Topic: Codenames - New simple, but very intriguing word game by Vlaada Chvátil (Read 13441 times)

Watno · « **on:** October 11, 2015, 07:50:10 am »

This was definitely the game I liked best in Essen, and I think it would work quite well here.

It's pretty simple. There's a 5x5 grid of words and 2 teams of at least 2 people each (one team is blue, the other is red). Some of the words are (blue or red) agents, some are civilians, and one is the assassin. One player from each the team, the spymaster, gets to know which words are which, and in the game, he gives clues to the rest of his team to find the agents of that team's color. The first tean to identify all it's agents wins, but if a team guesses that the assassin is one of their agents, they immediately lose.
Giving clues works as follows: One spymaster starts and says a single word that is associated to as many agents of his own color, but not to any of the other words, especially not the assassin. He then says the number of agents of his own color belong to the word. Then the rest of his team guesses what these words are. They guess one word at a time, and the identity of the word is then revealed. If it was correct, they may guess again, for as most as many times as the number the spymaster said plus one. If they hit a civilian or an agent of the opposite color, or decide to stop guessing, it's now the other team's turn. If they hit the assassin, they lose immediately.

Full rules can be found here: http://czechgames.com/files/rules/codenames-rules-en.pdf

Anyone interested in playing? I think the ideal number of players would be 4, because if the guessing parts of the teams contain more than 1 person, they'd need to discuss their guesses, which could lead to long waiting timeson the forum.

UPDATE: You can now start games on your own without needing a moderator:

Quote from: Watno on October 28, 2015, 01:09:19 pm

Kuildeous made a Google spreadsheet that allows you to easily create your own game without a moderator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TXkY5snm_uhZQNYvGqwrLSHjuHARIZouOP5pBEWRMXA/edit#gid=0
One spymaster simply opens the sheet, waits for it to fully load (i.e the words don't start with BOOT, KEY,...), then copies the two messages in the bottom right and sends it to the appropriate places.

Watno · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2015, 08:09:31 am »

And i just saw there are PBFs going on at BGG, if someone wants to see how it works: https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1623143/codenames/play-forum

Jimmmmm · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2015, 08:21:35 am »

ashersky · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2015, 05:58:22 pm »

Watno · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2015, 06:39:33 pm »

I will take the role of one Spymaster for the first game so i can mod as well (there's no hidden info for the spymasters). Unless you guys have preferences, I'll randomize the teams and who the other spymaster will be.
Need one more player to start.

gkrieg13 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2015, 06:58:35 pm »

I'll /in sounds fun

Twistedarcher · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2015, 08:52:11 pm »

/in (Edit: Looks like I'm too late. I'll play the second game).

ashersky · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2015, 03:04:21 am »

Are we starting? Are we playing in this thread?

Watno · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2015, 08:21:22 am »

I started a new thread for the actual game here: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14007.0

Need 3 more people to start another game.

scott_pilgrim · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2015, 02:30:39 pm »

chairs · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2015, 02:39:08 pm »

Hugovj · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2015, 02:42:53 pm »

Watno · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2015, 05:39:44 pm »

Second game started: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14013.0

Hydrad · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2015, 01:48:47 am »

This looks interesting. I'd be bad at it but after a game is done or something I'd try to play one.

faust · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2015, 05:10:42 am »

I'd like to try as well.

AHoppy · « **Reply #15 on:** October 14, 2015, 11:09:47 pm »

I'll play one!

WalrusMcFishSr · « **Reply #16 on:** October 14, 2015, 11:13:54 pm »

Yo this game looks cool. I'd also like to play one

Watno · « **Reply #17 on:** October 15, 2015, 05:37:47 pm »

3rd game up: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14043.0

Twistedarcher · « **Reply #18 on:** October 15, 2015, 05:38:58 pm »

Watno, where are you pulling the words from? The game, or just randomly?

Watno · « **Reply #19 on:** October 15, 2015, 05:55:12 pm »

I assembled a list of words in the game from Bgg screenshots since I only have the German version and noticed translating doesn't really work. The words are all cleverly chosen to have multiple meanings.

XerxesPraelor · « **Reply #20 on:** October 19, 2015, 03:22:50 pm »

I'd like to play once or be a mod if someone can explain how the grid works.

Twistedarcher · « **Reply #21 on:** October 19, 2015, 03:30:45 pm »

Quote from: XerxesPraelor on October 19, 2015, 03:22:50 pm

I'd like to play once or be a mod if someone can explain how the grid works.

Grid might as well just be a list, doesn't matter that it's a grid. Check out one of the ongoing games, it's pretty simple to figure out.

silverspawn · « **Reply #22 on:** October 19, 2015, 05:09:38 pm »

I'd play too

Kuildeous · « **Reply #23 on:** October 20, 2015, 01:01:28 pm »

I think I want in on one. I've not played a forum game in a while so I've been ignoring this forum. I'll check back here periodically to see if I'm in a game, though I wouldn't be upset if I get a mail message.

silverspawn · « **Reply #24 on:** October 20, 2015, 03:19:34 pm »

great, so now it's XP + Kuildeous + me, just need one more

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