How to Play Taboo

Taboo is a party game that can provide hours of entertainment for teens or adults. It's easy to learn and play and it's never boring. It can be adjusted to fit into a short time period, or you can play for hours. Even the losing team will have fun playing this game!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 1 Taboo game
• At least 4 players

1. Divide the players into two teams. Place the buzzer and cards in the center of the table.
2. Choose one person from a team to be the first clue giver. She sits opposite her team and draws a card and starts the timer. The card should be hidden from her team but visible to at least one of her opponents. That opponent should hold the buzzer.
3. Give clues, as the clue giver, to the players on your team. The clues can be single words or sentences. The clue giver cannot use any word from the Taboo list printed on the card. Any parts of those words or forms of those words are also forbidden. For example, if the forbidden word is "birthday," the clue giver cannot use "birth" or day." If the forbidden word is "read," the clue giver cannot use "reading."
4. Score one point for the clue giver's team for each word they guess correctly. There is no penalty for wrong answers.
5. Award one point to the clue giver's opponents for each time a Taboo word is used, and for each time the clue giver passes on a word.
6. Hit the buzzer if the clue giver uses a Taboo word. Then the clue giver moves onto a new word.