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/...
Round 8:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: ervin/bolt
The Board:
A | T | P | B | RG | DL | C
The target word:
I've pmed the word to filthy, ibd, doctor zeus, d1
maybe c4 or c6 to them on the right path?
this may take 3 clues :(
Yeah safe to assume this will take at least 2 turns.
Something like c4 into d4 could work.
C4 is good
A6 ok if we wanna come in on the left but j think right hand side is better?
There are 2 c4s, each going after different part
I think we go with the c4 that is like c6 if we wanna guarantee 100% in 3
But if people have a way to get there in 2 then that would be nice
Not yet sure what the d4 is
Actually c4+d3 isn’t bad going with the other c4 but I’m not sure they approach it the right way
this is tough... I see the c4, but not seeing much else.
if you feel sure we can get there in 3 on the C side, then go for it. I don't see it
if we go the A side, we should be able to get in 3 when we get to P
I def don't see any combos that get us there in 2
L5 opposite
Aha
A6 to t6 could work
Hmm
I know a6 nit t6
A6>t6 is basically an identical path to c4>d4. Either seems fine.
Well then I’d prefer right side to unlock r for final save if we don’t get it in 2
C5->d3 is nice also lol
Lots of combos it seems
I think c5 could get it in one clue
I don't know what either of those words are.
I actually kinda prefer going for the other side because the a6 does have some chance of hitting in 1.
C5 hits super hard and pairs really nice with a6
I think that combo gets it basically every time
C5 based on how we play has 1 word equity but aviary could also
I don’t care much which we go as I’m figuring this for a 2 turn round so won’t be disappointed with 2
If you wanna go a6 before c5 that works for me
Basically c5 only hits one exact word
If someone says c5 to you then you will always say this word next if doing word association
But a6 prolly still needed anyway so yeah let’s do that first
So is aviary the a6?
😵
Lol, I guess aviary is your clue now.
Ok I guess d1 bolded aviary then
I was gonna just ignore his guess but I guess it’s what we were planning to bold anyway so may as well
Lololol
I didn’t even realize that
Oops
aviary then
Really hope someone knows c5, sigh
I'm all for not wasting time thinking of wild guesses when it's clear we need at least 2 clues. My vote is to bold birdhouse and move on to the next clue.
Yea I'm not gonna think of it likely
I thought more of airplanes and c5 could be coach
I'm fine w birdhouse if you don't wanna spend any more time, id speculate on c5 for a second or 2, maybe it's chick and we need egg or something so bird egg idk
Bird egg is an angle shoot like penguin seagull. You can bold birdhouse or scrambled eggs. Your choice.
scrambled egg
