About Instant Charades
Instant Charades is a small, independent site with free charades and drawing game tools: a word generator with a pass-the-phone mode, a timer, a team scoreboard and printable cards. It is built for the people who run game night: parents, teachers, youth leaders and party hosts.
How the lists are made
Every word is written or chosen and reviewed by us, tagged with a difficulty (easy, medium, hard) and an age range, and checked by an automated build that rejects duplicates, banned words and lists dominated by a single film franchise. Film and TV candidates start from Wikidata, ranked by how many language editions of Wikipedia cover them, and are then hand-picked for titles people recognise and can act. Drawing game words start from the categories of Google's Quick, Draw! dataset. Nothing is copied from other charades sites.
Every list stays PG-13 at most. Pages for children, families and church groups are written for the adults running the game.
Data and photo credits
- Film and TV candidates: Wikidata, CC0.
- Drawing word categories: Quick, Draw! dataset by Google Creative Lab, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Words were selected, edited and given difficulty ratings by Instant Charades.
- Fonts: Fredoka and Source Sans 3, SIL Open Font License (Fredoka licence, Source Sans 3 licence).
- Photo: A group of people dancing by Ben Bouvier-Farrell, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: Friends taking a selfie on a rooftop party by Vitaly Gariev, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A group of people sitting on a couch talking by Vitaly Gariev, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: Group of people beside coffee table by National Cancer Institute, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A man and woman sitting on a couch laughing by Jonathan Borba, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: People playing cards at a table by Bea Vallejo, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A man and a woman playing a game of monopoly by 2H Media, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A bunch of different colored paper and pens by Merve Sehirli Nasir, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A group of people sitting next to each other by Adolfo Félix, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A woman holding a bible in her hands by Ioana Ye, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
- Photo: A group of people sitting in a room by Jacob Sangster, on Unsplash (Unsplash License).
Not affiliated
Instant Charades is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any game publisher, film studio, TV network or record label. Titles of films, shows, books and songs are listed only as prompts for a guessing game and belong to their owners.