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Codenames: Pictures
Year
2016
Players
2–8
Play time
15min
Min age
10+
Weight
1.23
BGG rating
7.17
BGG rank
#518
Best with
6

MeepleMates notes for Codenames: Pictures

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  • Codenames: Pictures is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 6 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.17 and BGG rank #518.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Deduction, Party Game metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 4, 5, 7, 8, 8.
What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents! Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent - or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win. Codenames: Pictures differs from the original Codenames in that the agents are no longer represented by a single word, but by an image that contains multiple elements.

Categories

Card GameDeductionParty GameSpies / Secret Agents

Mechanics

Team-Based GameCommunication LimitsMemory

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Not rec.
4
Recommended
5
Recommended
6
Best
7
Recommended
8
Recommended
8+
Recommended

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(34 of 34 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Party Game Rank#34

Videos

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 11/08/2026.