Perfect for killing time! A roundup of games for three people to enjoy
What kinds of games can you play when there are three people—like a close-knit trio, three siblings, or a family of three? Some games are easier with an even number, but once it’s an odd number, certain games get harder to play, right? In this article, we’ll introduce games you can play with your body or hands that work for three people.
We’ve gathered games you can use in various situations: to get some exercise, to burn off extra energy, or to kill time when you have a free moment.
Spend a fun time moving your body and hands together with your children or friends!
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Drawing, Music, and Communication Games (11–20)
Do-Re-Mi Song Game
You all can sing “Do-Re-Mi,” right? This is a simple game you can play anywhere with anyone as long as you know that song.
The first person sings, “Do is the ‘do’ in donut,” then chooses the next person and also calls out the next note.
For example, while pointing to someone, they say, “Fa.” The chosen person must sing, on the actual pitch of Fa, “Fa is the ‘fa’ in fight.” It’s harder to sing than you’d think!
Lyrics hijacking game
Thanks in part to a popular YouTuber covering it, this lyric-hijacking game is trending.
You “hijack” a single word from the previous singer’s lyrics and then sing a different song that contains the same word.
If you can’t start singing within 10 seconds after the previous person finishes, you fail.
Always pay attention to your opponent’s song and link it to one you know.
It’s a fun game that’s a bit of a brain workout.
You may even feel like listening to those nostalgic songs you remembered in full again.
Pokémon Drawing Telephone Game
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When a character’s design is simple, it makes you feel like the illustration would be easy to draw too, doesn’t it? This is a game that focuses on characters from Pokémon with such easy-to-understand designs: you pass along a message, draw a picture from it, and then try to guess the original prompt.
It tests various abilities, like how clearly someone who sees the prompt can describe it, and how well those words can be expressed through a drawing.
Even if it doesn’t go well—like when the sizes or positions of parts are off—it still seems fun to enjoy the process of analyzing what went wrong.
Uta-don!
Mobile app games get even more exciting when you play with three people.
This app, called “Uta-Don!”, is an intro quiz game.
It shows how many seconds it took you to answer, and you can choose genres and artists, so you can enjoy intro quizzes in various ways.
By playing this quiz, you might learn your friends’ music preferences and how knowledgeable they are, making musical interaction more fun.
Give it a try!
Earphone Blasting Werewolf Game
This is a game that makes the classic telephone game more complex by adding Werewolf-style suspicion, all while communication is hard to hear.
The game proceeds with everyone wearing earphones blasting loud music, but one person is secretly not hearing any music.
Since most words are barely audible, it’s normal for the message to get distorted—keep that in mind as you try to figure out who the “werewolf” is.
Those with music try to devise ways to listen as accurately as possible, while the person without music strategizes how much to shift the words.
The back-and-forth mind games on both sides make for a lively experience.
song shiritori
If you’re hanging out with music lovers, you might really enjoy “song shiritori.” It’s a game where someone sings a line from a song, and the next person has to start a different song with the last syllable of that line.
It tests how much music you usually listen to.
If you play with people your age, you might end up saying, “What a nostalgic song!” and have a great chat.
Even with an age gap, it can spark interesting conversations.
You can also tweak the rules—limit it to Western music, only rock bands, only Vocaloid songs, and so on.
A drawing game where you communicate using only words
Are you all good at drawing? Out of three people, one will describe the prompt image using only words to explain its features.
The other two listen to the description and draw.
After they finish, you compare the results—did they manage to draw something close to the prompt image? The person whose drawing is closest to the prompt image wins.
Since the prompts are unrealistic images, it’ll be a blast regardless of skill level!
Humming Intro Quiz
It’s a game where you try an intro quiz—guessing a song from its opening—by presenting the intro as a hummed tune.
It doesn’t just test whether you know the song; it also challenges your ability to discern the quizmaster’s humming quirks.
The difficulty changes depending on the quality of the humming, and it’s also tricky because it can be hard to tell which instrument or timbre in the original track the humming is trying to imitate.
If you keep rotating the person in charge of humming, it could also be fun as a way to compare everyone’s humming skills.
Drawing Akinator
It’s a drawing quiz that evokes Akinator, where you stack small hints and gradually get closer to the right answer.
The respondent asks about the features of parts within the picture, then draws those verbally described features.
By combining those parts, they finally answer what the image looks like, aiming to guess the prompt.
If the positions and sizes of the parts are accurate, you get closer to the correct answer, but if there’s a mistake somewhere, the more parts you add, the farther you drift from the truth—so that back-and-forth strategy becomes an important point.
Earphone Loud Telephone Game
It’s a game where you try to relay a message correctly while loud music is blasting through your headphones.
Since you can barely hear the message, the challenge is to figure out how to interpret the words in that situation, testing each player’s ingenuity.
It’s important to distinguish between the sound in the headphones and external sounds, and to read words from lip movements.
There’s a sense of accomplishment when the message gets through correctly, and even when it doesn’t, it’s fun to review how the words got distorted along the way.