Czech Games Edition CGE00053 Codenames Duet XXL, Mixed Colours

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Codenames: Duet is a bit more of a demanding and cooperative challenge for two players or for teams that enjoy switching between the spymaster and operative roles each turn. In short, in this game: You have the words and key card shown here. You have a good clue for 3, so you offer to start. You say salad: 3. Running into an innocent bystander ends the turn immediately, and running into an assassin ends the game. On the other hand, finding a green word gives your partner a chance for another guess. One Clue, Multiple Guesses Moscow 8-8, Jakarta 7-7, and Singapore 6-6 are just like the standard mission, but with fewer tokens. For the other missions, you have a limited number of acceptable mistakes. Using The Timer Tokens

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A wrong guess in sudden death ends the game - both players lose, even if the guess was just an innocent bystander. Codenames Duet is a very interesting translation of a party game. However, I feel it loses the essence of the original Codenames. There is a joy to be had in watching your team debate among themselves until they come to an agreement on which word to guess, sometimes leading each other on the most bizarre tangents. That simply can’t be recreated in a two-player game. Now you are free to take any mission connected to Prague. (Your choices are Berlin, Cairo, or Moscow). Here's what the numbers next to each mission mean: Mission Parameters My only real complaint about the game, which I already mentioned when talking about the components, is the fact that the word cards are easier to read from one side than the other. This makes no sense to me in a game where you know that half of the players will be viewing the cards upside down.This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. If you have used up your last timer token and there are still words to be guessed, it is time for the sudden death turn. Each mission has two parameters. The first number is the total number of turns. When setting up a mission, put this many tokens in the time bank and leave the rest in the box. Moscow uses only 8, while Berlin uses all 11. Cairo uses 9, just like the standard Prague mission.

Codenames Duet XXL, Mixed Colours Czech Games Edition CGE00053 Codenames Duet XXL, Mixed Colours

A wrong guess ends the turn. If your partner touches an innocent bystander, you mark it with a timer token from the time bank and the turn ends. She's not sure about the other miniature word, but she has figured out that you might eat a salad for lunch. She touches LUNCH. You mark it with a green agent card. Her hand hovers over LEMONADE, something else you might have at lunch. If a player is thinking too long, any player can flip the sand timer and ask the slow player to make a decision before time runs out. Then the guesser should guess as though the clue were valid. (So the turn ends in the usual way, which in most cases will use up another timer token). In some circumstances, an invalid clue might give away so much information that you decide it's better to start over with a clean game, but most of the time this penalty should be sufficient.Codenames: Pictures was released in September 2016, and includes 200 two-sided cards that feature images instead of words. [2] The game uses a 5x4 grid instead of the original's 5x5, resulting in 20 cards being used at a time, but otherwise has the same rules as the original. The image cards themselves can also be combined with the word cards from the original game for a more advanced gameplay variation.