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/...
Yea haha that's sausage in Russian
I’ve always used kielbasa interchangeably with polish sausage. It never occurred to me it legit means sausage in Polish haha. My grandmother would be so disappointed in me!
Round 10:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: ibd/d1
The Board:
A | JOVW | RG | B | S | IH | P
The target word:
I've pmed it to ervin, zeus, and bolt
welp
there is a p4 word, but I didn't know it; may be worse than Shadowfax but maybe they know it if we end up needing a hail mary here
going from the right side is best also to eventually get there in >2 clues lolol
Yea I hadn't heard of the p4 word before researching some just now lol
There's another p4 that would really love another p4 with it to get some clarification
a p9 that...may not do anything and possibly confuse them so maybe I shouldn't even be saying this
Maybe we just do a p7 orsmethitn to get them on rught track
Is p7 like p4?
Never heard of nduja
Not sure how that’s more well known than kielbasa
P7 is a good one
Better than p4 Hail Mary they prolly hadn’t heard of
Nothing to do with p4 tho
P7 then h7/h9 combo should work…h9 better than h7
If we go left side with A7 into V7 miiiight work but its committing to a two
Whereas p7 is a maybe in one, but probably not
I dont think theres a great ih is there?
Yeah I got a good h if you do p7 to start it off
In your p7 like v5? If so then that’s the right p7
Need bolt to weigh in also
P7 is the only clue I can think of. I've got nothing for IH.
I got h covered
Prancer
Well it can't be as simple as reindeer. Could possibly be something like moose. A7 = antlers? I got nothing for the other letters.
I don't think it's gonna be anything Christmas related, but I guess it's possible.
V5 is Vixen obv, but knowing that doesn’t help us any more than Prancer
Was thinking maybe roof, but housetop doesn’t have to be hyphenated (which would’ve been H9)
Trying to think what this obscure P4 could be
A7 into V7 “might also work”
Oh hey, x-post
Yeah, Prancer “gets us on the right track,” but I’m not convinced that track is Christmas. Seems more like a big animal clue.
Sounds like no one but Nich has any idea about this H9, so that’s encouraging
A7 antlers
V7 venison
But it can’t be as straightforward as deer, because Prancer would’ve been regarded as slam dunk.
H7 hunting? Probably not
