Depends on your definition. Wikipedia says: > Some games that are placed in the card game genre involve a board. The distinction is that the gameplay of a car

Depends on your definition. Wikipedia says: > Some games that are placed in the card game genre involve a board. The distinction is that the gameplay of a card game chiefly depends on the use of the cards by players (the board is simply a guide for scorekeeping or for card placement), while board games (the principal non-card game genre to use cards) generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game Afaict, the cards in Taboo are the primary driver of the game. And so it seems reasonable to say that it is indeed a card game.