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About This Game

Codenames is a word-association board game for two teams, where each team's "spymaster" gives one-word clues to help their teammates identify their team's secret agent words on a 5x5 grid. Players must guess their team's words while avoiding the opponent's words, neutral "innocent bystander" words, and the single "assassin" word, which causes an instant loss if guessed. The first team to correctly identify all of their agent words wins.