Home›Party and Word Games›Age Suitability›FamilyBrowse ByFamilyFactsFamilyFAQsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of OriginWell-attested1931 1FamilyFilter Results21 entriesSportAllBoard Game (2)Card Game (2)Party Game (16)Word Game (5)Player CountAllLarge Group or Variable (11)Single-Player (1)Small Group (3-6 Players) (13)Team-Based (Two Teams) (1)Origin RegionAllCanada (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (3)Origin YearAll1932 (1)1982 (1)1984 (1)1985 (1)1988 (1)1989 (1)1998 (2)1999 (2)2003 (1)2004 (1)2005 (1)2009 (1)2015 (1)2017 (1)2018 (1)2019 (2)2020 (1)2021 (1)Derived FromAllCelebrity (game) (1)Charades (1)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (3)Under 30 Minutes (3)Skill or LuckAllMixed (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 21Anomia (game)FamilyApples to ApplesFamilyBalderdashFamilyBlockbuster (party game)FamilyHerd Mentality (party game)FamilyHex HexFamilyIn a Pickle (card game)FamilyJust One (board game)FamilyLexicon (card game)FamilyPictionaryFamilyPictures (board game)FamilyQuiddlerFamilyScattergoriesFamilySuperfightFamilyTabooFamilyThe Chameleon (party game)FamilyTime's Up! (game)FamilyUpwordsFamilyWhat Next? (party game)FamilyWhat Were You Thinking?FamilyWits and WagersFamilyFAQsWhy is Scrabble grouped with games like Charades and Trivial Pursuit?Scrabble is the tree's one dedicated word game and is grouped here rather than given its own singleton category.Party and Word Games covers social games played in a group for entertainment rather than sustained strategic depth, including Charades, Pictionary, Taboo and Trivial Pursuit. Scrabble is included as the tree's one dedicated word game, grouped here rather than given its own singleton category, since it shares the casual group setting of the other games in this family.Sources1. Wikipedia: Scrabbletier 2WikipediaScrabble, History sectionQuote, Scrabble, History sectionIn 1931 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented, called Lexiko.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.