Czech Games Edition CGE00053 Codenames Duet XXL, Mixed Colours

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When the spymaster gives a clue, his or her field operatives try to figure out what it means. They can debate it amongst themselves, but the spymaster must keep a straight face. Having enjoyed a number of two-player games of Codenames, we also tried out the team rules with our extended family and I’m happy to say that those games went over excellently. With three people per team, players got to take turns giving clues and help each other out guessing. However, with any more than six players, I think the original Codenames may be a more entertaining option.

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Each turn you have to give your partner a two-part clue, one word and one number. The word should be a link between words on the grid that are agents, while the number is the number of words that need to be guessed. Your partner then guesses as many words as they like one by one, if they guess an agent you cover the word with a green agent card and may continue guessing. If it’s an assassin, the game ends as a loss. Moscow 8-8, Jakarta 7-7, and Singapore 6-6 are just like the standard mission, but with fewer tokens. For the other missions, you have a limited number of acceptable mistakes. Using The Timer Tokens It is legal to give a clue for zero. For example, if you want your partner to guess ELEPHANT, ANT, and MOSQUITO while avoiding the assassin SLOTH, you can give a clue like lazy: 0. This will indicate that your partner should avoid SLOTH, and your partner might even be able to see that SLOTH is getting in the way of an easy clue like animals: 3. Duet actively works against these moments, and for all the ways it deepens the original idea I can’t forgive it for its humorlessness. For starters the word set is more difficult. Getting a solid clue connecting two of them is a good aim. Three at a time is outstanding. The difficulty curve confirms this as even the most difficult missions will have the players average just over two successful guesses per turn to win. The early missions you can get by with about 1.5 words per turn. We are thrilled to announce that Codenames: Duet, a cooperative version of the beloved classic, is newly online and free to play remotely with your friends and family on www.codenames.game.

The game provides a massive cooperative challenge for players straight out of the box, but also offers you a way of incrementally increasing your difficulty by moving through different challenges. Some challenges allow more bystanders so you can afford to take bigger risks on high-value clues, but others just stretch the game length but allow you to make no wrong guesses at all, rewarding a slower and more precise style of clue-giving. You can't say part of a compound word on the table. If EARTHQUAKE is visible, you can't say earth, quake, earthy, or quaking. But hearth and ear are okay. a b c Machkovech, Sam (August 3, 2016). "First official Codenames spin-off is Target-exclusive, obsessed with sex". Ars Technica . Retrieved November 24, 2017.

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This indicates that when you gave a clue, your partner guessed this word and ran into an innocent bystander. Do not cover the word. This still might be a word that your partner wants you to guess. Your partner might see it as an innocent bystander, in which case your partner marks it with a second timer token, with the arrow pointing toward you. The timer tokens should be arranged to cover the word, since neither of you can guess it again. You can stop guessing at any time, but usually you want to guess as many words as the spymaster said. Sometimes you might even want to guess one more: The operatives indicate their official guess when one of them touches one of the codenames on the table. It is your turn again. You say miniature: 2, hoping to get DOLL and ANT. Your partner touches DOLL. You cover it with a green agent card.In one room, one game of Codenames can be played at one moment. After it is finished, you may start a new one (or, you may cancel the game in progress by starting a new one).