Forbidden Words is our version of the buzzer game. Five related words sit fenced off under every card — always the five you would have reached for first — and the opposing team reads the same card with a finger on the buzzer. Below four players it becomes a fifteen-level challenge ladder instead.
Charades bans speech outright and hands you a deck of over a thousand films, shows and famous people. Bowl of Nouns plays one bowl three ways — describe it, then one word, then act it out — and Just One turns the ban inward: any two clues that match are thrown away before the guesser sees either.
Table Party is not affiliated with Hasbro or any other publisher. Forbidden Words is our own implementation with our own cards; what carries over is the shape of the panic — a clock, a teammate, and the perfect word you must talk around.
Four games about forbidden words
Questions about Games like Taboo
How close is Forbidden Words to Taboo?
The shape is the one you know: describe the word, five banned words on the card, the opposing team on the buzzer, teams from four players. The cards and the app around them are ours.
What happens with two or three players?
Forbidden Words switches to a fifteen-level ladder with no opposing team, and Just One runs from three — though at three, two matching clues can leave the guesser with nothing at all.
Which is the loudest?
Bowl of Nouns. Its final round is full charades over nouns your own table wrote an hour earlier, which lands funnier than any printed deck could.
Do we need a phone each?
Not for Forbidden Words, Charades or Bowl of Nouns — all three run pass-and-play on a single device, since only the person on stage ever needs to see something secret.