Pictionary Word Wells
Pick easy, medium or hard, pass the phone to the drawer only, sketch on any paper or whiteboard while a ring timer counts down, and tap correct to score your team instantly.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Set your round length in seconds and choose the Easy, Medium or Hard word well for the game.
- Pass the phone to the current drawer — only they should tap "I'm the drawer" to reveal the word; everyone else looks away.
- The drawer taps Start Sketching to begin the ring timer, then draws on paper or a whiteboard while the team guesses out loud.
- Tap Team Got It the instant the word is guessed to score a point, or Skip for a new word without ending the round.
Choose a difficulty well, pass the phone to whoever's drawing this round, and only they tap through to see the word — everyone else looks away while the handoff screen keeps the answer hidden. Once the drawer starts sketching on real paper or a whiteboard, a ring timer counts the round down visibly so the whole room can see time running out. If the word is too tricky, Skip pulls a fresh one from the same well without ending the round or costing anything. The moment the team shouts the right answer, tap Team Got It to score a point instantly and move straight to the next drawer's turn.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the tool keep guessers from accidentally seeing the word?
- The word is never rendered anywhere on the page until the drawer explicitly taps the reveal button, and the handoff screen between turns actively clears any previous word from the page — there's nothing displayed during the pass-the-phone moment for a guesser to glimpse.
- What happens if the team skips several words in a row?
- Skip draws a fresh word from the same difficulty well and keeps the round timer running, but it never changes any team's score — scoring only happens when you tap Team Got It, so skipping is completely free.
- Will we run out of words or see the same one twice in a row during a game?
- Each well holds 60 or more words and draws them without repeats until every word in that well has come up once, then reshuffles automatically — so a single evening of play won't repeat words back to back.