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/...
Orc is my best guess
M6 could be Mordor
thoughts, ervin?
Yea that makes some sense
I played mtg so I can think of a million connections to goblin, just don't have much for m6
orc
if wrong they can course correct with next card
great clues
and yeah g6 definitely the way to go
if you clued Mordor then we'd have so many paths to go and then gollum/gondor/ghosts/etc all hit g6
but with goblin, it goes to LOTR/HP/DND/other fantasy creatures
and orc is one of first creatures you think of and then LOTR and then Mordor easy to spot
really lucky we had RG on the side also; Orc is a tough word if you have the wrong letters
Round 10:
Cards used: 11
Guessers: ervin/d1
The Board:
M | A | DL | EF | B | IH | UNKQ
The target word:
Sent to ibedrummin, doctor zeus, bolt2112
Wooo nice job nich! Yea orc seems like a tough word, I'm kinda surprised that's one but then again we had saber before
m7 could be an option in one domain but a bit risky; may be more of a confirmer if we get them on the right path first
Someone needed to say shadowfax
Such a lost cause
m3/a4 are options also to get a variety of options into their heads, including the right one
definitely like the left side in case this takes more than 2 turns
Could do a2?
not sure yet what that is, but not first bc a isn't on the outside
oh!
m9 (thought it was m8 but apparently it's m9)
The M9 I'm thinking of is a setup clue with zero bink equity.
I have an M7 that binks but it's a shadowfax.
my m9 is a bink
slight chance of shadowfax, but they should know it
I have an M7–>A11 combo that nails this, with M7 having a decentish shot at one.
Do you know my m9? You may think it’s m8 but it’s actually m9
No, I can’t think of it
The M9 I'm thinking of is very similar to an M3.
well if ibd has an m7->a11 combo then maybe that's the way to go?
but one of us needs to know his m7 or his a11 as one person can't do a combo
if not, then I can do my m9
If I post M7, then one of you will absolutely discern A11.
But I don’t care, if you have a great M9, then shoot.
Moleskine
