Play Doodle Party
One player draws, everyone guesses: first to get it scores big. No art skills needed, laughs guaranteed!
How many players
Played online by 2 to 8 people; you can also play solo against the computer.
- Online: create a room and send the link to a friend, or get matched with a random opponent. If nobody shows up, we offer a clearly labeled computer opponent.
Category: Word games
How to play
Goal: Guess what’s being drawn before everyone else, and when it’s your turn, draw so everyone gets it. Most points at the end wins.
Step by step
- The player whose turn it is picks one of 3 words: easy, medium or hard.
- They have 80 seconds to draw it with their finger. Writing letters isn’t banned, just lame!
- Everyone else types guesses. Nobody sees anyone else’s guesses.
- A correct guess scores 50-100 points: the sooner, the more.
- The artist scores too, based on how many got it: 100 if everyone did.
Rules
- As time passes, letters of the word are revealed one by one (at least two always stay hidden).
- If a guess is one letter off you’ll see "so close"; capitals and accents don’t matter.
- The turn ends early once everyone has guessed.
- With 2 players everyone draws three times, with 3 twice, and with more, once.
- In solo play the computer draws, and you race BOT opponents to guess.
Controls
- Touch: Drawing: pick a color and size, draw with your finger. The bucket fills an area with one tap, the eraser paints white, undo removes the last stroke. Guessing: type on the on-screen keyboard and tap Send.
- Keyboard: When guessing, type on your keyboard; Enter sends, Backspace deletes.
In online matches
- 2-8 players. Create a room and send the link to a friend or your group; the host starts when everyone’s in.
- Words come in the room’s language: rooms created on the English site get English words.
- BOTs added to the room draw their own ready-made doodles on their turn and are always labeled BOT.
- If someone disconnects, a BOT plays for them until they’re back.
Tips
- Draw the big shape first and add details later: a drawing guessed early scores for both sides.
- Filling shapes with the bucket makes drawings much easier to read.
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- Letter Rush: One letter, one clock: name, city, animal... if nobody else thought of it, the points are all yours.
- Word Duel: Swipe across the letters and find more words than your opponent.
- Odd Sheep Out: Everyone picks in secret: match the flock to score, stand alone and you’re the odd sheep!
- Loose Lips: Describe the word to your team, but don’t let a banned word slip out! Side by side, one phone.
- Word Chain: Start a new word from the last letter and keep the chain going. The clock shrinks, lives run out!