Domestic, wild and thoroughly exotic. The set that works equally well with children and adults.
The most universal set of them all: everybody knows animals, and you can explain them with a voice, a walk or a habit. From the cat under your feet to creatures most of the room has only seen on a screen.
An animal comes with a sound, a movement and a habitat — three footholds no abstraction offers. Even when the group cannot recall the name they recognise the description: "grey, huge, long nose" reaches elephant faster than any definition. That is why this set rescues an evening where the players differ wildly in age and experience.
Familiar words that land on the first clue. For warming up, for kids and for mixed groups.
cat, dog, cow, horse, goat, sheep, pig, hen, rooster, duck, goose, turkey, rabbit, mouse, rat, frog, fish, bird, bear, wolf, fox, hare, squirrel, hedgehog, deer, elk, boar, badger, beaver, otter, tiger, lion, elephant, giraffe, zebra, monkey, crocodile, turtle, snake, lizard, parrot, owl, eagle, stork, crane, swallow, sparrow, pigeon, crow, magpie, tit, woodpecker, heron, pelican, flamingo, penguin, dolphin, whale, shark, crab, lobster, octopus, jellyfish, butterfly, bee, wasp, ant, mosquito, fly, spider, beetle, snail, worm, caterpillar, dragonfly, grasshopper, firefly, bat, mole, gopher, ferret, marten, lynx, panther, leopard, cheetah, rhino, hippo, camel, llama, koala, kangaroo, panda, raccoon, skunk, ostrich, catfish, pike, perch, swan
Takes a few sentences and some imagination. The default setting for an ordinary evening.
aardvark, adder, albatross, alpaca, anteater, antelope, armadillo, baboon, barnacle, bison, bullfinch, bumblebee, bunting, buzzard, capercaillie, carp, chameleon, chaffinch, chipmunk, cobra, cormorant, cougar, coyote, crayfish, cuckoo, curlew, dingo, dormouse, dugong, eel, egret, elkhound, ermine, falcon, fawn, finch, gannet, gazelle, gecko, gibbon, goldfinch, grouse, gudgeon, guillemot, hamster, hawk, herring, hornet, ibex, iguana, jackal, jackdaw, jay, kestrel, kingfisher, kite, lamprey, lapwing, lemming, lemur, linnet, lynxcub, macaque, mackerel, mandrill, marmot, meerkat, mongoose, moorhen, moose, mussel, newt, nightingale, nutria, opossum, orangutan, oriole, osprey, oyster, partridge, peacock, pheasant, piranha, plover, polecat, porcupine, quail, raven, roach, sable, salamander, sardine, scorpion, seal, shrew, skylark, sturgeon, tapir, walrus, stoat
Rare or abstract words. More failed rounds, and more laughing at them.
amphibian, anaconda, arachnid, arboreal, axolotl, bandicoot, bioluminescence, biotope, brachiopod, camouflage, carnivore, cephalopod, cetacean, chrysalis, cnidarian, coelacanth, commensalism, coprophagy, crustacean, detritivore, diurnal, echidna, echinoderm, ecosystem, ectotherm, endemic, entomology, estivation, exoskeleton, extinction, fossorial, gastropod, gestation, habitat, herbivore, hibernation, hominid, ichthyology, insectivore, invertebrate, keystone, lagomorph, larva, marsupial, metamorphosis, migration, mimicry, mollusc, monotreme, morphology, moulting, mutualism, nocturnal, nomenclature, omnivore, ornithology, oviparous, pangolin, parasitism, pinniped, placental, plumage, pollinator, population, predation, primate, proboscis, pupa, quadruped, ruminant, scavenger, sedentary, speciation, subspecies, symbiosis, taxonomy, terrestrial, territoriality, thermoregulation, ungulate, vertebrate, viviparous, zoology, zooplankton, aposematism, brumation, cannibalism, colonisation, dimorphism, endoskeleton, fledgling, gregarious, hybridisation, imprinting, juvenile, keratin, lekking, mandible, nictitating, altricial
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