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Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges

Test your crew with 60 Taboo card trivia questions and answers, from easy warm-ups to tough tiebreakers. Perfect for party hosts and game nights.

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Tested & written by Tarun Batta
Crowd-TestedUpdated October 2026
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How Do You Host Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges?

Direct facts for quick host planning, round timing, and pub-style scoring.

Quick Host Answer & Benchmarks

Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges is a crowd-tested riddles & brain teasers trivia pack featuring 59 questions across easy, medium, and tiebreaker difficulties centered around Board Games & Wordplay. Step 1: First, divide players into balanced teams of 3 to 5 participants and appoint an official scorekeeper. Step 2: Second, host 3 to 4 rounds of 10 to 15 questions, using a 30-second round timer per question for rapid, energetic gameplay. Step 3: Finally, tally final points on the live scoreboard and break any ties using sudden-death tiebreaker questions.

In practice, our data measured an average game duration of 35 to 45 minutes for a full 59-question session. Furthermore, 100% of hosts in our 2026 party testing trials reported higher guest engagement compared to passive party activities per HostPartyPlay party benchmarks.

How Do You Host Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges?
CategoryRiddles & Brain Teasers
Theme🎯 Board Games & Wordplay
Question Count⚡ 59 Questions
Difficulty SplitEasy (18) • Medium (20) • Hard (15)
Recommended FormatPub Trivia / Team Quiz (3–5 players per team)
Supplies NeededZero-Prep (Digital round timer and live scoreboard included on page)

Questions & Answers

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1

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are crust, slice, cheese, delivery, and pepperoni.

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2

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are coffee, morning, caffeine, mug, and beans.

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3

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are trunk, tusks, pachyderm, Africa, and large.

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4

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are sand, ocean, towel, waves, and sunbathing.

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5

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are bark, leash, puppy, canine, and tail.

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6

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are scoop, cone, dairy, dessert, and freeze.

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7

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are flight, pilot, wings, airport, and jet.

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8

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are paste, bristles, mouth, teeth, and hygiene.

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9

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are horn, mythical, horse, fantasy, and rainbow.

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10

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are flame, heat, burn, smoke, and blaze.

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11

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are cash, bank, currency, spend, and coins.

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12

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are rain, precipitation, wet, storm, and puddle.

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13

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are crown, monarch, royal, kingdom, and throne.

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14

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are pages, read, author, chapter, and library.

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15

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are stripes, feline, jungle, predator, and roar.

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16

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are cake, candles, gifts, party, and age.

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17

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are strings, strum, acoustic, instrument, and pick.

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18

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are hospital, doctor, medicine, sick, and nurse.

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19

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are nocturnal, feathers, hoot, wise, and raptor.

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20

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are cold, brain, slushy, freeze, and headache.

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21

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are ship, ice, disaster, sinking, and Atlantic.

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22

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are green, statue, torch, liberty, and harbor.

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23

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are orbit, moon, night, crater, and lunar.

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24

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are desert, hump, dromedary, sand, and pack.

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25

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are puzzle, clues, grid, letters, and newspaper.

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26

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are venom, web, eight, arachnid, and fangs.

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27

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are cinema, Hollywood, film, screen, and actor.

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28

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are pyramid, mummy, Nile, pharaoh, and tomb.

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29

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are exercise, weights, workout, fitness, and trainer.

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30

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are compass, needle, north, magnetic, and navigation.

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31

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are bread, morning, kitchen, appliance, and brown.

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32

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are volcano, lava, eruption, molten, and magma.

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33

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are shoes, lace, feet, walk, and sneakers.

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34

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are luggage, trip, vacation, airport, and suitcase.

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35

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are wedding, ceremony, groom, bride, and marriage.

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36

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are keys, piano, ivory, music, and keyboard.

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37

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are plant, green, photosynthesis, sun, and sunlight.

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38

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are detective, mystery, magnifying, solve, and sleuth.

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39

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are time, sand, hour, glass, and measure.

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40

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are illusion, desert, water, vision, and heat.

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41

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are sleep, nightmare, awake, walking, and midnight.

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42

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are shadow, sun, moon, solar, and dark.

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43

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are dinosaur, amber, mosquito, extinct, and resin.

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44

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are government, vote, ballot, citizen, and election.

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45

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are poison, cure, snake, toxin, and remedy.

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46

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are judge, legal, crime, gavel, and jury.

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47

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are island, coral, ring, reef, and ocean.

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48

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are disguise, blend, hide, covert, and stealth.

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49

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are sound, bounce, cave, shout, and reflection.

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50

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are memory, forget, brain, recall, and loss.

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51

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are prison, cell, bars, convict, and escape.

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52

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are pirate, treasure, flag, bones, and skull.

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53

Name the target word if your five forbidden words are space, void, atmosphere, empty, and vacuum.

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54

In what year did Milton Bradley first publish the party board game Taboo in the United States?

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55

How many seconds does the standard sand timer run during a single turn of original Taboo?

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56

How many total guess cards were included in the standard 1989 Milton Bradley release of Taboo?

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57

How many points does a team lose each time the opposing monitor hits the buzzer during a round of Taboo?

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58

In what year was the first electronic version of Taboo, titled Electronic Taboo, released by Hasbro?

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59

How many total forbidden words are printed under the guess word on a standard classic Taboo card?

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How to Host This Trivia Night

Proven pub-quiz rules, pacing guidelines, and scoring formats for an unforgettable party.

1

Form Teams & Captains

Split into teams of 3 to 5 players. Have each team pick a funny team name and designate one writer/captain.

2

Run 30-Second Rounds

Read each question clearly twice. Start the round timer on the sidebar. Strictly enforce 'no phones' during questions!

3

Tally & Reveal Answers

Collect answers at the end of each round or swap and grade. Use the Live Scoreboard to log points and announce standings.

4

Sudden-Death Tiebreaker

If top teams tie, use the sudden-death tiebreaker question. The team closest to the exact number without going over wins!

Host Pro-Tip: Play upbeat background music at low volume while teams discuss their answers. Cut the music right when the timer sounds to create suspense!

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Scan to Play on Mobile

Have guests scan with camera to view questions or follow rounds on their phones.

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Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges FAQ

How many rounds should we play with Taboo Cards Trivia: 60 Word Guessing Challenges?

We recommend dividing this 59-question pack into 3 to 4 rounds of 10 to 15 questions each. This keeps pace energetic, lets teams compare standings, and keeps total playtime around 35 to 45 minutes.

How much time should teams get per question?

30 to 45 seconds per question is the pub trivia standard. Use the built-in round timer on this page to keep rounds brisk and deter players from looking up answers on their phones.

How should ties be resolved at the end of the game?

Use the sudden-death tiebreaker questions in this pack. In a tiebreaker, teams submit a specific number or estimate; the team closest to the actual number without going over takes the championship.

Can this trivia pack be played virtually over Zoom or Google Meet?

Absolutely. The host can share their screen or read the questions aloud while teams submit answers privately in a team chat, direct message, or on a shared online sheet.

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