Play Scattergories with random letters, categories and a built-in countdown timer. Score your answers.
Scattergories is a word game where a random letter and a list of categories are revealed, and players have a limited time to write a word starting with that letter for each category. In the traditional pen-and-paper rules, points are awarded only for unique answers — if two players write the same word, neither scores — which rewards creative and unusual thinking over obvious choices.
This tool generates the letter, categories and countdown timer, and auto-checks that each of your answers starts with the right letter (giving a quick completion score). Because everyone typically fills in their own paper or device, the actual uniqueness comparison — reading answers aloud and deciding as a group which ones match — is still done by the players themselves; Premium adds a shared scoreboard so you can record each player's agreed score after that comparison.
You score 1 point for each valid answer that starts with the given letter. Answers must fit the category.
Not automatically — in real Scattergories, points only count for answers no other player wrote, so after the timer ends, compare answers aloud as a group and only count genuinely unique ones; the tool's auto-score is a quick first-letter completion check, not a substitute for that comparison.
Yes, with Premium — add your own categories into the shuffle pool alongside the built-in ones, and log each player's agreed score on a shared scoreboard after every round.