A drawing game for two, with a live shared canvas

Players
Exactly 2
Time
About 5 minutes
Cost
Free
Account
Not needed

One of you gets a secret word and a canvas. The other watches your strokes appear as you make them and types guesses. Ninety seconds a round, four rounds, taking turns.

The strokes travel over a realtime channel rather than through a database, so what they see is genuinely live — including the moment you realise your drawing has gone wrong and start again.

Play Doodle & Guess now

Make a room, send the code to one other person. It takes about ten seconds and there’s nothing to sign up for.

Start a room

How to play

  1. 01

    Draw the word

    No letters, no numbers, no pointing at the screen. Five colours, three brush sizes, undo and clear.

  2. 02

    Guess out loud and in the box

    The guesser sees the word's shape and its category, but never the word. Guesses are matched loosely, so a typo won't cost you.

  3. 03

    Swap each round

    Four rounds, two drawings each, both of you scoring together rather than against each other.

Good for

  • Anyone who can't draw
  • Two people who want to laugh rather than think

Questions

Do I need to be good at drawing?

It is measurably funnier if you aren't.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes — the canvas takes touch input, so you can draw with a finger.

Play Doodle & Guess now

Make a room, send the code to one other person. It takes about ten seconds and there’s nothing to sign up for.

Start a room

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