Platypus is best described as a gateway game into Codenames. It is also a cooperative deduction game, where one group of players are giving word clues to another group of players. Only instead of finding a group of specific words, in Platypus, players, called the explorers, need to gradually eliminate wrong words from the starting eight nouns down to just one. The clue givers, known as guides, will play down adjective cards that describe that noun, assisting explorers with their choices. Explorers are allowed to talk and discuss their choices, the guides, however, rely on the cards they have in their hands and can’t give any other verbal clues.
Like Codenames, Platypus plays with the idea that a single word may have different meanings and associations with different people, which…
