Competitive word games for the distant

April 12, 2020 8:40 PM

When my large family (70-ish parents through teen/tween niblings, but mostly my adult siblings) gets together we play things like Boggle, Scrabble, Balderdash, Bananagrams, Code Words, Apples to Apples, charades, Jackbox games, etc. We all live in different time zones. What mobile/web games should we play now, all together or in smaller groups of 2 or more?

We've done Zoom game nights, but it would be nice to have some asynchronous games since we're all on different schedules. We're probably 80% iPhone/20% Various Other OS users. What should we play?

posted by doift to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (3 answers total)

Lexulous.com has a scrabble clone that emails you when it's your turn
posted by kbuxton at 10:56 PM on April 12, 2020

https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/ has been on Metafilter before- it's only one go per day but you can compete on how few guesses it took? There's also a hard word of the day as well.
posted by freethefeet at 12:40 AM on April 13, 2020 [1 favorite]

http://www.wordsplay.net/

Super casual Boggle clone.
posted by certs at 3:16 PM on April 17, 2020