FAQ

It is a gaming table for you and your online friends. It does not find you players to play, neither plays it automatically – it sets up the game for you according to your preferences, lets you invite your friends, and then it allows the joined players to interact with the game. The best is if you and your fellow players gather using your favorite online communication tool, like you would gather around a real table. Then you just send them the link that can be found under the Players button.

You need to click on the hand icon in the top right corner of the card to confirm your guess.

When you click anywhere else on the card, you add a tag with your name that shows to your teammates that you consider that word as the right answer.

Classic Codenames require at least 4 players (two per team). The cooperative variant, Codenames Duet, can be played with at least 2.

In one room, one game of Codenames can be played at one moment. After it is finished, you may start a new one (or, you may cancel the game in progress by starting a new one).

While you can play the game with words from all 40 featured languages, not all of them are yet available for the website interface. When clicking the "Create room" button, you can pick a language for the interface.

In the next step you will be able to pick a language of the words together with the preferred word packs.

You can switch to a colorblind assistive mode. You'll find it after clicking your nickname in the top right corner. It adds an assistive symbol in the top left corner of the cards.

Yes, but it requires switching screens. When you click your nickname in the top right corner and then click the "Become Spectator" or "Switch to..." button, then you can join in a different role – change a team, switch from a spymaster to an operative, and vice versa. This way, the operators should look elsewhere while the spymaster is typing the clue, so they don't see the grid with colored cards. Once he is ready, he switches to operator and others can look and guess. When they are done with guessing, the operators look elsewhere again and you need to switch to the other team's spymaster and so on.

Also note that when you open the game in more browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc. ) or in a private (incognito) window, you can log in under a different nickname in each of them. Then you can simply switch windows based on who's turn it is.