A category shows up and you have 60 seconds to type as many fitting words as you can. Most words wins the round — best of 3 takes the match.
Friends join from the Word Race screen with this code.
Best of 3 rounds. Each round is 60 seconds.
The next category is coming up in a moment.
You have 60 seconds. A category shows up (Animals, Foods, Verbs, Colours…). Type as many words as you can that fit.
Most words wins the round; best of 3 rounds wins the match. Works in any language you're learning.
A category appears — Animals, Foods, Verbs, Colours — and you have sixty seconds to type as many words as you can that fit it. Everyone races at once, on the same category, against the same clock. Most words takes the round, and the match is best of three.
There is no penalty for a wrong word beyond the seconds you spent typing it, which is the whole shape of the game: hesitation costs more than being wrong. Sixty seconds feels generous for about fifteen of them.
Everyone starts the same way, reaching into the middle of the category — dog, cat, horse — and then stalling around word eight, because the obvious ones are gone and they’re now searching an entire language at random. The players who win do the opposite: they pick a corner and sweep it. All the farm animals, then all the birds, then everything in the sea. One narrow shelf at a time is far faster than the whole warehouse at once, and you rarely repeat yourself.
The other habit worth stealing is not stopping to judge. A word you’re unsure about takes two seconds to type and two seconds to think about; type it.
This is the one game here that measures something real about your vocabulary, and it does it in a minute. Sixty seconds of Animals in Spanish tells you exactly how much of that category you actually hold, as opposed to how much you’d recognise on a flashcard — which is a very different and much smaller number.
It’s also the easiest game to play against somebody far better than you and still enjoy, because your own count between rounds one and three is the score that matters. A partner who types thirty words while you type eleven has just handed you nineteen words worth looking up.
Two players or a roomful — it scales, and it’s more fun crowded. Make a room, share the code, and the host starts the match. No account needed to play; an account keeps your name, photo and results. Works on a phone, though a keyboard is an unfair advantage nobody will thank you for.
For something slower and more conversational, try Guess the Word or Word Chain. All the games are here.