140+ Wavelength Game Categories & Questions to Extend Your Play

Wavelength has proven itself to be one of the best party games ever made, but it’s extremely easy to go through all of the category cards the game gives you in the box. A lot of those categories are also a little on the “obvious” side if you ask us, and seasoned players seem to have no problem breezing through them. If either scenario applies to you, you’ve found the right webpage. We’ve compiled over 100 of our most interesting, original, and ridiculous Wavelength categories so that you can breathe new life into game night!

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General: Whimsical vs. stoic, explosive vs. unreactive, annoying vs. entertaining
Funny: Shower singer vs. street performer, squad goals vs. squad woes, glow up vs. blow up
Emotional: Shower thoughts vs. blank stares, over-caffeinated vs. food coma, puppy love vs. cat nap
Esoteric: Cheese vs. cows, chickens vs. roads, a loud noise vs. a confusing sentence

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General Categories

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These simple options are just general enough that any player should be able to come up with something good when they’re the psychic, but they’re not quite as general as the easier cards that come with the base game. ^{[1]
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- Zesty vs. bland
- Whimsical vs. stoic
- Quiet vs. bombastic
- Quirky vs. mundane
- Lively vs. boring
- Loud vs. quiet
- Explosive vs. unreactive
- Durable vs. fragile
- Annoying vs. entertaining
- Simplistic vs. complex

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Funny Categories

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If you want to incorporate a few more laughs at the table, draw a random category from this list and see what the psychic comes up with.
- Scientist vs. tinfoil hat enthusiast
- Shower singer vs. street performer
- Rizzed up vs. rizzless
- Netflix & chill vs. ghosting them
- Squad goals vs. squad woes
- Yeet vs. keep
- Glow up vs. blow up
- Ohio vs. Paris
- Wake me up inside vs. can’t wake up
- Rose had room on the door vs. Jack needed to drown

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Music Categories

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Feel free to incorporate your own musical categories based on what everyone at the table listens to. “Drake vs. Kendrick” might work if everyone at the table loves hip-hop, but a game full of country fans might not enjoy that one. ^{[2]
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- Tupac vs. Biggie
- Dylan vs. Springsteen
- Miles Davis vs. Elvis
- Wu-Tang Clan vs. One Direction
- Sabrina Carpenter vs. Whitney Houston
- Drake vs. Kendrick
- Underground/Indie vs. mainstream
- Vinyl vs. mp3
- The music video was better vs. the song stands alone
- Hardcore mosh pit vs. quiet listening party

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Personality Traits

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These are especially fun if you’re playing with people who know one another really well and the intimate clues have been flying around all night.
- Bookworm vs. gym rat
- Community-oriented vs. individualistic
- Optimist vs. pessimist
- Obedient vs. rebellious
- Playful vs. serious
- Aggressive vs. passive
- Drama queen vs. king of chill
- Friendly vs. standoffish
- Smooth operator vs. goofy goober
- Parental vs. juvenile

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Historical Categories

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History lovers rejoice! The base Wavelength game doesn’t come with anything even remotely history-themed, so this is a fun addition.
- Summer of Love vs. Salem Witch Trials
- First Flight vs. the Hindenburg Disaster
- Dawn of Man vs. Fall of Man
- Boston Tea Party vs. Boston Marathon
- The Pyramids vs. Stonehenge
- French Revolution vs. American Revolution
- Would hate royal life vs. secretly want to be a king
- Samurai vs. ninjas
- New World explorer vs. staying on the shore
- Ancient Athens vs. Ancient Sparta

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Emotions & Feelings

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This is a good general category that all players should be able to make sense of.
- Warm and fuzzy vs. cold and jagged
- Shower thoughts vs. blank stares
- Wanderlust vs. homesickness
- Over-caffeinated vs. food coma
- Scared to death vs. bored to death
- Puppy love vs. cat nap
- Jazzed up vs. Blues-ed down
- Cringe vs. cool
- Epic win vs. epic fail
- Fear of missing out vs. need to sit one out

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Food-Related Categories

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Any foodies at the table will appreciate the opportunity to guess clues in these categories. This is another area where the base game doesn’t include any good categories, so these are a phenomenal addition. ^{[3]
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- Deep dish vs. thin crust
- Fast food vs. vegan cuisine
- Italian vs. Mexican
- Pizza vs. tacos
- Keto vs. Vegetarian
- Master Chef vs. Top Chef
- Going out vs. eating in
- Dive bar vs. fancy cocktail joint
- Medium vs. medium-rare
- Gordon Ramsey vs. Guy Fieri

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Famous People

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Feel free to slot in your own favorite celebrities so long as everyone at the table knows them. These categories are also a lot of fun if the psychic picks clues that either aren’t people at all (is a hot dog more like Betty White or Martha Stewart?) or people who also happen to be celebrities (is Kevin Hart more of a Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great?).
- MLK Jr. vs. Malcolm X
- Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates
- Taylor Swift vs. Marilyn Monroe
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vs. Vin Diesel
- Einstein vs. Oppenheimer
- Emma Stone vs. Emma Watson
- Genghis Khan vs. Julius Caesar
- Andy Warhol vs. Jackson Pollock
- Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry

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Movies & Media

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Got a table full of cinephiles? Break out the movie-themed categories and watch the debates fly. ^{[4]
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- Titanic vs. The Notebook
- Ryan Gosling vs. Ryan Reynolds
- Dark comedy vs comedic tragedy
- Cult classic vs. blockbuster
- Spaghetti Western vs. Space Opera
- So bad that it’s actually good vs. just normal bad
- Oscar-worthy vs. Oscar bait
- Arthouse vs. Popcorn flick
- Clint Eastwood vs. John Wayne
- Peak 80s vs. 80s schlock

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Animals

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These categories represent another good general set of spectrums that make sense to basically anybody. We’re still open to alternatives to “serious platypus” if you happen to have a better animal to serve as the opposite of a silly goose, so get creative!
- Dogs vs. cats
- Energetic vs. lapdog
- Night owl vs. morning lark
- Serious platypus vs. silly goose
- Orange cat vs. black cat
- Humans are better vs. dogs are better
- Cats and dogs vs. exotic pets
- Hedgehog vs. groundhog
- King of the jungle vs. queen of the tundra
- Bird vs. fish

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Memes & Internet-Themed Categories

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So long as the players at the table aren’t old enough to remember “all our base are belong to us” memes, this is a fun way to give Wavelength a more youthful energy.
- “This is fine” vs. everything is awesome
- Grumpy Cat vs. Much Doge
- Kermit sipping tea vs. Arthur’s clenched fist
- Reaction gif vs. Bitmoji
- Crying Jordan vs. distracted boyfriend
- Viral vs. dead on arrival
- Boomer vs. Gen Z
- It's deep-fried vs. infinite pixels
- Minions vs. rage face comics
- Loss vs. memes about Loss

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Personal Skills

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These categories might do especially well if you pick fun celebrity or fictional character clues. You can also work in some clues about people everyone at the table knows, too.
- Dance floor confidence vs. karaoke courage
- Doctor’s handwriting vs. doctor’s diagnostic skills
- Breakdancing vs. beatboxing
- Card tricks vs. Illusions
- Perfect memory vs. perfect speaking skills
- Super strength vs. invisibility
- Computer hacking vs. Biohacking
- Public speaking vs. public dancing
- Lucid dreaming vs. sleepwalking

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Philosophical Categories

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If you want to use Wavelength as a jumping-off point for some deeper conversations at the table, these are great categories to provoke interesting discussion.
- Eternal life vs. mortality
- Time travel vs. fixed timeline
- Causality vs. randomness
- Free will vs. determinism
- Life is meaningless vs. life has cosmic meaning
- Humans are evil vs. humans are good
- Objective reality vs. subjective reality
- Suffering is meaningless vs. suffering is valuable
- Civilization always improves vs. history is random
- Technology is good vs. technology is bad

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Esoteric Categories

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Just get weird with it, you know? Wavelength is a great party game because it’s extremely funny while also generating strong and interesting convos among players. What’s better at getting a laugh and generating discussion than semi-nonsense?
- Alien technology vs. human innovation
- Cheese vs. cows
- Magical first dates vs. magical divorce hearings
- Chickens vs. roads
- Shadow demon vs. haunting ghost
- A loud noise vs. a confusing sentence
- Things you can smoke vs. things that smoke you
- Dream logic vs. fairy tale logic
- Lasers vs. actually using lasers
- Plague doctors vs. an actual plague

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If you’re new to Wavelength, don’t worry—it’s a very easy game to learn . Divide yourselves into two teams and pick a player to be the “psychic.” That player draws a random category, reads it aloud, and spins the wheel. They take a peek at the wheel’s scoring position and pick a clue that they think their teammates will accurately assign to the position where the scoring points are. So, if the category is “hot vs. cold” and the score zone is in the middle, they might say “lukewarm” or “room temperature.”

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140+ Wavelength Game Categories & Questions to Extend Your Play

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General Categories

Funny Categories

Music Categories

Personality Traits

Historical Categories

Emotions & Feelings

Food-Related Categories

Famous People

Movies & Media

Animals

Memes & Internet-Themed Categories

Personal Skills

Philosophical Categories

Esoteric Categories

Expert Q&A

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