It would be great for kids, families, and adults. It is easy to teach and set up, which is nice when we have newcomers to our gaming group. It's a great game to throw into the mix, and usually gets us talking and joking around a bit more than our other games. We tend to play more involved Euro-strategy games, but we decided to test Codenames after seeing so many positive reviews. Promising review: 'It almost feel redundant to leave a review for this since everyone and their mother has done so already, but my gaming group loves Codenames.

Spymasters give one word clues trying to tie as many codenames together as possible, and get their teammates to locate all their agents before the other team. Their teammates only know the agents by their 'codenames' - cards on the board with random words. The basics: Two players act as their team's 'spymaster' who knows the locations of all the secret agents.