Taboo – Best Game To Improve Verbals

That’s right, I’m the only guy cool enough to tell you to play a 13 year+ board game.  The game Taboo is one of my all time favorite board games and it will improve your verbals and pickup skills.

Its both word association and concept associate at the same time.  You try to get your friend to guess a word without using the 5 most common words listed on the card.  It forces you to use synonyms, ideas, concepts to help your friend guess the word.

The video does a good job at explaining.

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Here is another example.

Word is:  Camera

You can’t use the following words:
Take
Picture
Digital
Photo
Snapshot


So what are ways to get around these words?  You quickly start generating a few ideas.  No camera manufacturers are listed so you can start by those.

• Nikon
• Canon
• Sony

You can’t use “picture” but what about components of a picture?

• Megapixels
• Resolution
• Aperture
• Shutter Speed
• Focus
• Lighting
• White Balance

Components of a camera are not listed so what are some words we can use there?

• Lens
• Flash
• Batteries
• LCD Screen
• Timer
• Tripod
• Filters

What about names of famous photographers who use this item?

• Ansel Adams
• Peter Lik

What about websites and programs that you can use?

• Flickr
• Facebook
• Picasa
• Lightroom

Link below if you want to get one:
http://amzn.to/1kIJu2D