Stinker

Take 23 letter tiles each, two blanks, flip a card over and play Stinker!

The cards each have an instruction on them that the players must quickly answer using their tiles to spell out a word or words. For instance, How to win in a sword fight without a sword, or the best movie elevator pitch. Once you’re done, you shout ‘Stinker’ – and when everyone bar one player has shouted, the remaining player is out of this round and becomes the judge instead: everyone reads out their answer, and the judge decides the winner: based on laughter, cleverness, or some entirely arbitrary reason best known to themselves – Stinker’s best played not worrying too much about scoring. The winner scores a point per letter (no points for blanks) – and do note that exact spelling is not considered necessary! If you need a Z for your word and have used both blanks already, it’s fine to turn an N sideways, or if you think you can get away with it flip a tile over to make a third blank.

Everyone then passes their letters on, and a new card is revealed. After a set number of rounds the game ends, and the player with the most points is the winner.