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Form your team
At least 2 players are required on each team.
Word game
Charades
Describe the word. Your team types it.
Teams take turns describing secret words while teammates race to type the exact answer.
2–7 teams4–32 players2+ players per teamFirst to the target winsDefault target: 10 points
What is Charades?
One player, the Describer, sees a secret word or short phrase and describes it. Teammates type guesses. An exact match scores 1 point and ends the turn.
The first team to reach the host’s target wins.
How to play
Six steps from the lobby to the winning point.
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Start the turn
A Describer receives a secret word.
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Describe
The Describer talks or types clues.
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Guess
Teammates type their guesses.
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Solve
An exact match scores 1 point and ends the turn.
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Race to the target
The first team to reach the target wins.
Wrong guesses do not subtract points. A skipped, fouled, ended, or expired turn scores 0. There is a 5-second break between turns.
Roles
Describer and Guesser change every turn. Moderator is an optional seat outside the teams.
Describer
- Sees the secret word
- Gives clues
- Can skip or end the turn
- Cannot guess
Guesser
- Cannot see the secret word
- Types guesses
- Can ask questions or request another clue
Moderator
- Optional
- Sits outside every team
- Can call a foul or end a side
- Human only
Spectator
- Watches the game
- Can participate in predictions when voting is open
Game modes
Two ways to play. Blitz is a shared word for every team, not a shorter Classic clock.
Classic
Teams take turns on their own words.
- One shared clock, or no clock.
- Default clock: 60 seconds.
- Presets: 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, or 180 seconds.
- Custom time from 5 seconds to 60 minutes.
Blitz
Every team races the same word at the same time.
- Each team gets its own Describer.
- Clues and guesses stay private to that team’s lane.
- One shared clock: 15, 30, 60, or 90 seconds. Default is 30.
- The first accepted correct guess scores 1 and ends the word for everyone.
- A skip, a foul, or the Describer ending the turn removes only that team. The others keep the word.
- When the shared clock runs out, the word ends and nobody scores.
Rules
Open a group for the detail. The short line is the rule that matters.
CluesShowHideOne word per turn. A typed clue cannot give the answer away.
- One word per turn.
- A typed clue cannot say the answer, a piece of it, or its spelling, rhyme, sound, or length.
- Spoken speech is not checked by the server.
- A human Moderator can call a foul.
GuessesShowHideAn exact match scores 1. A wrong guess scores nothing.
- An exact match scores 1.
- Wrong guesses score nothing.
- Matching ignores case, accents, punctuation, spacing, and a leading “a”, “an”, or “the”.
- Plurals, typos, and extra words do not match.
TurnShowHideA correct answer ends the turn. Everything else on this list scores 0.
- A correct answer scores 1 point and the turn ends.
- Skip scores 0.
- A foul scores 0.
- The clock running out scores 0.
- The Describer ending the turn scores 0.
Settings
The host sets these in the lobby, before the match starts.
Target score
The host picks 5, 10, 15, or 20 points. The default is 10.
Clock
Classic can run with no clock, or with the turn times above. Blitz always uses its own shared clock.
Word packs
Six built-in packs: General, Animals, Food, Objects, Places, and Actions. All of them start on.
Play on for places
This starts on. The first team to the target takes 1st, and the others keep playing for later places. The host can end the game at 1st instead.
Seating
A lobby choice, not a game mode. Players sit themselves, or the host can auto-balance, deal teams at random, or run a draft.
Ready to play?
Start a public game and jump in.