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/...
That’s an open question
I think apostrophe should be ok; it’s still one word
But open to thoughts
The shadowfaxy p4 I saw was pulk
Pull/pulling was my my p4/p7, and the other p4 was pony but I hadn't thought of prancer
Round 11:
Cards used: 13
Guessers: d1/nich
The Board:
A | JOVW | RG | EF | RG | B | S
The target word:
Someone choose a number 1-440 and look in spreadsheet for that word and pm it to ibedrummin, bolt2112, amazingervin and doctor zeus
make sure it's a word we haven't used before by looking in column H (all the way down) or just searching this thread for the word
sheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
Sent
A couple S4s and an S8. I like S8.
A10 not bad either
Feel like there's a lot here, s7
Can we use abbreviations?
s5 as a confirmer
S4 i get
Not got there on others
The most obvious ones to me are S5 which is a direct connection, and another S5, which requires a little more imagination but has some ace potential. And A3 gets it every time as a 2nd clue if we don't ace it. B3 helps also.
We should also remember that we have the Sides-Whisperer guessing so we can probably be more daring with our cluing.
S5-imagintation feels a bit tenuous to me- could set them off in rhe wrong direction
I know now s5
And think we should do it. Should ace it
Instead of b3 think s7, that could 1 shot it...
I have no idiea what s7 is
Google/wiki our target word, it's somewhere in there lol
It's not a shadowfax or anything, they(and you) will know what it is
I’m lost and fine with you guys doing whatever. I only know one S5 and it could be a disaster. I still like my S8 and A10, but seems you all either don’t know or don’t like them.
I have not figured out the s8/a10 still
I know the s5 that could go great or horrible so imo we should have as a confirmer
I don't know the other s5?
Bolt do you know both? I can't see s7 being a disaster....
The only s7 I can think of is a bit obscure. I haven't figured out s8 or a10.
This is not an obscure s7 but isn't a word you just hear often. But if you hear it you know what it is and stuff...and so think would hit our word
I really think s5 is the way to go
Is this the s5 that could wildly miss and be in a completely different domain or another s5
The s5 that will 9/10 get them in the right direction
