In our replacement lecture today we played the game called called Taboo. It is basically like charades but instead of actions we use words. It seemed like most of us were having fun guessing what our classmate was trying to explain to us without saying the word. Each of us had a turn at being the teller while the rest guessed.
Which brought me to think more about the board game. It makes you think on the spot. You have only one minute to help your friends guess as many words as possible. Some of us were so nervous we were lost for words, some accidentally said the taboo words but it was a challenge for our minds.
I find that the trick is to be calm. Imagine that there isn't a timer ticking, that there wasn't a room of yelling people trying to guess the answer, just you giving people ideas and gists of the word. I guess to play this game as a teller, you have to think quickly and explain yourself clearly.
Being a guesser is much simpler, it requires fast thinking and trying to interpret what the teller tells you. Your mind immediately thinks of anything that's related to the explanation you just heard. Could it be this or that or something else? But then, you're just yelling out all the answers just to see if it's right.
Overall, I think this board game stimulates your mind to think faster and at the same time improves your creativity as you have to think of different ways to describe a word without saying the taboo words.
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