Taboo (1989)

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Board Game Rank: 1094

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Designer	Brian Hersch
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Publisher	Editions ATLAS Grow Jogos e Brinquedos Hasbro Hersch and Company MB Giochi MB Jeux MB Juegos MB Spiele Milton Bradley Parker Brothers Show More »
Year Published	1989
# of Players	4 − 10
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 6, 8 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 players (39 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	20 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (13 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Unplayable in another language (20 voters) [poll]
Honors	1990 Mensa Select Winner 1992 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2001 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Viele Recommended
Subdomain	Party Games (35 voters) [vote]
Category	Party Game Word
Mechanic	Partnerships
Expansion	Taboo Refill
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Family	Asterix Mensa Select Taboo
Primary Name	Taboo
Alternate Names	Electronic Taboo Platinum Edition Taboe Taboo - Astérix chez les Belges Tabú Tabu
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Taboo is a party word game. Players take turns describing a word or phrase on a drawn card to their partner without using five common additional words or phrases also on the card. The opposing partners watch a timer and use a buzzer to stop the game, buzz the player describing if one of the five off limits words or phrases is used, or the describing player makes any gestures. The describing team gets a point for each card they guess successfully and the opposing team gets a point for each card they pass on, make gestures on, or lose for saying one of the off limits words or phrases. An excellent party game!

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Awards

1992 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
1990 Mensa Select Winner.
Games Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee.

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504 Cards
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Taboo

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Canadian Bilingual Edition

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Year: 2009

Product Code: C14677

Size: 10.50 x 7.90 x 3.40 inches

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Hasbro "Over 20 million sold" Edition

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Year: 2009

Product Code: 0309 14677 100

Size: 6.54 x 7.91 x 2.48 inches

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Year: 2003

Product Code: 14552

Size: 10.12 x 7.87 x 2.52 inches

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0	Rules dispute	2012-03-29	et2012	6
0	Rules Dispute over buzzer time	2012-03-10	tydubs	1
0	Rules Taboo Dispute - Answering w/ addtl words	2012-02-23	Jennycastano	3
0	Rules Taboo Dispute	2012-02-23	Jennycastano	2
2	Rules Taboo Dispute - guessing more than the listed word	2012-02-23	Jennycastano	7
0	General Amount of words on newest edition vs. 10th anniversary	2012-01-15	elevators...	3
0	General Do the Editions have differing Words?	2011-12-27	GangZda	1
0	General Does the latest version (US) have new cards?	2011-12-18	citizen k	2
0	Rules Tabbo Rules Question: What would you do...?	2011-08-08	yeahyeahyeah	4
0	Rules Taboo Dispute :]	2011-08-08	monopolydog	4

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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	1094
Party Game Rank:	85
Num Ratings:	3942
Average Rating:	6.32
Standard Deviation:	1.54
Num Views:	224669
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.3
Fans:	30

Personal Comments:	1102
Users Owning:	4597
Users Wanting:	8
Users Trading:	146 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	2
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Total Plays:	4656
Plays This Month:	14

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Taboo Refill

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	21
Average Rating	6.02
Average Weight	1.00

Num Owned	74
Prev. Owned	10
For Trade	9
Want in Trade	7

Wishlist	14
Comments	14
Year Published	1990

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Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=3560&zoekcr...	2012-02-19
Dutch rules (2004)	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/3560.pdf	2012-02-19
User reviews (Dutch) on bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/taboe_1...	2011-05-22
Try my wife's short review on planszoholik.pl	http://planszoholik.pl/2010/12/12/tabu/	2011-04-17
Wikipedia link	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_%28game%29	2011-04-08
German review on brettspiele-report.de	http://www.brettspiele-report.de/tabu/	2010-12-14
Czech review of Taboo on DeskoveHry.com	http://www.deskovehry.com/s-pribehem/248/recenze-t...	2010-10-14
Polish review on http://www.esensja.pl/	http://www.esensja.pl/gry/recenzje/tekst.html?id=9...	2010-06-30
Project Taboo - Create more taboo cards	http://www.monzy.org/taboo/	2004-11-20
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2004-10-27