We play this Charades game as a family with ages from 5 to 55 and we all have fun acting out the clues. But we don't use the game board at all; we have never thought it added to the game. The best part about charades is the acting not the board competition, so we just use the cards and sometimes the dice. Each card has 3 options/clues going from easiest to hardest. We'll stack up the cards; each person takes a turn picking the top card and acting out one of the clues. Sometimes we'll just pick one on the card we want to do or sometimes we'll roll the dice to determine it. The clues are typically animals and actions (e.g. brush your teeth). They are not movies or books like in other charades, so they don't get dated. It's too bad they don't make this game anymore; we found a used copy to give as a gift.