USAopoly USO-CE004-000-C Disney Family Edition Codenames Card Game

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So I am the board game person in my group of friends. I love to try out new games and this was always on my list. This is a fun game for any family who loves Disney. It is more challenging than expected, trying to getting multiple cards in one guess. You have the word side of the card and the picture side. They both have their difficulties. Word side is harder since you can not reference anything on the card but the picture side opens the game up to more confusing guesses since you can say sky and have multiple pictures with a sky when you intention was to get only one picture. I kind of wish the board cards were slightly bigger or at least the layout card. When you are the clue master, you are definitely in the hot seat trying to win for your team and i've messed up linking the wrong cards causing issues for the team since I looked at the wrong line but that's just me no fault of the game devs. You can play with odd number of people and have one clue master but the game takes longer since they have to do two jobs so try and have even teams. I would recommend this game for the family.

We choose to use all pictures instead of words when playing with younger kids- it’s easier for them to give clues/guess.

We bought this for my family reunion with all-adult siblings who were raised on all the traditional Disney movies. Many of us now have small children of our own, so we’re all staying relatively up on the current Disney/Pixar releases as well. And so i wasn’t scared off by the reviews who said the game was a bit hard for younger players. We didn’t play the word-side of the cards. Just the images. I think that was funner to reminisce. A couple siblings said they preferred the regular game, a couple said they preferred this one. For our family reunion, I preferred this because the whole POINT of a reunion is to reminisce on your childhood, right? Haha. Though one of our favorite aspects of code names (we have both the base set and the pictures “expansion”) is that you can connect many words/pictures through clever and abstract connections. When you play a themed game (cuz there are several themed versions), you’re narrowing down the abstract-ability of the clues you can give, and made it harder to get more than 1-3 tiles per clue (unless you lucked out and all the princesses, locations, or characters/scenes from a particular movie happened to be your tiles..) Overall, we enjoyed it for its purpose, and I’d do it again. Though our base set and pictures game are frequent choices at game nights, I don’t know that we’ll be playing this Disney version much.

Codenames is a super fun game that the whole extended family can play so I was excited about the Disney version for the kids. It is hard!! It's a fun game, but the game is a tough game! I do love that it has a 4x4 grid and a 5x5 grid so you can make it as small as you want.

We love this version. I like that my kids are able to play with me. We have 3 versions of code names now and I like this game. It takes longer to set up because you have to come up with associations with the words you are given but it is totally fun. And this version has pictures and words depending on what age and style you need for who is playing. So that's nice. I wonder if codename picture is different. So if you don't know a picture you can flip to the word side and use that. Or change for a new picture totally. There is a smaller board with no taboo word for easier play. Very good game