boardgames

Sushi Go ( you might need Sushi Go Party for 7 players ) has been a go-to for my family

Dixit is also a good fit! It is a very easily explained game, where you have to say a word or short phrase describing a mystery card. The rest then places a card they think that matches the description as well, and then a voting round starts. It is really fun, and playing it would do more justice than this explanation :p

Since you are on vacation and might not be able to find some of the other suggestions I will mention Liar's Dice, also known as Perudo. If you can't find an official copy all you need is 5 dice per player (so 30 dice for 6 for example) and some cups or other way to hide the dice rolls.

Captain Sonar goes up to 8. It does have some frantic communication among the teams.

Sushi Go Party goes up to 8

Camel Up

• Wavelength (team based guessing game)
• Ready Set Bet (horse race-themed betting game)
• Cartographer (everybody tries to draw a map, it‘s not that interactive though)

could be a good start!

Both Railroad Ink. and Number 9 (might be called 0-9) are games which are solely component limited, meaning that if you buy 2 boxes you can play with twice the amount of players (12 and 8 respectively).

Mysterium is a co-op game for up to 7 players.

If you are into deduction and quick thinking Ricochet Robots might be for you.

If you want a chill game to have a chat while playing Concept (without the rules for points) is a fun "guess the word/phrase" game.

Concept might work well. The cards are going to have a concept that you try to get other people guess by pointing at a board with various symbols on it. The word for the concept you're trying to get people to guess should be easily translated with a phone, or just skipped and draw a new card.

Rhino Hero is great, especially if there's kids or drunk adults in the group. Kind of like Jenga, try to build up a card tower without knocking it over.

Similarly, Pinnacle's pretty good. Competitive block stacking with weird shapes

Check out that's not a hat! No text at all. As well as super mega lucky box (though you might need 2 copies to increase the player count)

I suggest Virus! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/180020/virus

Its a fun little game, easy to play but enjoyable and can easily be played with more than 6, too (we have done 8)

Saboteur II (2-12) is a lot of fun. You could say it's social deduction, but the expansion makes knowing the roles much easier and less important.

What about Jungle Speed? I always get ungry with friends/family with this game, bit it could work forma you!

• Show Me Your Sound
• Rock The Beat
• Obscurio

Are all fun language independent easy to learn party games that work for 2-8 or 4-12 players.

No word based games

Does that also include other clue giving games such as the following?

• Top Ten
• Monikers/Times Up
• Concept

I feel like they're different enough to justify getting them and they're extremely funny, especially the first three. Top Ten has cards that are open information and can be translated so out of those it would be the best fit, the other ones are language dependent.

Ready Set Bet I feel like would have been an SDJ nominee, but while it's all symbol based the VIP cards have some text, but are not neccessary

Some easy games are Ligretto, Halli Galli and Jungle Speed. Not exactly board games and a very specific category that might not suit everybody, but definitely fun.

Skull https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/92415/skull

Eleminis! It's a deck of cards, very easy to learn, has pictures so no English is required, not social deduction, and supports 7 players.

I ended up getting Ready Set Bet, thanks for the suggestions!!!

@pathief Hanabi, Code Words, Double Feature, Cash-N-Guns, and No Thanks have been big hits at my family's get togethers.