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Yes. There's nothing to buy and no account required. The site is supported by ads on the information pages; the game itself is ad-free.
Three to eight per room. Three is the minimum because voting needs at least two captions that aren't yours. If you only have two people, join a public room or open your private room to the public and let a stranger make up the numbers.
No. It was built for friends in different cities during lockdown. Send the room link over whatever chat you already use and play from anywhere. It also works great on one screen at a party, with everyone using their own phone as their hand.
Yes — most people play on a phone. Any modern browser works; nothing to install. Keep the tab open during the game: the room only knows you're there while the page is loaded.
Roughly two minutes per round, so a default five-round game is ten to twelve minutes including the lobby. Hosts can set anywhere from one to ten rounds.
Yes — tap the speaker button in the bottom-left corner of any game screen. The game plays short cues when a round starts, in the last five seconds of a timer, when the votes are revealed, and at the end of the game. Your choice is remembered on that device. If you hear nothing at all, your browser may be waiting for you to tap something first; sounds start after your first interaction with the page.
Not mid-game. The room reopens to new players as soon as the current game ends, and everyone lands back in the lobby for a rematch.
A private room is only reachable by people who have the link or the four-digit room number. A public room is open to anyone who presses "Join Public Game", and it starts automatically after a minute in the lobby. Hosts can switch a private room to public from the lobby if they're short of players.
The game removes anyone it hasn't heard from in about 20 seconds, which usually means the tab was closed, the phone locked, or the connection dropped. If it was the host, hosting passes to the next player automatically. Rejoin with the same link once the current game is over. The host can also remove players deliberately from the lobby.
Use the "Rounds" dropdown in the lobby before pressing Start. Settings can't change mid-game.
No. Enter a name and play. Signing in with Google is optional: it uses your Google name and picture in the game and unlocks the premium GIFs and captions for the whole room when the host is signed in.
We keep your email, name and picture so you're recognised next time, and nothing else — we never see your password and we don't post anything to your account. Full details are in the privacy policy, and you can ask us to delete them at any time.
Names are trimmed and any HTML is stripped. Emoji are fine. Click your name in the lobby to change it.
They're a curated deck we maintain by hand and add to every week — GIFs chosen because they work as a reaction with a wide range of captions. Rating the prompt at the end of each round tells us which ones to keep.
Custom captions are saved with your player name so we can review them. The best ones get added to the official deck of cards that every player is dealt from — so if you write something great, thousands of people may end up playing it. Captions that don't get added are never shown to anyone outside your room.
The official deck is PG-13-ish: rude, not explicit. Custom captions are written by players, so a private room is only as clean as the people in it. The game isn't designed for children under 13.
Yes — when a custom caption wins a round, the GIF is re-rendered in your browser with the caption burned in, and a Download button appears on the results screen. It's yours to share.
dylan@wdygif.com, or the Discord. Include the room number and roughly when it happened.
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