So Clover!

Everyone is on the same team, and the whole game is writing one word that means two things at once. You receive four keyword cards and slot them around your clover-shaped board so that each side sits between two words. For every side you write a single clue connecting that pair. Then the cards come off, a decoy is shuffled in, and the rest of the table must put all four back in place using only your clues. Every correctly placed card scores. Everyone writes at the same time, so nobody waits, and the score sheet gives you a target to beat next time rather than a rival to beat now. Take it for a game night where half the table has never played a modern board game, or as a corporate ice-breaker, since it makes people explain how they think. Codenames players will take to it instantly.