Home›Party and Word Games›Origin Year›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryOrigin year places a game in the year its rules were first fixed in writing. Wikipedia notes rugby football's "rules were first put down in written (codified) form in 1845," even though students had already been playing an informal version "since at least the early 1820s." Browsing by origin year separates when a game's rules were formalized from when it was actually first played.Facts20th centuryFAQsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of OriginWell-attested1931 120th centuryFilter Results49 entriesSportAllBoard Game (16)Card Game (4)Children's Game (2)Dice Game (1)Party Game (20)Strategy Game (1)Tabletop Game (1)Trivia Game (7)Word Game (12)Player CountAllLarge Group or Variable (22)Single-Player (1)Small Group (3-6 Players) (19)Team-Based (Two Teams) (7)Two-Player (5)Origin RegionAllAustralia (1)Canada (2)Finland (1)North America (2)United Kingdom (2)United States (6)Derived FromAllCelebrity (game) (1)Charades (1)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (2)Skill or LuckAllMixed (1)Age SuitabilityAllChildren (2)Family (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 4930 Seconds (game)20th centuryAlias (board game)20th centuryApples to Apples20th centuryAre You a Werewolf?20th centuryArticulate!20th centuryAsk Pickles20th centuryAtmosfear (series)20th centuryBalderdash20th centuryBoggle20th centuryChez Geek20th centuryDingbats (board game)20th centuryDollar auction20th centuryDr. Ruth's Game of Good Sex20th centuryEchelon (board game)20th centuryFacts in Five20th centuryGirl Talk (board game)20th centuryHot potato20th centuryJotto20th centuryKnock Out (tabletop game)20th centuryLexicon (card game)20th centuryLexiko20th centuryMad Gab20th centuryMafia (party game)20th centuryMASH (game)20th centuryNotable Quotables20th centuryOutburst (game)20th centuryPass the Bomb20th centuryPassword (game)20th centuryPerquackey20th centuryPictionary20th centuryPig (card game)20th centuryProbe (parlor game)20th centuryQuiddler20th centuryQuiz20th centuryScattergories20th centuryScrabble20th centuryScruples (game)20th centurySix Degrees of Kevin Bacon20th centuryTaboo20th centuryThe Mad Magazine Game20th centuryThe Ungame20th centuryTime's Up! (game)20th centuryTriBond20th centuryTrivial Pursuit20th centuryUpwords20th centuryWhat Were You Thinking?20th centuryWise and Otherwise20th centuryWould you rather20th centuryYoung World Quiz20th centuryFAQsWhy 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.