Taboo

Taboo is a word guessing party game published by Hasbro in 1989. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card. The game is similar to Catch Phrase, also from Hasbro, in which a player tries to get his or her teammates to guess words using gestures and verbal clues. Taboo was later the basis for a 2002 game show of the same name on TNN (now Spike), hosted by comedian Chris Wylde. Some early editions include a board to track progress (as shown in the photo on this page), but current editions do not. The second edition of the game, produced in 1994, has a round, pink squeaker, or hooter instead of a buzzer, as...