What's your favorite party game?

[L.Jane]

I am going to a game night and I have decided I want to buy a new game or two for my own personal collection. I already have apples to apples, which is an all time favorite of mine. If you were going to have a game night, what game would you want to play?

[scrub-jay]

Cranium and Apples to Apples are our favorites.

[MarissaNicole]

Things in a Box or sometimes its called "Things" - its a fill in the blank game where one person reads a card along the lines of "what not to do on a bus...." You then try to guess who wrote what. Its a really fun game and you can play it with all ages. We like to play it both with our friends while drinking and also with our family.

[SoonerTexan]

I'm a big apples to apples fan too! Battle of the sexes is fun also

[Tenacious_D]

Taboo!

[HouseofWool]

Balderdash and Beyond Balderdash are pretty good too. They were my favorites before Apples to Apples came on the scene. A very fun, fast moving game is "Pit". The premise is trading commodities like on the stock market. The average round takes about 3 minutes.

For a smaller, less raucous crowd "Settlers of Catan" is a fun strategy game, but it is about 3 hours...

Cranium is an all time favorite. My newest love is Banagrams, but if you're going to play with more than 4 people, you need a double set.

[L.Jane]

Thanks all! You have some great answers. Its just going to be J and I and another couple. So four people total. I am going to have to look up Banagrams.

[poky]

With a slightly larger crowd, we had a lot of fun with pictionary man. Pictionary, but you use a 3-d man-shaped whiteboard and two 3-d accessory shape whiteboard blocks to draw on to try to get your teammates to guess the word.

I'm liking Dominion recently, and it's good for 4 players, but if you're not at all into the collectible card game type of game, it's got a steepish learning curve. Ticket to ride is pretty fun. Who Killed Dr. Lucky is kinda like an updated "clue"...kinda. Lots of fun.

Ooh! If you like rummy-type games at all, I *highly* recommend Five Crowns. The same company makes "set" and "quiddler" and "xactica", which are all also awesome: http://www.setgame.com/

[oceanchild]

I love Settlers of Catan so much. It's our go-to right now (along with Scrabble, which will be my go-to forever, although there aren't many people on whom I will inflict my Scrabble-playing).

Taboo and Cranium are great for big crowds. And I'm deeply loyal to Trivial Pursuit in big groups, although the questions seem to have gotten whackier in the newer versions.

[scrub-jay]

I love Settlers of Catan so much.

Oh wow. I thought we were the only people in the world with that game in our collection. I feel a game night coming on...

[weeniegeniewife]

What's your favorite party game?

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[oceanchild]

Oh wow. I thought we were the only people in the world with that game in our collection. I feel a game night coming on...

I'm so there.

[HouseofWool]

Hands down, Apples to Apples. It's hysterical!

The one response that goes down in family's hall of fame/shame is "choir boys" The green card? Sexy! My BIL threw this to my uber conservative mom! I think everyone at the table nearly died laughing!

[scrub-jay]

Although a little tricky to learn immediately... Killer Bunnies is hilarious.