Taboo: The Best Board Game in the World

A Review

I love playing board games. I really do. Especially at parties, with large groups of people. The improvisational sort of games are the best, especially when you have an eclectic group of people. Every year, my sister and I host the Annual Cook

Sisters Holiday Party. The one game that we are sure to play every single year was Taboo.

Taboo is called The Game Of Unspeakable Fun. This is because of the rules of the game.

INSTRUCTIONS
There are two teams of any number of players. One person from each team goes together. The "giving" team is the point-scoring team. This person has a card with a word that they must get their team to guess. It gets a little tricky, as the person from the opposite team is the "buzzer." They get to hold this annoying, pink and blue buzzer to indicate when the giving person breaks a rule. Underneath the word that the giving person has to make their team guess is five other words. These words are Taboo-- words that the giving person cannot say. If the word that is being guessed or any of the words underneath are said, the buzzer will sound and the giving team will lose a point. (Sometimes, if you are really cutthroat, the buzzing team gets the point that they lost.) If the word is guessed, the giving team scores a point. If a word is guessed, they move on to the next card. After the timer runs out, the two people switch positions. The giving team becomes the buzzing team and vice versa.

Sound confusing? It isn't. Honest. It's like charades or Pictionary, only you get to speak and you're guessing just one word. The only rules are that you can't say the word (or any portion thereof) being guessed, nor can you say any of the words written beneath it. You must adhere to the timer. That's it.