What is Drawize Phone?
Drawize Phone is a free, browser-based telephone drawing game (sometimes called a "drawing telephone" or a Gartic-Phone-style game). It runs right inside Drawize - no download, no install. Everyone joins on their own phone or laptop, and the whole group plays at the same time through parallel chains, so nobody sits around waiting.
How it works - write, draw, guess, reveal
Every round is one of four simple steps, and you always work on someone else's idea - never your own:
- Write: Everyone writes a short, funny prompt - "a panda riding a skateboard," anything goes.
- Draw: Your prompt lands in front of another player, who has to draw it before the timer runs out.
- Guess: That drawing goes to a third player, who writes down what they think it is.
- Reveal: Draw, guess, draw, guess... and when the chains are done, the album plays back every step.
Because each person only ever sees the previous step, tiny misreadings snowball. A "cat astronaut" becomes a "potato in a helmet" becomes "a sad ghost" - and the reveal is the payoff that makes everyone want to play again.
Play with friends in a private room
Phone is at its best with people you know. Tap Play with friends, get a private room with a share link, and send it to your group chat. As host you can tweak the timers and add a few AI players to round out a small group. It is a perfect fit for a remote hangout, a classroom warm-up, a team icebreaker, or a long-distance date night.
No friends online? Jump into a public game
Solo right now? Choose Public game and you are dropped into a quick match that fills up fast - with real players plus our cast of AI artists (Picasso 9000, Doodlebot, Scribbles and friends), so a game always starts and you are never stuck waiting for a full room.
The album is the whole point
When the chains finish, Drawize Phone stitches them into a shareable album - a step-by-step replay of how each prompt mutated. Copy the link, share the funniest chain, and watch friends click through to see what their drawing turned into. It is the kind of thing that gets screenshotted and sent around long after the game ends.
Why people love it
- Zero setup: It is in the browser. Open a link, pick a name, play.
- You don't have to be good at drawing: Bad drawings are the best drawings here.
- Everyone plays at once: Parallel chains mean no waiting your turn.
- The reveal: The album turns a 10-minute game into a story you'll retell.
Ready to play?
Grab a few friends - or just jump into a public game - and see how badly a simple prompt can go wrong. It is free, and it takes about a minute to start.
Prefer the classic team game? You can still play Drawize the original way, or browse more from the Drawize blog.
Drawize Phone is a game mode inside Drawize, the online Pictionary-style drawing game enjoyed by over 10 million players worldwide.