Remade Scattergories Dice

I found a cheap copy of Scattergories, which I bought just because I wanted to add the alphabet dice inside to my dice collection. But I didn’t want to leave the game unplayable, so I created a newer, better set of dice to use.

Scattegories where you compete to quickly come up with words in a category which all start with the same letter. The game comes with a chunky 20-sided die to determine which letter to use each round. (The letters Q,U,V,X,Y,Z are missing.)

I have some blank 12-sided dice and used them to make new “easy mode” and “hard mode” dice for the game.

The Easy mode dice has the letters: S,P,C,R, D,F,M,T, A,B,W,L

The Hard mode dice has the letters: Q/K,X/Z,J,Y, V,G,N,O E,H,U,I

I chose the letter arrangement by looking at the unique word beginnings in Alice and Wonderland.

¶ Starting letter Frequencies

Here are some tables of letter frequency, as evaluated by the number of unique words in a corpus that begin with each letter.

¶ Alice in Wonderland

¶ The Complete works of Shakespeare

Note: I believe “Xanthippe” is the only “x” word in Shakespeare which isn’t Roman Numerals.