Categories (game)

[1] When the time is up, players swap sheets and score one another's attempts.

[1] U.S. president John F. Kennedy is said to have been a fan of the game, one biography describing his family as playing it "endlessly".

[3] In the variant known as "Guggenheim", players write a list of categories down one edge of the paper, and five columns across it, each column headed with a different letter so as to spell a five-letter word.

[1] Game designer Richard Onanian's commercial game Facts in Five is based on a description of Kennedy playing Categories in a 1964 edition of This Week magazine.

[4] The 1988 Parker Brothers game Scattergories is a reimplementation of Guggenheim, with a 20-sided die being used to generate random letters.