Best Dorm Board Games: iMagiNiff

This fun, laughter-filled board game relies on inside jokes, so it's best played by groups of people who know each other well - friends and family - not as an icebreaker game.

Write the names of your friends and family around the rim of the oval, wipe-off game board, then roll the die and start answering questions: "Imaginiff (the player whose name comes up first) was a condiment?" Or, a felony or a 1980s movie. Which would he be?

It’s the six possible answers – “Revenge of the Nerds,” for example, or “Big” – on each card that make the game. Everyone picks an answer and flips up a numbered card indicating his vote. Pick the most popular answer and you get to move your token ahead one space. But after awhile, you won't even bother with that aspect of the game. You'll be laughing too hard to care who wins.

This is a funny and fun-filled game, but there are two caveats. People with easily wounded feelings may want to take a pass if they don't want their family or friends declaring them "ketchup," when they thought they were hot "Tabasco." And the game relies heavily on friendly jokes and inside knowledge, so it's not a good "welcome week" icebreaker. Give dorm dwellers a month to get to know each other, and iMagiNiff will be a great game.