Codenames: Back to Hogwarts

Players are sorted into two rival Hogwarts houses and compete house-versus-house over a shared grid of mystery word cards. On each turn a house’s prefect gives a one-word clue plus a number to indicate how many words on the table relate to that clue; teammates take turns guessing cards, revealing them one at a time and continuing until they reach the stated number or hit an opposing-house card, a dead end, or another obstacle. Encountering the groundskeeper ends the game and hands victory to the other house. Winning rounds scores points toward an ongoing House Cup, and each house brings one of two asymmetrical special abilities that change how clues, guesses, and risks are handled, adding strategic variety to the familiar word-association core.

Players: 4–8 best 4
Playing time: 15–30 min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 1.8 / 5