swap_horiz Cranium Alternatives

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a tile-based word game where players form words on a board using letter tiles. Created by Alfred Butts in 19...

Classic Competitive Board Game Hasbro

9.0 Excellent

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Decrypto

Decrypto is a communication game designed by Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, notable for tasking teams with transmitting num...

Competitive Team Party Iello

8.5 Great

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Codenames XXL

Codenames XXL is an oversized edition of the acclaimed deduction game, notable for featuring double-sized cards and comp...

Large Format Team Party Deduction

8.4 Great

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Monikers

Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrities, notable for its three-round structure where player...

Team Party Adult Clue Giving

8.1 Great

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Mad Libs

Created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price in 1958, Mad Libs is a famous party game where players fill in blanks with rand...

Classic Party Humorous Fill In Blank

7.8 Good

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Codenames Pictures

Codenames Pictures is a deduction-based word game published in 2016 by Czech Games Edition, notable for replacing word c...

Visual Team Party Deduction

7.6 Good

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Articulate!

Articulate! is a fast-talking board game popular in the UK, notable for challenging players to describe specific categor...

Speed Team Party Clue Giving

7.6 Good

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Pictionary

Pictionary is a popular drawing party game invented by Robert Angel in 1985, where teams race against the clock to guess...

Team Party Drawing Word Guessing

7.6 Good

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Rebus

Rebus is a puzzle format that uses pictures, symbols, and letters to represent words or syllables, originating in 16th-c...

Classic Brain Teaser Party Visual Word

7.5 Good

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Word Slam

Designed by Inka and Markus Brand in 2016, Word Slam is a fast-paced party game where teams use restricted decks of word...

Card Game Team Party Clue Giving

7.1 Good

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Charades

Originating in 18th-century France, Charades is a classic parlor game where players use silent mime and hand gestures to...

Classic Team Acting Party

7.1 Good

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Outburst

Released in 1986 by Hersh and Brad Pomeroy, Outburst is a fast-paced verbal party game where teams frantically shout as...

Team Category Party Hasbro

6.5 Fair

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Tribond

Released in 1989, Tribond is a classic board game that challenges players to identify the common link among three seemin...

Classic Family Party Trivia

6.4 Fair

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20 Questions

20 Questions is a classic deductive reasoning parlor game where players ask up to twenty yes-or-no questions to correctl...

Classic Verbal Party Deduction

6.4 Fair

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Word Association

Word Association is a foundational psychological game and test, famously formalized by Carl Jung in the early 20th centu...

Classic Free Form Verbal Party

6.0 Fair

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Encore

Published in 1989, Encore is a music-based party game where teams must sing a portion of a song that contains a specific...

Classic Team Party Singing

5.7 Mediocre

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Dingbats

Created by Paul Sellers in 1987, Dingbats is a visual puzzle board game where players must decipher phrases and idioms r...

Classic Puzzle Party Rebus

5.7 Mediocre

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Rapidough

Released by Cheatwell Games, Rapidough is a tactile party game where teams compete to sculpt items out of modeling dough...

Speed Team Party Drumond Park

5.7 Mediocre

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Last Letter

Last Letter is a card-based word game published by ThinkFun in 2014 where players must shout out words that begin with t...

Classic Verbal Party Chain

5.5 Mediocre

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Taboo Junior

Taboo Junior is an adaptation of the classic word-guessing game, featuring simpler words and fewer forbidden terms to ma...

Team Party Children Hasbro

5.4 Mediocre