Taboo is easy to pack and easy to play. We play a modified version when waiting for our food at restaurants.

Splendor
Apples to apples
What the meme (be careful, there is an adults only version)
Pictionary
Charades or Celebrity (you pick your own categories, people so nothing to pack)

Ransom Notes

Resistance
Taboo
Balderdash
Catan is a go to fir our teens
Goats in boats

Cashflow

Catan- with the caveat I don’t play it (don’t like board games) but my teen son and his friends have been playing it a lot recently and it was given to him as a gift by someone else who likes it.

Blank slate

We bought Hues and Cues last year and LOVED it. Great for a group.

Cards against humanity, family edition

That escalated quickly

Uno

Simple but fun, fast card game: Karma

We love boggle and rumikub.

Another vote for Pictionary.
Triominoes.
Farkel Party.
Azul
A fun card game is five crowns.
We’ve tried some of the longer card games, such as pandemic, but generally, they lose interest after a while.

Coup

2nd suggestions for Scattergories, Pictionary, card games

Lert right center

bring lots of 1s

We like Ticket to Ride and Scategories