Board game or interactive game, that can be played with a large group? We normally play pictionary on the holiday's, just looking for something new.... what's your favorite?

Apples to Apples, Bananagrams, Scattergories...all have brought good laughs in a big group.

Codenames won some boardgame award in 2014, or 15?

Risk........

Apples to Apples is a hoot...if you can find it.

Apples to Apples is fun or for a more adult oriented option there is Cards Against Humanity... For just a mindless fast paced dice rolling game we have had fun with Tenzi's

Heads Up on iPhone, iPad, etc. is really fun and also records a video of the people giving / acting out clues which is pretty entertaining.

Trivial Pursuit is really the only board game I could ever get excited about playing.

Trivial Pursuit is an excellent pick. Lots of people can play (even as teams) and there are so many different versions. Then there are all those group card games to which I've forgotten the rules (Oh Hell . . . Spoons . . . etc.)

Dungeons and Dragons or Texas Hold 'em.

Kid Friendly:

Telestrations
Apples to Apples
Shut the Box (can make a drinking game)
Exploding Kittens (SFW)

Adult:
Telestrations: After Dark (Regular version can be just as dirty)
Shut the Box (Drinking)
Cards Against Humanity
Exploding Kittens (NSFW)

Used to play Mille Bornes a lot. Doubt anyone here has heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes

Used to play Mille Bornes a lot. Doubt anyone here has heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes

... or Touring.

scotland yard (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438/scotland-yard)

letters from whitechapel (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59959/letters-whitechapel)

-M

Touring! I haven't heard that in at least forty years.

scotland yard (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438/scotland-yard)

Oh man we used to have so many laughs playing Scotland Yard when someone would make a great escape!

scotland yard (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438/scotland-yard)

letters from whitechapel (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59959/letters-whitechapel)

-M

Great call! Scotland Yard is awesome and one that I had long forgotten about.

Other favorites:

Parcheesi
Stratego
Monopoloy

Used to play Mille Bornes a lot. Doubt anyone here has heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Bornes

Wrong! Played it myself, many times.

I read that it was a good cheap game for people who are interested in cars.

Telestrations is HILARIOUS, and like Cards Against Humanity, the more terrible a person you are, the funnier the game is. Telestrations is particularly fun when you've had just enough to drink that inhibitions are gone but you can still draw. The normal game accommodates up to 8 people; they have another version that can do 12.

I vote for:
The Resistance (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/resistance) / The Resistance: Avalon (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128882/resistance-avalon). It's a bluff and deduction game where some people are good, and some people are hidden traitors. Lot of fun and very interactive. Plays pretty quick(~20 minutes a round, once you get the flow of the game down) Also, supports a ton of players(11 is max, I think).

The main difference between standard and Avalon is just how the cards are skinned and a few optional rules. We own the Avalon version.

Runner up: Coup (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup)- Same game designer as The Resistance, sort of advanced Bullsh!t. Plays incredibly fast, and is fun. I like this one, but my friends enjoy Resistance much more.

Hold em, skip bo, and spades early before the wine starts to take over. Then cards against humanity, farkle, and 10,000.