when your teammates overthink it in a board game

[kennethridesabike]

My favorite one is when your teammates start insulting your intelligence. “Ok so he said ‘president, 2’… Does he know that Canada doesn’t have a president????”

[BoardOfItReviews]

I cannot stress enough how relatable this is, exactly down to the clue. I once did Mammal, 2 for my mothers bf (words were Dog and Bat) and he literally went "Well, a bat's a bird and a dog isn't a mammal so they're out".

[kujmous]

I swear my wife got the clue "Legos: 5", and she got all five. I just watched in awe and asked how, and her response was "You can make those things out of Legos." "YOU CAN MAKE LITERALLY ANYTHING WITH LEGOS! THEY'RE LEGOS!!"

[DParkerNunya]

To anyone who hasn't play Codenames: There is no joke here. This is just the actual game. It's insane to see the logical leaps people make. Granted, sometimes those leaps have to be made, but it's whenever the answer is obvious that it gets upsetting.

[colderratic]

Even with my insufficient knowledge of board games, I too can relate to the unending void of stupidity that seems to suffocate my friends whenever I want to win something.

[geekforeverpixelgamingsurl]

Thanks to ProZD presence in so many things as a voice actor, you could probably take that last line and put it over some character’s dark inner monologue. X)

[robotoons]

Once I played with a friend and I said something like cold and this dude chose sun because, "ahh well you said cold and the sun is hot which is the opposite of cold so I thought you wanted me too pick that"
not his proudest moment

[boedacious]

Knowing you can't help as your teammate sinks the ship

👁️👄👁️

[Emeraldarcher]

It’s like if L from death note spent his time playing board games instead of solving murders

[RowanHeartwood]

How did you get footage of a CodeNames game I played with my coworkers three years ago?

[PierceArner]

A painfully relatable experience portrayed with perfect accuracy.

[frogjackethuman]

In case people don't know the game code names: there are 25 words in a 5x5 grid. There are two teams, and each team has one hint giver and multiple hint guessers. The hint givers take turns giving hints and they're trying to get their teammates to guess all their team's 7 or 8 (depending on who goes first) words before your opponent does that first. What words you have are chosen at random basically. The hint you give has to be one word, and you want it to relate to multiple other words on the table that you need your teammates to guess. so mammal 2 means guess two words that have something to do with mammal. You *could* say mammal 6, if your teammates guess the 6 words right that's awesome and you're super ahead, but good luck being good enough to give such an all encompassing clue that's not too vague. There's one word that's the assassin, if any team picks that they automatically lose, and if your team picks the opponent teams word, they get that point.

Sungwon is making fun of a common situation with code name players where the hint giver gives a hint that is quite reasonable but their teammates totally overthink it and screw it up.

This is a great party game even for people who don't play board games! All ages can play! Highly recommended!

Edit: game is called Codenames! I said that at the beginning but forgot grammar when it mattered most!

[Kharrakster]

Then there is the reverse situation: There are two enemy / assassin tiles that fit your word better than the tiles you chose, but your tunnel vision blinds you to the trap until your team *immediately* consider those alternatives. And then you just sit there... sweating as they discuss how the two trap tiles are "obviously" the obvious answer.

[siddharth_desai]

If Codenames doesn't make you feel this way, you're not playing it right

[lilyjkedits]

this was literally my Christmas playing mysterium with people. thank you for representing the struggle so accurately

[TheManOfManyNames]

Me playing this game: I assure you, I am not as smart as you think I am.

[timcgrant]

This is incredibly accurate to a game of Code Names I played years ago. We still tell the story of how we got the clue “Trains 4” and yet “Model and Conductor” were not correct but somehow “Runway and Honey” were.

[justicerainz]

Man, I just played this game with family at Christmas, and this really happened

[kylemcbee]

No joke, one time I played with my friends the clue giver said lawn for 2 as the first clue of the game. He wanted them to guess grass and green, which they were about to, before my other friend chimed up and said, "Wait I dig holes in my lawn, so I think he wants us to go with hole!" Hole was the black card, he definitely didn't want them to go with hole.

[spooderman]

I love the blatantly deadpan delivery of *" WHAT DO YOU MEAN MAMMALS PLAY GAMES "* hilarious lmao
I wouldn't expect less from a hilarious channel