• Reviews around assassin (2.82 of 5)

    Codenames

    • Apart from the two team colors, there are also civilians who just get in the way and the dreaded assassin, who immediately kills the spy that finds him and ends the game
    • The first team to cover all their words wins, though guessing the assassin automatically makes you lose
    • It also forces you as the Codemaster to really look at everything on the board to make sure you aren't accidentally going to reveal an opposing agent or the assassin
    • ’s words or the dreaded Assassin card (at which point the game is over).
    • The real challenge comes in trying to give codewords that encompass a number of your team's codenames, without accidentally indicating your opponent's codenames or, worse, the assassin
    • If they guess the assassin, game over!Being Spy Master is actually a lot harder than it seems but is so fun
    • An amazingly fun party game that scales well to larger numbers of players, as well as (with a rule variation) playable with only two
    • so I will leave this as a 4, great game but not really suited to my play style.
    • You end up learning a lot about how you've organized words and concept associations in your brain, as well as how the people you're playing with have.
    • but you work as a
    • An amazingly fun party game that scales well to larger numbers of players, as well as (with a rule variation) playable with only two
    • so I will leave this as a 4, great game but not really suited to my play style.
    • You end up learning a lot about how you've organized words and concept associations in your brain, as well as how the people you're playing with have.
    • but you work as a