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A fantastic game to discover in teams!

Players compete in two teams in Decrypto, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team.

In more detail: each team has their own screen, and in this screen they tuck four cards in pockets numbered 1-4, letting everyone on the same team see the words on these cards while hiding the words from the opposing team. In the first round, each team does the following: One team member takes a code card that shows three of the digits 1-4 in some order, e.g., 4-2-1. They then give a coded message that their teammates must use to guess this code. For example, if the team's four words are "pig", "candy", "tent", and "son", then I might say "Sam-striped-pink" and hope that my teammates can correctly map those words to 4-2-1. If they guess correctly, great; if not, we receive a black token of failure.

Starting in the second round, a member of each team must again give a clue about their words to match a numbered code. If I get 2-4-3, I might now say, "sucker-prince-stake". The other team then attempts to guess our numbered code. If they are correct, they receive a white token of success. Then my team must also guess the number correctly or take a black token of failure. (Guessing correctly does nothing except avoid failure and give the opposing team information about what our hidden words might be.)

The rounds continue until a team collects either its second white token (winning the game) or its second black token (losing the game). Games typically last between 4-7 rounds. If neither team has won after eight rounds, then each team must attempt to guess the other team's words; whichever team guesses more words correctly wins.

So gather some friends and compete on our platform! Click below to go to the game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=decrypto

Developed by Mistergos, published by Le Scorpion Masque and designed by Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, this dream-team made it available on #BGA for all to enjoy, and we would love to thank all of them for their efforts bringing such a specific game to our platform.

Don't forget that the game is language-dependant and you can play it in your own language if you set this correctly on your profile.
(Or in the table options if it's more specific.)
You can currently play the game in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Korean, Spanish, Finnish.... and pretty much any language the retail version has been officially released in.

Of course Arena and Tournament mode are not available for this game, like most word-based-guessing ones. Otherwise it would be unfair. ^^

And that's it for today!
Thanks for your time, take care and... play fair!

Great game and a great implementation

If you are trying to guess a numbered "code" im not following the "words" part of the description above ?? Where did your 4 code words come from ? Video mentions only a 3 "digit" code

this is pretty much unplayable in real-time
never seen a game without everyone being on timeout - on SLOW.
(the corresponding bug reports were closed without fix)

Serilo wrote: ↑19 July 2023, 14:40 this is pretty much unplayable in real-time
never seen a game without everyone being on timeout - on SLOW.
(the corresponding bug reports were closed without fix)

Posted a suggestion: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=93816

ClearLakeTXgal wrote: ↑19 July 2023, 13:53 If you are trying to guess a numbered "code" im not following the "words" part of the description above ?? Where did your 4 code words come from ? Video mentions only a 3 "digit" code

The best would be to play it

*friends not include in the package.

Kaminomikan wrote: ↑19 July 2023, 17:40 *friends not include in the package.

Not in the package, but here at boardgamearena, you‘ll find over 9 million new friends. Should be easy to find at least 3 people to play Decrypto with you.

ClearLakeTXgal wrote: ↑19 July 2023, 13:53 If you are trying to guess a numbered "code" im not following the "words" part of the description above ?? Where did your 4 code words come from ? Video mentions only a 3 "digit" code

There are four "target" words that stay the same throughout the game. The digits refer to their positions. So let's say your words are CAR, HOUSE, TREE, CAT. The first code might be 3-1-4, in which case you might give clues like Leaf, Wheel, Meow. Those would be good clues for your team. But, the opponents are listening in. So if the second code is 4-1-2, and the next clue-giver says Whisker, Drive, Roof, the other team will say, "Ah, whisker and meow are probably the same word, and drive and wheel are probably the same word, but roof and leaf aren't, so we'll go with the missing number." They will get an Interception Token, and two of those wins the game.

more time need to be allocated for players to play, the 4 players are constantly out of time in every game I played.. Also, it's kind of annoying to not see the solution when the game is abandoned, but at least it doesn't spoil the available cards.