The ability of remembering words after a period of time spent learning a language, particularly English vocabulary is known as vocabulary retention. In the fact, the students' English vocabulary is still low because the teacher must apply a method that is thought to be effective in the teaching and learning process. Based on the problem, the researcher conducted this research aim to find out whether there is significant influence of using scattergories game toward students’ vocabulary retention of the eighth grade SMP Negeri 1 Abung Selatan academic year 2024/2025. The researcher used nonequivalent control group design with research design in quasi-experimental. The population 296 of eighth-grade students from SMP Negeri 1 Abung Selatan. For sample focused of class VIII D, which had 34 students as an experiment class, and class VIII C, which had 32 students as a control class, were the samples selected using purposive sampling. The researcher using multiple-choice test consisting of 25 items was used for collecting data for this research and conducted the t-test for analysis after research. Based to the hypothesis, there was a significant (2-tailed) difference of 0.024 between the experiment and control class. As a result, H_a was accepted and H₀ was rejected. In conclusion, there is significant influence of using scattergories game toward students’ vocabulary retention of the eighth grade SMP Negeri 1 Abung Selatan academic year 2024/2025.