Codenames Disney - Family Edition Card Game

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If you are already familiar with Codenames or Codenames: Pictures these are the only changes to the game that you need to be aware of. In 2017, Disney and Pixar films lovers got a treat in the form of Codenames: Disney Family Edition, which featured Disney and Pixar films’ locations and characters. Codenames App

Choose whether you are going to play the easy (4 x 4 grid) or advanced game (5 x 5 grid) and randomly select a corresponding Key Card. The card should be placed in the card stand so only the two Cluemasters can see it. A clue consists of one word and one number. The number is determined by the Cluemaster based on how many of their own cards are related to that clue. The guessers on the team always make at least one guess. Codenames: Disney Family Edition keeps the Codenames gameplay, while featuring characters and locations from over 90 years of Disney and Pixar films. That same evening, the very first game of Codenames was played. Vlaada has always been fond of this type of word association games. Since the first sketch of Codenames, the game hasn’t changed much. How To Play Codenames Video Guide: The Basics + StrategyTeam members can stop guessing at any time, but typically you want to make as many guesses as the Cluemaster indicated. You might even want to guess one more. The maximum number of guesses a team may make is one more than the clue indicates.

Suppose your Cluemaster says WATER: 2, you can make up to three guesses, provided you get the first two right. You might not have found all Treasure Cards for some clues. Besides Treasure Cards related to the current clue, you can guess cards for earlier clues. Rules for Disney Codenames clues Players try to figure out what clues mean after Cluemasters give them. They can discuss it among themselves. Make a guess by touching a card

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Codenames has to be the easiest game in the world to re-theme. As the entire game is essentially random words on a grid, I’d think that very minimal play testing would be required. So if you are a veteran Codenames player, then everything is pretty much how you would expect. Blue, Red, and Neutral Cover Cards are as usual except you will need more of them. Depending on whether you start, it will now take eight or nine correct guesses to win! Codenames is the perfect balance between simple gameplay that remains challenging enough to keep you hooked. It may take a game or so for new players to adjust to since it is probably quite a bit different than most of the other games that they have played before. After that though the game is really easy to play. The game has a recommended age of 8+ and that seems about right. The gameplay is a mixture of a word and party game that work perfectly together. The Cluemasters need to analyze the cards and try to find a clever connection between their assigned cards that their teammates will also likely interpret in the same way. Meanwhile their teammates need to try and figure out what their Cluemaster was trying to tell them. This gameplay mechanic is so simple and yet it works so well. As the grid is randomly assembled before every game, you will never play the same game twice. It is also hard to not feel a strong sense of accomplishment when you are able to complete a round where you correctly guess three or four cards with one clue. Simply put Codenames is a fantastic game and is almost as close to perfect as a board game could possibly hope to achieve. I honestly can’t recommend the game enough. Final Score: 3 Stars – It’s exactly what you would expect with a Disney re-theme of Codenames, however linking the cards together is more difficult than you might expect.