We already love Apples to Apples, Chrononauts (a time-travelling, history-altering game), and UNO.

cranium!

Balderdash!

That being the name of a really fun boardgame. :D

Cranium is pretty bomb.

And Jenga gets pretty intense when you play a team game with some kind of reward. Watching that tower fall and seeing your teammates' gasps of horror is pretty epic.

For example: This is me at Anime Expo, letting all my teammates down because I got cocky.

http://www.animaidcafe.org/gallery/albums/uploaded/Day3-Camera2/DSC03256.JPG

acquire

hoopla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCCx7zANsGE&feature=player_embedded

WHAT IS CHRONONAUTS?!?!?! It sounds amazing.

I would suggest Scattergories.

@Sosane: Chrononauts is FANTASTIC! You basically set up the cards into an ever-changing board depicting the recent timeline of history. Each player is a character who is trying to alter history to suit his or her own timeline, and the person who either collects the most artifacts, opens the most paradoxes, or creates their timeline first wins the game!

It is best played when you insist that each player create an elaborate story to depict HOW they are changing history. OH THE CROSS-DRESSING, HITLER-KILLING STORIES WE HAVE TOLD.

@valkyrie blondhaar Ah that sounds AMAZING, I will be a-looking into it this Christmas for sure.

woah- i just read that. i want that. so sweet.

scattergories, settlers of catan, balderdash, scene it, battle of the sexes, taboo

i played Taboo twice over Thanksgiving weekend; pretty fun stuff

also: Relay Charades is pretty invigorating, if you've got enough people. i had never played it before. quite the workout