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Emoji Charades

One friend gets a secret word and only emoji to explain it. Everyone else guesses on their phone. Somebody will draw a lion and mean a cat.

Free Nothing to install 3–12 players

The Lion King, in emoji

Set up your game

Pick what suits your group, then press play. The play button follows every choice you make.

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Make it about your people

Our words are a fine start. Yours are better: your colleagues, your family's sayings, the trip everyone still talks about. Write your own secret words in the quizshow.io editor and mix Emoji Charades into a whole gameshow with buzzers and your own photos.

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How a round goes

  1. Get a secret word

    Your phone shows a word only you can see, and an emoji keyboard with about 1,800 emoji to pick from.

  2. Say it with emoji

    Up to six emoji, no letters. They pop onto the big screen one at a time while everyone leans in.

  3. Guess from six

    Everyone else picks an answer. Wrong ones drop out one by one, and the clue giver scores for every friend who got it.

At the end, a gallery of every clue of the night. Prepare to explain yourself.

Emoji Charades is a guessing game for a group in one room or on one call, for game nights, team events, classrooms and family parties. One screen shows the game, and every player joins from the phone, tablet or laptop they already have, in any browser. There is no app to download and nobody has to sign up to play.