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| Game | Number of players | How it works | Where to find it | Description | Notes | |
8 | Codenames | unlimited | Get a unique game link and share it with friends | This website | Give a one word clue to help your team identify words on a board | works perfect with a Google Hangout |
| Ludo King | 4-players | Download for iPhone or iPad and follow the instructions in the app | The App store | Be the first person to move 4 tokens from the starting point around the board to the center of the board. | ||
10 | Catan | multi-player | Download for iPhone or iPad and follow the instructions in the app | This website | Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you (Google) | |
| PhotoRoulette | multi-player | Download the app and send the unique link to friends to play | The App Store | Give the app access to your camera roll and then guess which of your friends' photos is the one that comes up. | ||
12 | Play Link Games | multi-player | Pair your phone to your PS4 | This website | Buy different games to enjoy | |
| Club Penguin | solo | Head to the URL and feel all the nostalgia come flooding back (meet you in the pizza making room) | Right here! | Create a penguin life for yourself and explore the online world with your pet, a Puffle. | ||
14 | Words With Friends | multi-player | Download for iPhone or iPad and follow the instructions in the app | The App Store | Think smartphone scrabble! | |
| Draw Something | multi-player | Download for iPhone or iPad and follow the instructions in the app | The App Store | Think smartphone pictionary! | ||
16 | Live Streamed Trivia | multi-player | Head to the URL and check out when you can tune in to play a live trivia game | This article | Tune in to live streamed questions where you guess the answers to earn points. | |
| Jackbox Games | multi-player | Have one of your friends buy a package and share their screen via Zoom or Google Hangouts | This website | Buy different games to enjoy | ||
18 | Keep Talking and No One Explodes | multi-player | Head to the link for instructions! | This website | One person sees the bomb while the others talk him/her through how to diffuse it | |
| Communal Puzzles | multi-player | Work together on a selection of jigsaw puzzles | This website | Puzzle away! | ||
20 | Game Pigeon | 2-players | Send the game in your iPhone's iMessage | This article to show you how | iMessage games like Pool or Beer Pong to your friends. | |
| Untitled Goose Game | solo | Download for your tech! | This website | Control a goose that bothers a village. | ||
22 | Stardew Valley | solo | Download for your tech! | This website | After inheriting your grandpa's farm, you have a few tools to get your new life off the ground. | |
| Don't Starve Together | multi-player | Buy a bundle from the site and get playing | This website | Gather resources and craft items to help you survive in this wilderness game | This is a team version of the solo player survival game, Don't Starve | |
24 | LA Noire | solo | Buy a bundle from the site and get playing | This website | Get ready for spy drama! | |
| Nancy Drew Games | solo | You act as Nancy Drew to find clues and solve mysteries | https://www.herinteractive.com/shop-games/all-games/ | Nancy Drew time! | They can sometimes be kind of expensive but they're really fun and immersive. | |
26 | Drawful | 3+ | Similar to pictionary | https://shop.jackboxgames.com/collections/steam-codes/products/drawful-2 | Everyone plays on their own phone, one person shares their screen. Everyone draws in response to a personal prompt and then the group tries to guess the real title. | |
| Board Game Arena | Depends on the game | This is a website where all kinds of tabletop games can be played virtually (turn-based or real time) | https://en.boardgamearena.com/ | Play games like checkers, chess, Catan, and Hanabi! | ||
28 | Two Spies | 2 players, or you can play against a bot. | Available on iOs. | https://playspies.com/ | You are a spy, and your goal is to control cities, and find the other spy before they find you! | So much fun, and so satisfying when you win! |
| Trivia LA | Any! You can do it alone or have teams virtually! | Live streams on Facebook for people to play along at home! There's a google doc she provides to keep score and record answers while you watch the livestream. | https://www.facebook.com/playtriviala/ | Definitely geared toward adult users | ||
30 | Pandemic | 4 | Log in through steam and share screen through google hangouts. | https://store.steampowered.com/app/622440/Pandemic_The_Board_Game/ | Disease has broken out in the world- stop it from spreading! | |
| Ticket to Ride | 4 | Download app on phone or steam. | App store | Collect and play cards to claim railway routes and win | ||
32 | NY Daily Crossword | Just one other person minimum! | It's an app, then you can share your time with anyone else! | a daily crossword appears and you try to finish it as fast as possible. | ||
| Card Games | 2+ | Allows access to card games like Cards Against Humanity, Euchre and Checkers. | http://playingcards.io/ | Choose a game and play! | ||
34 | Multiple games | 2+ | Euchre, etc | https://www.playok.com/ | ||
| Cards Against Humanity | 3-6 | http://playingcards.io/game/cards-against-humanity | Answer a prompt with your set of cards. | |||
36 | Yahtzee | 2+ | Purchase the classic board game for you and your quarantine buddies | https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Yahtzee-Exciting-Skill-Chance/dp/B00B28GVLG | The game is played with five dice, and if you get five dice all with the same number, then you’ve scored a 'Yahtzee'. The name of the game is also the name of the best hand. | Classic board game! |
| Skribbl | Up to 12 | Digital Pictionary! Join a private room with friends (up to 12) or join an online group with strangers. Draw a word while everyone else guesses, points are awarded. | https://skribbl.io/ | Pictionary! | Even more fun if you can simultaneously be on a voice or video chat so you can talk to each other while playing. | |
38 | Overcooked | 1-4 | Play the game online! | https://www.team17.com/games/overcooked/ | Cook up meals in kooky kitchens. | Good for all ages. Playable on PS4, XBox, and Steam. |
| Evil Apples | 3+ | Very similar to Cards Against Humanity! | https://www.evilapples.com/ | Answer a prompt with your set of cards. | the game is explicit so may not be appreciated by some that do not appreciate that type of humor. | |
40 | Bunker Bundle | 2+ | Buy the physical game, or join a virtual play party on Zoom (first one is next Wednesday (3/25) at 8pm EST | https://www.thebundlegame.com/bunker-bundle | Make your way around the board, answering cards in four categories. The first person to land on 'The Final Bundle' space and answer the card wins the game! (Bundle) | |
| Scattergories | Multi-player | Traditional scattergories rules | https://swellgarfo.com/scattergories/ | Get a letter and a list of categories! if you and a friend write the same word for that category, starting with that letter, you can't get a point. | One person can open the website and then share their screen using Google Hangouts or Zoom | |
42 | Colonist | can play buy yourself or up to 4 for free | It's basically Catan but you can play on a computer and link up with friends | https://colonist.io | Build your empire game! | |
| The Oregon Trail | solo | Use keyboard keys to hunt | https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html | Hunt and survive in the wild wild west | ||
44 | Dominion | 2+ | It's a deck building game that you can play online. | https://dominion.games/ | Each player uses a separate deck of cards and draw their hands from their own decks, not those of others. (Google) | |
| PSYCH | 3+ | Everyone dowloads the app and you can play together | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/psych-outwit-your-friends/id1005765746 | Try and throw your friends off by inventing definitions and fake trivia answers. Everyone plays from their phones! | It's part of Ellen's suite of games (like Heads Up!) | |
46 | Tabletop Simulator | Unlimited (based on game that you pick) | Download games from the Steam workshop, load them, and invite other users that have Tabletop Simulator to play | https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/ | A simulator for your favorite boardgames! | May not be suited for all computers, as it is essentially a physics simulator for boardgames. |
| Wavelength | 2+ | Check out this site --> | https://www.wavelength.zone/ | It's a party game where you give clues to guess the right answer! The clue-giver knows where on a spectrum of two opposite terms the 'target' is, and has to give a single clue to get the people they're playing with to understand where the target might be. You can play it as a competitive team thing or just a conversation starter! | ||
48 | Kahoot | Best with 4+ | Create your own quiz/trivia game! | kahoot.com/ | Create your own quiz/trivia game; for free, you can do multiple choice, and for an annual membership ($60, which I am recouping by having friends Venmo me $1 per person every game) you can do a 'write in' answer so it's more like classic trivia. | It's designed for educational games to be used in schools, and it's also a great option for parents who are picking up the lion's share of homeschooling right now. |
| HouseParty | 2+ | Download the HouseParty app, add friends. This integrates video chatting and a few game knockoffs (Trivia, HeadsUp, [like]CardsAgainstHumanity, and DrawIt) | https://houseparty.com/ | Video chat your friends, similar to Zoom but with games added into the interface | ||
50 | Exploding Kittens | 2-5 | Very similar to the real-life card game version! | https://explodingkittens.com/mobile-app | Play cards to make other players take actions or extra turns, and end each turn by drawing a new card - which could be an exploding kitten. If you can't 'defuse' the exploding kitten, you're out! | Fun to play on your phones while all on zoom or facetime on another device so you can still see each other and chat! We were all giggling over the silly illustrations and sound effects. |
| Hogwart's Digital Escape Room | 1 or more | You can do it on your own, as a couple, as a family. And you can compete with others via video chat - just start it at the same time, put a timer on, and see who finishes the fastest! | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkwhGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABEA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0Xvj-q13R9-CypWIUSqBlbi8rJCK1ZyobSg7Q6iuic6hdGrzO9IUkBF9c | This is a virtual escape room hosted on Google Forms! | ||
52 | Once Upon A Time | 2- 8 | It's a card storytelling game. | https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Games-ATG1030-Once-Upon/dp/1589781317 | It begins with a classic Once Upon a Time card . Each player's goal is to play all their story cards and the ending card! | |
| Wink Murder Mystery | 6+, best for bigger groups | Murder mystery game! | https://drive.google.com/open?id=17moDcUYuCZXBiwROZl506HfeElZy0H8JkG7W6_tNDqc | In a group, one person is chosen as the 'murderer'. Everyone else has to try to guess who it is before they come for you! | ||
54 | Fibbage (by Jackbox Games) | 2 | Try to come up with silly lies to trick your friends! | https://jackboxgames.com/fibbage/ | Hilarity ensues! Can be NSFW depending on your friends LOL | |
| Bunch | 2-8 | Download for Android or Iphone | https://bunch.live/ | Video chat with up to 8 friends with games added into the interface | ||
56 | netgames.io | 4+ | Log on for Codenames, Love Letter, and One Night Ultimate Werewolf | https://netgames.io/games/ | Log on to learn about each of the specific games! | |
| Taboo | 4 | Taboo is a verbal game played with two teams, a deck of 502 guess cards with a set of taboo words | https://playtaboo.com/playpage | Use with Zoom or other video service | ||
58 | Drawception | Drawception is a virtual game of Pictionary meets the classic game of Telephone. Like Telestrations, but virtual. | drawception.com | |||
| Originally published in Stay Home, Take Care - a social distancing care package | ||||||
You can’t pull out the pool noodles or play steal the bacon. But there are still many ways to keep students being interactive using games you can do online. 6 Games for You: Here are 6 games we have posted on our website that can easily be adapted for use in a virtual setting: Reverse Scavenger Hunt. This is a favorite game for camp and retreats.
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