DaDaDa

You invent a language, then have to make yourself understood in it.

Flip sound cards and image cards, and assign sounds to pictures — 'PU' means this, 'DA' means that. From then on you can't speak your own language. You have to name things using only the sounds you've agreed on, and hope the table follows.

It builds a completely different vocabulary every game, so it never plays the same way twice. Twenty to thirty minutes, ages 8 and up, and it gets very silly very quickly.

Perfect for: party groups, language nerds, families with older kids, and discovering that 'PU' obviously means banana.