Monikers: Family Edition

Monikers is the party game where you describe a name on a card, badly, on purpose, and your team has to guess it before the timer runs out. The Family Edition takes the same beloved structure, three rounds that get progressively harder, anything goes, then one word only, then total silence and charades, and rewrites all 440 cards so grandparents, kids, and everyone in between are in on the same jokes.

The trick that makes Monikers so replayable is that you use the same deck for all three rounds. Whatever you described in detail during round one becomes a single-word callback in round two, and by round three, a name that seemed impossible to act out has already become a running joke at the table. It is a strong pick for a mixed-age holiday gathering where you actually want everyone playing together.

• 440 cards, all written fresh for this edition so nothing skews toward adult-only humor
• Three escalating rounds: say anything, one word only, then charades
• Standalone box, no other Monikers edition required to play
• Designed by Alex Hague and Justin Vickers, the team behind the original