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30 Fun Games to Play Over

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to Your Friends
Here are 30 of the best games to play over text, from
fun texting games to play with friends to cute emoji
chat games with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

MARYN LILES • JUL 15, 2022

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T
exting games can be a fun way to
keep up with friends or a great way
to spice up an ongoing
conversation. From fun games to play
over text with friends to love games to
play over text with your boyfriend, the
best texting games will keep you
entertained for days.

Whether you want a nice dose of

nostalgic, fun texting games to pass the
time or you're looking for some cute emoji
games to play over text with your girls,
here are 30 of the most fun texting games
for girls and guys alike.

You can play these on your phone with

anyone—from friends to your girls to your
boyfriend to your extended family. So grab
your phone and get a fun texting game
started!

30 Texting Games to Play Over Text

1. 20 Questions

To play the 20 questions texting game,

one player must pick something from their
imagination; it could be an object, place,
or even an obscure celebrity. Then your
friend will try to guess the object you
chose in 20 "Yes or No" Questions or less.

2. Emoji Translation

If you and your friend both have an emoji

keyboard, give this texting game a try! The
rules of the game are simple: You send an
emoji (or a string of them), and your friend
tries to interpret what it means.

3. Friendship Tag

This texting game is a great way to

discover how well you and your pals know
each other! Simply, ask your friend or
loved one questions about yourself or
your relationship together to see how well
your friend knows you.

4. Trivia

The great thing about trivia is that it can

be played anywhere—including your
phone! To start, have you and your friend
pick a category familiar to you. Then, ask
each other different questions from that
chosen category. Each correct answer
scores a point and the first person to earn
10 points, wins!

5. Kiss, Marry, Kill

Take a modern twist on this classic and

fun school game. To play the Kiss, Marry,
Kill, you will select three people (they can
be anyone from mutual friends to A-List
celebrities) and your friend has to choose
which one to kiss, which one to marry and
which one to kill.

6. Would You Rather?

"Would You Rather" is a fun texting game,

and it's also known as “either-or” and “this
or that.” The Would You Rather game
requires you and your friend to pick one
of two difficult choices.

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Questions

7. Most Likely To

This texting game can be played with one

or even a big group chat. Ask a most likely
to question. If you're playing with a group,
everyone will mention the person the
question fits. If only two people are
playing, both will choose the person who
most likely the question fits.

8. Never Have I Ever

This texting game can also be played

during a video call and is a great way to
get to know people or learn more about
your friends. This game is usually played
with alcohol but you can always play with
a different form of punishment like point
deduction, post an embarrassing photo to
social media—it's up to you! The rules of
the game are as follows:

1) A deed beginning with “Never have I” is

read.

2) If you have done the deed, you take a

sip from your drink or the set punishment.

3) No lies!

9. Guess the Riddle

Riddles are always fun and brain-teasing.

The rules for this texting game are simple.
Ask your friend a riddle. Set the number of
tries they have to get the correct answer.
Pro Tip: Don’t pick overcomplicated
riddles as it makes it hard to solve and can
suck the fun out of the game.

10. Name Game

This texting game is one of the most

spectacular ways to waste time. You and
your friends choose a topic, such as
celebrities or zoo animals. The first player
will say a word in the chosen category.
The second player then says a word or a
name that begins with the last letter of the
first player's word.

11. Word Unscramble

This texting game is the closest to

Scrabble! You pick a word, and then your
friend has to come up with other words
that could be formed using the letters
from the selected word.

12. Story Time

In this texting game, you and your friend

will make up a story—one sentence at a
time. One person starts the story with a
line. The other player adds to the story
with another line. This game can go on for
as long as the players want or when the
story comes to a logical stopping point.

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13. Unpopular Opinions

In this fun game, you and your friends will

take turns sharing your unpopular opinion
on various topics like restaurants or hit
movies and commenting on each other’s
opinions.

14. Take a Trip

Start this texting game by writing "I am

going to ____ and I am taking ____." Both
you and your friends have to finish this
sentence by filling the blanks with words
starting with the letter A and working
through the alphabet until you get to the
letter "Z".

15. Gun to Your Head

In this fun texting game, you ask your

friends what they would do if a gun were
pointed to their head. For example: "Gun
to your head, which celebrity event would
you sneak into?" The rules are you cannot
attack your attacker and you have to
answer the question.

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16. Name that Tune

The rules of this texting game are easy.

You simply text a lyric to your friends and
whoever correctly names the song first is
the winner. If no one gets it from the line
you send out, you can keep sending them
lyrics until they guess it or admit defeat.

17. Questions Only

This texting game is a great way to pass

time with friends. All the participants can
only ask each other questions—nothing
else! When asked a question, you can only
reply with another question and you
cannot repeat a question that's already
been asked. If someone takes too long to
answer, they are out.

18. Abbreviations

To play this game, you have to pick a

category, mention an abbreviation or
acronym in that category and your friend
has to tell you the correct meaning of the
abbreviation. The person with the highest
number of correct answers wins the game.

19. WWYD?

Calling all the creative storytellers out

there! WWYD is a fun texting game full of
situations and questions. Come up with a
hypothetical scenario and pose it to your
friend. Ask them what they would do to
escape the situation or how they would
adapt.

20. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

This texting game is great for movie buffs.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia
game based on the "Six Degrees of
Separation" concept which says that any
two people on the planet can be linked
with a maximum of six steps. To begin,
present Kevin Bacon and another actor or
actress to your friends. Watch them try to
link the two together by linking their
movie roles in as few rounds as possible.

21. Tell the Truth

Set a punishment for any player who

declines to answer (some examples are
sending everyone $5 over Venmo,
posting an embarrassing picture on
Instagram or sliding into a celebrity's
DMs). Then, pick a person to go first and
ask that person a personal question and
that person has to answer or face the
punishment (if you play over Snapchat or
FaceTime, you can do dares!).

22. Make It Rhyme

To begin, one person enters a word or

phrase to which the second person must
respond with a word or phrase that
rhymes with the previous text. You will go
back and forth until one of you can no
longer come up with a rhyming response.

23. Finish My Sentence

This texting game is best played with

close friends and romantic partners. One
person will start a sentence and the other
will complete it. The sentences can be
cool, funny and even a little dirty.

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24. Hangman

It's hard to picture playing Hangman

without the stick figure dangling in the
wind but it's possible! Text your friend a
series of underscores representing the
number of letters in the word you've
chosen. Your friend will respond with a
letter they believe might be in the word. If
the guess is correct, send your friend the
underscores again, this time filling the
correctly guessed letter. If they are wrong,
you can reply with the number of guesses
that remain (in a typical game of hangman,
they're 6!).

25. Ghost

The goal of this texting game is to add

letters to a growing word without actually
completing it. You can set rules like the
word must have a certain length or the
category in which the word may fall
but you must have an actual word in mind.
Each player adds a letter, one after the
other, and the person who completes the
word receives a "G". The game continues
until one friend gets all the letters in the
word "ghost." This is similar to the
game Horse!

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Kids

26. Where's Your Location?

To begin this texting game, examine your

surroundings, and notice that make it
unique (like a coffee table, a chalkboard or
an espresso machine). Your friend
guesses where you might be, using your
hints as stuff to go off of. You can be
as vague or specific as you like. This game
is like iSpy except you're describing a
location instead of an object.

27. Text Strip Questions Game

If you're looking to get a little flirty with

your latest Tinder match, then this texting
game is for you. You and your boo will ask
each other trivia questions and anyone
who gets the answers wrong has to
remove a piece of their clothing.

28. The Laughing Game

This texting game has a fun twist: the

person answering the question may only
respond with pre-selected answers! At
the beginning of the game, you and your
friends will choose words that will act as
answers (like bees, flowers, owls and Ruth
Bader Ginsberg). Next, you will ask each
other questions and the answers can only
be the words that have been chosen.

29. Lightning Fast

This texting game is a great way to see

into someone's inner psyche. You will
send your friend a word and they must
reply with the first thing that pops in their
mind when they read that word—easy
peasy and oh so much fun!