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 ...

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 ...

If there is one thing you need to know about Codenames, it’s that it is a fantastic party game. A successful moment in Codenames captures what we imagine it feels like to fell three ducks with a ...

We first learned back in February that USAopoly and Czech Games would team up for a Marvel edition of the extremely popular Codenames social word game. Now we have our first look at the revamped game, ...

What makes Codenames so great? Start with its simplicity. There are two teams. The “board” is a grid of 25 randomly selected cards in the center of the table, with one word printed on each card. Each ...

While you may be more familiar with something like Risk or Monopoly, there has been a massive boom in options over the last few years, with tons of new options and cool things to check out. In fact, ...

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Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced people to stretch the idea of virtual ...

Every summer, a jury of board game critics from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria announces its pick for Game of the Year, or “Spiel des Jahres” (SdJ). The board game world has its fair share of award ...