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Codenames
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames — single-word labels like "disease", "Germany", and "carrot". Yes, carrot. It's a legitimate codename. Each spymaster wants their team to identify their agents first...without uncovering the assassin by mistake.
What is Codenames
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames — single-word labels like "disease", "Germany", and "carrot". Yes, carrot. It's a legitimate codename. Each spymaster wants their team to identify their agents first...without uncovering the assassin by mistake.
In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Lay out 25 cards, each bearing a single word. The spymasters look at a card showing the identity of each card, then take turns clueing their teammates. A clue consists of a single word and a number, with the number suggesting how many cards in play have some association to the given clue word. The teammates then identify one agent they think is on their team; if they're correct, they can keep guessing up to one more than the stated number of times; if the agent belongs to the opposing team or is an innocent bystander, the team's turn ends; and if they fingered the assassin, they lose the game.
Spymasters continue giving clues until one team has identified all of their agents or the assassin has removed one team from play.
Game details
- Players
- 2–8
- Age
- +10
- Duration
- 15 min
- Difficulty
- Light
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2015
- Mechanics
- Communication Limits · Memory · Push Your Luck
- Categories
- Card Game · Deduction · Party Game
- Designer
- Vlaada Chvátil
- Publisher
- Asmodee · Devir · TWOPLUS Games · MINDOK
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de 2 a..., cartas funciona lo sakes con kien lo sakes. Tropecientas mil partidas....ya cansa
Entertaining family-filler-party game. The objective is to discover the right words in a matrix of cards through just a one word key. Ideally, with the key, you would try to guess the largest number of words, but it is certainly difficult to give such good keys to relate words usually with nothing in common. Very easy, it has quite a big part of psichology, as in Dixit and similar games.
8-7 53%
Madrid
2 a 8 jugadores
Un juego que siempre sirve sacar en una reunión familiar o en una fiesta, ya que es bastante mas entretenido cuando son mas personas (y aun mejor cuando todos se conocen bien), en este juego la mecánica es tener que dar una pista de una sola palabra como un concepto para poder enlazar un determinado numero de palabras, esto conlleva a entrar en la mente de aquel que da las pistas y esto puede generar situaciones en la que las risas están aseguradas. El único problema que le veo al juego es que no siempre puede ser sacado en la mesa ya que necesita un grupo y preferentemente que todos se conozc
Sin enfundar (salón)
2 - 8
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How many players is Codenames for?
Codenames plays with 2–8 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 15 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 10.
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