Dixit

We discovered a new game this evening: Dixit. It's a simple and fun game that won a bunch of awards, including the prestigious 2010 "Spiel des Jahres" (Game of the Year in Germany). The basic idea is similar to Apples to Apples or Balderdash, where you have to get others to vote for your entry, while you try to figure out which entry was from whomever is "it."
Where this game can lend itself to more creativity than the other afore-mentioned games, and also where it can be useful for a wider audience (for example, working knowledge of a language is not required), is that there are no words written in the game, besides the rule book and the box.
Everyone has cards with different random drawings on them, and whosever turn it is picks one of his cards and says a word or phrase inspired by the drawing on that card. Then everyone else hands one of their cards to "it," who shuffles the cards and lays them out. Then everyone but "it" votes for which card they think was in "its" hand. Points are awarded for being right and for having someone else choose your card. And "it" doesn't get points if either no one chooses correctly or everyone does.

Plus, the drawings on the cards are creative and intriguing to study.