Invent Your Own Scattergories

Have you ever played that game Scattergories? It's a party game. If you haven't played it - You should. I grew up on these kind of games. I'm not much for Monopoly or Risk. I always end up giving stuff away out of guilt. I can never win those games. I am in social services, not economics! I love these kind of games where everyone works together or has to use their brains, be imaginative or creative. I also love when we have to think of something like "a city that starts with A" and someone answers Arkansas.

That's how Scattergories is played. The game gives you categories like "type of drink" or "things on a beach" and you roll a letter of the alphabet and come up with something in that category that starts with that letter. So if you got the letter "T", you might say "Tea" for type of drink or "Towels" for things on a beach. Apparently it turns your head into this:

'Brain may not be full of confetti.'

Well with only 2 people, especially 2 people who live together or know each other very well, that game isn't much fun. When you get "School supplies that start with P" you know you both are coming back with pencil. So here's what we did. We created our own categories. We each came up 5 categories that meant something to us.

Here's some of Alan's:

• Songs we've heard
• Streets in our County
• A family Memory
• Something in our home

Here's some of mine:

• Something from the wedding
• Past Date locations or memories
• Something the other person owns
• Partner's annoying habit

I say only some because some (most) of our categories are not suitable for all audiences...but this was couples night in! One of our more PG-13 categories included "things that can interrupt bedroom time"-just to give you an idea. But use your imagination! This was a really fun way to spend a night in without spending a nickel! We were entertained for hours.

Sorry this activity doesn't lend itself to nice aesthetic imagery... but I promise you it's fun.