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