Home›Party and Word Games›Origin Year›By Century›21st centuryBrowse By21st 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.Facts21st centuryFAQsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of OriginWell-attested1931 121st centuryFilter Results40 entriesSportAllBoard Game (7)Card Game (10)Dexterity Game (1)Party Game (23)Trivia Game (2)Video Game (3)Word Game (4)Player CountAllLarge Group or Variable (14)Single-Player (2)Small Group (3-6 Players) (22)Team-Based (Two Teams) (4)Two-Player (4)Origin RegionAllAustralia (1)Czechia (2)Rhode Island (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (4)Derived FromAllMafia (party game) (1)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (3)Under 30 Minutes (4)Skill or LuckAllMixed (3)Age SuitabilityAllAdult (1)Children (1)Family (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 40Abaku21st centuryAnomia (game)21st centuryBananagrams21st centuryBears vs. Babies21st centuryBezzerwizzer21st centuryBlockbuster (party game)21st centuryBookchase21st centuryCards Against Humanity21st centuryChicken vs. Hotdog21st centuryCodenames (board game)21st centuryCranium Whoonu21st centuryCrossword21st centuryDon't Drop the Soap21st centuryDress to Impress21st centuryExploding Kittens21st centuryHerd Mentality (party game)21st centuryHex Hex21st centuryIn a Pickle (card game)21st centuryJoking Hazard21st centuryJust One (board game)21st centuryLuck of the Draw (board game)21st centuryNanofictionary21st centuryPicture the Impossible21st centuryPictures (board game)21st centuryPiranha Pedro21st centuryRotten Apples (card game)21st centuryScene It?21st centurySpin the bottle21st centurySuperfight21st centuryThe Big Taboo21st centuryThe Chameleon (party game)21st centuryTrumped Up Cards21st centuryUltimate Werewolf21st centuryUncle Roy All Around You21st centuryUtter Nonsense!21st centuryWavelength (game)21st centuryWhamageddon21st centuryWhat Do You Meme?21st centuryWhat Next? (party game)21st centuryWits and Wagers21st 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.