SIDES - Inaugural Game Thread

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/...

21 November 2023 at 05:10 AM
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d1 said we didn't need to wait for him when it's obvious so you can fire away whenever doctor zeus


Yea maybe saying that will be confusing now that I think about it, perhaps best they don't even bother with what I said and just get it off o4


orca


J5 = Jonah
W5 = Willy

whale


whale tail



Innit


GJ

It was whale tail; hoped you’d go ahead and not just guess whale


Haha yea whew close one


by Nicholasp27 P

w5 is just going to confuse them and isn't a subsequent letter card

let's leave it at o4 or j5 with o4 much better

by AmazingErvin P

Yea maybe saying that will be confusing now that I think about it, perhaps best they don't even bother with what I said and just get it off o4

Should probably avoid saying stuff like this in future. You basically just told them that the answer was whale with these posts.


Yea I didn't know a good way to take it back, as after I said it thought they mighta thought Whale was the W5 instead of Willy

Whatev, they knew it all so don't think it mattered


Agree it didn't make a difference this time, but it might in future rounds. I think it's best to just avoid mentioning clues that are the same letter/word length as the word unless it's necessary.


Round 7:

Cards used: 7
Guessers: ibd/zeus

The Board:

M | A | DL | RG | P | EF | DL

The target word:
I've sent it to d1/bolt/ervin


No good clues coming to mind for a bink. D5 opposite clue might work.


F5 is a good confirmer.


M7 comes to mind

L2 works but has way too many ways for them to go
Maybe D7 instead but also lots of ways to go


A6 is nice if we get there


A4 a good confirmer/2nd clue


Lol

We can just do d5 opposite clue


I'm on board with the d5 opposite. Hopefully we're all talking about the same one because there are 2 it could be, but one of them is way better.


Yeah I like d5/d6 not d5


by bolt2112 P

No good clues coming to mind for a bink. D5 opposite clue might work.

Ah lol I missed this first post


And my earlier d7 was a d8 actually; need to learn how to count


by Nicholasp27 P

Yeah I like d5/d6 not d5

Same


I'm on board with the good d5 and not the less good d5.


Is the good d5 the one we could even do d7?(Opposite of course)


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