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Fidelity Online Banking

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Welcome to the banking that suits your lifestyle! The upgraded Fidelity Online Banking App lets...

Birthday Sweet - Birthday calendar & reminder for Facebook

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The best, cleanest and most powerful Birthday Calendar / Reminder / Countdown app on the App Store,...

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The T.I.M.E Agency protects humanity by preventing temporal faults and paradoxes from threatening...

Dpaint43 (16 KP) rated Codenames in Tabletop Games

May 29, 2019 (Updated May 29, 2019)

Codenames

2015 | Card Game, Deduction, Party Game, Spies / Espionage, Word Game

8.3

(44 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Such variability, every game is different. (0 more)

Playing with the same people sometimes becomes too meta. (0 more)

Let the right ones in

In this party game of abstracted espionage, you have the task of using clue words to have teammates figure out who they should let in and who they should keep out. There is a 5×5 grid of "codenames" that are on the table. Common words like fish, key or skipping. As the speaker for your team, you know which codenames are meant for your team and which are for the other team by using a grid representation only the two team speakers could see. 8 of the codename agents are for your team and 8 for the other (the grid also has a color around it which adds an additional agent for one team but then they get the privilege of going first). There are also 8 neutral citizens that end the turn if chosen. Then there is the dark agent. If he is chosen by the team, that team loses. Once each turn the speaker will give a one word clue (something that correlates with one or more codename cards) followed by a number (how many codename cards it correlates to). Your team has to pick at least one card on the table from the clue. Get it right and they get to choose again (one number more than the number you gave after the clue is the amount of guesses they can get a turn) or choose not to push their luck and stop. Get it wrong and that might let an agent for the other team in, a citizen or worst of all the dark agent that loses the game. This keeps going until a team successfully gets all their codename agents in. A great party game for unlimited amounts of people breaking into two teams. Laughs and accusations fly. Maybe the best party game in years and available in many forms that keep growing (basic, adult words, Disney, pictures only, marvel...etc)

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Dillon Jacoby-Rankin (202 KP) rated Dice Forge in Tabletop Games

Jan 18, 2020

Dice Forge

2017 | Ancient, Dice Game, Fantasy

8.0

(8 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Dice are customizable. (3 more)

Components are nice.

Game has short play time.

Everyone rolls on everyone's turn. Results in little to no downtime.

Dice sides are hard to get off if the game is new. (1 more)

Almost no distinct difference between which die is for sun and which is for moon. Very hard to tell the color difference.

Most Interesting Dice Game I've Played

Players: 2-4
Ages: 8+
Time: 45 minutes

Dice: Guys they are customizable!!! Each side of the dice comes off! You can change them. It's so cool. As you play you have to strategize which die to put your new sides on. Which sides to buy with your gold, and think about what your chances are for rolling that side a lot to benefit you the most. I mean they are basically lego dice. It's amazing.
Componemts: The dice are solid but roll a little different than normal dice. You really have to give them a good roll. If you just lasily through them, sometimes they just end up on the same side it was already on because they are larger and heavier than normal smaller dice.
Play Time: 45 minutes is what it says on the box. If you are just playing the game, acurrate. But if you have to teach the game too. It takes longer. The longest part of teaching the game i found is the cards. The gameplay has a simple flow but the cards are all just symbols and I found I needed the reference guide in the rulebook closeby almost every time I play. The symbols just don't explain enough for each card.
Downtime between turns: There is little to none. On your turn, everyone rolls and then the active player may buy new dice sides or buy a card. The only waiting is for the active player to strategize in what they want to buy. But you can be thinking of that on their turns as well.