38 Texting Games To Juice Up Any Phone Conversation

All you imaginative storytellers out there, pay attention to this one! An entertaining texting game with many scenarios and questions is called "What Would You Do?" To begin, create a fictitious situation and send it to your friend or a group chat. Then, ask them how they would deal with the circumstance or how they would escape it!

This texting game asks players to add letters to an expanding word without actually finishing it. You can set some rules, for example, that the words must fit into a particular category or a certain length, but you must first have a specific word in mind. After each player has added a letter, the player who completes the word receives a "G." The game continues until one player collects all the letters to the word "GHOST."

Try this texting game with your pal if you both have an emoji keyboard on your phone. Or you can download one from the app store! The game's rules are simple: you send your friend an emoji (or a series of them), and they try to decode the meaning of it. For example, "🍺🦠" =  coronavirus!

For film enthusiasts, this texting game is IT. A quiz game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is based on the idea that it takes a maximum of six steps to connect any two people on the Earth ("Six Degrees of Separation" theory). Start by introducing your friends to Kevin Bacon and another actor or actress. Have fun watching them as they attempt to connect the two by tying in their respective movie roles in the fewest rounds possible!

Trivia is fantastic since you can play it anywhere, including on your phone! First, choose a category you and your friend are familiar with. It may be anything from TV, video games, and art to something more specific such as country flags! Then, start asking different questions to one another from the selected category. Each accurate response is worth one point, and the first player to collect ten points wins!

Everyone has played this game at least once, and if it wasn't embarrassing, you probably weren't playing it properly (or with the right people). "Truth or Dare" played over text can be even more entertaining without the pressure of playing it in person. And still as fun! To play, whoever is going first will ask the other to pick a "truth" or "dare." After that, that player will ask them a question or give them a dare. If they refuse to answer or do the dare — they lose the game! Also, if you need ideas for fun dares over text, we've already done a post featuring 100+ of them!

This game is inspired by a comical TikTok that features two people attempting to recreate the sound a GIF would make. To play this game, you must imagine and then record a soundtrack for a GIF. Laughter is guaranteed with this one! Send your text buddy any GIF to start the game. By making a voice message, your friend should reply with the sound they think the GIF is making!

This texting game has simple rules. You text a lyric to your pal(s), and they must guess the song it belongs to. You can keep sending them parts of lyrics until they guess it correctly or have them admit defeat!

A word or phrase is submitted first, and the second participant must respond with a word or phrase that rhymes with the first one. You will exchange replies until one of you cannot think of a rhyme!

Using only emojis, decode what your buddy is saying! To play, send your friend a series of emojis concealing a message, then ask them to figure out what you meant. It’s their turn to send emojis once they make a correct guess. For example, can you figure out what this means: “❌😊✋🥪”? Let us know in the comments!

 

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If you and your friend are huge movie fans, you may choose a line from a film (or the theme song) and ask them to guess which movie it’s from. Just make sure you know that your friend has watched the film. Also, no googling is allowed!

This game combines inferential reasoning and creative thinking to identify what a player is referring to. To play the 20 questions texting game, one player must pick something from their imagination. It can be an object, place, celebrity, or even mutual acquaintance. Then, in no more than 20 "Yes or No" questions, your friend will try to guess the object you picked.

"Would You Rather," also known as "Either-or" and "This or That," can easily be applied to play through text! You and your texting buddy simply must choose between two rather complex options. If you are playing with your S/O, check out our post featuring flirty "Would You Rather" questions!

In Story Time, you and your friend(s) will create a story through text messages, one sentence at a time. The story starts with someone sending the first sentence and then another person resuming it by adding another line. This game can continue for as long as you like!

Play this texting game to pass the time with friends while having a blast! Rules are simple: questions only; nothing else is allowed! The only way to respond is by asking a question of your own. Also, you cannot rephrase a question that has already been posed. Players who take too long to respond are removed from the game!

This one is similar to the game of "Truth or Dare," with a slight alteration: tell the truth or do the punishment. First, decide on a penalty for each participant who dodges the question (e.g., sending everyone $5 via Venmo, sharing a cringe-worthy photo on Instagram, or texting their ex). After that, each chosen person has to answer personal questions posed to them. If they don't, they will suffer the consequences! P.S. you can also play this game via Facetime or Snapchat!

The exciting element in this texting game is that only pre-selected responses are allowed in reply! At the start of the game, you and your buddies will select the words/phrases that will serve as replies. It might be worms, yo mama, Harry Styles, Garfield, whatever you come up with. Following that, you will each ask the other questions, with the only possible responses being the words you picked earlier. Come up with fun questions, and laughs are guaranteed!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like living someone else's life, even if it's just for a short period? Well, in this game, you can text as if you were a celebrity! To play the game, players must pick a character they want to portray but keep it a secret from one another. Then, send each other texts with something your selected character would write, along with any oddball catchphrases they might use. The winner is the one who can remain in character the longest!

Reverse texting is not for the lazy. To play, one person texts something to the other in reverse, and, well, the other person tries to understand what they wrote and gives a reply. You can lead a perfectly normal conversation while playing this game with a twist that will test your patience.

This game will test your limits and assess whether the person you are chatting with is only a “friend.” To play, text a “what if” scenario and the receiver should then reply with what they would do in that situation. You decide whether or not to “go big or go home” with the questions. Just be creative; there are no right or wrong answers. Who knows, you might get yourself a bae out of this!