Category: Social Media & Internet Games · Players: 3+ · You’ll need: A phone; drinks
Charades for the group chat era: describe a title using only emojis.
Setup: Everyone has their phone. Decide categories, movies, songs, TV shows, and a time limit (60 seconds works).
How to play:
On your turn, secretly pick a well-known title and type it as an emoji sequence only, no letters, no numbers. Show the screen (or send it to the group chat).
Everyone shouts guesses for 60 seconds.
Someone gets it: the guesser hands out 2 sips. Wrong guesses along the way: a sip each (cap it at 3 per person). Nobody gets it: the puzzle-maker reveals, if the group rules the puzzle fair, everyone drinks; if it was impossible nonsense, the puzzle-maker drinks.
Turn passes left.
Emoji Translation, Variations
Reverse mode: The group is given the title and must agree on a 5-emoji translation within 60 seconds, failure to agree means everyone drinks.
Team relay: Two teams race to solve the same puzzle; losing team drinks.
Emoji chain story: Each player adds 3 emojis to a growing story; the next player must narrate everything so far before adding.