Every game here is typed or tapped, so nothing needs saying out loud. Send an invite link in the chat, they tap it, and the two of you are on the same board while the conversation carries on above the game.
Five Letters and Common Threads are the five-minute ones — built for exactly two phones and scored as a pair, which makes them a better dare than another meme. Word Grid stretches to a whole group chat: everyone hunts the same grid, and duplicate words score nothing.
For something slower, Crack the Code is a silent race on the same secret code, Secret Codes turns typed one-word clues into the whole game, and Word Tiles is the full board for when you have the evening.
Seven that need no voice
Five Letters1–12 players · up to 100 with Teams · 3 min
Common Threads1–12 players · up to 100 with Teams · 5 min
Word Grid2–12 players · up to 100 with Teams · 5–10 min
Crack the Code2–12 players · 10–15 min
Secret Codes2 players · 10–15 min
Wyps2 players · 10–15 min
Word Tiles2–4 players · 20–50 minPlaying in under a minute
- 1One person opens tableparty.io on a phone or a laptop and picks a game.
- 2Everyone else types the four-letter room code on their own phone. Nothing to install.
- 3Play. Anything secret stays on your own screen, so it works across a table or a video call.
Questions about Games to play over text
How does a game start from a text?
One of you opens a game and sends the invite link in the chat. Tapping it joins the room straight from the thread — the code travels in the link, nothing to copy.
Do any of these need talking?
No. Every clue is typed and every move is a tap, which is the point — they work mid-conversation, on mute, or in a group chat at midnight.
Which is quickest?
Five Letters and Common Threads run about five minutes, and both are scored as a pair.
Can a whole group chat play?
Word Grid takes up to twelve people from a single link, and Word Tiles seats four. The rest are built for two — the group chat makes a decent tournament bracket.