Category Rush is our version of the letter game: one letter, ten categories, ninety seconds, the whole room writing simultaneously on their own phones. The talking is saved for the reveal, where the table rules on the borderline answers together.
Boggle is the same race with the alphabet dissolved into a grid: all of you hunt the same letters at once, and any word two players found is crossed out for both — the Scattergories rule, applied to a dictionary.
Herd Mentality flips the scoring so that suddenly you want to match, and Survey Says hides the category behind a poll — six things people actually said, found by typing your way into the crowd’s head. Table Party is not affiliated with Hasbro or any other publisher; every implementation here is our own.
Four races everybody runs at once
Questions about Games like Scattergories
Is it the same ten-categories format?
One letter, ten categories, ninety seconds — the shape you know. Answers land on your own phone as you type, and the reveal at the end is where duplicates and doubtful entries get their reckoning.
Do duplicate answers score?
In Boggle, never — a word two players found is struck for both. Category Rush settles duplicates at the reveal, and Herd Mentality is the inversion: only the biggest matching group scores at all.
Which of these seats a big group?
Category Rush, Boggle and Herd Mentality all seat twelve. Survey Says is a five-minute head-to-head, so a big table runs it as a bracket between rounds of the others.
Which needs the least explaining?
Boggle: touching letters make a word, longer pays more, shared words die. Category Rush needs exactly one more sentence, and it is “the answer has to start with the letter”.