The rules, step by step
- You get a secret prompt. Draw it with your finger — badly is fine, badly is better.
- Each drawing goes up one at a time. Everyone else writes a title they think could pass for it.
- The real prompt is shuffled in with the fakes, and everyone votes.
- The artist scores for every player who finds the truth.
- You score for every player your lie catches. Fooling the room beats drawing well.
Scoring and the fiddly bits
Scoring
100 to the artist for every player who finds the truth, and 100 more if all of them do. 100 to you for each vote your fake title steals.
The artist sits it out
They already know the answer, so they write no title and cast no vote. They just watch it happen.
Titles are deduplicated
The real prompt and any title already on the board are both refused, ignoring case, spacing and punctuation.
One drawing, and it’s final
Undo and Clear are there while you draw. Submitting closes it — there is no second attempt at the same prompt.
Running order
The drawings are shuffled before they go up, so nobody knows whose is next until it appears.
Questions about Bad Drawings
Is Bad Drawings free?
Yes. Every game on Table Party is free, with no accounts, no adverts and nothing to buy.
How many people do you need for Bad Drawings?
Between 3 and 8. Below 3 there are not enough of you for the game to work.
Do we need to download anything?
No. One person opens the site and starts a room; everybody else joins by typing the room code on their own phone. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Can we play Bad Drawings over a video call?
Yes. Share the room code in the chat and play with the call running — everything private stays on each player’s own phone.
Play Bad Drawings online
Free, in the browser, with everyone on their own phone.