About Limited Words:
Use Your Words is a partygame, in which players have to subtitle a foreign movie, write headlines for a photograph in a newspaper, or finish a sentence. Indeed, use your words! Participants can join via a website, so they can use any device such as phone, tablet etcetera. This is most fun at home, but online is also an option during some event where we all have to stay at home. Unlike games like Jackbox, the presentation in this game is subtle. It depends greatly on the players if it’s fun. If people aren’t very witty, it can become boring. It helps a lot if someone takes a role of showhost, someone to read the answers out loud and comment on them. Six players can actively play, but more people can join as audience. Audience nominate separate awards for the funniest player, the dirtiest and the most offensive player. The scoring is done by the players themselves. There is a bit of honour in this system, because strategically you best vote on bad answers, or just not vote at all. This game is a great tool for entertainment, but in the end it’s the people who make it funny! The game offers several useful options, like extended timers, or a family option to filter out the suggestive prompts.When you want to play online, there are several possibilities, but it all requires preparation. Simple solutions like a conference call via Teams or Messenger don’t work, because they don’t send audio (at least, not that I know). Here are some solutions, from best to worst:
