In turn, each player on a team will draw a card and try to guess a word, while avoiding stating a list of words (5 in total) called taboo. The player is watched by the opposing team and if he says one of the taboo words (or words of the same root) then the buzzer is pressed and the point passes to the opposing team. If the player succeeds in making the word guess, his team scores the point.
A round ends when all players have tried to make a guess once and the total points of each team are counted. Example: Make guess "sausage" without pronouncing "butchery", "sandwich" and "sausage" (so sausage too)...
Contents of the box : 1 game board, 252 Taboo cards, 2 counters, 1 hourglass, 1 Taboo buzzer.