Codenames (Game 66 in progress)

[Menalque]

Excellent, we have ten:

Hectic
xofelf
†CreativeMod1
Datisi
lilith2013
Formerfish
enomis
Farren
Not_Mafia
dsjstr

I need two volunteers for spymaster and to know if there are any preferences on teams (so far all I have is datisi and fishy on the same team)

[Farren]

No preference on team. Prefer not-spymaster, but will take spymaster if no one else on my team wants it.

[Haschel Cedricson]

In. I like spymaster but am okay being a field agent.

[Knightmare491]

/in, would like to be in the same team as Datisi if he doesn't mind.

[enomis]

No preference on team. No Preference for role.

I can take spymaster if no-one in my team actively express interest for it.

[lilith2013]

I’d like to try to redeem myself as spymaster but also don’t want to prevent anyone else from being spymaster if they want to. no preference on team

[xofelf]

I'd like to team with CM1 plz. And I'd like to guess this time.

[Knightmare491]

I'll volunteer to be the spymaster, that seems the most fun.

[Menalque]

Shall I just uncap the numbers on this? If there are no objections I’ll be running this as unlimited team sizes, and will let Haschel in too, I know he’s a longtime fan. Knightmare is the spymaster for one team, I’ll let lilith and Haschel discuss it seeing as they’ve both made “would like to but okay with other person” posts and I’ll flip a coin if they don’t choose between themselves

[Not_Mafia]

We could have 2 games run concurrently

[Menalque]

We could have 2 games run concurrently

Not sure we have 16 players interested

I thought about whether this could be turned into something with 3 teams and a larger grid but it’s a bigger rework than I’m happy to try and do right now, although if interest remains high I might think about running that here or in a separate thread as a trial

[dsjstr]

I'm fine with whatever team, you can put me where a spot needs to be filled.

[Knightmare491]

4 teams of 3?
2 teams play against each other, winners go to the final. Each match is a best of three so that more than one person gets to be the spymaster?

[the worst]

poke me on discord if you need a +1? interest seems pretty high

[ceejayvinoya]

I'm game if an extra player is needed

[enomis]

We could have 2 games run concurrently

Not sure we have 16 players interested

I thought about whether this could be turned into something with 3 teams and a larger grid but it’s a bigger rework than I’m happy to try and do right now, although if interest remains high I might think about running that here or in a separate thread as a trial

I can be a player on both games at the same time.

[Hectic]

Would love to be spymaster. I want to be on the same team as dsjstr (we have a telepathic link).

[Isis]

Congrats to Menalque on moving

[CreativeMod1]

Looking online, there's an interesting 3 team variant in which you have the 3rd team being all the civilian and the assassin cards thus making it 9-8-8

Personally I'm not fussed how we do it, happy for mod to make teams and get started

[Datisi]

i just wanna

play

lose some more codenames lmao

[CreativeMod1]

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/148245 ... ymb/page/1

This has an interesting concept
6x6 grid (36 words)
2 Assassins
8 Innocent
9 Team 1
8 Team 2
9 Team 3 (Team 3 only needs 8 words to win though)

This gives a good balance for Team 3 going last without being too over-powerful for them

[Menalque]

Hey, I haven’t vanished lol I’m just kinda ruminating on what to do here

[Menalque]

Okay, here’s what we’re doing: uncapped team sizes up to the point that 16 people are interested in which case I’ll run 2 games simultaneously

So I’m accepting all current /ins, and when I get up I’ll toss a coin for spymaster in lilith and Haschel and randomise teams for anyone who hasn’t expressed a preference

[lilith2013]

Haschel can have spymaster, since I just went. If we get to the point where there are 2 simultaneous games then I’d like to be a spymaster in the second game.

[Hectic]

Maybe we should have 8 teams of 2