20 Questions Game

How this list was compiled: Written for this site on 2026-09-18 from general knowledge; no list was copied from anywhere. Every card is a common noun, a material, a kind of place, a job or a landmark that has stood for generations, so nothing here changes from year to year. Cards were picked for how well they stand up to yes-or-no questions, not for how easy they are to draw or act out, so ingredients, raw materials and things made by animals sit beside the everyday objects. On 2026-09-20, 157 everyday nouns that several other decks on this site also hold (dog, apple, chair) were swapped for narrower things of the same group, such as guide dog, apple core and doorknob. No real people, no film, show, book or game characters and no brand names are included. Levels are ours: easy cards are things most six-year-olds know and can answer questions about, medium cards need narrower questions, and hard cards are unusual, easy to confuse with a neighbor or, in the Tricky things group, not objects at all. The notes beside 88 cards say how to answer the traditional opening question (animal, vegetable or mineral) when the call is not obvious. The facts in the less obvious notes, such as what cork, vanilla, amber, pearls, sponges and house dust are, were checked against the matching Wikipedia articles on 2026-09-19. Rules of the game were checked on 2026-09-18 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_questions, which describes the answerer and the questioners, yes-or-no answers, no lying, the winner becoming the next answerer, the animal, vegetable or mineral variant and variants that allow 'maybe'. Whether a wrong guess uses up a question is a house rule, and the page says so. Licence: own work