Drawing · All ages
Blind Contour
Draw a secret thing with invisible ink. Nobody sees a line until you're done, not even you. Then the room guesses what it is.
- ~15 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- Free
- All ages
What it feels like
Here's the trick. Your pen draws with invisible ink. You won't see a single line until you're finished. So trust your hand, draw what you're told, and let the room work out what on earth it was meant to be.
How to play
- Each of you gets a secret thing to draw — but the ink is invisible until you're done.
- Then the drawings come up one at a time and everyone shouts what they think it is.
- The artist reveals the real answer. The wobblier the lines, the better the guesses.
Scoring: 2 points for each drawing you guess. The artist scores 1 for everyone who gets theirs.
You'll get prompts like
- “A bicycle”
- “A cat asleep”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
