Sushi party is a lot of fun. Easy to set up, learn and reconfigure.

Jackbox games are my favorites because there’s something for any group

Scrabble but with swears and inappropriate words only

Some great suggestions here already (HT Wavelength, KTaNE, Love Letter, Codenames, and Mascarade), but Cockroach Poker is one of my favorites. It’s extremely simple: 64 cards, 8 sets of 8 different “vermin”. Distribute cards as evenly as possible across the group and pick someone to start. First player takes a card from their hand, slides it face-down to another player, and declares that it’s a certain critter in the game (E.g. “This is a rat.”) The other player can do one of two things:

• Accept the card: Say whether the first player was telling the truth or lying about what’s on the card, then reveal. If the receiver was right, the giver takes the card back and puts it face up in front of themself. If they were wrong, the receiver puts the card face up in front of themself instead.
• Peek at the card, then slide it to another player (who can’t have seen the card yet) and make a claim about what it is, which may or not be what the last person said it was. Then repeat this decision with the new giver and receiver. If only one player remaining hasn’t seen the card, they have to accept and make a guess.

The first player to get 4 of a kind loses, and everyone else wins. It’s always a smash hit when we play, provided you have 4+ people.

Also a big fan of Meow! The cult of cat, which is basically Mao boiled down to just the rules, which change from game to game since the rules are printed on the cards and are only active if they’re in play.

Some ones I’ve had a lot of fun with recently:

-Herd Mentality, where everyone tries to guess what the most popular answer to a question is

-Loaded Questions, where everyone answers a question and someone has to figure out who put what answer (both of these are really great for getting to know people better)

-Monikers, great for a larger group, a mix between taboo and charades. Super super fun.

-Mind the Gap. Great for mixed age groups like families. It’s like trivial pursuit but you have to answer questions from different time periods.

Mascarade, a board game. It’s a game of hidden indentities, where everyone can lie to try to get all the money and win the game. I’ve had A LOT of fun playing with as much as 10 people. The game can be played between 2 and 13 players, but less than 4 I think it’s not that worth.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Note: can’t play this with my wife. She has gotten me killed many, many times.