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Codenames Pictures

Agents behind images

The picture variant for Spiel des Jahres 2016 - secret location of agents are coded with pictures instead of words. Players form two teams and select a spymaster for each team, they sit next to each other in front of a code card that shows locations for agents of team Red and Team Blue, four Innocent Bystanders and for one Assassin. The picture cards are arranged in a 5x4 grid in given orientation. The team that starts the game receives its team agents plus the Double Agent for one additional location.

The spymasters take turns to give their teams a clue made up from a word and a number; the word is the clue and the number tells the team how many pictures are that clue fits. The team now selects a location by touching the picture, the can confer about it; when the picture masks the location of a team agent, it is covered with an agent card in the team color and the team can keep guessing. When the team touches a picture for an Innocent Bystander or an opposing agent, the turn ends and the picture is covered accordingly. If the Assassin is touched, the player doing so loses the game for himself and his team. Variants for giving clues and the end of the game are listed.

The challenge of the game is not only in finding the connecting clues per se, but also in understanding the clues - page was named, does it indicate the book or the microphone for paging or both? The team can ask to have the clue spelled and the rules allow niceties like naming 0 for the number in the clue - but regardless of the number named, the team must give at least one guess. A fantastic variant for a marvelous game, both can be combined!

Players: 2-8

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Vlaada Chvátil

Artist: Jana Kilianová, Michal Suchánek, David Cochard, Filip Neduk, Filip Murmak, Frantisek Horálek

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag / CGE 2016

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Guessing images via clue words

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: cz de dk en fi gr kr nl no pl ro se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive image variant of Codenames

Maybe a tat more difficult with images

Can be combined with Codenames

Compares to:

Codenames

Other editions:

CGE (en), Mindok (cz), White Goblin Games (nl), Kaissa (gr), Rebel.pl (pl), Bergsala Enigma (dk, fi, no, se), Lex Games (ro), Cranio Creations (it), DiveTree (kr)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0