Codenames: Word Board Game

The official Codenames puzzle game from the makers of the award-winning board game. The same idea loved by millions of people around the world, now on your phone: nearly 50 rule-bending game modes, daily solo puzzles, themed word collections and a deep meta-game.

One purchase. No ads. No pay-to-win. Now also available: the Codenames: Duet expansion for two-player co-op.

NOT JUST THE BOARD GAME ON YOUR PHONE
This is a standalone game from the world of Codenames, with its own content and style. Where the board game is a party game, this one is a puzzle: every clue is a small riddle you crack at your own pace, and every mode adds a new twist that makes you think about the game differently.

HOW IT WORKS
Codenames is a spy word game of association, logic and deduction. A grid of words hides your team's secret agents. As Spymaster, you give a one-word clue that links as many of your words as you dare. As Operative, you try to work out what your teammate meant and pick the right words. But watch out! One wrong word helps the other team, and the assassin ends the game instantly.

NEARLY 50 GAME MODES
Every mode keeps the core of Codenames and bends one rule, so every game becomes a slightly different puzzle:
• Mines: Codenames meets Minesweeper. Numbers on the cards tell you how many agents are hiding nearby.
• Mirrors: the Spymasters' grids are symmetrical. Find the axis and you can deduce cards you were never given a clue for.
• Convertor: before giving a clue, the Spymaster can swap the colors of two cards to set up a better clue or sabotage the other team.
• Quantum Gadget: torn between two words? Mark both and the gadget reveals which one is the better pick. Use it wisely, you only get three per mission.
• …and dozens more.

SOLO PUZZLES EVERY DAY
• Daily Cases: 16 cards, one clue. Find the right words, collect your reward and move on to the next case. Every puzzle is made by real players, not an algorithm or AI.
• Daily Spymaster Challenge: every day, you and nine other players get the same board. Come up with your best clue, then see how it performs when other players try to guess it, and how it ranks against the other Spymasters' clues.

COLLECT, LEVEL UP, EXPLORE
• Open briefcases to collect themed word cards: video games, movies, travel, sci-fi, fantasy, history, the 20th century and more
• Play themed missions with the words you've collected
• Earn experience and level up your agent to unlock more daily cases, better rewards and new options

TURN-BASED MULTIPLAYER AT YOUR OWN PACE
• Turn-based matches for 2–4 players: take your turn whenever you have a free moment and feel like it
• Get matched with players from around the world, on Android and iOS
• Invite friends to a private game, or pass one phone around the table or on the train with Pass & Play
• Run several games at once, chat with your friends and draw notes right on the board

PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE, OR LEARN A NEW ONE
Play in English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic.

FROM THE MAKERS OF THE ORIGINAL
Codenames is designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. The board game won the Spiel des Jahres 2016. This app won Best Design at the Czech Game of the Year Awards.

CODENAMES: DUET EXPANSION (in-app purchase)
The cooperative two-player version, based on the green-box Duet board game:
• Work together instead of competing: take turns giving clues and guessing
• Each player knows only some of the agents, and the same card can look different to each of them: a card one player sees as the assassin may be an agent the other player needs to contact
• 28 VIP missions adapted from the original Duet, now reworked for cooperative play
• Dual Cases: probably the hardest puzzle in Codenames yet. First find the cards that connect to both clues, then the words that fit only one