Party Games

The write-draw-write chain game that predates the current crop, still running, still free and still producing pure nonsense.

The word-association board game in a free, well-built online room: two spymasters, one grid of code names, nothing to install.

Team drawing race: two teams, one word, and the first side to guess it takes the round. Faster and shoutier than the alternatives.

Draw and guess with a room code, or play solo against the clock on the evenings when nobody answers the group chat.

A shelf of room-code party games — spy, drawing, word association, trivia — all free, all in one place, none needing an app.

Broken telephone with drawings: a sentence becomes a picture becomes a sentence, and the album at the end is the whole payoff.

The party packs everybody streams: one screen shared with the room, everybody else playing from their own phone browser.

Home of BombParty, where a bomb passes round the room and you type a word containing the given letters before it goes off.

The quiz platform from every classroom and every away-day, with a free tier and a room code that anybody can join in seconds.

Everyone captions the same image, then votes on the best one. Rounds are short and a group works out its own humour quickly.

Board games rebuilt for a group on a video call, with each person playing from their own phone. Codenames and Wavelength included.

A better-drawn take on the guess-the-doodle format, with more brushes, custom word lists and rooms that hold a large group.

Draw the word, guess everyone else's, share one link with the group. The default browser party game, and deservedly so.

Everyone knows the location except the spy, who has to bluff through the questioning without ever revealing they have no idea.

Categories under a random letter and a timer: name a country, a food and an animal starting with M, then hit stop before anyone else.

Guess where a teammate placed a concept on a spectrum between two extremes. The most reliable argument-starter on this list.