My favorite one is when your teammates start insulting your intelligence. “Ok so he said ‘president, 2’… Does he know that Canada doesn’t have a president????”

I swear my wife got the clue "Legos: 5", and she got all five. I just watched in awe and asked how, and her response was "You can make those things out of Legos." "YOU CAN MAKE LITERALLY ANYTHING WITH LEGOS! THEY'RE LEGOS!!"

I cannot stress enough how relatable this is, exactly down to the clue. I once did Mammal, 2 for my mothers bf (words were Dog and Bat) and he literally went "Well, a bat's a bird and a dog isn't a mammal so they're out".

Knowing you can't help as your teammate sinks the ship 👁️👄👁️

Once I played with a friend and I said something like cold and this dude chose sun because, "ahh well you said cold and the sun is hot which is the opposite of cold so I thought you wanted me too pick that" not his proudest moment

Even with my insufficient knowledge of board games, I too can relate to the unending void of stupidity that seems to suffocate my friends whenever I want to win something.

To anyone who hasn't play Codenames: There is no joke here. This is just the actual game. It's insane to see the logical leaps people make. Granted, sometimes those leaps have to be made, but it's whenever the answer is obvious that it gets upsetting.

Thanks to ProZD presence in so many things as a voice actor, you could probably take that last line and put it over some character’s dark inner monologue. X)

It’s like if L from death note spent his time playing board games instead of solving murders

How did you get footage of a CodeNames game I played with my coworkers three years ago?

A painfully relatable experience portrayed with perfect accuracy.

Then there is the reverse situation: There are two enemy / assassin tiles that fit your word better than the tiles you chose, but your tunnel vision blinds you to the trap until your team *immediately* consider those alternatives. And then you just sit there... sweating as they discuss how the two trap tiles are "obviously" the obvious answer.

In case people don't know the game code names: there are 25 words in a 5x5 grid. There are two teams, and each team has one hint giver and multiple hint guessers. The hint givers take turns giving hints and they're trying to get their teammates to guess all their team's 7 or 8 (depending on who goes first) words before your opponent does that first. What words you have are chosen at random basically. The hint you give has to be one word, and you want it to relate to multiple other words on the table that you need your teammates to guess. so mammal 2 means guess two words that have something to do with mammal. You *could* say mammal 6, if your teammates guess the 6 words right that's awesome and you're super ahead, but good luck being good enough to give such an all encompassing clue that's not too vague. There's one word that's the assassin, if any team picks that they automatically lose, and if your team picks the opponent teams word, they get that point. Sungwon is making fun of a common situation with code name players where the hint giver gives a hint that is quite reasonable but their teammates totally overthink it and screw it up. This is a great party game even for people who don't play board games! All ages can play! Highly recommended! Edit: game is called Codenames! I said that at the beginning but forgot grammar when it mattered most!

If Codenames doesn't make you feel this way, you're not playing it right

Me playing this game: I assure you, I am not as smart as you think I am.

This is incredibly accurate to a game of Code Names I played years ago. We still tell the story of how we got the clue “Trains 4” and yet “Model and Conductor” were not correct but somehow “Runway and Honey” were.

this was literally my Christmas playing mysterium with people. thank you for representing the struggle so accurately

There are 2 types of Codenames players: those who try to 5-D chess every guess like this, and those who really think it's just the obvious but slowly get broken down by the enthusiasm of the other teammates until they decide "yeah, ok, let's go with 'Bond' and 'Hollywood'."

No joke, one time I played with my friends the clue giver said lawn for 2 as the first clue of the game. He wanted them to guess grass and green, which they were about to, before my other friend chimed up and said, "Wait I dig holes in my lawn, so I think he wants us to go with hole!" Hole was the black card, he definitely didn't want them to go with hole.

I saw the title of the video in my notifications and already knew it would be about Codenames

0:32 The absolute sheer emphasis of the “ *W H A T.* ” as he is comprehending the leaps in logic here is absolutely hilarious

Man, I just played this game with family at Christmas, and this really happened

You always gotta be careful, you don't want to end up in a 30 minute somersaulting factory cheese-tasting phase.

This is the logic that got my friend to pick "soul" when the clue was "trade". Soul was the assassin.

LOL, Codenames is such a window into other people’s minds. I remember a game where I was trying to get somebody to get “glue” and “oil”. I said “viscous, 2” and I’ll never forget that look saying “What the heck is ‘viscous’?” 😂

The most fun is when a player on the other team is guessing like this and you're watching their teammates endure this agony.

I love the blatantly deadpan delivery of *" WHAT DO YOU MEAN MAMMALS PLAY GAMES "* hilarious lmao I wouldn't expect less from a hilarious channel

These mammals do be playing games.

My favorite boardgame and it’s biggest flaw. Having to stay stoic while your teammates stray away from the obvious zero-to-one layer of separation and go into Pepe Silvia crazy-wall thinking. It takes SO much to overcome showing any emotion, but it would ruin the game fairness.

i was already laughing but the "you know who else is a human? daniel craig" "WHAT" really got me

Worst part is when those words are still your teams' and they think they nailed it, and you can't say anything about it until the end of the game

I felt this as both a DM and as someone who works for an escape room.

The expression of overconfidence while saying the word "bond" absolutely sends me

Basically every ChilledChaos session of Codenames, lmao

As this was uploaded, me and a group of friends were playing that tabletop game, One Night Ultimate Werewolf. One of my strategies if I'm the wolf is to pretend to be the tanner, who has to make others vote him as the wolf. The best way to do this if I'm giving out blatantly wrong clues to make them overthink and guess wrong, and I swear when this happens it's just like this

I remember this game. I once clued some food (I think it was hotdog) by saying "Male". ... My agents got it.

ProZD is The Best

He figured out the Daniel Craig maneuver? That's some 5D chess- level skill.

Perhaps the most annoying part is that Bond is not a Hollywood film series at all.

Bond is also a mammal. WORF!

We have a party member in our DnD campaign who will think of problems with our plan that the DM didn't even think of, but will gladly implement against us. He has no awareness of the fact that it's a game sometimes and that no one overthinks on the level he does. It really do be like that T_T

I sometimes do the overthinking part just to fuck with the spymaster for fun but then take the obvious choices in the end. Kinda fun to come up with the wildest mental gymnastics on how the hint could be related to something that was definitely not supposed to be the hint for it.

Actually, this is why I love this game in a multinational setting. I gave the clue "flying 6" in a Codenames party. There were 6 cards about thing actually flying in the atmosphere... my teammate hit the 7th card, Jupiter first, which was the other team's codename... :D then we had a discussion on languages as noone was a native speaker there, and we realized that in his mother tongue Jupiter is "flying" the same way as a bird.

This is why Code Names is my favorite board game

This is painfully accurate and I am emotionally devastated by the repressed rage that this video has brought up from many sessions of Codenames

The "What?!" after "Daniel Craig" is so perfect. The comedic timing here is impeccable. Even the "You're right". Every single one of us can relate to this in one way or another, board games or not.

as my dad says when we play this game: it's usually the first one you think of

My favorite Codenames clue I've ever given was one where the last three we needed were lined up in an row in the top left corner, from left to right. My clue was "first 3". Took them a while, but it was REALLY funny when they got it.

Good board game. Always ends in tears and physical fighting. That's how you know it's a good board game.

Hey, at least they go through the trouble of getting matching outfits for your gaming nights.

Oh my goshness its the squirrel from god of war

I swear some of these board games designers make these types of games to really test people's friendships!

The hardest part of the game is not to make a face while your clue throws the others into discussions.

I did not expect to find my experience playing Codenames to be portrayed so accurately, but here it is.

"You know who else is a human?" *MY MOM*

I played codenames with my friends a couple weeks ago and this is exactly what happened…and the annoying person who made everyone second guess themselves was my husband. I was so mad at him. It was a simple effing clue.

he was never seen again after that game

I love these board game skits, keep them coming!

The emphatic "WHAT?" after the Daniel Craig suggestion just gets me every time

Friends: Don't be thinking over Me: more suck thinking

Yuh-huh. I will admit to having done something along those lines once.

All this reminds me of is the time I’ve played codenames over Discord with friends, and in the codemaster text chat on the website we were using, my friend was freaking out over his team overthinking “aerated - 3.” Aerated, meaning - it has air in it. They got the first two clues pretty quickly, (blood and Atlantic), but then spent five minutes discussing what the last one could be: room. The entire time, in text chat, all I can see: “Rooms have air. Rooms have air. ROOMS have air. Rooms HAVE air. Rooms have AIR. ROOMS HAVE AIR. ROOMS HAVE AIR. ROOMS HAVE AIR! ROOMS HAVE AIR!!!!!” For five minutes straight. They were overthinking aerated was double for oxygen and were thinking of what other things might have oxygen. The entire time as they discussed: “ROOMS HAVE AIR. ROOMS HAVE AIR. ROOMS HAVE AIR.”

Glad to see the friend who's figuring it out as he goes is doing a great job

My teammate and I were doing great at this until the last word they had to make me guess was "virus". The Assassin tile, which causes instant loss if picked, was "disease". Their clue was "corvid", because "it sounds like COVID".

The opposite of this happened to me. My father once gave the clue "Gravity, 1". Words on the board included "Newton", the unit of measurement used for gravity, "Black Hole", the physical embodiment of gravity, and "Space", which was partially related to gravity. It was "Space". We ribbed on him for years following that.

Often times we had that situation during a Code Names session, where our hinter was able to let us pinpoint the wanted terms easily with the hint but also completely overlooked the assassin that was related to all of them in one way or another. Good, tricky game though. There are many creative ways to approach it. It can be especially fun if your team members can vibe with you so well, so that you can work even with prompts related to your clique's insider jokes and other familiar friend-related buzzwords.

This is such a Code Names moment omg I have had this happen too many times. This game is especially difficult high.

Incredibly accurate for code names

having to re-teach this game to my parents after about a year of not playing and oh god,,, both your skits on it are so accurate 😭😭

As someone who just played this with the in-laws I can confirm this is a true event.

"Ohh, riiiight...." Haha, wow, perfect impression.

I feel sooooooo personally attacked right now

And then those terms *happen* to be correct and you spend the rest of the game working with a teammate who thinks all your clues require a similar thought process and will never again consider "Cat" or "Bear"

I hate it when you hear them talking about the word you need, and then they're like "nah, he wouldn't have thought of that!" 😂

This clip is applicable for every game of codenames ever played WHY DID MY CODE GIVER THINK "LINES 5" WAS A GOOD CLUE

Love the delivery for all of these lines

In an ironic twist, Bond and Hollywood would also be words they needed, and they would proceed to guess Apple as the bonus word because you watch Hollywood films on Apple TV+.

Every single game of Mysterium I've ever played.

*Internal screaming because this is so ridiculously accurate*

"Okay, I messed up, but you made your clues too complicated." "All of the complications were made in your head!"

This is the EXACT mindset I see whenever I watch ChilledChaos and his friends play Codenames. Perfect. 😂

Which is worse: This, or when your tm8 overthinks giving the hints?

Why the best move by werewords was to have that “way off track” card

This is an accurate depiction of what happend when we played reception on new years eve and the investigators thought that "suffocation" means it was a Sniper shot

I quite literally just played code names with my family for the New Years and it went almost exactly like this. My dad eventually was trying to go through every card one by one to see if there’s a connection XD

everyone in that room about to catch strays

Using their own discussion as if it was the clue you gave is a classic

Please keep doing these! I have been playing games with extended family and the play experience is just like this.

Even though I never understand his board game skits, I always laugh anyway, and THAT’S how you know ProZD is one of the funniest KZfaqrs/Actors/Comedians lol

Thankfully whenever I played Code name and my teammates starting to look too deep into it, there would usually be someone to bring them back on the right track lol

The timing is impeccable, I played Mysterium last night lol.

I once got the "insta death" card in CODENAMES on my first turn 😂 The clue was "snow", and my stupid literary brain saw "uniform" and I immediately touched the card. That happened years ago and I can't get the stupid memory out of my brain!

I felt this.

I played codenames the other day and this happened as well, but my team made the biggest leaps of judgement to THE CORRECT CARDS. They didn't go through with it though, which was the right call, but it was agonizing because after that they did the same thing every round but to the advantage of the other team XD

Codenames is such a good game. I love your videos. Great editing, writing, and delivery lol

These are always SO GOOD!

I don’t know what he’s complaining about. He successfully scored the words: cat, bear, play, game, bond and Hollywood just based on a single clue. Impressive

"Daniel Craig, is a human." Says who?

Love the two board game bits in a row!

I think my favourite line has to be *What do you mean "mammals play games"?* with that slight reverb and his stony poker face expression.