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Have You Played… Gartic Phone?A real tearjerker

A real tearjerker

An example of a prompt in Gartic Phone.

A while backI wrote about Codenames, an excellent board game with a free browser-based version that made for some great long-distance family time during lockdown. Now, dear reader, I return once again with a free browser-based game that’s perfect for long-distance fun. But this time, it’s just about the funniest game I can remember playing. It’s calledGartic Phone.

Gartic Phone | The Telephone Game (How to play)Watch on YouTube

Gartic Phone | The Telephone Game (How to play)

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A great extra touch is that you can save each story in gif format once it’s complete. We have an ever-growing respository of Gartic Phone stories in our family Discord chat history now, and each time I scroll through them it makes me cry with laughter again. Here are a couple examples of how quickly things can get very stupid:

Even great artists will have their skills squandered thanks to the time constraints, and that’s a good thing: the worse the drawings, the more effective the game. Luckily, I’m a terrible artist. And probability suggests that you are too.You’ll like Gartic Phone.