The game of "Stadt-Land-Fluss" - Germany

I do not know if the game exists in English speaking countries, but it goes like this:
There are four main categories but they can be extended. The main categories are name, plant, animal and city. Each player has a pen and paper. A random letter is selected and each player writes down a name, plant, animal and city starting with that letter. At the end of the round, for each category, if you are the only person to come up with what you have written, you get 10 points, if other people used the same name (or city, or animal, etc.), you get five points.

Sound familiar?

HOW IS THE BLOODY GAME CALLED???

Have only played this game in German, unfortunately. Dunno.

Well, the german name would also help. I can look it up. If you would be so kind, p_g...

zeme mesto !!? Idon't know if it has an English name

Stadt-Land-Fluss
and even LEO can't help, it's in the forum with 0 replies

Indeed, "Stadt-Land-Fluss" is a great educational game and I often use it to teach languages. My children love playing this game, which requires fast and varied thinking. Whenever a teacher is missing, classmates enjoy filling an empty hour with it, so it is well-known throughout German schools.

What sarabyrd and sun-by said. Not exactly the same categories, but the same idea. Played it with the young 'un to get both our Deutsche up to snuff. Goes without saying I was regularly trounced after the first few goes.

The game Scategories is a like City-Country-River - only you get a fancy dice with all the letters of the alphabet on it, snazzy question and score cards ... and a timer that scares the shit out of you when it goes off.

i play this game w/ my kids (although they get special times to start b/f the adults- which pisses me off b/c we play in german and i dont speak german or know anything about German stuff- all things named have to be in germany and related to). but i know i played this game as a kid too... but i dont know the name. (being a school psych. my mom was big into educational games).

so i guess i'm no help! sorry

this will not be of much help to the first poster; nonetheless: there is a game called "categories" which is similar enough to pass as a translation. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(game)

Like the game, but am always haviing trouble with the Fluss even when expanding it to gewaesser... don't know if it 'exists' in English though.

We played this a lot in school. We called it Name, Place, Animal, Thing.

ah i can remember many a day playing thins in Ireland. We would use Country, place and river. (sometimes animal as well!) Kept us entertained for many a rainy night in Caravan on a wet night!