Talk:Scattergories

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The rules about the use of adjectives in this game are unclear. The wordage on this page is very strong in favor of *never* using adjectives as the 'chosen letter', but numerous arguments arise around the use of adjectives.

Assuming that the category is agreed to match, do you think the following should score points?

Dead bodies
Iceberg lettuce
Dairy products
Time machine
Illicit drugs
Cell Phone
Ice cream
Beastie boys
Complex numbers
South Africa

My opinion: I play this game religiously with friends and we allow some adjectives. Here is what we do: if the noun fits the category and the adjective accuratly describes it, we accept it.

For example, if the category is candy and the letter is W, we would accept 'watermelon gum' because watermelon is the kind of gum. One answer we would (and have) voted down is if the category is body parts and the letter is S, a bad answer would be 'sticky fingers' since sticky doesn't really relate to the category or noun.

-jivesukka

this page could use more references to the actual rules and less original research on wikipedians' house rules. fwiw I think "watermelon gum" should be allowed and "sticky fingers" should not, but that's not really relevant. Farannan (talk) 22:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

FWIW, if a category related to song titles comes up crossed with the letter 'D', you will KILL with The Police's "Da Doo Doo Doo Da Da Da Da".
... And that's all I want to say to you.
--OBloodyHell (talk) 21:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Folks, the game existed for generations before some company decided to publish it under copyright. I remember playing it as a kid, long before 1988, and it was old hat by then. It was, and still is, very popular and well-known all around the world. Of course, we didn't use a board and dice, and most people still don't (here's how it went in the old days: one player would silently go through the alphabet in order, while another would at some point tell her/him to stop, and that's how you decided on the letter. The rest only required a table drawn on a piece of paper, and a pen). But at the very least a Wikipedia entry on the game should acknowledge that it existed before, and not claim it was "introduced" by some toy manufacturer in the 1980s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.172.252.96 (talk) 10:52, 8 July 2012 (UTC)