Or maybe it is just time to change the game and start playing Consequences. Such as suspect, victim, motivation, weapon, crime scene, and action, you may come up with a little crime story.

Finally, elements of a certain plot can be used as categories, which would give you at the end of each round, a short story when the answers are combined.

movies, literature, football, history), it may be interesting to select categories specific to the subject matter

If you are playing with a group of geeks on a particular subject matter (e.g.

Another challenging modification is changing the ‘first letter rule’ and try to find words fitting in each category, whose second, third, or last letter is the chosen letter.

Proverb, scientist, director, musical instrument, element, mountain, colour, newspaper, song, etc. First of all, it is possible to play with more obscure and added number of categories.

For more fun, categories can be played with numerous creative variations.

Categories can be played until all letters of the alphabet are used.

If just one player writes an answer for a category, then he/she gets 20 points.

Players who have a different answer from the other player(s) in the

If at least two players have written the same answer in the same category, then each gets get 5 points for that answer.

When the time is up, or according to a variation after a player fills in every category and counts 20 seconds, players read their words per each category and score points for their answers.In order to speed up the game a time-limit (e.g.Then the players try, for each category, to write words that start with the chosen letter. At the beginning of each round, one letter is chosen.Players agree on a number of categories (name, place, animal, thing, plant, writer, etc.) and write them down as titles of same number of columns on their papers.

The object of the game is to find words that begin with a particular letter of the alphabet and that fit predetermined categories.

Categories is a game for two or more players, played with a paper and pencil per each player.

The game is known in Argentina and some other Spanish-speaking parts of the world as Tutti Frutti (probably thanks to Italian migrants coming to the country around the same period) or as Basta! The French name Jeu du Baccalauréat also offers an academic tone After a while, it even made its way into the schoolĬurriculum. Then it reached to ever larger circles and became popular among group lessons of church and political organizations. The German version Stadt Land Fluss, according to Wikipedia, was played at the time by

Whilst the year and place of origin for this popular paper-pencil game is not known, it seems to have been played in Europe by the end of 19th Century.

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