I wish I knew its name, but I like that party game in which you randomly choose a letter - from the Bible, from the dictionary, from the newspaper - and then everyone has five minutes, or two minutes, or some similarly limited period of time, and writes down words for each of several categories. Samples include: flowers, birds, trees, states or provinces or countries, kinds of food, etc. It sounds as if this game was described by FF, above (he said something about allowing the youngest child to keep all her words, even if someone else had them).
I also quite like hangman, to while away the time if you're stuck in a bus or train station, waiting to go somewhere, and have a willing companion and a pad of paper and a writing implement. It's great fun to try to come up with a word you think they'll "never" get!
Kind of a poor man's Wheel of Fortune....only hangman came first, so there!
