Scattegories is a game the we started playing during our time at home. The goal of the game is to name objects in a series of categories starting with a specific letter. The letter is determined by rolling a die, and you only get a point if your answer is unique.
Here are some of the kids’ answers.
Things you don’t want in the house
N: Armies
F: Rappers
L: Boogers
Things found in the ocean
F: Bodies (he’s been reading Lemony Snicket)
Articles of clothing
L: Breeches
Famous females
L: Harriet Brooks (she was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist)
N: Harriet Tubman (she saved slaves using the Underground Railroad)
[Guess these two have been paying attention in school.]
Things that grow
L: Holes
N: Toenails
Car parts:
N: Piston
L: Power button (in the Leaf)
F: Back windshield
Things you do online
N: Ping someone
N: Wait
L: Buy junk
F: Brainstorm
Things you keep hidden
F: Body parts
Heroes
L: Third little pig (because he saved his brothers)
Things in a souvenir shop
F: Root beer
World records
L: Rudest gesture
Things found in your purse/wallet
F: Rubble (he’s been in my purse too often)
Good answers!