Alias

Explain the word, do not say the word, and keep an eye on the hourglass. Alias is a team word game from 1990 in which each card carries six words, numbered one to six, running from easy to brutal, sometimes a short phrase like Silver Medal. Teams move a figure along a board of numbered tiles. When you land on a tile, one teammate draws cards in secret and explains the words matching that number, while the others guess before the sand runs out. The explainer changes each turn, so everybody has to talk their way through. It suits four or more, up to twelve, takes about an hour, and gets loudest once somebody starts miming.