Games To Play With Your Friends on Zoom!

Are you hanging out with your friends virtually on Zoom, FaceTime, or Hangouts? If you are having an online party, here are 5 games you can play without any supplies or prior planning. If you are bored with just talking, trying these is a great idea. Let me know what you think of these!

skribbl.io

This is a fun, simple Pictionary-esque game that is really fun with your friends on Zoom. You can play this game anytime, even without your friends, in public rooms. If you’re on Zoom or FaceTime, create a “private room” and invite your friends to play together on the same server. It’s so simple that you basically don’t need to explain the rules at all, so it’s really perfect for an impromptu game with new friends. It’s really great!

gartic.io

Gartic is almost the exact same as skribbl, with a few extra features. You can also choose a theme of the prompts. How you play is the exact same: players try to guess what the drawer is drawing. Guessing correctly earns you points. and you win if you end with the most points! A good option, a little more polished than skribbl but maybe less user-friendly.

Mafia

Mafia is a super fun game to play in real life, but you might be thinking, there’s no way we could play online! Actually, you can totally play this hilarious complex game on Zoom or Discord. Using the “private-message” feature, the narrator can assign roles to players. The narrator tells everyone the story of the game, and players can give alibis and accuse others. I love playing with twists like turning off video during the night so it’s “dark,” and having ghosts have their videos on only during the night. Really, it’s so much fun on Zoom. If you don’t know the rules, you’ll have to learn them first, though they’re not too hard to figure out. There are many different variations of this game and all of them will work, pretty much.

Never Have I Ever

A fun way to play Never Have I Ever is on an online video chat with friends! Make sure you know the order of when people will go, perhaps alphabetically because people show up on the screen in different order for different people. Have everyone hold up 10 fingers (or maybe 5 fingers for a smaller game) and go in order saying a statement like, “Never have I ever been to Japan.” If the statement applies to you (if you have been to Japan) you have to put a finger down. When you put all your fingers down, you’re out of the game. Last person standing wins!

kahoot.it

Kahoot is really fun to play and there are quizzes on lots of different categories and subjects. If you want a more personalized game, you could make your own Kahoot with your own questions! Some fun ideas to play are Disney movies, Star Wars, or sports trivia! I’ve both made my own customized games and played ones that others have made, and both are fun. For this to work, one person has to be the host, so they can’t technically play. The host screenshares the kahoot screen and everyone tries to answer the questions. It’s easiest if people have multiple devices (i.e. a smartphone and a laptop) but it’s still possible if you just have a computer.

That was it for my post today; I hope everyone enjoyed it! Let me know if you will be using any of these in the future, and maybe playing with people you haven’t seen in a long time or ones that live far away. Even if the pandemic is dying down, online video chats are still a fun way to talk to others. Remember to stay safe, social distance, wear a mask, and GO HARDER FOR BREONNA TAYLOR! petition gofundme contact learn