Trickster (board game) well as words that are spelled backwards. Players can also be allowed to "steal" letter tiles from other players. Players can only execute these moves when they place a word on specially marked squares that ask that the player draws a randomly chosen card, which contains instructions that may include one of the previously mentioned actions. The initial announcement of the new game brought forward some controversy when widespread media announcements implied that the rules to Scrabble would be changing, before learning that the new rules would in fact apply to a newly developed game. Criticism of the newly introduced
Codenames (board game) Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, bokmål Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish), comprising six different alphabets. Codenames (board game) Codenames is a 2015 card game for 4–8 players designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games. Two teams compete by each having a Spymaster give one word clues which can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while avoiding the words of the other team. In the 2–3 player variant, one Spymaster