How to Play Name City Animal: Rules, Scoring and Tactics

Name City Animal is the schoolyard classic reborn on phones: a letter drops, categories fill, the first to finish calls STOP. Paper fights are replaced by automatic scoring and a challenge vote.

How to play

1. The server draws a letter; everyone fills the categories (name, city, animal, plant, object, celebrity) with that letter (2-12 players).
2. The first player with a full sheet unlocks the STOP button; pressing it gives everyone else 5 seconds.
3. Answers reveal category by category: unique 10, duplicate 5, invalid 0 points.
4. Anyone can challenge a fishy answer; the table votes for 10 seconds and a majority voids it.

Scoring and winning

Scoring is fully automatic and language-aware — on English tables letters come from the English alphabet and case folds accordingly. After the rounds (3 or 5 letters) the final standings appear. Letters never repeat within a match.

Tactics that win the table

• Long, rare words are the key to unique 10s — 'Cat' arrives from everyone and splits the points.
• Use STOP as a weapon: an early STOP while rivals think turns their ordinary answers into 5s.
• Don't waste challenges: each answer can only be challenged once — save it for the truly suspicious.

Who is it for?

Nostalgia plus competition. The widest age range of any game here — family tables to student crews.

Ready? Create a Name City Animal table — scan the QR and the table is live in 30 seconds. No sign-up, no app; when the game ends, party mode hops the same table to the next game.