10 board games to have on your shelf this monsoon

1. Taboo: A word game suitable for parties and family gatherings. The player has to enable his partner to guess the word without using clues from a specified list.

1. Taboo: A word game suitable for parties and family gatherings. The player has to enable his partner to guess the word without using clues from a specified list.

Settlers of Catan is one of the hottest board games internationally

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2. Scattergories: A creative-thinking, category-based party game. To score points, one must uniquely name objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter.

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3. Fungish: A time-bound game, players must find and play tiles on the easel to get fellow players to guess as many words on a card as they can.

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4. Word on the Street: A tug of war of sorts, with letters, players – individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the board.

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5. Sequence:A mild card strategy game, the objective is to form rows of five to six poker chips.

6. Settler of Catan: A relatively new game developed in 1995, this trading strategy-based game sees players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to develop holdings while trading resources.

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7. Cards Against Humanity: An adult party game, players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using phrases printed on playing cards.

8. 7 Wonders: Created in 2010, this card-oriented travel game is played using three decks of cards featuring depictions of ancient civilisations, military conflicts and commercial activity.

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9. Codename: Barely a year old, this mild strategy game requires players in teams to identify their team’s secret agents, based on their code names.

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10. Bad Medicine: A party game, the player’s goal is to create names and advertisements for new drugs to cure the current Malady, while downplaying the side effects.

- By Mihir Vorra, co-founder, Mumbai Boardgames Bash