A free, open dataset of 172+ word prompts for party games like Salad Bowl, Fishbowl, Celebrity, Charades, Taboo and Password. Organized by category, available as clean JSON and plain-text files.
Use them to fill the bowl, seed your own game, or build your own party-game app.
🎮 Want to just play? Play the Salad Bowl Game free online at playsaladbowl.com — no signup, no app, works on your TV. Or jump straight to the AI word generator to create word lists for any theme.
| Category | Words | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 🌟 Celebrities & Famous Names | 25 | json · txt |
| 🎬 Movies | 25 | json · txt |
| 📺 TV Shows | 20 | json · txt |
| 🌍 Places & Landmarks | 20 | json · txt |
| 🐶 Animals | 20 | json · txt |
| 🍕 Food & Drink | 20 | json · txt |
| 😂 Funny & Absurd | 22 | json · txt |
| ⚽ Sports & Actions | 20 | json · txt |
- Per-category files live in
words/as both.jsonand.txt. - Everything combined is in
word-lists.json. - A flat list of all words is in
words/all.txt.
import lists from "./word-lists.json" assert { type: "json" };
const movies = lists.categories.movies.words;
// → ["Titanic", "The Lion King", "Inception", ...]import json
data = json.load(open("word-lists.json"))
funny = data["categories"]["funny"]["words"]curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ylwl1997/party-game-word-lists/main/words/all.txtSalad Bowl (also called Fishbowl or Celebrity) is a 3-round party game. Everyone writes words into a bowl, then teams take turns guessing them — first by describing (Taboo-style), then in one word, then by acting it out (charades). Same words every round, which is what makes it hilarious.
Full rules, scoring and player counts are explained on the Salad Bowl Game rules page. You can play it free online with friends in the same room or on the big screen / TV.
These lists are a starting point. For any theme — "Harry Potter", "90s cartoons", "office inside jokes", "words for grandparents" — use the free AI Word Generator on playsaladbowl.com, which generates a fresh, guessable word list on demand.
Got great party-game words? PRs welcome. Please keep words:
- Guessable — well-known enough that most players will recognize them
- Family-friendly in the default lists (spicy/adult packs can go in a clearly labeled file)
- 1–3 words each, no duplicates within a category
Released under CC-BY-4.0. Free to use in your own games and apps — attribution to playsaladbowl.com is appreciated.