Draw-and-guess party game
For friends on a video call who wanted a game night without an install, an account, or four more people than actually turned up. Make a room, send the link, start scribbling.
What it is
Game night on a call always stalls in the same place. Someone suggests Pictionary, then spends ten minutes on a site that wants an account, an app install, or six players when four turned up. By the time it works, two people have wandered off.
This is one page. Type a name, hit Create a game, and you get a room like /r/soggy-walrus-fiesta to paste in the chat. Anyone who clicks it is in. Short of players, the host drops in up to three bots that take real drawing and guessing turns.
Getting in
The whole sign-up is a display name and one of twenty hand-drawn faces. Create the game and the room gets a nonsense three-word address that anyone with the link can open.
The lobby
The host picks a difficulty, five to fifteen rounds, and a 45, 60 or 75 second timer. Short a few players? Add Botrick, Doodl-E and Crayon.exe, who take drawing turns like anyone else.
Your turn
The drawer gets three choices tagged easy, normal or chaos, and fifteen seconds to commit. Dither and the turn is forfeited — auto-picking only produced rounds where nobody drew anything.
The scribbling
Pen, eraser, fill, undo, clear and fourteen colours, streaming stroke by stroke to the room. Guessers type; a near miss comes back as “sooo close”, and letters of the word unlock as the clock drains.
On a phone
The layout reshuffles for touch, and the game ships its own on-screen keyboard so the system one never shoves the drawing off the screen mid-guess. Add it to the home screen and it runs full screen.
How it works
Four things happen, in this order, and none of them involve a password.
01
Type a name, pick an avatar, hit create. You land in a lobby holding a link like /r/zesty-cabbage-karaoke.
02
Everyone who opens it types a name and they’re in. Two players is enough, and the host can add bots for the rest.
03
Each turn, one player picks a word and draws it while everyone else types guesses. Getting there first is worth the most.
04
After the last round the scores come up with medals and confetti, next to a gallery of every drawing the room produced.
Features
Strokes stream to everyone as you draw, over a Supabase Realtime channel. Late joiners get the board resent.
Three bots with 101 hand-authored doodles, run through a pass that adds tremor, overshoot and the odd undone stroke.
The board is snapshotted and shown to Claude Haiku 4.5, which guesses against the same letter mask you see.
Ask for “90s cartoons” and the room gets its own easy, normal and chaos words. Rude themes get refused.
Letters unlock on a timer for the whole room; a personal hint token reveals an extra letter only you can see.
A guess within an edit or two of the word comes back as “sooo close” — shown to you, not to the room.
Phones get an in-app QWERTY, so the system keyboard never covers the drawing while you are guessing.
Skip a stuck drawer, remove a player, add or drop bots, and set rounds, timer and difficulty from the lobby.
Every drawing from the session is kept and shown with its word beside the final scoreboard.
Built with
Each room is a single JSON row in Supabase Postgres, updated with optimistic concurrency and pushed to players over a Realtime channel. Your name and avatar never leave your own browser. Bot guesses and themed word lists call Claude Haiku 4.5, which I pay for.
FAQ
Yes, and there are no ads. The bot guesses and the themed word lists call a language model that I pay for, so please don’t leave a room open overnight.
No. A display name and an avatar are the whole identity, and both are picked on the same screen as the create button. Nothing is emailed or verified.
Room state — players, scores, the current word — sits in a Supabase Postgres row. Your name and avatar stay in your browser. A drawing only leaves the room when a bot is guessing it.
Two, and at least one of them has to be human. Bots make up the difference. Ten players is the cap, three of which can be bots.
Yes. Install it from the browser menu and it runs full screen with its own keyboard. There is no offline mode — the whole game is other people, live.