Summary

• Board games have experienced a resurgence in popularity, offering entertaining options for parties and gatherings.
• Hilarious board games like Snake Oil, Gloom, and Superfight provide fun and fast-paced gameplay for people who don't typically play board games.
• Games like Mad Gab, Monikers, and Wavelength offer unique and engaging gameplay experiences centered around word puzzles, charades, and debates.

Board games used to be all the rage before video games became more prominent in homes around the '80s. They were very basic in a world where their counterpart was always evolving. Sometime in the late 2000s, a movement started to get going on bringing board games back into the forefront of entertainment.

Now it is a booming business and a growing subculture. There are games for more than just kids and🧸 family-friendly ventures nowadays. So, if you wants to make the next party entertaining for those afraid of video games, check out these hilarious choices.

Updated on January 3, 2024 by Jon Eakin: No game night is complete without board games, so we've updated this list to include more examples of hilarious games. After a few rounds of these games, your friends will be singing your praises, and buying copies of their own.

15 Snake Oil

Fast Talking Sales Shenanigans

Snake Oil is the perfect party game for people who don't play a lot of board or card games. The rules are simple, rounds are fast, and the concept is one that just about everybody is familiar with.

The overall idea is that you draw cards to determine who you're trying to sell a product to, and what that product is. Then it's up to you to make the best pitch you can to reel in customers from among your fellow players.

14 Gloom

The Losing Player Wins

Gloom is a truly unique game based around creative card plays and story telling. Each player has a set of cards representing a family, with the other cards representing events which can happen. You want to make bad things happen to your own family, and good things to everyone else's.

It's based on an old Victorian concept that the more unhappy someone was in life, the happier they will be in the afterlife. When the game ends, whoever's family suffered the most, wins.

13 Superfight 🐻 ༒

Fight About Fights

Superfight taps into one of the things friends love doing most, arguing. Players draw cards to create a fictional fighter and then debate about whose would win in a fight. The Statue of Liberty riding a battle cat, or a marshmallow man in a meat bikini? Let's be honest, there's no loser there.

There are a number of themed expansions to add more of a particular flavour to your deck, like Superfight Horror or Superfight '90s. These can be played standalone or mixed together to create the ultimate fighting deck.

12 Mad Gab

Untangling Tongue Twisters

In Mad Gꦏab, players partner up into teams to try and guess as many word puzzles in an allotted amount of time. The trick here is that jumbled-up phrases, when put together, sound liꦉke other things. Here is an example. "Sell My High Yak" translates to Salma Hayek.

That is a fairly easy one, but it gets a lot more complicated. The fun comes in stumbling through these brambles in shouting 🙈matches. It can get pre✤tty hectic, but all in good fun.

11 Monikers

Charades In Stages

Monikers could be summed up as a play on charades a🐻t its core. There are three rounds. The first allows players to say anything in order to get their teammates to guess what their card represents. In the next round, only one word can be used. So if someone wanted to get a teammate to say monkey, they might say banana.

The last round🅘 then is just straight-up charades as no sounds are allowed. Once all cards are guessed, swapping back and forth between two teams, the round moves onto the n🐻ext. It sounds more complicated than it is.

10 𓆉 Wavelength

A Game Of Vibe Checks

This is a great game for anyone who likes deep debates. It comes with a dial attached to a wheel, on which are some colored segments. You spin the wheel, peek at where the colored segment is, and then when given a scale, you must choose something that would fit where the segment lands. The other players mu🐼st tℱhen guess where the segment is.

It sounds complicated, but it's really fun once the rules are established. To give an example to illustrate it, if you were given a card that had "cold" on the left and "hot" on the right and the colored segment was somewhere on the right-hand side of the wheel, you might say "McDonald's coffee" to get your friends to pick correctly.

9 We Didn't Playtest This At All

Every Game Is Different

As the name might 💙suggest based on its length, this is a pretty hard game to describe. First of all, it is just a deck of cards. On each card is a set of rules that can change the outcom♛e of the game by implementing rules.

For the most part, games can go pretty quick in a matter of minutes, but there are a few cards, which make it incredibly hard to win. If the base deck gets too old, as there aren't that many cards, there are also several expansions now to make the chaos even more random.

8 Boss Monsterও

Munchkin Meets Dungeon Keeper

If you're a fan of RPGs, especially classic ones, Boss Monster will appeal to you in multiple ways. Even if you're not a fan, this game is a great one to play with friends.

In this card game, you must build a dungeon out of various cards - you want it to be appealing to adventurers but also deadly enough to kill them because adventurers who make it all the way through your dungeon will hurt you. You can use spells to upset your competitors, and there's actually some surprising depth to the strategies you can employ.

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Best Played Silly

There are too ma🐎ny ways to play this game for us to pick just one. We have seen board games, decks of cards, books, and even dedicated websites. Like Truth or Dare, it is a very easy game to pick up.

What makes it more hilarious is if improv is implemented into the game. Asking what players would want to have between flight or X-Ray vision is boring, so we like to call these improv rules the Comedy Bang Bang law, which is named after the podcast. to see what we mean. This style is recommended o𒀰nly for people quick on their toes.

6 🤡 Cards Against Humanity

Tact Won't Help You Here

Cards 💧Against Humanity is the card game that seemingly kickstarted so many others of its ilk. For those unaware, it leans more toward adults. The ta♐g line is "a party game for horrible people" and that is not a lie.

There is no winning really. The goal here is to be as shocking as possible. Don't pop this one out for grandma or the more reserved friends. This is definitely a game to be saved for your closest set of degenerates.