probably works, or significantly narrows it down at least.
sorry guys i got nothing :(
Zeus, any ideas or should we go S9?
and if that fails, do you guys know what I mean by other way to go on this with JOVW? So ya'll can clue something if s9 fails? Also, d1 has an o so we should have a few options after s9 just in case
s9 sounds good
Shadowfax
Mmm I have no idea what that is
I know what a shadow is. And I know what a fax is. I have no clue what a shadowfax is.
I have no desire to go back and forth with our wild guesses when neither of us has a clue. Let's just pass and move on to the next clue. Shadowfax sounds like the name of some tech company.
Blue Chip
