swap_horiz Encore 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 team-based communication board game designed by Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance. Players divide into teams, and...

Competitive Team Party Iello

8.5 Great

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Text Twist

Text Twist is an anagram-based word game published by GameHouse in which players form words from a supplied set of lette...

Classic PC Timed Anagram

8.2 Great

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Big Boggle

Big Boggle is a word game published by Parker Brothers and later Hasbro that expands upon the classic 4x4 version of Bog...

Classic Board Game Timed Hasbro

8.2 Great

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Monikers

Monikers is a card-based party game where players split into teams and attempt to get their teammates to guess the names...

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 word game consisting of stories with blank spaces where...

Classic Party Humorous Fill In Blank

7.8 Good

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Codenames Pictures

Codenames: Pictures is a team-based deduction game published by Czech Games Edition that adapts the central structure of...

Visual Team Party Deduction

7.6 Good

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Articulate!

Articulate! is a team-based word-description board game published by Drumond Park and widely played in the United Kingdo...

Speed Team Party Clue Giving

7.6 Good

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Pictionary

Pictionary is a team-based drawing and word-guessing party game created by Robert Angel and first published in 1985. Dur...

Team Party Drawing Word Guessing

7.6 Good

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Cranium

Cranium is a team-based party game created by Richard Tait and Whit Alexander and introduced in 1998. Players advance by...

Classic Team Party Hasbro

7.2 Good

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Word Slam

Word Slam is a team-based word-guessing game designed by Inka and Markus Brand and published by Kosmos. Two teams compet...

Card Game Team Party Clue Giving

7.1 Good

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Charades

Charades is a group guessing game in which one participant silently represents a word, title, or phrase while the other...

Classic Team Acting Party

7.1 Good

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Outburst

Outburst is a team-based verbal party game organized around named topics. For each round, a team tries to say the answer...

Team Category Party Hasbro

6.5 Fair

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Tribond

Tribond is a word and trivia board game first released in 1989. Players are given three clues that may appear unrelated...

Classic Family Party Trivia

6.4 Fair

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20 Questions

20 Questions is a verbal deduction game in which one participant chooses a person, object, animal, or concept and the ot...

Classic Verbal Party Deduction

6.4 Fair

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Dingbats

Dingbats is a visual word puzzle game based on rebuses, in which words, letters, and phrases are arranged or styled to r...

Classic Puzzle Party Rebus

5.7 Mediocre

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Rapidough

Rapidough is a party game published by Cheatwell Games in which players use modeling dough to make objects for teammates...

Speed Team Party Drumond Park

5.7 Mediocre

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Taboo Junior

Taboo Junior is a children's version of the party word game Taboo. Players give clues so that teammates can identify a t...

Team Party Children Hasbro

5.4 Mediocre

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Wuzzles

Wuzzles are rebus puzzles in which words, letters, symbols, or pictures are arranged to represent a familiar word, phras...

Classic Brain Teaser Party Visual Word

5.2 Mediocre

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Rhyme Time

Rhyme Time is an educational word game designed for children that encourages vocabulary development by challenging playe...

Classic Family Verbal Party

5.0 Mediocre