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/...
Bucket’s an interesting one. Has that not been a target word before? I could rally around that.
And yeah, palette is the board painters use to hold and mix paint. I think the clue might’ve been painter tho to distinguish it from stuff like can/bucket when we got to h4. Nich made it clear this would be a tough one to nail in one.
While you mull it over, go enter my sheep! :p
Yea I gotta get in the sheep haha
I'm starting to lean towards palette just cause that seems like a really hard one
Could it have been painter? ...yesss??? Maybe?? If their plan is hold + paint tho it wouldn't really work with hold + painter so I don't think it necessarily rules palette out
It's kinda emerging as my top candidate
palette
You guys are about 25 percent there but on the right track. I think someone else can post h4 and then M10 gets us home.
h4 may not help now
m8 is a 100% lock though
omg I just realized we had a lock p word and didn't think of it for some reason lolol
I think we go h4 and they should deduce m8 or otherwise we fire m8 to for sure get it
question is h before paint or after
it should maybe be paint h4 instead of h4 paint
Yeah, your m8 works as good or better than my m10. Nich can't clue. Anyone else can clue h4 to the right of paint.
Ho for it
bold it zeus
bolt knows my m8 so he can save his bold for that
(I know your M10 and it works also, but m8 I think is easier to deduce and a bit more direct)
hand
I’m not saying it’s brush, but how tf did neither of us think about brush given a paint clue? Haha
Brush makes a lot of sense...wanna do that or any other ideas
Tho that doesn't seem like a "hard" word
Any idea what m8 or m10 could be? I’m not easily connecting anything with brush at the moment.
I keep thinking to manual/manuscript - manu something to do w the hand - but I may just be seeing it with brush colored glasses
Ohhhhh
Maybe it’s polish, like nail polish (which should be our two-word guess if you agree).
M8 = manicure
A banger p would’ve been pedicure
Hand paint would be a solid riddle clue for nail polish
Yea that's a really good thought
Ties everything together so I'm totally on board if you have nothing else to add and wanna fire it
nail polish
yep!
good get
Heyo! Great clueing. You got me there with the manu- words, Erv. Good stuff 👍
