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A BoardGame of cryptic communication

There's a public grid of Codenames cards visible by everyone. It might be 4x4 or 5x5. Each round, two players A and B try to communicate one of the cards' identity to each other cryptically without the other players working out which card it is.

In a conversation between A and B:
They collectively secretly determine some shared secret to be their private Key for this conversation. Initial experiments suggest one Articulate card might be about right.

A privately rolls the "row" red d6 for their Target; B privately rolls the "column" green d6 for the Target. They mustn't reveal these to each other or anyone else.

Now they have a spoken conversation trying to clue each other into the Target  /without/ any of the listeners guessing the Target. The idea is they make cryptic references to their Key that hopefully nobody else will follow.

What's allowed in the conversation:

Then everyone submits a secret guess as to the Target. Each correct "outsider" gains points themselves and reduces A and B's score. (Possibly you guess the row and column independently and score them separately.)

I think the scoring might be something like:

Each player starts off with a few points.
When A and B roll the dice (A determining a row, B determining a column), they each pay one point to the middle.
After their conversation, all players (A, B, C, D, E) reveal their guess for the Target.
Then:

Examples of how this works out in practice:

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