Wordplay

quick wits win

Clues, letters and clever answers. Whoever's sharpest with words has the edge, until they don't.

13 games

Wordplay · from India
Antakshari

best bit: a whole team stuck on the letter Z, humming desperately

Sing a few lines of a song. The other team's song has to start with the letter yours ended on.

4–20 people · 15–45 min · nothing needed · learn in seconds
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Botticelli

best bit: stumping the know-it-all with a clue they can't name

Someone picks a famous person. Stump them with clues to earn yes-or-no questions, then guess who they are.

3–8 people · 15–40 min · nothing needed · learn in a minute
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Categories

best bit: defending a wildly creative answer to a very skeptical table

Everyone gets the same letter and races to name a band, a city, a TV show and more. Only unique answers score.

2–10 people · 10–30 min · pen & paper · learn in a minute
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Concentration

best bit: blanking on a single fruit while everyone keeps clapping at you

Keep a clapping rhythm going around the circle. Name something in the category on the beat, or you're out.

3–15 people · 10–20 min · nothing needed · learn in seconds
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Consequences

best bit: a story where your boss meets a raccoon at the DMV

Write a line of a story, fold it over and pass it on. Nobody sees the rest until it's read out loud.

3–12 people · 10–20 min · pen & paper · learn in seconds
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Contact

best bit: two friends yell the same word and the keeper groans

One player knows a secret word. Everyone else trades clues to pry out its letters until someone guesses it.

3–10 people · 15–40 min · nothing needed · learn in a few minutes
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Fictionary

best bit: your made-up definition getting more votes than the real one

Someone reads out a real word nobody knows. Everyone writes a fake definition, then guesses which one is real.

4–10 people · 20–45 min · pen & paper · learn in a minute
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Ghost

best bit: cornering a friend so they have to say the final letter

Take turns adding one letter to a growing word. Whoever is forced to finish a real word loses the round.

2–8 people · 10–30 min · nothing needed · learn in a minute
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Song Association

best bit: belting a lyric you didn't know you remembered

Someone calls out a word. You have five seconds to start singing a real song that has it in the lyrics.

2–12 people · 10–30 min · nothing needed · learn in seconds
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Twenty Questions

best bit: nailing it on question twenty with a total wild guess

One person thinks of something. Everyone else gets twenty yes-or-no questions to work out what it is.

2–10 people · 10–30 min · nothing needed · learn in seconds
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Who Am I?

best bit: asking “am I a real person?” with Shrek stuck to your head

Everyone has a famous name stuck to their forehead. Ask yes-or-no questions to work out who you are.

3–12 people · 15–30 min · pen & paper · learn in seconds
Draw & act
Fishbowl

best bit: by round 3, one eyebrow wiggle means Dolly Parton

Two teams guess names pulled from a bowl: first by describing, then with one word, then acting them out.

4–20 people · 45–75 min · pen & paper · learn in a minute
Social deception · from Japan
Word Wolf

best bit: realizing halfway through that you're the wolf

Everyone gets the same secret word, except one player who doesn't know their word is different. Find them.

4–10 people · 10–20 min · nothing needed · learn in seconds

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