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Major Fun Hall of Party Game Fame

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Apples to Apples, fun with words, judgment, and artful debate - for 4-10. (review)

Apples-to-Apples customized cards system lets you print your own. (review)

Blink, the fast-paced card game that can make you laugh. For two players, ages 7-up (review)

Curses, a high Gigglewatt party game. (review)

Hoopla
, four guessing games in one for two or more cooperating players, teen to adult (review)

Brainstrain
combines 20 questions and Password for a challenging, fun guessing game requiring cooperation and competition (review)


Catch Phrase
- hot potato meets password in this fast-paced electronic game for two teams of as many as 12 adult players each. (review)


Man Bites Dog
- make high scoring headlines with this fast-paced, creative word/card game for 3-6 players, ages 8 and up (review)

Squint
  - a brilliant, Pictionary-like game that uses a unique system of Shape cards. 3-6 players. Ages 12 and up (review)

Gavitt's Stock Exchange
- the original, easier to play, and just as fun version of PIT. (review)

A to Z
- a remarkably fun, and often funny word game for 2-4 players or teams, ages 8 and up. (review)

Coodju
- a party game of wacky spelling. 4 or more players. 14-up (Coodju lite for 7-up). (review)

Qwitch
- a fast, excrutiatingly fun card game for 3-5 players ages 7-up (review)


Respond
- Like Geography and Categories only not. Fun, fast word game for two or more, 8 up. (review)


Backround
- a word game for 2 or more players, 8-up. (review)

There's only one Fluxx. It's a card game that starts out with only two rules, and ends with maybe eighty-four. (review)

Fabrication
is a party game that will reveal just how cunning and deceptive your best friends can be. (review)
 Pass the Bomb is a fast-paced word game for two or more players 12 and over (a junior version is available for kids 5 and up). (review)
Buffalo Games' iMAgiNiff gives people a fun way to get personal, and interpersonal. 3-8 players, ages 12-up. (review) Snorta is even simpler than the rules make it out to be. And more fun. (review)
The Best of Tribond is the best of a very good word game where players try to find the common element "bonding" three words. (review)

Three for All is a different, and surprisingly fun TriBond game using some really ingenious and innovative gamish technology. (review)

It's a word game. It's a board game. It's the first word/board game I've found that makes the best of both. It's called, "Blurt!" (review)

If you know how to play rummy -any kind of rummy, actually - it'll take you maybe five minutes to learn how to play Target. And then you can spend the next hour or lifetime playing a unique and uniquely challenging card game (review)

It happened almost as soon as we opened the box. Everybody brightened up, almost as if we knew that Malarky would prove to be just the kind of game we were looking for - easy to learn, fun, competitive, but just competitive enough to keep your attention. (review)

You know UNO. And you certainly know Crazy Eights. The opportunity to swap hands adds so much to the general hilarity, that it becomes almost instantly and unquestionably Major FUN. (review) (see also this review about the new see through cards)

What makes it so much more fun than your average trivia game? Three things: one, you're not working alone, against everyone else. It's you and your partner. Two: everybody plays, all the time. There's quite literally, "never a dull moment." And three, it's not so much trivia as it what you might call "Family Feud meets the Match Game," 'cause you're not so much trying to guess the "right" answer, but more what you think the other guy's going to answer.(review) Hasbro's Electronic Catch Phrase is probably one of the best electronic party games ever. Today, we have an improved Electronic Catch Phrase, just released, with new categories and words, making something like 10,000 in total. (review)
Linkity is a fast-action word / card game from Simply Fun that is most definitely FUN in a Major kind of way.(review) You gotta give a hand to the inventor of Handy. (review)

Plext is a Boggle-ish word game that is unique and, consequently, uniquely fun. (review)

Shout About Movies 4 may not be the catchiest title in the world. But, if I know you, it'll probably be the highlight of your next party.(review)
Wits & Wagers combines trivia with betting to create a unique party game - one that can involve anywhere from 3 to 21 players in an evening or half-hour worth of relatively painless trivia questions and sometimes near-painful strategizing. (review) "Bonkers," you ask? Yes, say I, Bonkers, the game. A word game, actually. Not, as you might think from all that trivia-sized box of little cards, a trivia game. But a word game, in deed. And a funny one, too. (review)
Cluzzle is a challenging guessing game that is as intriguing as it is light-hearted. The designer calls it "Twenty Questions with Clay." (review)  Knowbody Knows, for example, exactly how many hours Tom Hanks sleeps in a week. Probably not even Mr. Hanks knows that. So, OK, so you don't know. You can still guess. Now, can you also guess what everybody else is going to guess? Can you guess if your guess will be, heaven forfend, highest or lowest? Actually, you can. Because, see, it's only a guess, and, as the designers of the game are so ready to remind us, Knowbody, actually, Knows. (review)
You Must Be a Idiot. Not that I mean to demean you in any way by saying "You Must Be An Idiot." Please, don't take me seriously. It's a game, see. And the only reason I think you might be an idiot is because you picked a card from a deck of cards, and in that very deck are cards that tell you that you are in fact, for this round only, well, not exactly an Idiot in any perjurious sense of idiot-like, but rather that you are actually obliged to be wrong. (review) Luck of the Draw is described as "a game for the artistically challenged." And I am happy to tell you that this turns out to be a remarkably accurate description of the very people who will have the most fun playing it: the people who don't like games that make them draw. (review)
GiftTRAP is a party game about gift each other gifts. The better you are at giving people the things they really want, the better you do at the game. How do you like that for a party game premise? giving each other presents. Well, we loved it! (review) In10sity, you see, is Trivia-like in it's nature, but a kinder, gentler, and significantly Major Fun-worthy Trivia game. (review)

Quelf is a silly game. For those of us who are mature enough to appreciate silliness as an art form, it is both a bench- and a watermark of wackiness. If you find yourself unwilling to, for example, "suck your thumb in silence and start rolling the dice. When you roll a '3,' shout, 'Get off my land!' in your best chipmunk voice," mayhap Quelf is not exactly your kind of game. (review)

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