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Have You Played… Codenames?A call to lovers of words and puzzles
A call to lovers of words and puzzles
The puzzle:
Take the following list of 12 words. Your goal is to come up with a single new word which relates to the three bold words at the top,but none of the others. Imagine you’re playing with a friend or family member, and you have to get them to guess the top three but no others. If they get any of the three words wrong based on your clue, you lose.
Oh, and your clue word cannot be, or contain any part of, any of the 12 words in the list. Ready? Let’s take a look.
I’ll give you a minute.
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Being the Spymaster is torturous and delicious in equal measure. There’s a lot of responsibility, a lot of weight riding on your linguistic prowess and your understanding of your teammates' minds. The endgames are particularly stressful, as they often lead you into situations like the challenge described above, where you have no choice but to try and link three words in a single clue, and every clue you think of might lead your teammates astray towards other words.
If you fancy giving Codenames a go, it’s never been easier to do so. The developers have released afree browser-based online version of Codenameswhich allows you to set up a game and invite your friends and to play. No downloads, no accounts, no payments. My family have started playing it on weekends in a great big group call. It’s a wonderful thing.
