About PartyDeck
A small, independent collection of party games that run in the browser of a single phone.
Why
Party games are at their best when everyone is in the same room, laughing at the same screen. Many of the web versions we tried stop at a word generator: you still need paper for the score, a separate timer, and a way to keep the next player from peeking. PartyDeck aims to handle the whole round — whose turn it is, who sees what, the timer, the vote and the scoreboard — so the group can just play.
How the cards are made
Every word and question was written for PartyDeck: 1,185 Imposter words, 820 charades words and 329 most likely to questions in English. The Brazilian Portuguese cards were written separately in Portuguese, with Brazilian food, festivals and everyday life, rather than translated. An automated check rejects duplicates, overly long words, brand names and a list of sensitive topics; people then read the lists, because no word filter is perfect.
Fair randomness
Roles and words are drawn with the browser's cryptographic random number generator and an unbiased shuffle. In testing, 10,000 simulated rounds gave every player the same chance of being the imposter, within normal statistical variation.
What PartyDeck does not do
- No accounts, chat, leaderboards or online rooms.
- No advertising and no tracking cookies. The only outside script is Cloudflare's cookie-free visit counter, added by the web host (see Privacy).
- No drinking games or adult content.
- No brand names, film titles, famous quotes or real people in the cards.
Languages
PartyDeck is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. Each language has its own word lists and questions instead of a translation of another one, because a good party word depends on where you live: a Brazilian family plays with pão de queijo and Festa Junina, an American one with clam chowder and the Fourth of July, a Japanese group with its own word-wolf habits. Versions other than English are marked until a native speaker has checked them.
Found a word that should not be there, or a rule that is unclear? PartyDeck is part of a personal portfolio of small web tools and is updated by hand.
Questions
Who makes PartyDeck?
An independent developer, as part of a portfolio of small, free web tools.
Is PartyDeck affiliated with other party game apps?
No. Game names such as Imposter, Charades and Most likely to describe traditional party games.
Will there be more languages?
Possibly. A language is only added with cards written in that language, never machine-translated from English.
Is there an app?
Not at the moment. The website works on any modern phone browser.