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Catch Phrase is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro.
Game components
The game consists of a plastic disk which displays a word, and a timer.
Game play
The game is played in two teams. The goal is to get your team to say the word displayed by any means, except for saying the word or parts of the word. One member of one team starts the timer and tries to get their team to guess the displayed word. When the team guesses correctly, the other team takes its turn. Play continues until the timer runs out. The team not holding the disk when time runs out scores a point. They also have one turn to guess the word that the other team did not guess. A correct answer earns a bonus point. The first team to seven points wins.
Original version
The older version of the game contains disks with 72 words on each side. The word list is advanced by pressing a button on the right side of the disk. A timer (which beeps at an increasing rate before it buzzes at a random time) is provided, and a score board.
Electronic version
The modern version, also known as Electronic Catch Phrase is an electronic game (in a disk similar to the original version) with integrated word list, timer and scoring. The game unit has a dot-matrix LCD screen to display words, and buttons to start the timer, advance play, and assign points to teams.
Word list
The electronic version's word list contains 10,000 words, which are categorized:
- Everything - all 10,000 words in the game
- Tech/Inventions - Anything that has been invented through the ages, from ancient history to modern times
- History Buff - History, politics, wars, civics, and things in the present that will become history
- Entertainment - Movies, music, books, actors, singers, authors, as well as fun activities
- Sports/Games - Sports and games of all sorts, leisure activities
- Geography - Places, both geographically and answers to the question "where?"; Also things that are usually found in a particular place or region
- Transportation - Methods of transport, as well as things seen while travelling
- Around the House - Household items
- Food/Drink - Foods and drinks, cooking terms, ingredients, restaurants, other food items
- Plants/Animals - Plants, animals, items made from plants or animals
- Family - A subset of the words appropriate for children, no adult themes or terms
External links
- Electronic Catch Phrase at Hasbro
- Electronic Catch Phrase Junior (for children) at Hasbro
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