A random charades word, hidden until the actor taps it. Pick a deck and level, play a timed team game with the score kept for you, print cut-out cards for a bowl, or put in your own words. Free, no sign-up.
Classic charades: 157 words
21 cards to a Letter page with the category and level on each card. Cut them out and draw them from a bowl or hat. Prints the deck and level picked above.
Show the category first, then the number of words, then act. These are the signs most families and party guides use.
| To show | Do this |
|---|---|
| Movie | Crank an old film camera beside your head with one hand. |
| TV show | Draw a rectangle (the screen) in the air with two fingers. |
| Song | Open your mouth and pretend to sing, hand on your chest. |
| Book | Hold your hands together, then open them flat like a book. |
| Phrase or quote | Make quote marks in the air with two fingers of each hand. |
| Number of words | Hold up that many fingers before you start. |
| Which word you're on | Hold up fingers again: two fingers means the second word. |
| Number of syllables | Lay fingers across your forearm. |
| Sounds like | Tug your earlobe, then act a word that rhymes. |
| Small word (a, the, of) | Hold your thumb and finger close together. |
| The whole thing | Sweep both arms in a big circle. |
| Right, keep going | Tap your nose and point at the person who got it. |
Words you’ve already seen don’t come back until you’ve been through the whole deck, even if you reload the page. Each word shows its level (one dot easy, three dots hard), so you can give kids the easy ones.
Split into two teams. One player from a team gets a word and acts it out without talking, writing or pointing at objects in the room, while their own team guesses before the timer runs out. Then the other team takes a turn. Each correct guess scores a point.
One to two minutes for a single word or title is standard. For the faster party version, where the actor goes through as many words as possible, 60 seconds works well. The team game here lets you pick 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
No talking or mouthing words. Most house rules also ban sound effects; some families allow them for kids. Decide before you start.
Things kids can act with their whole body: animals (a kangaroo, an elephant), actions (brushing teeth, riding a bike) and jobs (firefighter, chef). Pick the Kids deck or the Easy level.
No. Your list stays in your browser. If you share a link to your words, the words travel inside the link after the # sign, which browsers never send to a server.