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/...
But I’m fine with whatever
S5 gets there anyway if F10 doesn’t hit what we’re hoping for.
Yeah s5 is nice tho slightly misleading with f10
I slightly prefer the v10, and then we can go b9 for the slam dunk if it misses.
As long as v10 isn’t a shadowfax
Surely it's not a shadowfax. Do you know what it is?
If everyone prefers the f10 then I'm fine with it. I think we should be able to get it in 2 no matter which direction we go anyway.
Yeah I cant imagine V10 being unknown
And it’s more direct
Should I bold v10? With the B discussion there's enough here I think for them to get it
vermicelli
I had it in my head that the V10 was going to be "Volkswagen" but, alas, it couldn't be farther away than that.
Vermicelli is a type of pasta. F10 is fettuccine. S5 is sauce. B9 is bolognese. If the answer was pasta, then S9 would be the overwhelmingly obvious next clue they'd give, but nobody mentioned S9. So the answer is not pasta. The answer is S9.
Spaghetti it is
If the answer is "pasta" then you guys are the worst. And if the answer is "penne" or "fusilli" then this game is the worst.
spaghetti
If the answer is spaghetti, are we the best?
Obviously
I've never had vermicelli and think it's one of the more esoteric pasta types
It definitely wasn't mentioned in one of the biggest trilogies of all time so had a shot at being a Shadowfax...but it's close enough to other pasta names to work out and then f10 is confirmer that it wasn't in too much danger
Round 2:
Cards used: 1
Guessers: zeus/ervin
The Board:
EF | S | C | IH | M | B | T
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, bolt, ibedrummin
t4 comes to mind immediately but isn't gonna be the best clue on its own
B5 obv, so might want to start with T unless there’s a big E or F someone has
F4 is interesting, but goes too many directions
Expanding on your f4 idea is f12 which could very well work
Pretty sure I know the f4 but not the f12.
B5 is the obvious and we should probably work towards that imo. I have a t7 that I think is quite good and should work.
Would be pretty easy to get there with s anyway, so f is probably fine.
