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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.

Strategy Game utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

Work together to fill in the grid by giving single-word clues that represent the intersection of two code words.1. Find where your coordinates cross: B3 is where B (Doctor) and 3 (Bear) intersect.2. Give your teammate a clue: "Vet!"3. Sit back and hope...

An easy to learn board game about building a theme park and engineering amusement rides and roller coasters. The most Legendary Imagineer wins!Build the park you want! Each tile can be played as an attraction or roller coaster upgrade – the choice is...

Step Into the Dark & Violent World of 1940's Los AngelesDetective: City of Angels is a game of mystery, deception, and investigation. Most players will step into the shoes of LAPD homicide detectives, hungry for glory and willing to do whatever it takes...

In Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, players find themselves in a scenario of intrigue and murder, deduction and deception. One player is the Murderer, secretly choosing their weapon and the evidence they leave behind. Another is the Forensic Scientist...

Jeux publiés par MIPL et utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

So Clover! is a cooperative word-association game. Play as a team to get the highest score. Get Keywords and secretly write their common features on your Clover board; these are your Clues. Then work together to try to figure out each player's Keywords...

The two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their Codenames.The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to ...

Jeux à thématique Humor utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

A Dumb Party Game that Respects Your Intelligence.Monikers is pretty simple: get your team to guess as many weird, sometimes inappropriate names as they can in 1 minute. Over 3 rounds, you'll have different rules about how to give clues - but don't worry...

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...

A Dumb Party Game that Respects Your Intelligence.A standalone expansion for Monikers that comes with 330 brand new cards!This game can be played on its own or combined with other Monikers sets for enhanced play.

Jeux publiés par Morapiaf et utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

A cooperative deduction game where your goal is to make the other players guess one secret character by playing other character cards from your hand as clues, stating whether they are similar to or different from the secret character.Similo: Fantastic...

Will you dare to cross the threshold of the haunted Mysterium Manor?In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances...

Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be canceled! Winner of the 2019 Spiel des Jahres (German game...

There is an old saying that every picture tells a story. Live the truth of that saying in the game Dixit, in which lovingly crafted pictures shape stories that you tell. Winner of the 2010 Spiel des Jahres award for Game of the Year, Dixit can be played...

Jeux à thématique Word Game utilisants 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, ...

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...

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...

Jeux utilisants Image Interpretation et Give a clue, Get a clue

One key is a light and smart game for all kinds of players. It provides a fresh new cooperative experience based on visual association and deduction, with uniquely shaped and richly illustrated cards. One key is best played with its free app. It features...

Welcome, thieves...You think you can come into MY Library and take MY magical Grimoire with impunity? I paid a high price for it! Do not expect to leave the building with it unharmed! In order to leave the Library, you'll need to dispel the illusions...

The art faker Belratti has been using his extraordinary talent for decades to paint pictures in the style of others. He dupes the art world and takes over the artistic signature of each painter. Belratti notices an opportunity to insert his fakes into...

Jeux utilisants Paper-and-Pencil et Give a clue, Get a clue

Party Game utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

Jeux publiés par Hobby Japan et utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

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...

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...

Jeux développés par Raphael Stocker et utilisants Give a clue, Get a clue

Almost Innocent

Your party set out on a heroic quest to find the lost crown of the emperor of Oshra. However, your last evening at the local tavern went a little out of hand. You all drank too much spicy tea.The next morning you find yourself the chief suspects of a...

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