[popcar2]

If you're playing with a friend group that has zero experience with card/board games, you need to ease them into the hobby with a game that's quick to explain and get into. If anything takes more than 10 minutes to explain then people generally give up.

I had success getting friends to play games like Codenames, Fauna, Mountains of Madness, and Mysterium. There's a website called BoardGameGeek that gives each game a "weight" rating signifying how complex it is. Anything under 2/5 complexity should be easy enough for anybody.

[7thaccount]

I've had really good success with Monopoly Deal. Even if you hate regular monopoly (like me), I highly recommend.

Rules are very simple, yet the strategy is deeper. You essentially want to get 3 property sets, but there are all kinds of action cards that allow you to steal properties or sets, negate actions, charge people rent money...etc. Nobody gets upset either as a typical game takes like 10-20 minutes. You can play like 2-6 players iirc.

[stevage]

One of my favourite categories of game is the ones that can be taught in one minute, yet has interesting gameplay. Santorini, Quaridor and Orbito are all this category.