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/...
I say N7 left side
And we can talk about D vs L if we get there
Nymeria left side
#shadowfax
Nymeria is a dire wolf named after the dornish warrior princess originally of the rhoynar
I assume its not rhoynae or dorne soooo
Left sde means its
Guess xxxx
So nymeria xxxx?
Where xxx is unclued?
If so its like wolfsbane or something
If its opposite itll be were wolf
Im pretty sure t has wolf
Oh its the N from the left hand side
Man cuz of obv l5s but them talking l6 makes me worried about wolf
I thinkvwe always clue wolf werewolf or dire wolf here as that's literally the clue
Nymeria is also one of the Stark's kids dire wolves in Game of Thrones. The answer is gonna simply be "wolf" but we can guess werewolf to increase our equity by a fraction.
You had a bunch of L5 clues. D3 is probably dog. P4 could be pack.
werewolf
good job it was just wolf
yeah, dog and pack
l6 is lupine, which we determined is illegal because lupus/lupinus is latin for wolf; it's borderline, but close enough to avoid
Lupin would by legal L5 and you thought of lycan and others as well
d4 would have been dire
Round 8:
Cards used: 9
Guessers: zeus/ervin
The Board:
DL | A | JOVW | RG | IH | P | UNKQ
The target word:
I've pmed it to d1, ibd, and bolt
Yeah based on what you knew this time I wouldn’t doubt it
yeah, dog and pack
l6 is lupine, which we determined is illegal because lupus/lupinus is latin for wolf; it's borderline, but close enough to avoid
Lupin would by legal L5 and you thought of lycan and others as well
d4 would have been dire
ah yh fair
there's lots that could have helped us nail it.
good letters and a great clue
gg
L8 works but it might be a shadowfax.
