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/...
bold it imo
Well I already know it lol
This’ll be quick
guess without a clue imo
Well actually are you sure your 2nd letter is legal?
hmmmmm
its not listed as against the rules
Ok then maybe I’m wrong on the word
I thought u3 was an acronym and the F stood for the same as the first word of the target, which would be illegal
Oh yh thats it lol
Guess guess guess
I think we need a re-rand
u12 is unidentified and then ufo would be the clue and then flying saucer the target making that clue illegal
you didn't actually bold, but hinted at it and we had this discussion; if I hadn't said anything you woulda bolded ufo and we woulda guessed alien or just saucer or something since we couldn't guess flying saucer and it woulda churned for a few words or we decided to call it due to illegal clue
so re-rand prolly best course of action
My bad, sorry
no problem; acronyms are one of the easier ways to accidentally illegally clue
your punishment is to rand a new word and send to your teammates (unless someone else does it first)
Done and done!
Round 6:
Cards used: 7
Guessers: nich/bolt
The Board:
UNKQ | DL | A | IH | P | UNKQ | M
The target word:
Someone pick a number 1-440 and go to spreadsheet and find that word and pm it to ibedrummin, amazingervin, doctor zeus and d1iabol1cal. Make sure it's not a word we used before by searching column H or this thread for the word
M4 helps but won’t get there on its own.
M5 another way, but still will need a 2nd card.
N9 a potential interesting combo with a different M4. Not as helpful with the other M4.
Got a great d10
But cant think of a good left side
Would m8 work?
k4 could help some perhaps?
I'm not sure what these are yet but if it's gas then fire away
Mounds
Almond Joy’s got nuts
Mounds don’t
Capitalized, it has to be the candy bar, right? Mounds is chocolate and coconut. If it was chocolate they'd have hinted at Nestle.
M4 could be milk. I think it's probably coconut. Not sure of the other clues.
Could also be burial or Indian mounds or Stonehenge or something
But prolly coconut
But wanna look over it
Target just gonna be candy bar prolly
