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/...
And shadowfax isn’t a unicorn, so I never would’ve expected them to get there even if they knew who he was. Blue chip was a pretty lucky wild guess though!
yeah, Shadowfax was too esoteric; when ibd said he knew it and was good with it, I thought it would be good, but apparently he had some other s9
shoulda talked more about d1's clue as it was great and we coulda saved a card
Round 2:
Cards used: 2
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
B | DL | EF | P | UNKQ | M | JOVW
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, ervin, filthy, ibedrummin
Note: we never specified which JOVW card we were using, so I took left one by default
b8 for zeus
w7 is good also
b8 should get it in one
idk what w7 is
o5
but b8 is better
Idk why I can't think of b8, b4, b6/7, b7
W4/5
If b8 is the nuts do that
Spoiler
but it better not be shadowfox :p
B8
ok but one of ya'll do b8 because I don't wanna go every time and I'm scarred by last time where maybe my b8 isn't your b8
Brighton
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lol
I was gonna say after they guessed that we should wait for all 5 to chime in before guessing
I see how my post was saying go for it; it was implied for after all chimed in but I shoulda mentioned it explicitly
O5 is Omaha
W7 is Waikiki
Zeus, if you agree, please bold beach.
beach
good job! it was beach!
sorry diab
I've been unconsulted a few times, and I thought it wasn't a thing. sorry!
good job! it was beach!
sorry diab
I've been unconsulted a few times, and I thought it wasn't a thing. sorry!
It's fine, and I would've signed off on it anyway. Just thought it was funny that I wasn't even given an hour to respond.
In the past when people have been left out, it's normally because they haven't said anything in at least 24 hours, which is understandable.
Round 3:
Cards used: 3
Guessers: zeus/nich
The Board:
DL | EF | P | RG | UNKQ | M | JOVW
The target word:
someone please think of a number 1-440 and find that in column A of the sheet; double-check it hasn't been used before in column H. Then pm the word to d1iabol1cal, amazingervin, filthyvermin, ibedrummin, bolt2112
Target word sent
w10
j9
L7
If we use the JOVW side of the board we unlock an M6 that should clinch it.
I think the w10 is the most likely to get it in 1.
