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How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?

About eight years ago, I was playing a game of Codenames where the game state was such that our team would almost certainly lose if we didn't correctly guess all of our remaining words on our turn. From the given clue, we were unable to do this.

I don't know how long it will be before AI can replace a competent programmer, but if the minimum bar is to be as good at programming as automated phone tree systems are at routing my calls, I think we should get there soon if we're not already there. The big downside of this game is that it's been out of print for over a decade and it's famously hard to get ahold of a copy, although it seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to make a clone. I've heard of this happening in Concept: one group had a convention that red, white, blue, and place refers to a country with those flag colors, and that an additional modifier specifies which: water for UK, cold for Russia, food for France, and gun for USA.

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