Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[ipofanes]

yes. yes I am.

[gkrieg13]

When I get back from being out of town in a week, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in playing this with pictures instead of words.  I could always upload a picture of the grid (I have the game at home) if there isn't anything online.  Then the spymasters could generate a grid for it saying whose pictures are whose.

[Eevee]

I would play if there is room. I'd prefer the word version, but would be play either one.

[gkrieg13]

I would play if there is room. I'd prefer the word version, but would be play either one.

Have you played the picture version?

[Eevee]

I would play if there is room. I'd prefer the word version, but would be play either one.

Have you played the picture version?

Once, in person, and this was a while back. Maybe it's the way my brain works, but it didn't feel like you got to be that creative in that game. The given pictures might have been too easy, I don't remember exactly. I just remember we only played that once and switched back to the word version after.

[gkrieg13]

I would play if there is room. I'd prefer the word version, but would be play either one.

Have you played the picture version?

Once, in person, and this was a while back. Maybe it's the way my brain works, but it didn't feel like you got to be that creative in that game. The given pictures might have been too easy, I don't remember exactly. I just remember we only played that once and switched back to the word version after.

I read that as "Once, in prison" the first read through.  I have found that pictures is a lot more difficult to come up with linking connections than words.  They definitely feel like different games

[Eevee]

I'm a good kid, haven't been to prison yet.

[gkrieg13]

I'm a good kid, haven't been to prison yet.

I wish I could +1 this.

[Eevee]

Shall we get this party started?

[ipofanes]

I'd love to start with 6+ in order to have discussions between agents.

[ghostofmars]

If you still need a player I would play.

[Eevee]

If we have Watno, Mr Rudd,  ipofanes, gkrieg, myself and ghostofmars, that'd make six.

[Watno]

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

[Eevee]

I too actually prefer 4 player, but I'm game for anything.

[Jack Rudd]

I strongly prefer the word version to the picture version.

[ipofanes]

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

That'd be a nice variant from the standard game, plus the delayed frustration for spymaster after the fact promises some hilarity.

[crax]

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

why shouldn't the spymasters be allowed to see the discussion? i've only played codenames in person (words version) with more than two people per team, and it works fine

[ipofanes]

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

why shouldn't the spymasters be allowed to see the discussion? i've only played codenames in person (words version) with more than two people per team, and it works fine

I expect a counterfactual discussion among spies ("if he wanted tit excluded, he'd given Mammals 3 and not Animals 3"), and there's a fine line between that kind of discussion and "well, if he really wanted us to pick pot, golf, and nail, he'd surely had given Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 3". I am not in the strongly preferrence camp but I can see the point.

[ipofanes]

Look here: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18777.new#new

Join quickly before it is set up!

[Watno]

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

why shouldn't the spymasters be allowed to see the discussion? i've only played codenames in person (words version) with more than two people per team, and it works fine

I think it's also undesirable to have simply have something like playesr choosing between two options, and thus telling the spymaster what their next guess will be.
I expect a counterfactual discussion among spies ("if he wanted tit excluded, he'd given Mammals 3 and not Animals 3"), and there's a fine line between that kind of discussion and "well, if he really wanted us to pick pot, golf, and nail, he'd surely had given Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 3". I am not in the strongly preferrence camp but I can see the point.