Four Leaves
3–6 players · 20 min · best with four or five
Four words, four cards, and nobody wins alone.
Games that are best with five
Every one of these names five as a number it is at its best with, rather than a number sitting inside the range it will accept.
21 of 59 on the shelf
Category Rush
2–12 players · 15 min · best with four or five
The obvious answer is worth nothing.
Nine Letters
1–12 players · 10 min · best with five, and a chancer to lose to
Nine tiles. Thirty seconds. The longest word takes it.
Roses
3–6 players · 15 min · best with four or five
Everybody knows a skull is somewhere. Nobody knows where.
Shades
3–10 players · 15 min · best with five or six
One word. Four hundred and eighty colours. Go.
Most of Us
3–12 players · 15 min · best with five or six
Nobody can revise for this one.
Out of Place
3–8 players · 20 min · best with five or six
One of you is lying. Twenty minutes to find out.
The Needle
2–12 players · 15 min · best with five or six
Say one thing. Find out how differently eight people hear it.
Say It Once
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six
You all had the same good idea. That is exactly what went wrong.
Small Hours
3–10 players · 10 min · best with five or six
One night. One vote. Nobody sits out.
Sixth Takes
2–10 players · 20 min · best with five or six
Everybody plays at once. Somebody is about to regret it.
Charades
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five
One person acts. Everybody else types.
Napkin
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five
One person draws. Everybody else types.
One Line Each
3–8 players · 12 min · best with five
One sheet, one line each, and nobody can see anybody.
Ask a Hundred
3–8 players · 10 min · best with five
One guess each, against a board that was written before you sat down.
Near Enough
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six
You do not have to be right. You have to back whoever is.
Straight Face
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six
One of these answers is real. The rest are people you work with.
Sounds Right
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five
Five convincing answers, one of them already true.
Live Wire
2–8 players · 10 min · best with five
Everybody has to draw. The pile is only getting shorter.
Daydream
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six
Six strange pictures each, and one line that has to be half understood.
Round of Ten
1–12 players · 10 min · best with five or six
Ten questions nobody had to be taught the answers to.