About Doodle Telephone
Doodle Telephone is the good old game of telephone – just with drawings. Everyone starts by writing a sentence on their phone, e.g. “A snowman in a sauna”. The sentence is passed on to the next player, who has to draw it. The drawing is passed on again, and the next player has to guess what it shows. And so it goes, drawing and guessing in turn, until every chain has gone all the way round.
Nobody can see the whole chain while you play. Only when everyone is done does the TV show the chains one at a time, step by step, with the drawings redrawn line by line. That’s when the laughs come, when “A dog playing the drums” turns into “Grandpa grilling sausages” along the way. Everyone can tap Haha on their phone, so the laughter bubbles up on the screen.
You draw straight on your phone with your finger, with brushes in three sizes, eight colours, an eraser and undo. Out of ideas? The game suggests sentences from a long list of funny ones. The game is most fun with 4–10 players, and with 3 players it becomes a short version.
How to play
- Open the game on the TV or another big screen, and have everyone type the code into their phone.
- Write a funny sentence – or tap Give me an idea.
- Draw the sentence you get from the previous player.
- Guess in words what the drawing you get shows. Switch between drawing and guessing until the chain has gone round.
- Watch all the chains on the TV under How it went, and laugh together.