The bit everyone gets wrong
Gestures are banned too. It is a talking game, and miming it defeats the whole point.
All games · Western
How to play
Forbidden Words
Describe the word without saying any of the five words underneath it.
- Players
- 4–16 players
- You need
- One phone
- Origin
- Western
- Shelf
- Act it out
The rules
4 steps.
- One person describes, everyone else guesses.
- Say anything you like except the word itself and the five forbidden ones.
- Every correct guess scores. Tap skip if a card is impossible.
- When the clock stops, pass the phone to the next describer.
What the phone does
The phone deals cards, keeps the clock, and counts the score. It cannot hear you say a forbidden word — the guessers are the referees.
It is a dealer and a scorekeeper, never a judge. It cannot hear the room and it does not decide who was right.
Same engine underneath
If you like this
And 58 more
One phone.
The whole night.
Forbidden Words is one game in a library of 59. Finish it and PartyStack names the next one — a different kind each time, so nobody has to go back to a menu.
