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/...
I'd probably do a k3 or n6 + d9, which would definitely get close to the word at a minimum. This is really hard tho.
I think D9 is the best out of all that stuff. And then U8 is the other planet but combined maybe has a chance
I don't know what the d9 is fwiw
I miscounted on the letters of what I thought it was
D9 isn't the easiest to think of but prob the closest out of everything
Even with that said it's no shadowfax
Is the d9 similar to the c5? If it isn't then I don't know it either. It's also entirely possible I have no idea what either is lol. Neither of them are all that close to the word.
Actually now I think the c5 is different.
Maybe k3/n6>r6>c5 is the way to go. That should work I think, and I'm not sure there are any straightforward paths to getting it in 2.
Or c7 instead of c5 might be slightly better.
We're never ever ever getting this in 1. I think our best chance is to free up the R. We could do R4 or R7. I think we could do a K3 or N6 that could work in combination with one of the Rs and give us a shot at a 2.
I wanna save up for my c tbh so one of you bold
I think D9 —> F5 could get us there in two.
Note: we shouldn’t talk about interior cards; I don’t mind but we agreed to only discuss the outside and one from outside cards as best option
I don't know if we're thinking of the same D9 but I'll sign off on you trying the plan anyway haha, tho I don't know the F5 tho maybe I do
I don't know what that is, but you'd have to be pretty confident it gets there in 2 because we could be in big trouble if it doesn't.
Coming at this from a slightly different angle, we could go for a g5 or opposite r8 which doesn't hit the word directly, but may still get there.
Oh I think I figured out the F5 and that seems a great way to go, so yea I think D9 if we have the same one is best route to start
If it works then fine, but the other side of the board has a lot more directions we can take if things go pear-shaped.
I might be crazy overconfident here, but I could almost see D9 getting it in one by them deducing F5.
I’d feel more confident about getting it in two if another cluer knew what Ervin and I were referring to with this combo.
I'd rather keep the card w 4 letters for the future as it's more flexible
I feel good about the F5 so I could bold that one if you wanna do D9 in case we have different one but seems we're on the same page
Would prefer if I knew what the words were, but I'm fine with trying it.
I feel good about the F5 so I could bold that one if you wanna do D9 in case we have different one but seems we're on the same page
Haha, I was thinking the same thing but with you going first.
Let’s give DZ and bolt an opportunity to chime in. There was tons of discussion in here before I introduced this line.
Haha you wanna roll the dice eh? :p
I'm in suspense now if we have the same one, if team signs off on bolding it you can pm me if it was
F5 I feel totally confident we have the same and I think our other teammates could think of it too, seems quite strong
I don't know D9 and I fear F5 is only strong if you ready know the answer.
