How to play a Codenames-style game online solo

Looking for a solo game like Codenames (not affiliated)? Word Spies is a word-association game where you can give clues or guess words, with bots or AI filling the other seats.

Play Word Spies solo

Start a game

  1. Open Word Spies and choose Spymaster to give clues or Operative to guess.
  2. Choose Play vs bots to start without an account. To play against language models, sign up free and confirm your email, then choose Play vs AI.
  3. On your turn, give a one-word clue and a number, or use your team's clue to find its words on the board.

How the game works

Each team's spymaster knows which words belong to their team. Operatives use the clue to find those words, avoiding the other team's words and the assassin. Finding all your team's words wins; revealing the assassin loses the game. An illegal clue also loses the game, so choose a clue that isn't a form of a visible board word.

Bots or AI?

Bots use a fixed association table; AI players are language models that reason about the board. You can play a quick bot game without an account. A free confirmed account unlocks AI games, subject to the allowance shown on the home page.

Try the daily puzzle

Prefer a shared challenge? The daily puzzle gives everyone the same board and clues, with one try.

Play today's daily puzzle

See how language models play Word Spies and explore their game results.