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A party game about drawing secret words. But you’re an ant, so you can only draw using your pheromone trail.

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What do I need?

First time playing? Read the short playful rules.

For each game, you need two things: a paper board (to draw on) and a list of words.

You can generate random boards below. Print and play!

For the words, pick whatever style suits you best.

  • Like traditional games? Click “Download” and print the material (3 pages of word cards). Reuse that anytime you want to play.
  • Don’t mind a smartphone? Use the word generator on a device (like a smartphone) to get secret words while playing.
  • Travelling? Low on space? Enable the “include words” option when generating boards. This means the words are printed on the board itself.

Board

Pick your desired settings and press the button! (A new page will open.) When in doubt, just use the defaults for your first game(s).

Turns the material mostly grayscale. Don't compress PDF. (Slightly higher resolution, but huge file size.) Prints random words on the paper itself. How hard should the words be? Already adds a few random lines to the paper Makes the board more circular / organic.

Expansions

(Click to fold.)

Not working? Or unsure what to do? The "Download" button above has PDFs I already made for you! Pick any one of those.

For most game modes, using core (or easy) words is ideal. With words printed on the board, however, the game becomes much easier and it’s recommended to allow much harder words!

Game

Pick your desired settings and press the button! (A new page will open.) When in doubt, just use the defaults for your first game(s).

Downloads a PDF with randomly generated word cards How hard should the words be? The interface needs to know if you're using this expansion.

Word Categories

(Click to fold.)

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Credits

Check out the main page for Photomone Games for detailed credits and more information.

This was, as expected, the first and original version. It’s probably also the simplest. Even though there are many ways to play (with a phone? without phone? printed word cards?), the core rules are incredibly simple yet always create challenges when trying to draw something.

Even though the other ideas came later and sought to give the game more depth or variation, I think I still prefer this first version the most. I’m just a person who likes really minimal and simple games that you can just pick up and instantly play with anyone.