Catch Phrase is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro. The modern version, also known as Electronic Catch Phrase is an electronic game 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. A team comprises any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ... A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types: Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters: Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word... A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object. ... Trivial Pursuit is a popular party game. ... The Hasbro logo uses a smile to indicate the carefree nature of its products. ...

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 makes their team guess. When the team guesses correctly, the other team takes its turn. Play continues until the timer runs out. The team not holding the game 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.

The 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