Codenames
Teams will be randomly assigned at the start of the game. Team 1 will be Blue and Team 2 will be Red.
At the start of each round, each team will select a spymaster. A 5x5 grid of 25 words (codenames) will be given to the players. The two spymasters will be told secret information about those words, which they will need to convey, with limited communication methods, to their teammates.
I will randomly assign colors to the 25 codenames as follows: 9 Blue, 8 Red, 7 White, 1 Black. I will PM both spymasters the assignment of each word to its color, so that they know which codenames belong to their teams but the other team members do not. All the other players know are the 25 words in the grid.
Blue team will go first.
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1. Spymaster gives a clue.
The Spymaster will give a clue to help his or her team guess one or more of their team's words. This clue must be ONLY ONE WORD, followed by a number. The one word should describe a word or set of words on the board, and the number should refer to how many clues are being referenced.
Clue Rules
1. Your clue must be about the meaning of the words.
(e.g. You can't use your clue to talk about the letters in a word or its position on the table. GLAND is NOT a valid clue for ENGLAND. You can't tie BED, BUG, and BOW together with a clue of "B 3".)
2. Letters and numbers are valid clues as long as they refer to meanings.(e.g. EIGHT 2 is a valid clue for SPIDER and FIGURE.)
3. The number you say after your clue can't be used as a clue. (e.g. CITRUS 8 is not a valid clue for LEMON and OCTOPUS.)
4. You must play in English. A foreign word is allowed only if it can be reasonably used in an English sentence.5. You can't use any form of a word that has not yet been identified on the grid.
(e.g. Until BREAK has been guessed, you cannot say BREAK, BROKEN, BREAKDOWN, etc.)
6. You cannot say part of a compound word that has not yet been identified.
(e.g. If HORSESHOE is in play, you cannot say HORSE, SHOE, UNHORSED, SNOWSHOE, etc.)
7. Rhymes are only valid when they refer to the meaning of the word.
(SNAIL is a valid clue for MAIL, but it is not a valid clue for SCALE.)
8. No acronyms or abbreviations. (CIA may seem like a great clue, but it is not one word. Neither is LOL, UK, PhD, etc.)
Expert Clues
1. ZERO clue - You are allowed to use 0 as the number part of your clue.
(e.g. FEATHERS 0 means "None of our words relate to feathers.") If 0 is the number given, the usual limit on guesses does not apply.
2. UNLIMITED clue - You may also say "Unlimited" instead of a number for your clue. (e.g. FEATHERS UNLIMITED)
If you do, the usual limit on guesses does not apply. The disadvantage is that your team will not know how many codenames relate to the new clue.1. Spymaster's team guesses words.
Now the rest of team must select words to guess at, one at a time. Players must
bold
this guess to make it official (eg, "Guess: Starship
"). They can guess up to a max of one more codename than the number stated by the spymaster. (So if you have a leftover clue you didn't get all of from a previous round, you can take an extra guess.)
Once they guess a word, the moderator or one of the spymasters reveals the color of that word. If the word is the color of the team, the team may continue guessing words (up to the 1+number given in the clue). If the color of the word is either White, or the other team's color, the turn immediately ends and the other team takes a turn.
If the color is Black (Assassin,) then the round immediately ends and the other team wins the round.
The team must make at least one guess; after this, the team may stop at any time by posting the word "Pass" in bold in the thread.
The first team to point at all 9 (or 8) of their words wins the round. The Blue team has one more word than the Red team, but always goes first.
First team to win 2 rounds wins.
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Participants (8/10)
Tatsuya Kaname
Save The Dragons
pirate mollie
Cephrir
ChannelDelibird
ChaosOmega
StrangerCoug
Salamence20
JDGA
Cheery Dog
I will cap this at 10 players but may begin with as little as four players! People can join after we begin as well and will be assigned into teams.
Spoiler: Possible Word List
