Games How To Play By HexaGamers / March 5, 2017 Share 0 Tweet Pin 0 Share 0 Share 0 ***Disclaimer*** This post may include affiliate links, including Amazon. This does not affect your viewing or any pricing on the associated sites, but we make a commission on purchases. This is how we help fund this site. Thanks! OVERVIEWOur Rating: You are a spy and I need your help. We need to contact all our agents in the field via their special codenames, but I can only give you one word for a clue as your spymaster. We need to hurry before the rival spies contact all their agents before us! Hurry before it's too late, but beware of the assassin!! CHECK PRICE == Check out our full Review of Codenames here == Note: These simplified rules for Codenames are to help you decide if the game is right for you and your group, or to help you get started quickly…not to be all encompassing. Rules Overview Codenames is a party game that you have to work to figure out the secret identities of all their agents via their codenames.The games starts with 25 codenames lined up in a 5 x 5 grid in the center of the table, and everyone divided up into 2 teams. Each team picks a spymaster and the spymasters set up on the opposite side of everyone else with an answer key card in front of them. This card identifies which codenames line up with which field agents. The spymaster must give a one word clue to help identify an agent(s) in the field (on the table) along with a number, which corresponds to the number of agents. Ideally they will be connecting 2 or more agents via the clue and their codename.For example they will say things like:“Elements: 2”“Animals: 3”You and your team must then decide on which codenames the spymaster is trying to connect. Once you decide you touch the codename and the spymaster puts an agent/bystander/assassin (blue and red/beige/black respectively) onto the clue. Whoever contacts (i.e. correctly guesses) all their field agents’ first, wins!If you guess incorrectly, your team’s turn is over. If you guess the dreaded assassin (see picture below), you lose! You must guess at least once, and you can have an extra guess (above the given number) if you want to try to get a previous clue you messed up on.Spymasters must not communicate in any way other than a clue and a number. For a full video walk through check out below:
