A Scattergories play opens up a debate on what’s a genuine way to pass the time. By John Hodgman Matt writes: 15 years ago, I was playing Scattergories with some co-workers. I was close to winning.
In Scattergories, published in 1988 by Milton Bradley, each player fills out a category list with answers that begin with the same letter. If no other player matches your answers, you score points. The game is played in rounds. After 3 rounds a winner is declared, and a new game can be begun. Scattergories is a commercial version of an old parlor game known as Categories or Guggenheim. Similar ...
Scattergories Junior is a simplified and shortened version of the parent game. Players are given a master list of topics and then a twenty-sided die with letters on each side is rolled to determine the "key" letter. Players have a limited time to think of unique words that start with the letter and have to do with the topic. Players can still earn some points for on-topic words that ...
This is a combination of Scattergories and Slap Jack. When the category and first letter appears the first player to slap the "I Know" card gets to answer. Assuming it matches the category and starts with the letter the player gets to take the category or letter card, causing a new one of that type to appear. When one of the two decks runs out the game ends and the player with the most cards wins.
Hi, My buddies after our game night will always want to play a game of Scattergories, while I like it my brain is usually fried at that point and every round I do worse and worse. It is played out at this point to me.. So do you guys know