Sketch Telephone is the chain itself, and our take on Gartic Phone. Everyone writes a sentence; the next player draws it, the next describes the drawing without seeing the sentence, and so on round the table. Then the room watches each chain fall apart, one step at a time.
Bad Drawings moves the punchline to a vote: you draw a prompt nobody else has seen, everyone invents a title that could pass for it, and the room votes with the real prompt shuffled in. Art Fraud puts the whole table on one canvas, a single line each, twice round, with one player who never knew the word.
Picture Stories swaps the pen for a hand of paintings — one clue, everyone plays a lookalike card, and the scoring punishes being too obvious. Table Party is not affiliated with Gartic or any other developer.
Four for the drawing-badly night
Sketch Telephone2–10 players · 10–15 minWrite, draw, describe, draw — round the table until every player has touched every chain. Then watch them unravel.
Bad Drawings3–8 players · 10–20 minDraw a secret prompt, then everyone invents a title for it. Fooling the room beats drawing well.
Art Fraud4–10 players · 5–10 minOne picture, one line each, twice round — and one player who never knew the word.
Picture Stories3–8 players · 15–20 minNo pen: a hand of paintings, one clue and a vote. Too obvious, or too clever, scores nothing.Playing in under a minute
- 1One person opens tableparty.io on a phone or a laptop and picks a game.
- 2Everyone else types the four-letter room code on their own phone. Nothing to install.
- 3Play. Anything secret stays on your own screen, so it works across a table or a video call.
Questions about Funny drawing games to play online
Does Sketch Telephone keep score?
No. The reveal is the prize: the room watches each chain unravel from the first sentence to the last. Bad Drawings, Art Fraud and Picture Stories all keep score.
Do I need to be able to draw?
The opposite. Bad Drawings is won by the titles people invent for the mess, and in Art Fraud a clear drawing is a mistake — render the word too well and you have handed the faker the answer.
How many can play?
Sketch Telephone and Art Fraud seat up to ten, Bad Drawings and Picture Stories up to eight. Sketch Telephone runs from two; Art Fraud needs four before the faker has anywhere to hide.
What if somebody runs out of time?
In Sketch Telephone the house hands in a blank page or a house line for them, so the chain never breaks and the reveal still runs from the first sentence to the last.