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Two keys. One grid. No enemy.

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Twenty-five words and two different key cards. Nine of them are your agents, nine are your partner’s, and only three are both. You each know something the other cannot see, and the only way across is one word at a time.

How to play

1. You both see the same 25 words, but two DIFFERENT key cards. Green edges are YOUR agents, red are YOUR assassins — their card says other things about the same words.
2. Take turns. The clue-giver writes one word and a number: how many of their OWN green cards it points at.
3. The guesser taps cards, and the GIVER’s key decides what happens. Your own colours don’t count while you guess — a word that is red for you can still be their agent.
4. Hit their agent and it locks in green: keep guessing, up to one past the number. A bystander ends the turn. Their assassin ends the game, there and then.
5. Every clue spends a token. Find all fifteen agents between you before nine clues run out.
6. Out of clues is sudden death: no more hints, and one wrong touch loses.

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