Codenames board games

Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging game play. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. more→The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the table. Their teammates try to guess words of their color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. The game works very well with 4 players if you prefer to guess without help. Or you can add more players if you prefer lively discussion. There is also a cooperative variant where a single team tries …

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a t more→eam to find all of your agents. (Why you don't already know who your agents are is a question that Congressional investigators will get on your back about later!)  To set up play, lay out 25 word cards in a 5×5 grid. Place a key card in the holder so that each player sees one side of the card. Each player sees a 5×5 grid on the card, with nine of the squares colored green (representing your agents) and one square colored black (representing an assassin). The assassin is in different places on…

What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents! Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling more→their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win. This new version of Codenames is every bit as much fun, maybe even more so, than the original. The genius lies in the pictures themselves, and the fact that there are loads of ways to see each one. Codenames: Pictures differs from the …

Codenames: Harry Potter is an easy to learn cooperative word and picture deduction game for Harry Potter fans of all levels, based on the award-winning game Codenames. Players must work together to re more→veal all the right cards before they run out of time or summon Lord Voldemort or another dark wizard. Codenames: Harry Potter keeps the basic elements of Codenames - give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your wizards and witches among those on the table - but now you're working together as a team to find all you're your Hogwarts friends. Collectively, you need to reveal all fifteen allies - without revealing a dark wizard, or ‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named' - before time runs out in o…