Hello Fellow Waygookers,

Haha, anyways, I just literally came up with a game and I thought I would share it since I have been taking other people's fantastic games as my own, especially Funglish, Scattergories, and a few bomb games last year. Now it is my time to return the favor, and this game requires no PPT. I am pretty sure that there are variations of this game everywhere, but I tried to make it interesting for my students.

WARNING: I have yet to try this game.

What you will need:
- A six sided die
- A white board or sheet of paper for each team
- White board markers and erasers or pencils and erasers

I call this game "The 6 Letter Words Game" and if anyone can come up with a better name, that might be cool.

How to play:
1. The teacher writes a six letter word on the board.
     Example: D R A G O N

2. Each team writes the word vertically on their white boards.

3. Then in their team, they think of a word for each letter.
     Example:

4. Teams receive points based on what they come up with. I haven't tried it yet, but here is what I am thinking for a point system:
Noun = 1 point
Verb = 2 points
Adjective = 3 points
Name = 0.5 points
Letters Q, V, X, and Z each time used = 1 point

Note: I am thinking doubling the points would be easier than worrying about a half point all the time, especially if you are using slashes to count points.

5. The team that has the most points that round can roll the dice. The number that they roll corresponds with their new words, so for example if they roll a 4 with the die, they would use the G word, or in this case, from my example above, the whole class would use GHOSTS and repeat the process.

I will try this out next week as I have already been a good teacher and finished all my prep for this week. If you use it, let me know what you think. I am thinking a similar point system on Sattergories might be nice as my current point system is fairly bland.

I've actually played this game two years ago. Instead of awarding points to nouns, adjs, adv, and verbs, I asked them to come up with the longest word that they know per letter and each letter was awarded one point. Spelling counts so a misspelled word equals to no points. Name was no accepted in my case.

Thanks for the fantastic idea, I often do scattegories but the students will probably appreciate the change. I whipped up a quick PPT for it, which I will attach. I plan on giving the groups 2 minutes per round.

Yeah I made them spell the words correctly as well, led to some arguments!! Fortunately my school takes their phones in the morning so I don't have that issue.

HOLY CRAP! this game worked out surprisingly well!!  all my classes loved it. all levels~~

THANK YOU SO MUCH~!

only down side, all the adding of the points. (i hate math haha)
so i just calculated each words' point for them and then had the girls add up their score and tell me their total.

i'm at an all girls high school, and i did this game with the 1st and 2nd year girls.

with my 1st year girls, i let them look at their official school vocab list for a little bit (their level is a bit low)
my second year girls are better, so i didn't let them look at any dictionaries.

and for both 1st and 2nd year girls, if they misspelled the word, or not the right topic, then no points.

i changed the format a little bit for my girls

also in my version, for the cities in korea slide, i skipped that one because you can spelled romanized korean words so differently, and i didn't have the energy to argue~)

HOLY CRAP! this game worked out surprisingly well!!  all my classes loved it. all levels~~

THANK YOU SO MUCH~!

only down side, all the adding of the points. (i hate math haha)
so i just calculated each words' point for them and then had the girls add up their score and tell me their total.

i'm at an all girls high school, and i did this game with the 1st and 2nd year girls.

with my 1st year girls, i let them look at their official school vocab list for a little bit (their level is a bit low)
my second year girls are better, so i didn't let them look at any dictionaries.

and for both 1st and 2nd year girls, if they misspelled the word, or not the right topic, then no points.

i changed the format a little bit for my girls

also in my version, for the cities in korea slide, i skipped that one because you can spelled romanized korean words so differently, and i didn't have the energy to argue~)

One thing you can do to keep the total points simple is to ask the students to add up the points after you checked to see that the words are spelled correctly and are actually words, and then award points based on the number of teams. For example, if you have four teams, the team with the highest points gets four points, second highest gets three points, third highest gets two points, and the team with the lowest points get one point. That way there isn't tons of math from round to round. It got annoying after going past 100 points, so I modified it that way.

Played this with my middle schoolers today. They loved it! The loved it so much that they stayed late after the bell just to finish the round. I was also able to give a short lesson on compound words.

Awesome idea for a game.

Love this game.

Thank you so much for this game idea!!  I have made quite a few modifications, but this is a great no brainer game and can be played for an entire class.

I base the points on word length and spelling.
If the word is spelled correctly it breaks down like this.

3-6 letter word: 1 point
7-9 letters: 2 points
>9 letters: 3 points

This cuts down on all the math require by the original point structure.  I also applied a scatergories-esc aspect to the game as well.

The first round is a free round, they may write any word they like from the six letter word's root letters.  The subsequent rounds have topics.  Such as all words must be foods, or jobs, or base-form verbs.  You can be creative.

Anyway, great game, love its simplicity, thanks.

Oh, I like those simplified points. That makes it a lot easier.

interesting, Thanks