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Party2 min

Charades

Phone on your forehead, friends shout clues, tilt to score.

Hold the phone against your forehead with the screen facing your friends. A word appears that everyone can see except you. They act it out, describe it, make the noise — anything but say the word — and you guess as many as you can before the clock runs out.

Got it? Tip the phone forward (screen to the floor) or to the right. Stuck? Tip it back or to the left to pass. If tilting isn’t your thing, tap the right side of the screen to score and the left side to pass. Most words come with a friendly 3D picture, which makes the clue-givers’ job easier and louder.

There are nine decks: animals, food and drink, fruit and veg, everyday things, jobs, vehicles, sports and hobbies, places, and act-it-out. At the end you get the list of everything you got — and everything you skipped.

How it works

  • Pick a deck and a round length: 60, 90 or 120 seconds.
  • Hold the phone to your forehead, screen facing out. After the countdown, words appear.
  • Tip forward or right to score, back or left to pass — or tap right and left.
  • When time is up, see what you got, then hand the phone to the next player.

Common questions

How do I score with tilt?
Hold the phone upright against your forehead. Tip it forward (screen to the floor) or tilt your head right to score; tip it back or left to pass. Bring it upright again before the next card.
Tilt isn’t working. What now?
Some phones or browsers don’t allow motion sensors. Leave tilt off and tap instead: the right half of the card scores, the left half passes. On a laptop, the arrow keys work too.
How many words are there?
Nine decks with about 250 words in total, each written in both English and Indonesian. Words are shuffled every round, so the order is never the same.
Can we play in teams?
Yes — take turns holding the phone and write down each team’s score. The summary at the end of each round shows exactly how many each player got.

Tilt controls use your phone’s motion sensor, and some browsers ask permission first; nothing from the sensor is stored or sent anywhere. Pictures are Microsoft Fluent Emoji, used under the MIT licence.

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