In Codenames, you are split into two teams. Each team has a spymaster, who gives the clues about the words to guess, and a team of field operatives, who need to guess the clues. There is a 5-by-5 grid of 25 spies (represented by words) on the table, and the spymaster is given a grid to say which people are spies and which people are assassins. They have to give one-word clues to their team to guess the spies without guessing any assassins, and they have to do it faster than the other team. Okay, okay, I admit it, I’ve misquoted Aretha so let’s move swiftly on because I’m going to teach you about this game, like the son of a preacher man… Gameplay Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. The clue giver then has to give a clue with the letters from other people’s words by giving each player a token with a number that is the position of the letter in their word. So let’s say the clue giver gives the word “CAT”. They may give the first player a 1 token as they have a C, and the second player a 2 token as they have the letter A. Each player then needs to look around and take a guess at what their letter is.

Okay, okay, I admit it, I’ve misquoted Aretha! So, let’s move swiftly on because I’m going to teach you about this game, like the son of a preacher man. Gameplay Aretha Franklin once sang ‘You better think (think), Think about the word game you’re trying to play with me, Think (think, think)’. She was of course referring to Think Words!, a fast-paced family word game from John Adams aka Ideal.

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It is impossible to not measure this game to its elder sibling, so I will! Here is a little compare and contrast: Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame. Aretha Franklin once sang ‘You better think (think), Think about the word game you’re trying to play with me, Think (think, think)’. She was, of course, referring to Think Words, a fast-paced family word game from John Adams aka Ideal. The joy is that it takes no time at all to learn. This means you can jump right in and start thinking about words as soon as you unbox it. Just like Aretha Franklin. And who doesn’t want to be like Aretha Franklin? Are you in search of a game for a specific event? Or something themed? You want to be on the lookout for something that you can either use at home or out with people or something for an event like bridal showers or birthday parties. Some themed games will make the night at parties.Letter Jam is a game for 2 – 6 players that takes around 45 minutes. It’s an easy game in comparison to most board games, but with most word-guessing games being party games, this is probably the heaviest game on this list.