A deceptively awesome game for four or six players I admit I wasn’t particularly excited when I saw the initial reviews and playthroughs of this game. The name/theme make it sound like a hidden role type of game a la The Resistance, but that’s really not what it is. The theme is spy-based, sure, but only to make this more interesting than a generic word game. Nothing about it besides the artwork makes you feel like you’re playing as or against a spy.What this game IS, however, is a very solid word game with a little bit of…
Hard game to play unless you donât mind a lot of downtime. We are gamers, I own almost 100 games. I was excited to try this game due to the high rating. It was an epic fail. First you have to try to give clues that are only for your group of cards and none of the other teams. You give a one word clue that is suppose to relate to one or more cards (only you know which ones) and your partner better have the same thought train. The guessers complained we took too long between giving clues UNTIL the next game when they became the clue givers and saw it…
A Review For 2 Player Games This review is specifically for those thinking of playing it as a two player game. Codenames is a clue giving and partner solving game where the clue giver will say a word and a number. For example: animal, three. Laid out will be twenty five cards with secret agent codenames written on them. In my example I am indicating that there are three codenames related to the word animal. Hopefully my partner will guess which three cards/codenames they are. 12 of the cards/codenames are designated for…
A deceptively awesome game for four or six players I admit I wasn’t particularly excited when I saw the initial reviews and playthroughs of this game. The name/theme make it sound like a hidden role type of game a la The Resistance, but that’s really not what it is. The theme is spy-based, sure, but only to make this more interesting than a generic word game. Nothing about it besides the artwork makes you feel like you’re playing as or against a spy.What this game IS, however, is a very solid word game with a little bit of…
Hard game to play unless you donât mind a lot of downtime. We are gamers, I own almost 100 games. I was excited to try this game due to the high rating. It was an epic fail. First you have to try to give clues that are only for your group of cards and none of the other teams. You give a one word clue that is suppose to relate to one or more cards (only you know which ones) and your partner better have the same thought train. The guessers complained we took too long between giving clues UNTIL the next game when they became the clue givers and saw it…
A Review For 2 Player Games This review is specifically for those thinking of playing it as a two player game. Codenames is a clue giving and partner solving game where the clue giver will say a word and a number. For example: animal, three. Laid out will be twenty five cards with secret agent codenames written on them. In my example I am indicating that there are three codenames related to the word animal. Hopefully my partner will guess which three cards/codenames they are. 12 of the cards/codenames are designated for…