Race your four tokens round the board and into your home column. Roll a 6 to bring a token out, land on a rival to send them back to their yard, and use the safe squares to dodge danger.
👨👩👧Family game night ideas for phones
Games that work across ages, with no reading-heavy rules and nothing to buy. Pick Easy decks and boards for younger players.
How well do you know the world? Read a place – a city, a landmark, a natural wonder – and drop a pin on the map. The closer you are, the more points, up to 5,000 a round. Or switch to Name the country and pick the country that lights up.
Flip two cards and try to find a matching pair. If they match you keep them and go again; if not, they flip back and it is the next player’s turn. Play on your own to beat your best number of moves, pass one phone around a table, or have everyone join from their own phone and see the same board.
The ten-second classic. Take turns placing crosses and noughts on a 3×3 grid and be first to get three in a row. The Hard bot plays perfectly – a draw against it is a win.
Each round shows a scale with two ends – Cheap and Expensive, Underrated and Overrated. The Psychic secretly sees where the target sits, says one clue, and everyone else turns the dial to match.
Drag your mallet around your half of the table and smash the puck into the far goal. Swing faster to hit harder. First to the target number of goals wins.
The same question appears on every phone with a countdown. Tap the right answer fast – faster answers score more, and consecutive correct answers build a streak bonus. Pick from general knowledge, science, geography, history, film and TV, music, sport, food, nature and tech, then add packs such as Pub Quiz, India, Britain, America, Eurovision, Christmas, Diwali and Halloween.
Two tricky choices appear on every phone. Everyone picks one in secret, then the group result is revealed along with who chose what – and the arguing begins. Play it as a pure laugh, or go with the crowd to score points. Add seasonal packs for Christmas, Diwali and Halloween, plus United Kingdom, United States, Europe and India dilemmas.
Hold the phone to your forehead so you cannot see the screen. Your friends see the word and act it out, describe it or hum it, and you guess before the timer runs out. Swipe down on the screen when you get it right, or up to pass. It works with just two players and scales up to a whole room.
Everyone writes a short phrase. Each phrase is passed to another player to draw, then the drawing is passed to someone else who has to describe what they see – and so on until the chain ends. Then the host reveals each chain step by step, and the original phrase usually comes out hilariously different.
Each player is secretly given an identity – an animal, a celebrity, a film character or a food. Everyone else can see it on their phone, but you cannot. Take turns asking yes or no questions to work out who or what you are.
Everyone gets the same prompt, such as “Name a popular ice-cream flavour”, and types an answer in secret. When everyone has answered, matching answers are grouped together and you score for thinking like the rest of the group.