My husband and I bought this game several weeks ago and today, thanks to the assignment, we had our first play. I like it very much so far.
Codenames Duet: swap one-word coded clues with your partner, trying to identify specific word cards.
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Our family is ideal
target audience for this game.
- Couples/partners, families
- Friends and colleagues
- Cooperative game fans
What I enjoyed:
- You play as one team.
- Rules are easy and tricky, cards and tiles are beautiful, the mechanic is quite intuitive.
- As a non-native speaker I’m working on my vocabulary in a cool way.
Rules
Two players work together to locate all 15 agents on a 5×5 grid of word cards before time runs out, using one-word clues paired with a number to identify multiple cards.
Players take turns giving clues about the cards’ identities, with a correct guess allowing additional guesses. However, incorrectly guessing a bystander card ends the turn, while revealing one of the assassins loses the game entirely.
Nine cards are green agents for both spies, but three are only an agent for one player, and one assassin overlaps. Players must build on each other’s clues to find all their agents without accidentally revealing an assassin.