Hi Meloney, can you give some more details on your situation? I may be able to come up with some ideas if I know what your setup is. Thanks!

Hi Peggy, sure! What do you mean by playing online? Like you’re playing with a group of people over Zoom?

I think that would also be against the rules since it’s essentially the same thing. The game is supposed to challenge players to describe the meaning of the word, not give hints as to how it’s spelled.

Thanks, Becca! Glad to help!

Aw, thanks, Deena! Glad to help!

David, great point. I actually have a free downloadable app that works on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. It’s not programmable, but maybe that’s a feature I can add in the future! For now, you can download it for free and play with all of the words on my site. There’s another app called Spoof I found that will let you enter your own game lists. I’m not affiliated with them and I think you have to pay, but if you’re interested in playing catchphrase with your own words, it might be just what you’re looking for!

I’m so glad you’re using the game words, McPhabulouses! Unfortunately, I’m afraid I don’t have any control over what your opposing team does as far as cheating. I’m definitely against cheating and rigging, but even if I did put up a term of agreement, people who are going to cheat on games probably wouldn’t have a difficult time ignoring the non-cheating terms. As far as who gets what words, I’m afraid that’s just luck of the draw. Sorry it seems like you’re getting all the hard ones! Keep playing and it will balance out.

Dave, I’m happy to say that I made the easy list longer! In fact, it’s twice as long as it used to be. The word generator is all updated and everything. Thanks again so much for your feedback!

Dave, thanks so much for all of that information! That’s perfect. I’ll take a look at it, but I’m betting what happened was just that the list reset. I agree that the best way to fix it either way would be to add more words. 🙂 I’ll get working on that, too! Thanks again for all the great feedback!

Dave, thanks so much for the feedback! Glad the word lists helped you and your students have a great time! That’s really good feedback about the word list length, too. In some ways the easy word lists are the hardest, but I’ll definitely work on bulking it up when I can. Can I ask, when you say you ran into the same words, do you mean they shuffled back through and repeated themselves before you had finished the list? The word generator is supposed to have a feature that gives you every word once, then gives you an alert that you’ve finished the list and gives you an option to start over again. If that’s not happening, I’d like to fix it. 🙂

Kim, so glad to help! I hope the game goes well with your class. If you have any feedback on how the difficulty was, I’d love to hear it!