Scrawl
A telephone game with pens, where your careful doodle mutates into pure nonsense by the time it comes back.
Who it's for
Adult game nights and mixed groups who love Telestrations-style chaos and don't take their drawing skills seriously.
Not for you if…
You get self-conscious about drawing in front of others, because Scrawl only works if everyone commits to bad art.
Vibe's take
silly, chaotic, laugh-out-loud, low-pressure, creative
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About this game
Scrawl takes the classic telephone game and adds pens, so instead of a whispered phrase getting mangled, a doodle gets reinterpreted into a wildly different drawing seven times over. You start by sketching a secret prompt with zero artistic requirement, someone else describes your doodle in words, the next person draws that description, and the clipboard just keeps traveling and mutating until it lands back with you. The reveal is where the game actually happens, watching a simple scene warp into nonsense one bad interpretation at a time. Simple rules, guaranteed laughs, and a scoreboard that barely matters next to the pure joy of the unraveling.
Get it
from $23
By the numbers
Players
Duration
30 min
Ages 16+
Complexity
1.0 / 5 — Very LightBGG Rating
6.0/10
Rank #3,384
1.1k ratings
Published
2016
Language
Language essential
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