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/...
Game Seven Start
Player Order:
amazingervin
bolt2112
nicholasp27
ibedrummin
d1iabol1cal
doctor zeus
Round 1:
Cards used: 0
Guessers: ervin/bolt
The Board:
DL | EF | IH | RG | A | M | T
The target word:
I've pmed the word to d1iabol1cal, zeus, ibd
t9 is pretty good
Yeah, t9 is probably the way.
Yh D1ab can bold?
I do mostly agree, although I think t10 is a bit better.
Not any great confirmers that I can see either. Maybe m9?
T10 makes sense. Is m9 like m8? If so, I agree that can be a confirmed. Also maybe something like L4.
I’d even say maybe L4 is where we go if T10 doesn’t nail it.
I thought m9 also but this really hits only a few words so doubt we’ll need to qualify it: worst case just use least good card to get a second guess at it
Don’t know what m8 is tho; don’t think same as m9
L4 is good second clue
Yeah, my m9 is not like m8...not sure what that is. Not sure what l4 is either, but it doesn't matter.
tombstones
First thought was graves or maybe cemetary
Is there some movie like walk among the tombstones or something
There's a movie called Tombstone. There's a frozen pizza brand called Tombstone.
The fact that they went plural makes me think it's cemetery. But I just woke up and want to think for a bit before I decide.
M9 is probably mausoleum. I'm thinking graveyard might be stronger than cemetery.
bump
I'm liking the graveyard idea if you wanna proceed with that...
graveyard
Yep, good job
L4 was lawn btw
So I was thinking about the fact that differentiating between graveyard and cemetery was nearly impossible (one is more related to churches so maybe something there)
So, that made me think of difference between tombstone and tombstones since that’s really the only clue we can give
Tombstone singular makes you think of grave because there is a tombstone at a grave, so if gonna guess grave may as well guess graveyard so that leads me to tombstone = graveyard and tombstones = cemetery…I think if I was guessing that is the logic I would have used to determine which to guess
I was thinking memorial/s, hadn’t thought of mausoleum.
Nice job, guys. Thought this would be tougher with the cemetery/graveyard synonym. Well done choosing correctly with the info you had.
Round 2:
Cards used: 1
Guessers: bolt/nich
The Board:
DL | EF | IH | P | RG | A | M
The target word:
Anybody but bolt, please rand a word from the sheet and send it ibedrummin, d1iabol1cal, amazingervin and doctor zeus
sheet link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
ah, memorial/memorials makes sense also
I never really distinguished that one of graveyard or cemetery fit better. It was a coin flip.
But graveyard seemed more pedestrian and a more likely answer for this game.
I recently learned (not from this game) that the key distinction is that graveyards are attached to churches. I had always figured it was a regional thing like soda/pop.
