Taboo is a team word-guessing party game in which one player tries to get their teammates to say a target word on a card without using that word itself or any of several additional forbidden words listed beneath it, all within a time limit, while an opposing team listens for any rule violation. It was created by Brian Hersch and first published in 1989 by Hasbro's Milton Bradley division. The game's central mechanic of guessing under increasingly narrow verbal restriction has made it a lasting fixture of the team party game genre.
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Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Game TypeWord guessing party game 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Connections
Associated With
Charades, Games Taboo and charades both belong to the broader family of party guessing games in which one player conveys a word or phrase to teammates under a restriction, acting only in charades and speech under forbidden-word restrictions in Taboo; no documented direct line of descent connects the two games.
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1. Taboo (game) (Wikipedia)
Lead section, publication
published by Parker Brothers in 1989
Lead section, classification
a word, guessing, and party game
Infobox, players field
4-10
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Taboo is a team word-guessing party game in which one player tries to get their teammates to say a target word on a card without using that word itself or any of several additional forbidden words listed beneath it, all within a time limit, while an opposing team listens for any rule violation. It was created by Brian Hersch and first published in 1989 by Hasbro's Milton Bradley division
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