Best adult board games?

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Some friends and I are doing games night on NYE, any good game suggestions?

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Some of my favourite are card rather than board games.

Cards against humanity.

Exploding kittens

Bears v babies.

Catan

And I still love Cleudo

Banana grams.

We've just got 'would I lie to you' from TK Maxx and it's so good!!! Also seconded for cards against humanity, always a crowd pleaser. Those 'shout it out' games from M&S are good too (especially if you're competitive )

'Ticket to ride' is excellent. There are lots of different versions. The Europe and USA versions are good for first timers. Carcassone is also a nice game.
We also like 'Five Tribes' but that take a little longer to go through the rules.

Mexican train dominoes - great once you get going!
Sushi Go Party
Pass the Bomb
Cobra Paw for something quick, easy and silly, or Zonkers
Mind the Gap - card game like uno
Camel Up

I play all of the above with teens and adults - all suitable from 8/9 and up I'd say.

Have fun - love a games night!

Another vote for cards against humanity
We also love....

Santa vs jesus

Whats that smell?

Monopoly

Scattergories

Jackstraws

Yahtzee

Cards against humanity and articulate are my faves

Gutter head is a bit of a cross between cards against humanity and pictionary with optional drinking rules

We got azul. It’s great

Obama Llama is a huge favourite in our social circle

Telestrations is hilarious

splendor is great - very easy to pick up. Carcassonne likewise.

imhotep, cavern tavern and photosynthesis are good fun with a little more rule-book reading needed.

if I was doing a NYE event I would do Terraforming Mars as a game will last 4 or 5 hours to take you up to midnight. but it needs all players to have quite a high geek rating.

Cards Against Humanity
Scattergories
Articulate
Risk
Debatable

Cards Against Humanity.

Catan
Carcasonne
Geistes blitz- easy to take anywhere, easy to learn and brilliant fun!
Apples to Apples
Qwirkle
Ticket to ride
Perudo
Anomia

Exploding kittens is great fun, and also 'fuck.the game' is fab!

We played weird things humans search for, on Christmas Day.

If you've got a few people it is really fun. It can be as rude as you want it to be.

In terms of party games,
Code names
Just one
Decrypto
Disney pictopia was good. Our 3 year old could play but with one of us for the reading part. Essentially you just have to pick one of 4 pictures and he could do that without any issue.
These are good with teams.
Munchkin is a great game for 3 or more. It's quite complicated if you have never played anything like it but once you get the hang of it, it's really fun as you start the game helping each other but by then end you are trying to mess up everyone else.

From what everyone else has said,
Ticket to ride is like a great version of a traditional board game like monopoly.
Cards against humanity is ok. Replayability is limited unless you buy expansions.

Sushi go and sushi go party are great

Exploding kittens and bears Vs babies are great fun.

Dragons breath is a great game for younger kids, quick to learn, easy to set up.

Just One. A bit like Articulate.

We played What Do You Meme with our 15+ years DC and friends. Pretty funny and a bit rude.

Articulate. Or Male your own. Everyone gets a pile of scraps of paper and writes objects, actions, people, places etc on them randomly, folds them and chucks them in a bowl. Bowl gets passed between teams with a timer and the team with the biggest pile of paper wins. You can then put them all back on the bowl and do a version of charades. It's really good - better than any bought game!
We call it Salad Bowl Charades

Codenames, Decrypto and Secret Hitler are my absolute favourites.