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Scattergories

Game ID: GID0277262
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Year
1988
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Description

In "The Game of 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 parlour game known as Categories or Guggenheim.

Similar to:

Facts in Five

Description

In "The Game of 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 parlour game known as Categories or Guggenheim.

Similar to:

Facts in Five

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Total mentions: 2
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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video T1SdMBWsVJ0 Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play Discussion at 9:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Been playing for years and years
  • Adapted for two people
  • Will play a lot more this year
Cons
  • Need to get it out more often
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Play — One card is used for multiple rounds.
  • Dice Rolling — Dice are rolled to determine letters for rounds.
  • Word listing — Given a category and a letter, players list words that fit.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • it's time for a new wall
  • I am the most artistic person I know I can draw like nobody's business
  • the hunger of a li in the hands of a ninja brain surgeon one slip and it's oh snap
  • I love trivia um kind of a trivia nerd but I don't know everything but I think I should know everything and I should have known that
  • Oh my goodness all right we down to and one more party game this one actually is made for two to six people um and it's a party game for you and your aging friends
  • Wow we must be ancient we need you're getting ancient I don't know
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Video Prqsx0P-JVg Stonemaier Games Discussion at 23:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • highly playful and social
  • easy to pick up
Cons
  • may feel repetitive over time
Thematic elements
  • time pressure and quick thinking
  • party game about rapid categorization
  • fast-paced, playful
Comparison games
  • Funemployed
  • Fake Artist Goes to New York
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • time-limited prompts — name items fitting a category under a 20-second constraint
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • There was no logic to it. And why not just stop it from going to New York?
  • Laugh people. It cures everything.
  • There's a druid character.
  • It’s like battleship with dungeons.
  • There you go.
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