The Resistance (Indie Boards and Cards, 5-10 players) It’s difficult to explain, but really fun for a creative group who all know each other well. The opposing team have to guess where on that scale a given clue word sits. For example, “Sexy emoji / Unsexy emoji” or “Good habit / Bad habit”.

It’s fast and funny and encourages the use of little in-jokes and shared experiences in a way that really works at Christmas.ĭescribed as a social guessing game, Wavelength gets you to split into two teams, then take it in turns to pick a card with two ends of a scale described on it. You play in teams as rival spy networks attempting to guess the locations of your operatives on a board, by describing words in a way that only your own team will recognise. Launched in 2015, this word association game has already become a staple in many households. (See also, Poetry for Neanderthals, which gets players to explain ideas using only single-syllable words.) Codenames (Czech Games Edition, 4-8+ players) With the limited available vocabulary, answers are usually garbled and ridiculous, and it’s the funniest that wins each round. A fresher alternative to Cards Against Humanity, Ransom Notes gives players a selection of fridge magnet words with which they need to construct responses to prompts read out from cards – for example “Give someone CPR instructions over the phone” or “Describe why cocaine is illegal”.

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