![]() ![]() The game mechanics are fantastic as it allow anyone to jump right into the mid-game. It's set up in less than a minute and the average game takes about 15 minutes. The teams can basically have any size and that makes it it a good blend of a party and thinking game.Ĭodenames can be played by 2 till 8 players. If you are not sure, retreat might be a better option as giving your opponents a free agent card or revealing the assassin is a pass to defeat. When one team has identified the assassin, that team loses.Ī winning team will know when to keep guessing and when to quit a turn early. The game ends when all of one team's agents are identified and this team won the game. If it is one of their team's agents, the operatives may keep guessing. The number tells the field operatives how many codenames are related to the word of the clue. If a field operative touches a word, the spymaster reveals its secret identity. ![]() The clue is chosen freely as long it is not any of the words on the table.Ī clue may relate to multiple words on the table and the field operatives try to guess which words their spymaster meant. The spymasters take turns giving clues consisting of a "single" word and a number in an effort to get their teammates to find the correct agents. ![]() Some of the cards represent red and blue agents, one card will respresent an assassin and the others are innocent bystanders. Twenty five cards are randomly placed on the table on a 5 x 5 grid, each with a different word representing the codenames of the agents. There are three stacks of cards: code name cards, map cards and identity cards. One player of each team is selected as the team's spymaster while the others are field operatives. All the Players are split into two teams, red and blue and they try to identify their own team's secret agents, based on their agents' code names. So grab a friend and get to playing.Codenames is a social word-guessing game where you are a spymaster, giving clues, or guessing the whereabouts of your 25 secret agents. CGE has also released a handy video to get you up and running quickly. If you’ve never played it before, learning is super easy. Codenames: Duet is easily my favorite of the series (you can read my full review here) and the online implementation seems to be really well made. This joins regular Codenames on the same website (which needs at least 4 players to play). Publisher Czech Games Edition is one such company as they announced today that their hit two-player game Codenames: Duet is now free to play online. ![]() And some publishers are even making their own offerings from scratch. These ranged from full implementations of a virtual space on Tabletopia or Tabletop Simulator to the more app-style ones on Board Game Arena. Lately, publishers have been really great about finding ways to let gamers play their titles remotely. Me and fellow BGQ reviewer Brian even played a game of Street Masters using FaceTime and an elaborate setup of cameras.īut that was also a lot of work. But once lockdowns and social distancing started, it became a lot harder to get a game in so we had to get creative. Well, I was already playing a few games on Tabletop Simulator, but not a bunch. For me, 2020 ended up being the year I embraced online gaming wholeheartedly. ![]()
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