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Give a clue, Get a clue

"Give a Clue, Get a Clue" Mechanic in Board Games

"Give a clue, Get a clue" is a game mechanic found in cooperative board games where players exchange hints to achieve a common goal. The mechanic relies on players' ability to deduce and interpret the provided clues to progress in the game.

Purpose

The primary goal of this mechanic is to foster collaboration, encourage communication, and engage players in problem-solving as a team.

Function

Clue-Giving: Players deliver clues subject to specific rules (e.g., limited vocabulary, single-word hints, or gestures).
Receiving Clues: Players receive those clues and use them to deduce the correct course of action.

Games Using "Give a Clue, Get a Clue"

Codenames: Players give single-word hints that can point to multiple words on the board.
Hanabi: Players give limited information about the other players' held cards, allowing them to play the cards in the correct order.

This mechanic enriches gameplay by emphasizing strategic communication and trust among players.

Give a clue, Get a clue games published by Gém Klub Kft.

Give a clue, Get a clue games published by Broadway Toys LTD

Family Game with Give a clue, Get a clue

Blob Party is a cooperative party game where players start as individuals and try to become one big blob by all giving the same answers!Let's say the group starts with the Category of "Music" and the Word is "Lightning." All players write an answer, ...

You know the secret word your teammates must guess. You're supposed to give clues, but the other team has created a list of "trapwords" you can't say. You don't know what's on that list. Oh, and there's a time limit. Go! 50 Double-sided Cards (400 Fantasy...

The smart race game!Develop your eagle eye abilities with this new twist on a classic “find the differences” game! Each card has 5 images on it—one Original image and four with variations. Players use process of elimination to locate the Original by...

Is a microwave more important to humanity than diapers? How differently does a rocking horse move compared to a windshield wiper? And don’t a pizza cutter and a unicycle look similar in some way?The Same Game is a cooperative game in which players will...

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Give a clue, Get a clue and Paper-and-Pencil games

Words of a Feather is a party game with a unique focus on presentation and table presence. Players reveal words from the general supply and add their own words to the mix. All players try to write down matching words based on the clues provided. Players...

Words of a Feather

#ARTBOX is an unusual and fun game, where each player becomes a modern artist. Each game round is an exciting competition of trying to depict your word using just several shapes. Players will also have to challenge their deduction, trying to guess what...

Give a clue, Get a clue games published by Galápagos Jogos

Give a clue, Get a clue and Targeted Clues games

Hues & Cues

A Vibrant Game of Colorful Communication!A family game for 3-10 players that challenges your ability to make connections to colors with words!Using only one and two-word cues, try to get your friends to guess a specific color from the 480 on the game...

3 to 10 players

Communication Limits

Score-and-Reset Game

Give a clue, Get a clue games published by Tiger Board Games

Haiclue

In Haiclue, 2-12 players combine random word tiles into meaningful clues. Games last about 30 minutes.Each round, players use 15 random tiles to make a clue for one of the four words in the center of the table. Then, the group reads the clues out loud...

2 to 12 players

Give a clue, Get a clue

Give a clue, Get a clue and Guess the Word games

How It Works:As a Neanderthal Poet, how do you get your primitive friends to guess the word "campfire" using only words with one syllable? You might say, "Hot place where you roast soft white cube." If your team guesses correctly, YOU GET POINTS!But ...

Poetry for Neanderthals: NSFW Edition is an adult party game similar to Taboo in which players earn points by getting their teammates to guess words and phrases. The catch is that they are allowed to use only single-syllable words. Enjoy getting grandma...

In A Message From the Stars, a team of scientists seeks to decipher cryptic messages from an extraterrestrial civilization.Set against a backdrop of cosmic mystery, players take on the roles of brilliant scientists tasked with decoding a series of perplexing...

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