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Red Otter (340 KP) rated Codenames in Tabletop Games

Jun 3, 2019

Codenames

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

8.3

(44 Ratings)

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Codenames is one of my top party games as it's one of the few that doesn't lose its lustre over multiple plays. Unlike games like Cards against humanity, there's actual skill involved with its clue choices. Two teams face off with one member from each team acting as a clue giver. The cluegiver aka spy master tried to come up with a word that can relate to selected phrases in a 5x5 grid. First team to guess all of its card wins. There definitely can be a skill difference between cluegivers, but the mind games of tryung to guess what your team will associate with your clue can result in hilarious moments.

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Irene M (130 KP) rated The Rainbow Stick Boy in Books

Dec 7, 2018

Simple illustrations accompany a wonderful story about a stick boy who is born different.

While every other stick person is one colour, Huey is born rainbow coloured. The book looks at how he is treated differently, how he tries to hide what he is so he can fit in and could easily be used to help children understand MANY differences in life. I read this to see if it would help my Aspergers son to understand that being a bit different is okay, and it will be perfect for that, but could easily be used for any other physical or behavioral difference, possibly even as a way to help understand transgender and homosexuality and other "differences" to ALL ages.

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Lady and the Tramp (2019) in Movies

Nov 17, 2019

Happy Time (0 more)

Too much like the original (1 more)

Where is the beaver?

Cute

I watched the original film countless times as a kid and I was looking forward to this. It still is a great family movie. It is still over quant and charming (but thats what i loved) which sometimes is nice to watch and just sped some time feeling the world is nice.

However is there enough difference to make it a stand alone triumph? Well not really and this is why it has the lower score, plus the beaver is missing. How could they lose the beaver? If you haven't seen the original then bump that up to an 8.