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/...
Meh
It’s never this but whatever keep moving
police officer
It was policeman, nice job
A little surprising but not bad!
Good job!
P7 Peralta
P5/P11 Ponch/Poncherello
P3 pig
S7 Serpico
You had L3 and D9 nailed obv
I also had hinted at S5, S6, S13
Sting
Sumner
Synchronicity
Would an answer of "police" have been close enough? I feel like it wouldn't.
Also not sure that shadowfaxes from the 80s or earlier are a great idea in general with this crowd.
I don't know Nich's age but I feel like he knows CHiPs and Synchronicity.
nice
p7 Peralta plus all the random shadowfaxes that were likely to be cop names made it the best guess
yeah, the musical angle woulda been good also for the band if s was on the outside; I didn't even think about it for figuring out your clues tho
Round 4:
Cards used: 4
Guessers: ervin/d1
The Board:
P | S | JOVW | M | P | EF | DL
The target word:
I've sent it to ibd/zeus/bolt
P6 off the top of my head.
well p6
p8 is nice
s4 if they go the wrong direction on a p clue
s7 also
P6 will get there
I've got 4 p6 and 2 don't get there by themselves
two p6 do get there
gotta figure out which we are all talking about
I think either P6 is legit and should get it done. Would probably go with the more specific one.
S7 seems like the right one if P6 somehow doesn’t do it. There’s an S5, as a decent follow-up to P6, but I think P6 nails it on its own 95% of time.
did we ever make a rule on apostrophes?
Airborne is 8 letters.
I thought s7 could be santa's, but I wasn't sure if apostrophes count as letters, or even if they are legal. Is any punctuation fine?
That’s an open question
I think apostrophe should be ok; it’s still one word
But open to thoughts
this was all the discussion
I think we should allow apostrophes but we haven't really discussed to make a ruling yet on it
P6, the obv one, is obv the one we should do
There's a decent P7 that's an opposite clue but I still prefer the obvious P6.
L10 and S8 are similar clues to get at it also
I think we just go the right p6 and be done tho
Picard
Is that captain from star trek?
Yeah
S7 prolly Sparrow or skipper and s4 is ship. Dunno the others, but there's gotta be a bunch of captain names out there.
