If you are looking for a great gateway board game to play with friends this weekend, I suggest Dixit. It is a creative and fun party game that doesn't require anyone to stand up, act, or generally make a fool of themselves in any way. And because Dixit plays 3 - 8 players, it’s a good option even if your group is small. The game is centered around the storyteller, a role that rotates to each person in succession. As the storyteller, you must select from one of the six cards in your hand and tell a short one to two sentence story about the picture on the card and then place it face down in the middle of the table. Each player then chooses a card from their hand that they think best matches the story and places it face down in the middle of the table. Those cards are shuffled and dealt face up, and then each player, except the storyteller, makes their best guess of which card is the true match to the story. As the storyteller, the trick is to give provide enough information that some of your opponents will figure out your card (resulting in positive points for you), but not so much that they all figure it out (resulting in positive points for everyone else).