Scattergories is a creative-thinking category-based party game originally published by Milton Bradley in 1988.

Each player takes a folder with an answering pad and three category cards.

In the time allotted, each player must attempt to write down one word or term for each of the 12 categories that starts with the rolled letter.

[3] All players stop writing when the timer is finished and the answers are shared.

Acceptable answers that are proper nouns using alliteration score one point for each word using the letter.

In the case of proper nouns, all parts of the answer will be counted as adequate provided one begins with the letter in play.

For example, if the category is "U.S. presidents" and the round letter is "S", an acceptable answer would be "Harry S. Truman" because his middle initial is the letter S. Martin Sheen, however, was never a U.S. president and therefore is not a valid answer, rewarding zero points.

In January 2010, Puzzlewright Press published Scattergories Word Search Puzzles by Mark Danna, a former associate editor at Games magazine.

In 2019, Winning Moves Games USA published Scattergories 30th Anniversary Edition.

[5] Scattergories became an NBC game show in 1993 hosted by Dick Clark.

It ran right after Scrabble and featured Chuck Woolery as a regular panelist.