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/...
Surely the p7 was poultry, not peacock?
D4 was duck, which is why I said it was basically the same path (duck cage/turkey aviary).
Only reason I thought cluck could be one shot was because we do two word guesses and so if they deduce aviary or cage then they could get it since they’d get chicken from cluck
Who knows tho; I messed up saying aviary instead of a6
Yeah, I think they would be pretty hard words to deduce tho, and chicken coop seems kind of an odd word to have on the list. It would most likely end up being a food related guess imo.
Yeah prolly
Chicken coop isn’t something you think of unless clued aviary or cage or something
Round 9:
Cards used: 13
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
T | P | B | T | IH | RG | DL
The target word:
I've pmed the word to filthy, ibd, ervin, d1
d5
r7 if we end up getting to that card
this could be tough; highly variable depending on knowledge base
G7/G9 could be a thing. R4 maybe with something else.
If your d5 is the same thing I'm thinking of I would be concerned they don't know it. I absolutely didn't until googling a minute ago and would not expect most people to know that
D5 if they know about this will be a lock but if they don’t then it’s close enough they can get the idea and get in the realm
Idk feels like some shadowfax equity to me lol
If I was guessing and got clued d5 I would be like wtf
maybe you have a different d5 than me
Is the d5 similar to a d4 that everybody knows? If so, agree that seems really risky.
Yeah similar to d4; but if you were clued that you would easily deduce what it is
I think you're only saying that because you know what it is.
I think I'd rather go with the d4 to get in the realm. They can probably work out the d5 if they know it, and T5 after that should get them there if they don't.
Nah, I guarantee I see the d5 and I equate it to the d4 but slightly different
May not get to the right word then but it gets me in the realm and with deduction on why not d4 we may get there or close
But whatever; if y’all wanna go d4 then that’s fine
Also I think d4 + t5 gets them on the wrong kinds of words
Once you go d4 they are on a wrong track and I don’t see how we right that; plenty of words in that realm associated with t5
Well they will probably know now just from how we're talking about it lol. But words that are similar are not necessarily even related a lot of the time.
We’ll see
I’m just t12: trepidatious
Nah, I'm quite sure this will not lead them down the wrong path. It's not exactly an obvious t5 either.
Prolly not them; I’m thinking of the obvious t5
t5
L5
idk any of the others
can't think of any good opposites
p10
I don’t have anything to add, sorry. I have mixed feelings about the D4/5 discussion, but am fine with either. Nich’s T5 seems like the right call after that; not sure what D1iab’s not obvious T5 is.
I'm pretty firmly against going with nich's t5 if we go the d4/d5 route (assuming we're all talking about the same thing).
I don't know any of filthy's clues yet.
