What makes a good board game? There are lots of measures, but one of the simplest marks of quality is easy to learn, hard to master. Codenames is the rare board game that you can play with a large ...

For those unfamiliar with Codenames, the game has players giving clues to their team in the form of a word and a number. The word is a hint about one or several of the cards lying on the board, and ...

Those of you who love the game Codenames will be happy to know the new mobile version of the game is now up for pre-order. This brand new version of the popular tabletop title will be sold for $5 on ...

I’m not sure when it happened, but board games are cool again. Yeah, we all liked Cluedo as kids, but when you hit puberty the idea of staring at the Scrabble board, massaging your temples, and ...

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