Imposter game generator.
Pick a pack, say how many are playing, and deal. The phone goes round, each player taps to see their card, and one of them gets the category and nothing else. Or skip the cards and take a word and an imposter number for slips of paper. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and it keeps working with no signal.
How to use it
- Set it up. Pick a pack (Mixed pools every family-friendly one), set the number of players, and choose what the imposter sees. The category is the classic version.
- Deal. Hand the phone to player 1. They tap to see their card, read it, hide it and pass the phone on. Round the table until everyone has looked.
- Clues. Starting with the player shown, each person says one word about the secret word. Not the word, not the category, not a rhyme. Twice round is a good default.
- Vote. Talk it over, then point on three. If the table caught the imposter, they get one guess at the word. Tap “Who was it?” to settle it.
What the imposter sees
- The category
- The classic version. The imposter knows it is an animal and has to bluff from there. Right for most tables.
- A grid of 16 words
- The imposter sees the secret word and fifteen others from the same pack, and does not know which is which. The Chameleon way. Civilians have to clue carefully, because the imposter can cross words off.
- Nothing
- No category, no hint. Hard. The imposter listens to the first clue and improvises. Good for a sharp table, cruel for a first game.
The full rules, the tie rule and the scoring table are in how to play.
Where the words come from
The same 30 packs as the app, every word of them: the word lists show what is in each. Each word was picked so a civilian can clue it without handing it over. The two packs marked 18+ only come up if you choose them.
What the app adds
- A hold-to-reveal card that looks identical for both roles, so nobody reads the screen from across the table.
- A random clue order each round, with the imposter rarely first, and a setting that makes everyone the imposter once before anyone repeats.
- A talk timer, a vote that counts itself, a written tie rule, and a button for when someone blurts out the word.
- The last-chance guess, with scores, and Best liar and Sharpest eye at the end of the night.
- A memory of which words your group has had, so none come round again until the pack runs out.
- Rooms, with everyone on their own phone, for playing apart. And a TV that shows whose turn it is.
Questions
Is the generator free?
Yes. So is the app, with every pack and every mode. There are no ads and no subscriptions anywhere in Side Eye.
Does it work offline?
Once this page has loaded, yes. It makes no network calls. The app works offline too, in the one-phone modes.
Can I use my own words?
Not here. In the app, write sixteen words and a category and you have a pack, free, with a link that opens it on another phone.
How many players?
Three to twenty. Up to ten players there is one imposter; from eleven there are two.
Can everyone be on their own phone instead?
Yes, in the app: start a room, share the link, and each phone holds its own card and ballot. How that works.
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Or play in your browser, no install needed.