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Master Word

Master Word 2020

6.7 /10
BGG rating
#4505
BGG rank
1.4
Weight
3–6
Players
4
Best at
5–15
Minutes
12
Age

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About the Game

Are you as clever as a fox? As dogged as a bloodhound? Do you have an eagle-eye for details? Pool your team's resources together to seek out the master word!

Master Word is a co-operative word-based deduction game in which players have to work together to try to find a secret word from a single starting hint.

Each game, a guide selects a card, looks at the master word, then shows the other players (seekers) the starting hint. The seekers then have 90 seconds to discuss and each write a clue on a card, which they place in a row. Once this is done, the guide places a number of tokens at the end of the row equal to the number of clues that are "on the right track" toward the master word. The only catch: The seekers don't know which clues the tokens refer to!

If the seekers write the master word on a solution card before the end of seven rounds, everyone wins! If they fail to do this or if they accidentally write the master word on a clue card, everyone loses!

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Mechanics
Also known as
Master Word マスターワード〜真実のことば探し〜 · Mazaný Lišák · Мастер слов
BGG ratings
1,051 · geek rating 5.84
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026

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