15-09-2021

Super Scattergories

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By: Bill 'Milton' Bradley
Hasbro Interactive has made a killing in recent years, bringing popular television game shows and classic board games to the PC. They've had tremendous success converting such titles as Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble, The Game of Life, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and so many more. The tradition continues, this holiday season, with a number of releases scheduled including Diplomacy and Super Scattergories. So without further ado, let's see what Hasbro Interactive's Super Scattergories has to offer.

For those of you who might not be familiar with the board game Scattergories, let me quickly run it down for you. Scattergories is best described as a category game. Players use a letter, picked at random, to come up with words that fit under certain categories. For example, if the letter 'R' was selected and the category was 'Superheroes', players must come up with a name of a Superhero that begins with the letter 'R'. One might put Robin, from Batman and Robin. Players get points for the number of categories they?re able to come up with words for. The object of the game is to outscore your opponent.

Super Scattergories offers four modes of play: Solo Mode, Network, Head-to-Head, and Quick Hit. The Quick Hit mode is simply a one round game of Scattergories, where a single letter is picked and you have to use that letter to come up with words in 12 different categories in a 60 second time frame. It?s very much like a practice round, where you can hone your Scattergories? skills. Head-to-Head mode allows you to play against a friend on the same computer. Players take turns coming up with words in the time frame provided. The player that comes up with the most words, wins. Network play is fairly self-explanatory, it allows you to play against opponents over the Internet. Solo mode is also self-explanatory. In this mode however, you progress through five different types of games. Here?s a list of the games involved:

  • Classic Scattergories
    This is your board game conversion of Scattergories, where you try to come up with words starting with a specified letter in a variety of familiar but challenging categories. There are 12 categories in total and you get points for each category you successfully complete.
  • Scrutineyes
    In this game, a picture is shown on the screen and a letter is selected at random. The goal is to look at the picture and find as many objects that begin with the selected letter. You receive points for each object you identity starting with the specified letter.
  • Scattered Categories
    In this game, the object is to match pairs of solutions that share a category or given letter.
  • Scatter Brain
    The object of Scatter Brain is to quickly respond to questions with words that begin with the same letter. For example, if the letter is ?L?, the question might be something like 'All five are great, but one is Superior'. The answer would then be a ?Lake?. Like the other games, there are 12 questions in total for this round.
  • Knockout
    Knockout is a game where you must find an answer to each topic using any of 12 letters that you're given. The catch with this game is that you can't use the same letter twice. If you use one letter to come up with a word, that letter is taken away.

    As you can see, Super Scattergories is a collection of challenging mind games, rather than just a game of regular Scattergories. The only real resemblance to it?s board game equivalent is the Classic Scattergories game. In that particular game however, the letter is chosen at random and the categories appear one by one, but you need only enter the first three letters of the word you wish to choose. Based on the first three letters you enter, the computer will determine whether those three letters form the beginning of one of the words it will accept as a correct response. Whether you think you have an answer or not is irrelevant, it?s up to the computer to decide whether you?re right or wrong. In fact, I came across many instances where I came up with a word for a particular category, only to have it rejected because it wasn?t on Hasbro?s list of correct responses. This can become a little frustrating, especially when it?s obvious you?re answer is indeed correct. For example, the category was ?Baseball?s Greatest Hitters (last names)? and the letter was ?G?. Upon entering ?GRI? for Griffey, I was told it was an incorrect answer. Hi, good to see you?re up to date on these categories. Another example of a glaring error was the category ?Things you wear in Winter? with the letter ?T?. Upon entering ?TUQ?, for tuque, I was told it was a bad response. Argh! I was later told by the game that a ?Themal Jacket? would have been a good response. Ho hum. In the original board game, you have to come up with words for categories, even if there exists no word for that category, the categories were pre-set. In this PC conversion, the categories are catered to the letter chosen, so the good news is there?s an answer for every category, it?s your job to figure out what that one word is. I suppose in a sense, these two features make it easier to play due to the fact that 1) you don?t have to type in the full word, just the first three letters, and 2) there will never be a category with no possible answers to it.

    Just touching briefly on graphics and sound in Super Scattergories, the overall presentation of Super Scattergories is very smooth. It's bright, colorful, and gets the job done. Obviously the emphasis in a game like this isn't on graphics, but rather gameplay and fun factor. Being a game oriented for younger gamers and families, Super Scattergories gets the thumbs up. The audio adds to the game nicely as well. While the music is a little cheesy, it is original and the added lyrics and speech in the game is a nice touch as well. The menus are easy to use and you shouldn't have any problems at all getting right into the action. Another nice touch is the addition of hints, which will certainly help those younger gamers get through some of the tougher categories.

    So what's the verdict on Super Scattergories? It's a Hasbro Interactive product through and through, that's for sure. It's upbeat, colorful and should provide hours of fun for the whole family. I wasn't pleased with the limitations placed on the Classic Scattergories game itself, but the addition of the four other types of games certainly make up for that. Super Scattergories is a fine conversion of the board game and provides some good wholesome family fun.


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    Scattergories Lists 1-12 List 4 1. Parts of the body 4. Things you shout 6. A girl's name 8. Ways to get from here to there 9. Items in a kitchen 10. Villains/monsters 11. Things you replace. This new “cultural trivia” board game is the brainchild of Brian Hersch, creator of Taboo, Outburst, Super Scattergories and dozens of the most popular party games of the last 35 years.

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    Publisher(s)Hasbro
    Winning Moves Games USA
    Players2–6
    Setup time1–3 minutes
    Playing timea little over 3 minutes per round
    Random chanceLow
    Age range12 and up
    Skill(s) requiredVocabulary
    Counting
    Social skills
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    Scattergories is a creative-thinking category-based party game originally published by Parker Brothers in 1988. Parker Brothers was purchased by Hasbro a few years later, which published the game internationally under its Milton Bradley brand. The objective of the 2-to-6-player game is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit. The game is based on a traditional game known as Tutti Frutti, Jeu du Baccalauréat, Stadt Land Fluss, and many other names.

    Gameplay[edit]

    The game is played in sets of 3 rounds.

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    1. Each player takes a folder with an answering pad and 3 category cards. Each sheet in the answering pad has three columns of 12 blank lines. In addition, the category cards have 4 lists, each with 12 unique categories, for a total of 144 categories in the game. In new versions of the game, each card has 2 lists of 12 unique categories, for a total of 16 lists and 192 categories. All players must agree on the list to use.
    2. One player rolls a 20-sided letter die to determine the first letter used. The timer is set for up to three minutes.
    3. One player starts the timer. In the time allotted, each player must attempt to think of and write down, in the first column on the pad, a word or term that fits each of the 12 categories and starts with the rolled letter. Any number of words in the answer is allowed, as long as the first word starts with the correct letter. For example, with a category of 'vegetable' and a letter of 'C', words such as 'cauliflower', 'carrot' and 'collard greens' are acceptable, but 'broccoli' is not (wrong initial letter), nor is 'citrus' (wrong category). Alliteration is encouraged with proper nouns in one game variation; Ronald Reagan is worth 2 points, and Hubert Horatio Humphrey is worth 3.[1]
    4. Writing a bad answer is still better than no answer though because there is always the possibility that the group playing will accept the answer. For example, 'citrus' is 'vegetable' in the sense referring to the entire plant kingdom, i.e. neither 'animal' nor 'mineral'.
    5. All players stop writing when the timer is finished. Following the list, each player, in turn, reads their answer for each category. Players score zero points for an answer that duplicates another answer in that round, and one point for an answer no other player has given. You cannot have more than one answer on a line for each number. Acceptable answers that are proper nouns using alliteration score one point for each word using the letter. (In the 'Junior' version, players earn 2 points for an answer that begins with the chosen letter, and 1 point for an answer that does not begin with the chosen letter, but no points for a duplicate answer.)
    6. If for some reason a player thinks someone's answer does not fit the category (for instance, 'knuckle' for the category 'types of sandwich') a player may challenge that answer. When challenged, all players vote on the validity of that answer. If the vote is a tie, the vote of the player who is being challenged is thrown out.
    7. The die is rolled again (and re-rolled if the same letter as the previous round is duplicated), and the second round starts.
    8. In the case of proper nouns, all parts of the answer will be counted as adequate provided one begins with the letter in play. For example, in the case of U.S. Presidents using the letter 'S', an acceptable answer would be Harry S. Truman, as his middle name is the letter 'S.' Martin Sheen, however, was never a U.S. President, and therefore is not a valid answer, rewarding zero points. Note: This rule does not apply to book titles, such as 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
    9. In the case of general categories, broad interpretation is allowed for fun and creative game play. For example, in the case of things commonly found in the kitchen that start with the letter K, both knife (a kitchen tool) or Kelp, (a type of food that is commonly cooked in kitchens around the world) are acceptable answers.
    The Scattergories 20-sided die includes the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, and W and excludes the letters Q, U, V, X, Y, and Z.

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    Later versions[edit]

    In 1989, Milton Bradley published a 'refill' pack for Scattergories. It consists of 18 cards with 144 new categories and contains 6 new answer pads.

    In 2008, Winning Moves Games USA published Scattergories The Card Game. It is a fast-playing, portable game of Scattergories. (It is not a booster pack.) The game includes a deck of letter cards, a deck of category cards and 2 'I Know' cards. Players turn over the top card in the letter deck and category deck and the first person to shout out a correct answer takes a card. For example, if an 'S' is turned over and 'The Beach' is turned over...if someone slaps the 'I Know' card and says 'I Know! Sand.' That player claims either card and turns over a new letter or subject card (depending on what they claimed.) The game ends when one entire deck is exhausted. The player with the most cards wins.

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    In January 2010, Puzzlewright Press published 'Scattergories Word Search Puzzles' by Mark Danna, a former associate editor at Games magazine. Sanctioned by Hasbro, this book provides Scattergories players a way to play a solitaire version of the game with the following variations: write down two answers, not just one, for every category; instead of coming up with unique answers, try to match answers, which are hidden in a word search; score bonus points by matching answers hidden in the word search grid's leftover letters. There are no rounds. Players try to beat their most recent or their best score. Categories in the book are based on the ones in the board game but have modifications. There are 60 puzzle games in all.

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    In 2010, Winning Moves Games USA published 'Scattergories Categories' which is a twist on classic Scattergories play. Instead of finding answers that all start with one letter, Scattergories Categories focuses on one category per round and players race to find a unique answer starting with each letter in the category key word, which is related to the category in some way. As the game box shows, if the category word is 'CAMPING TRIP' players have 2 minutes to find a word that starts with a C, then an A, then an M, and a P... and so on. Players get 1 point for each unique answer and the first player to 25 points wins. The game contains 250 word challenges on 125 cards for players 12 and up.

    In 2019, Winning Moves Games USA published 'Scattergories 30th Anniversary Edition. It is a classic reproduction of the original 1989 edition. It includes all original categories and components including the mechanical timer with three different time settings, 6 folders, 6 answer pads, and multi-sided oversized die.[2]

    Game show version[edit]

    Scattergories became an NBC game show in 1993 hosted by Dick Clark. It ran right after Scrabble and featured Chuck Woolery as a regular panelist.

    Mobile version[edit]

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    Scattergories was released to the iTunes App Store in 2015. The game was developed by Magmic and licensed through Hasbro.

    References[edit]

    1. ^'The Game of Scattergories', Hasbro, 2003
    2. ^https://winning-moves.com/product/scattergories30th.asp

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    External links[edit]

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    • Scattergories Mobile on iTunes
    • Le Jeu du Bac, the French version of the game, on Facebook
    • Scattergories at BoardGameGeek

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