What you need

Blank slips of paper, pens, a bowl, a one-minute timer, a bell or a squeaky toy for the watchers.

How to play

Before playing, everyone writes four cards. Each card has a target word at the top and four forbidden words under it. Example: CHAI, forbidden: tea, cup, milk, drink.
Fold the cards into the bowl. Make two teams.
A player from team A draws a card and has one minute to make their own team say the target word by describing it.
The describer may not say the target word, any forbidden word, or any part or form of them, and may not use gestures, sounds or "rhymes with".
A player from team B stands behind the describer, reads the card and rings the bell if a forbidden word slips out. That card is then dead.
Each word guessed scores a point. The describer may skip a card, but each skip costs a point.
Teams take turns until every player has described once or twice.

The team with more points wins.

Family edition: targets are relatives, family sayings and holiday places.
Children's edition: only two forbidden words per card.
Hindi and English mixed is fine; agree whether translations of forbidden words are also forbidden. They should be.

Keep the cards clean and kind. Nobody's appearance, marks or salary is a fair target.

Time the round with the party timer, make chits or random teams with the chit maker, and keep the points on the scoreboard.