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

• 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.

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.

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.

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

Sushi Go Party goes up to 8

Camel Up

I suggest Virus! 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 is pretty great, even more fun with the expansion.

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

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

Check out that’s not a hat! No text at all.

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

No word based games

Does that also include other clue giving games such as Top Ten, Monikers/Times Up and Concept? I feel like they’re different enough to justify getting them and they’re extremely funny, especially the first three.

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.

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