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/...
When I get to pc I’ll look better
No Krackel or nestle is concerning
Krackel is rice, not coconut. Nestle would point to candy bar or chocolate but not coconut.
Right, I’m saying that’s why it may not be candy bar and may be coconut
But why milky way clue if not candy bar
Mango
Milk
Nectarine
Dehydrated or dessicated
Not sure if those are done to coconuts but prolly; seems like they do it with lots of fruits
I’m good with coconut; guess Milky Way was a red herring
No Donovan fans here I guess since no L4 clue (or d7)
Yep
Nich must think he's playing chameleon, finding hidden messages in posts that mean nothing lol.
Btw, how do you even know that dessicated is a word but not know it's done to coconuts? I've literally never heard that word before outside of "dessicated coconut".
Niiiiiice!!!!!
Excellent clue!
Harry Nilsson sang that song, although I'm sure it's been covered by hundreds of artists, possibly including Donovan.
coconut
lol you are right
I associate it with him from listening in the car with my dad as a kid; Donovan did Mellow Yellow and Season of the Witch and others, not Lime in the Coconut
Round 7:
Cards used: 8
Guessers: bolt/zeus
The Board:
UNKQ | DL | A | JOVW | IH | P | UNKQ
The target word:
I've pmed it to d1, ibd, and ervin
First thought is that this is gonna be tough.
Need to unlock d3 or p4
Or L6 is a lock to get it
So we’ll get this in 2 for sure
Question is if we can figure out how to one shot it
L6 is illegal right?
I have a reasonable u7, but no way it gets it in 1. I'm struggling finding clues that are even half decent for the first letters.
N7 is a lock IF they know it
First to mind is K6, which I think is fun. Also thought of N7, which I then saw Nich did as well and am not as worried about it being unknown.
I haven't been able to figure any of these out lol
I thought of an ok maybe L5 but that's about it
I think we should start with N7
Yeah I think l5 is legal but open to thoughts
I’m good with n7 if nothing better
We do need to decide the side
Do we wanna open up p4 or l5 or d3 or whatever
Also d4 will be less esoteric n7 if n7 whiffs but I know they’ll know d4
