Name Place Animal Thing A to Z: answers for every letter

2026-10-16

Name Place Animal Thing A to Z: answers for every letter — the table below gives two answers for each name, city, animal, plant and object box, for every letter the game can draw. The answers come from the lists the online game uses for its own checking, so every word in the table counts as valid in the game instantly, with no vote.

Answers letter by letter

Each row is a letter the game can draw in a round; the columns are the five fixed categories. Each box shows two answers. A dash marks a box where no answer starting with that letter is on the list. The name box is for a person's first name. When answers are matched, the game ignores capital and lower-case letters, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes; whether accents and dots count depends on the language, so the safest choice is to spell the word correctly in that language.

The words in the table come from the list of the same language as this page. If you choose a different word language in the game, look at that language's page.

Why are these answers "guaranteed to count"?

The game checks every answer you write in the same order: first, does the answer start with the round's letter? Then, is it on that category's list? If it is not on the list, what does the table say? Words in the table pass the second step, so the third is never needed.

So a correct word that is not on the list is not wrong; it just needs the table's approval. In the vote, the other players give the answer a 👍 or 👎, and if the 👍 count is equal to or higher than the 👎 count, the answer passes. You cannot vote on your own answer; the other players at the table always do the voting. If nobody votes, the game checks whether the word starts with the right letter and has at least two letters. The vote only opens if there is an answer that is not on the list; otherwise the round goes straight to the score table.

What happens with the hard letters?

Some letters are a nuisance on every sheet: a box stays empty and the clock keeps running. The paragraph below says how many letters the game can draw in this language and which, if any, it never draws; the table gives one rescue answer for each box for the hardest letters.

In this language the game can draw 26 letters — every letter of the alphabet has enough answers on the lists, but some are far harder than others.

Which letters can be drawn is not a hand-written list; the game works it out from the lists of the chosen word language. For a letter to be drawn, at least two answers starting with that letter must be on the list in at least three categories. So, depending on the word language you choose, some letters may never be drawn: rather than put a round on the table with no possible answers, the game drops that letter from the start.

The fairness this rule brings is this: for every letter that is drawn, there are at least two listed answers for at least three boxes. Bots also write from the same lists, so both a bot and a human can fill at least three boxes in that round. The same letter is never drawn twice in one match. Rare letters can still come up as long as they are drawable, so it is worth a look at the rescue-answer table once.

Ways to use the list without memorizing it

• Learn one answer for a hard box. You don't need to memorize all five boxes. Knowing one rescue answer for each hard box, for the letters you find difficult, turns that box from 0 into 5 or 10 points.
• The first answer that comes to mind comes to everyone else too. Everyone who writes the same word in the same category gets 5 points each; whoever writes it alone gets 10. You can't see what your opponents write, only how many boxes they filled. Instead of settling for a very well-known word, look for an answer on the list that comes to mind a little later. Bots also write only from the list, so if you pick the same word as one of them, you still share the 5 points.
• STOP shortens the clock. Under the default STOP Rule, the first STOP cuts the time left at the table to 10 seconds at most. Write the answers you know first, then go back to the hard box where you need a rescue answer.
• Some answers have two words. The list includes two-word answers; because spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are ignored, writing them joined or separate does not change the result.
• In the city box, think worldwide. The list also includes cities outside your own country. If no city from your country comes to mind, try cities from around the world.
• Guess rather than leave a box empty. A wrong answer does not take points away; at worst you get 0. A real word that starts with the right letter can go to a vote even if it is not on the list, and if it passes it scores as much as a listed answer.

For a broader plan, look at the tactics article, and for a paper template and category ideas, the table and categories article.

Try the list in the game

Reading a list is not the same as writing while the clock runs. Use the rescue answers as a warm-up between matches, then sit down at an online Categories table: you choose the word language when you create the room, and you play with bots or friends. If you want to see the rules and scoring from the start, the how to play guide is ready.

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