Amara likes these..

Taboo might be one of the most competitive and argument-provoking games you can play while drinking. If you guys don’t know how to play – basically, you pick up a card and have to describe the word on the card to your team, without using certain other words/phrases to describe it (which are also listed on the card).

I feel like each game begins and ends (and usually a few times in the middle) with a screaming match between the two teams (most frequently between a male and a female) due to cheating accusations or the confusion of rules (which also leads to more cheating accusations).

Regardless, it’s probably one of my favorite games to play – mainly, because I’m extremely competitive and will argue back in a heartbeat and I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty awesome at it.

But my FAVORITE part of each game is the personalized, and often ridiculous, clues that are given for each word.

Here are a few of my favorites from the Chinese-New-Year-themed potluck that I hosted last night:

Clue: “This guy is a famous author…”

Answers:

“Shakespeare!”

“Charles Dickens!”

“Steven Spielberg!” (this was the answer…? which of course, led to one of the aforementioned accusations of cheating since Spielberg is, in fact, not an author)

Clue: “Chris thinks Amara is a…”

Answers:

“Alcoholic!”(this was the answer)

Clue: “Amara likes these….”

Answers (being shouted in this order):

“Black men!”

“Chocolate!”

“Black guys!”

“Country music!”

“African-American men!”

“Dessert!”

“Martinis!” (this was the answer)

...Oh yeah, this game also helps keep you aware of how much people actually know about you... -_-