Master Word cover
2020BGG rank #4,394

Master Word

by Gérald Cattiaux · Scorpion Masqué

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Players3–6
Time5–15m
ComplexityLight
Age12+

About the game

What is Master Word?

Are you as clever as a fox? As dogged as a bloodhound? Do you have an eagle-eye for details? Pool your team's resources together to seek out the master word! Master Word is a co-operative word-based deduction game in which players have to work together to try to find a secret word from a single starting hint. Each game, a guide selects a card, looks at the master word, then shows the other players (seekers) the starting hint. The seekers then have 90 seconds to discuss and each write a clue on a card, which they place in a row. Once this is done, the guide places a number of tokens at the end of the row equal to the number of clues that are "on the right track" toward the master word. The only catch: The seekers don't know which clues the tokens refer to! If the seekers write the master word on a solution card before the end of seven rounds, everyone wins! If they fail to do this or if they accidentally write the master word on a clue card, everyone loses!

How it plays

Mechanics

Communication LimitsCooperative GameInduction

On the shelf

Categories

DeductionParty GameWord Game

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