Scattergories and Name Place Animal Thing
Draw the starting letter for each round in front of everyone, so nobody argues about it. Press Remove to keep used letters out of later rounds and check the Winners tab to see which ones have come up.
How to play Scattergories-style games with a letter wheel
The basic game: each player gets a sheet with the same list of categories. Spin the letter wheel to draw the letter for the round. Everyone writes one answer per category that starts with that letter before time runs out, and then the answers are read aloud.
Classic categories: a boy's name, a girl's name, a city, a country, an animal, a fruit or vegetable, a color, a food, a brand, a job, a movie or TV show, and something you find in a kitchen.
Name Place Animal Thing: the version played in the UK and India uses four fixed columns (name, place, animal and thing). Draw the letter with the wheel instead of reciting the alphabet in your head until someone says stop.
For younger children: use three or four easy categories, such as animal, food, color and toy, and leave only common letters on the wheel. Children who are still learning to write can say their answers out loud.
Scoring: in the usual rules, an answer that no one else wrote scores a point and answers two players share score nothing. Some groups give an extra point for answers in which several words start with the letter. Add up the points after each round.
Hard letters: many groups take Q, U, V, X, Y and Z out of the draw. Delete those lines in the Entries box before you start, or keep them for a bonus round.
No repeated letters: after each spin, press Remove. The letter leaves the wheel, is listed in the Winners tab, and the game continues with the letters that haven't come up yet.
Timed rounds: turn on Auto rerun in Settings and choose the seconds (for example, 120). When the time is up, the wheel draws the next letter by itself; with Voice-over on, the letter is read aloud.
Why a wheel? Everyone sees the same wheel spin and stop, and every letter on it has the same chance: 1 in 26 on the full alphabet, or 1 in 20 once the six hard letters are removed.