Signal Words — Free Online Word Party Game for Friends

A free word-association party game for two teams — play online with friends.

How to play

Two teams each have a spymaster who can see which words belong to their team, which belong to the other team, which are neutral, and which one is the assassin — everyone else sees a plain, unmarked board.

On your spymaster’s turn, they give one clue word and a number — the clue is a word related in meaning to one or more of your team’s words on the board (say “ocean” for “whale” and “tide”), and the number tells you how many words it points to. The clue word can’t be one already sitting on the board.

Your team then clicks words trying to find your own. Guess right and you can keep guessing (you get one more guess than the number, in case you spot a bonus word); guess your opponent’s word or a neutral word and the turn passes to the other team immediately. First team to find all of their words wins — but click the assassin’s word and your team loses on the spot, so guess carefully.

Create a room and share the code — the first two players to join become each team’s spymaster automatically.

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