You pick a card, and on top of that card is the word that you have to make your team members guess, and below there are a few words which are in some way related to the word on top. But the most interesting or disheartening fact is those words are ‘taboo’ and you cannot use those words while describing the top word.
This video by East India Comedy shows what happens when four friends sit together to play Taboo.
I’ve played it only a couple of times, but it can be a regular laugh riot…like this video.