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30 Fun Games to Play Over Text That'll Keep You
Entertained and Connected to Your Friends
These are the best games to play over text, from fun texting games to play with friends to cute emoji chat
games to try with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

 MARYN LILES

 JUN 21, 2023

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Texting 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 or virtual 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.

Related: 250 Would You Rather 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.

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.

Related: Virtual Games to Play

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.

Related: Best Online Games

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!

Related: Would You Rather Questions for 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!

30. Fantasy Team

Have you ever wondered who you want on your team during a zombie outbreak? Or your own personal
boy band? In this texting game, you and your friend will take turns building your own personal team ready
for action. Simply, decide on a task or a scenario and set the number of people per team. Take turns
recruiting people until you reach the number you decided upon (make sure there are no repeats). The
person with the strongest team wins!

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