| If you have never tried playing the guessing | | | | describing could not say any word that begins or |
| game of Taboo you should immediately visit the | | | | ends with the "game" element. Additionally, if |
| board game selves of your local toy-store and | | | | under the word "game" appeared words like |
| purchase a box that hides inside numerous | | | | "sport," "baseball," "basketball," "taboo," or anything |
| moments of fun and true creative spirit. I was | | | | else inside that category, the person conducting |
| introduced to Taboo one evening at a friend's | | | | the description cannot use any of these words |
| house and since then I have been playing this | | | | either. |
| extremely entertaining game with family and | | | | But the fun part begins when the rest of the |
| friends in different occasions. | | | | team members try to guess the word that is |
| Taboo is a word guessing party game that is | | | | being described. Yelling out as many guesses as |
| commercially produced and distributed by Hasbro. | | | | possible, in a rational or irrational order, the |
| With a few hundred cards, which contain words | | | | participants enjoy a game that gives them the |
| on both sides, taboo can transform a boring | | | | opportunity to rely on past common experiences |
| evening into a exhilarating event. The rules of the | | | | and win as many cards as possible. Once the |
| game are rather simple, but it will manage to | | | | giver manages to describe the word for the |
| attract the attention of even the most reluctant | | | | others to guess it correctly, it is important to |
| people in your group. With an even number of | | | | move quickly to the new one so as to give his or |
| players that usually range between four to ten | | | | her team the chance of gaining one more card up |
| people, Taboo is a pastime experience that | | | | until their allocated time is over. When time runs |
| ultimately everyone wants to try. The players sit | | | | out, the one holding the cards gives his or her |
| in a circle and are divided usually into two | | | | turn to the opponent that is going to begin |
| competing teams. Each time a team's player picks | | | | describing the word that is picked up by chance |
| up a card he or she has to describe the word | | | | to the other team's members. Every team |
| that is written without using in his or her | | | | playing receives one point for each correct guess, |
| description any of its related words or the ones | | | | which corresponds to one card, and one penalty |
| that appear underneath the one that the other | | | | point if the "taboo" or "forbidden" word is |
| team members have to guess correctly. The | | | | mistakenly spoken. Of course, those that usually |
| object of the game is for a team to guess | | | | are game cheaters should reconsider their gaming |
| correctly as many words as possible in the | | | | theories, since an extra penalty point is given to |
| allotted time frame. In order to ensure that the | | | | someone who after describing a word on a card |
| player who attempts to describe the word is not | | | | attempts to pass on more than that card to the |
| using the "forbidden" words also appearing on the | | | | team; if they have guessed it correctly. |
| card, a designated member of the competing | | | | Taboo is an entertainment in itself and its only |
| team has to sit besides the one describing so as | | | | weakness, at least in my opinion, is that it needs |
| to check constantly the card while hearing the | | | | at least four people before you can begin having |
| description. For example, if the word on the top | | | | some "Taboo" fun! |
| of the card was that of "game" the one | | | | |