Foreign words are okay if they're common loanwords (like STRUDEL or SCHADENFRUEDE or, y'know. Join our community! The code can generate games identical to the originals, but it's also flexible enough to allow you to experiment with alternative configurations and card counts.
You can also customize the word lists, and it's easy to translate the pages to different langauges. It has a couple nice features like only showing the colors when you pick up your phone, and letting you see the same layout on multiple phones. Couriers may make as many guesses as [NUMBER]+1. The way I have it set up, there's 3 sheets--one with the word bank, one that generates the board and one that is just a blank slate for the copying and pasting. Finally, if you're unsure, ask me or, even better, the opposing spymaster. Additionally, you're missing several of the shorter words the actual game includes.
Players take turns giving a clue to the other player in the form of a single word and a number, and guessing words from the list based on clues.
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(As a side note, any word that is revealed, whether as an agent or bystander, is essentially removed from gameplay.
How many people do I need to play the game? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Spymasters may only use English words.
Just because WAND rhymes with BOND doesn't mean they aren't going to aim for PRINCESS. Come discuss games like Codenames, Arkham Horror, Terra Mystica, and all your other favorite games! CITRUS: 8 is not a valid clue for LEMON and OCTOPUS. I took them the PnP version someone posted on BGG, and a buddy of mine had another list that he merged with mine. This will mix the words more thoroughly.
The first side to have all of their agents revealed wins the game.
Codenames: Duet is a cooperative word game for two or more players.
The user interface is currently available only in English and Czech but we are working on translating it to more languages too.
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If BREAK is on the field, BRAKE is not a valid clue.
This user on BGG made an excel file that doesn't have the duplicate issue. This rule is optional, and we'll allow it here: Rhyming clues are allowed, but, y'know, you can't give any indication that it's a rhyming clue. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iAhxJQkJ3v3sWjHUKJfjSl-Iv-41MvZUw_irAH6dvpw/edit?usp=sharing. From this page you can download premade pdf game books to play on an airplane or in a car, etc., or use the tool to make your own game books. Is there a list of Codenames card words?
A best-in-class tool for grabbing, manipulating, annotating, and sharing screenshots. SIR LUNAR SQUID is not a valid clue for MOON and OCTOPUS. You can potentially use that as a clue later on.). The official rules for the Codename board game. From this page you can download premade pdf booklets, or get the python code that let's you make your own.
I've played with this list a couple times and it seems to work pretty well. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. From this page you can download premade pdf game books to play on an airplane or in a car, etc., or use the tool to make your own game books. Yea, that's why I wanted a way to generate boards; with the app on my phone and the generator on my tablet I can play anywhere, even if I don't have my physical copy.
http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/124079/spymaster-grid-randomizer. A key card gives you 9 words to give clues for and 3 words your partner must avoid.
You may choose to stop guessing and pass to the other team at any time, as long as you have guessed at least one word. That I had in mind with that is you could generate a board and then, once you've checked for duplicates, copy the board and special paste just the values into the blank board. There's a pretty great official codenames app which generates layouts. Maybe you can see how he did it and implement it in yours. Your partner also gives you clues for the words …
That I had in mind with that is you could generate a board and then, once you've checked for duplicates, copy the board and special paste just the values into the blank board. So in the anime example, the Couriers may make up to 5 guesses, assuming the first four were correct. A clue is only one word, but it can point to multiple words that you want your partner to guess. The second part of a clue, (the number), cannot be a hint in itself. The key corresponds to the grid on the table. Two or three couriers depending on interest. X: 2 is a valid clue for RAY and FILE, but not EXACT and AXE. Each team has a leader who gets a secret "key" telling them which of these words they want their team mates to guess or avoid. That said, the first part of a clue can be a number or letter, provided it is related to the MEANING of a word, rather than the orthography. That's pretty neat.
Use your best judgement.). NEW WORK, BARACK OBAMA, and SELF-DESTRUCT are all valid. Spymasters must not give any sort of extraneous communications in-thread, such as "This clue is a longshot, but..." Just say the clue and nothing but the clue. If the ASSASSIN card is ever chosen, however, your team loses IMMEDIATELY, giving on automatic victory to the enemy. The way I have it set up, there's 3 sheets--one with the word bank, one that generates the board and one that is just a blank slate for the copying and pasting. That way there's no risk of accidentally resetting the board while you're playing.
Players win as a team if they guess all the correct cards in the allowed number of turns.
By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. The Spymaster on each team will know the exact identity of every word.
If your actual enemy doesn't think it's unfair, it's probably good. You don't get to make up proper nouns out of whole cloth, though. Each player receives a secret "key" telling them which of these words they want the other player to guess or avoid. Homophones are ALSO illegal. http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/124079/spymaster-grid-randomizer. If BROKEN is on the field, BREAKING or BREAKAGE are illegal.
I mean, I own the game, but I'm hoping that someone else has already gone through the word of reading and typing every single one.
Hey all, I made a board generator for codenames in google sheets that I wanted to pass along. Proper nouns and compound words are okay. This utility creates random pdf books of puzzles, where each page is a separate game/puzzle. The clue must Take the form of. They will know who is Red, who is Blue, who's a Bystander, and of course, the Assassin. There is no turn limit as their is in Duet, but the first team to discover all of their words wins. A random grid of words is laid out for both players to see. It is a team game, where each of the two teams, Red and Blue, consists of one Spymaster, and several Couriers. Each player gets a printed booklet and a pen, and that's all you need to play. Codenames is a team-based game that works best with large groups (4+). You also cannot use variations or derivatives of words on the field.
Team leaders take turns giving a clue to their team mates. Codenames is a word game designed by God of Board Game Design, Vlaada Chvatil. I'm trying to build an AI, but need a list of all of the card words.
Many aren't actually from Codenames. Codenames play on paper (cnpaperplay) is an open-source utility for creating play-on-paper clones of the popular boardgames Codenames and Codenames Duet. Where did you get these words? Randomly choose 25 codenames and place them on the table in a 5-by-5 grid. Blue squares correspond to words that Blue Team must guess (blue agents). If they accidentally guess a black card the game ends immediately. Spymasters will take turns giving clues to their Couriers. FOUR: 2 is a valid clue for SQUARE and CAR, but not FILE and TACO.
Cookies help us deliver our Services. This includes partial words -- TABLE is an illegal clue if TABLET is one of the listed words. It's a shame about the duplicate words, but it's cool.
If the word matches a Bystander or an enemy agent, your turn ends, and in the case of an enemy card, they functionally gain a point.
In Codenames Online, we have word cards in 39 languages. If you've lost your original rule set, you've come to the right place.
Codenames play on paper (cnpaperplay) is an open-source utility for creating play-on-paper clones of the popular boardgames Codenames and Codenames Duet.
In that game of guessing, teams compete to find cards related to the given hint-word. Clues cannot contain words present on the game field. Even if the agents are revealed by the enemy. Basic rules of Codenames Duet:
The game requires at least four players (two per team). On a correct guess, the Couriers get to make another guess. Note: While shuffling the codename cards, be sure to flip over half the deck once in a while.
Play Codenames online, a multiplayer word game available on phone and desktop. Couriers make guesses one at a time, at which point either I or one of the Spymasters will reveal if it was a correct guess.
Commandline options available for the cnduet.py utility: Commandline options available for the cnteam.py utility: Screenshot Captor is our most well-known tool. It's different from other screenshot utilities in several notable ways... Codenames Duet is a two-player cooperative game.