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Fun to see what this paper did - and Codenames itself is great!

It's best in person, of course, but it also works really well online with a bunch of friends. There's a free, official, online version here https://codenames.game/

And also, shameless plug, I built a clone in Elixir for fun a couple weeks ago: https://maciej.gryka.net/building-secretwords

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I too built a clone for fun: https://carefulclues.com/

I added a timer, and online matchmaking, but I'm not sure the game is suitable for online matchmaking, a big part of it is chatting and knowing your teammates and opponents. Otherwise I find it better playing online even when we're in person because the board doesn't do much, you just have to be able to see it and it's annoying to see it from different angles, nice to glance at on the phone.

The online version is great! Unfortunately, the words version of the game is the inferior version. We have much more fun with the pictures version.

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