Trapwords
Taboo, but your rivals secretly write the forbidden words meant to trip up your own team.
Who it's for
Party crowds of four to eight who love word games with a mean streak and enjoy outsmarting each other.
Not for you if…
You want a calm, cooperative word game, because here the other team is actively working against you.
Vibe's take
funny, sneaky, tense, social, clever
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About this game
Trapwords turns Taboo inside out: instead of the box telling you which words you can't say, the other team writes your forbidden list in secret. Your torchbearer has to describe a fantasy word to guide your team through a dungeon room toward the boss, talking freely except for landmines nobody shows you until you have already stepped on one. Guess right and you push deeper, guess wrong or trip a trapword and you're stuck, while your rivals get to plant even nastier traps in the rooms ahead. It is funny, it is sneaky, and it turns into a genuine chess match of predicting what your opponents predicted you'd avoid.
Get it
By the numbers
Players
Duration
30–45 min
Ages 10+
Complexity
1.4 / 5 — Very LightBGG Rating
6.4/10
Rank #1,632
3.8k ratings
Published
2018
Language
Heavy text
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