Charades generator

1. Split into two teams or more. Pick a time for each turn, such as 60 seconds.
2. One player from the first team is the actor. They tap Hide until I tap, pass the phone around if needed, and read the prompt alone.
3. The actor starts the timer and acts the prompt out without a word. No sounds, no mouthing words, no spelling, and no pointing at things in the room.
4. Their own team calls out guesses. A right guess before the time runs out scores 1 point: press +1.
5. Press Next team, and a player of the next team acts. Play until everyone has acted, or to a score you agree on.

House rules differ. Some groups let the other team score a point when the actor's team fails. Agree on the rules before the first turn.

• Hold up fingers to say how many words the prompt has, then fingers again for the word you act now.
• Lay fingers on your forearm to say how many syllables a word has.
• Crank an old film camera beside your head for a film, or draw a rectangle in the air for a show.
• Tug your ear for "sounds like", then act a word that rhymes.
• Touch your nose and point at the player who guessed right.

528 prompts in 8 categories, each at 3 levels. Kids prompts are things a young child can act, like brushing your teeth or a kangaroo. Hard prompts are scenes, like folding a fitted sheet. Films and shows are kinds of stories, like a heist film or a cooking contest, never real titles, so nobody needs to have seen a film.

Everyday life holds the moments of an ordinary life, like missing the bus or a first day at a new job. For drawing games, use the Pictionary word generator, and to split a big group into teams, the random group generator.