20 Best Texting Games to Play Over Text with Friends, Family

Text games on social networks have become a regular enjoyment for users and anyone can avail these free games only if they own a smartphone device and love phone texting. A popular platform like WhatsApp and SMS service has become one of such popular medium to play good texting games with your friends and groups and they also provide a refreshing experience for users. These games are not only fun but also brain racking which means it does some exercise to your brain and enhances your thinking capacity.

I have often played fun texting games in group chats and they are a real good dose when bored. So I have collected a few best of the games to share with you so that you can play them over WhatsApp or other social media and entertain your friends.

Best games to play over text | Texting games

(1) Group games with Emoticons (WhatsApp)

In this cool text game, you need to build an interesting conversation by using emoticons in WhatsApp. First, you need to send one emoticon in the group and tell others to follow it. Make sure the emoticons are related to the previous one and in case, anyone stops sending the emoticons, they will be eliminated.

One more emoticons related games is you need to form a word using the emoticons and ask others to find the hidden word/sentence in it. The more difficult the words are, the more there are chances to lose. This is one of the most played games to play while texting.

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(2) Correct the Spelling

Do you want to form a riddle using jumbled words? Then try this awesome texting game and ask your friends to correct the spelling.

And the answer is:

(3) Guess the Number

Form a puzzle where a number is hidden and ask the group to find the correct number. This puzzle is much interesting and brain exercising.

Answer: The 5 digit number is 21200.

(4) Test your IQ

This another form of puzzle game where your intelligence is heavily required. Answer any of the questions and test your IQ. It’s really an interesting game to play over in groups.

Answer:

(5) Puzzle Games using Emoticons (Text games)

Puzzle games are even more fun where you need to solve the riddle with the emoticons. You can try several of such games like guessing the movie, guess the phone brands or guessing the actors/actresses/cricketers. This is a hilarious game where you will end up laughing.

Puzzle 1:

Puzzle 2:

Puzzle 3:

Puzzle 4:

Answers for Puzzle 1:

Answers for Puzzle 2:

Answers for Puzzle 3:

Answers for Puzzle 4:

(6) Story Creator

This is one of the interesting text based games where you can build stories and test your creative power and thinking capability. To play this game, you need to start writing the story with a sentence and ask your friends to carry it forward by texting back. This way, again you will continue writing the story using their lines and form a complete story. This is a fun game and you can also play in groups and among 2 person and invite others to play it.

(7) I Spy

I Spy is another interesting game where you need to post a picture to your friends/group and ask them to find a hidden object in it. You can give them some hint or the first letter of the object and ask them to guess the object. I Spy is a classic game which is considered playing with your parents or siblings.

Answer: The Seat is missing.

(8) Guess the Character

Guessing the Character is one of the best games to play over the phone. Here you need to imitate a character to start the game. The character can be anyone including a politician, superstar, or a celebrity. Then ask your friends to guess the character and have fun with their guesses.

(9) Abbreviations

Nowadays you will find the silliest abbreviation on the web but the most interesting part of this game is, you’ll have to come up with your own abbreviation. For example, you can text an abbreviation like PTAH which means ‘Partying Tonight At Home’, and ask your friends to guess the abbreviation. The answers might be quirky or funny but that’s the most interesting part of the game and this is one of the best texting games to play.

(10) Text games of 20 Questions

This is another simple yet interesting text message games where you have to think about a particular object or person and keep it in mind. Then your friends will ask you questions over text about that thing and you have to reply with just Yes or No. At the end of 20 questions, they have to guess the answer and if they are correct then they will win. This game has a number of variations and to make it easy for first-time players, you need to stick to a particular topic or genre to make it easier for them.

(11) Kiss, Marry, Kill

This is one of the funniest texting games for groups where you need to name a person and ask your friends to express their feelings for him/her in either of the three- Kiss it, Marry it or Kill it. You have to choose any one of the three options so be careful of the reply. The names should be given with smartness to make them confused about the reply and this makes the game even more exciting.

(12) Would you Rather?

Another amazing game is to give your friends some crazy scenarios and ask them would they rather do this or do that. This is an entertaining game where you can make your friends imagine an unusual situation and let them choose one from the options. This game can be played between couples or groups and it is one of the best text adventure games.

(13) Silly Pictures

This is a funny game to play online where you need to send a silly or humorous picture in the group or to your friends and ask them to do the same. Within 2 minutes you will get a massive reply with your friends’ pictures and trust me, you will end up laughing. You can limit the game from posting images from a specific genre and troll your friends by answering their questions with memes and troll pictures.

(14) What If

This is not a funny game but one of the good “games to play over text“. You can put certain situations towards your friends followed by ‘What if’ and ask them the thing they would do in that scenario. For example, ‘What if your dog poops in front of the guest in the party?’ Get hit by amazing answers and you can also put situations from your real life. This will help you find a solution and this is even more practical than the other games. ‘What if’ is the best text adventure game to play.

(15) WhatsApp Word Games

One of the best text based games is forming a word with your friends. This is not a funny game but you can try it for some refreshment. Start forming a word with a certain topic or genre and ask your friend to tell another word from the same category by following the first letter or the last. You can also apply your own conditions to this game to add some more limitations.

(16) Simple Quiz

To improve your thinking capability and general knowledge, you can play general quiz games. This type of game has a number of variations depending on the topic or the person you are playing with. Simply ask a question and tell your friends to answer immediately. If you want to prevent everyone to search the answers from the internet then try mathematical or logical questions to find out who’s intelligent of all. This is one of the best games you can play over text.

(17) Movie Lines

Playing with movie lines is perhaps one of the best text based games for groups. What you need to is to develop a line using a movie name and ask your friends to continue the conversation by adding another movie name. This game can be played with certain variations, for example, if you are acting flirty and want to play this with a girl then you can start the game with a romantic movie title and ask her to continue with the same genre. Playing with movie names is one of the fun games to play with your girlfriend.

(18) Other Question Games

Questioning games are basically meant to add fun to the group and test your IQ. Such questions have no specific genre but it enhances your thinking skills and exercises your brain. Questioning games develop your knowledge because they are related to logical thinking. These games are also good for kids and helps build their knowledge. You can try few of such tricky questions in groups or with your friends.

Answer 1: FIRE

Answer 2: YOUR EYES.

Answer 3: The password is ‘DIFFERENT’ (as mentioned in the puzzle itself)

(19) Dare Games

Dare games are another texting games where you can shoot dare messages or questions to your male/female friends or play with your crush and enjoy their answers. These games come with certain options depending on the kind of person you are playing with. For example, you can ask your friend to choose an alphabet between A to Z. As she chooses, you display the list where the meaning of that particular letter is mentioned. The meanings can be anything created by you or anyone else.

Answer: ‘A’

I hope you find these messaging games worth playing and entertaining your friends during monotonous times. They can be played with anyone, be it your girlfriend or colleague or your friends and family. So you can try out the different variations of the games and make your conversations fun and frolic. I hope you liked all the mentioned games to play over text.