Everyone gets the secret word.Except one of you.
Impostor is the party game that turns your friends into suspects. Pass one phone around, give one-word clues, and vote out the liar before they talk their way to a win.
- 3 to 20 players
- Works offline
- No ads, no accounts
- 43 languages
Play a round right here
Pass the phone to Player 1
The tell is always the vague one.
Four clues for one secret word. Three of them come from someone who knows it.
- “Iceberg”Player 1
- “Ship”Player 2
- “Rose”Player 3
- “Big”Player 4
Four steps. Ten seconds of setup.
No lobby codes. No second device. No rules to read out loud.
Type in everyone's names
Three players or twenty, on the one phone already on the table.
Pass it around
Everyone sees the same secret word. One player opens the phone and sees that they are the impostor.
Give one-word clues
Too obvious and you hand it to the impostor. Too vague and everyone thinks it's you.
Vote out the liar
Guess right and the group wins. Guess wrong and the impostor walks away with it.
One phone. Two very different screens.
Most of the room gets a word to describe. One person gets nothing but a category and a problem - talk about something you have never seen, and sound just as confident as everyone else.
Turn on multiple impostors and they have to find each other too, without giving themselves away.
Hundreds of words. Nobody sees the same round twice.
Every category is fully translated - the words themselves, not just the buttons.
- Titanic
- Pizza
- Dog
- Beach
- Apple
- Guitar
- Car
- Football
- Doctor
- Phone
- Japan
- T-Shirt
Real words from the game. One of them is this round's secret - and one player at your table will never find out which.
- Food
- Animals
- Movies
- Sports
- Jobs
- Places
- Objects
- Countries
- Brands
- Vehicles
- Clothing
- Music
Built for the table, not the lobby.
Nobody else has to download anything
One phone gets passed around. Your friends do not need the app, an account, or even a charged battery.
Works on a plane, a cabin, a campsite
Fully offline. No sign-up, no ads, no data collected - the game never asks for anything.
Fits any group size
Three players at dinner or twenty at a party. Add names until everyone is in.
Plays in your group's language
43 languages, with the word lists written for each one instead of machine-translated from English.
Gets harder when you want it to
Add a second impostor, or randomise how many there are so nobody knows what they are hunting.
Starts in seconds, ends when you say
Type names, pick a category, play. Then hit play again without setting anything up twice.
43 languages
- English
- Español
- Norsk bokmål
- العربية
- Català
- Čeština
- Dansk
- Deutsch
- Ελληνικά
- فارسی
- Suomi
- Français
- עברית
- हिन्दी
- Hrvatski
- Magyar
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Italiano
- 日本語
- 한국어
- Kurdî
- Lietuvių
- Bahasa Melayu
- Nederlands
- Norsk nynorsk
- Polski
- Português (BR)
- Português (PT)
- Română
- Русский
- Slovenčina
- Soomaali
- Svenska
- ไทย
- ትግርኛ
- Türkmençe
- Tagalog
- Türkçe
- Українська
- اردو
- Tiếng Việt
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
Questions people ask before their first round
01How do you play Impostor?
Everyone puts their name in on one phone and passes it around. Each player sees the same secret word, except one - the impostor, who only sees the category. Then you take turns saying a single word that hints at the secret word without giving it away. After the clue round, everyone votes on who they think was faking it. If the group votes out the impostor, the group wins. If they get it wrong, the impostor wins.
02How many players do you need?
Three is enough to play and it works well up to twenty or more. Four to eight is the sweet spot - big enough that the impostor can hide behind someone else's clue, small enough that everyone gets a turn quickly.
03Does everyone need to install the app?
No. One phone runs the whole game. There are no lobby codes, no room links, and nobody else has to install anything, which is why it works at a dinner table or in the back of a car.
04Does it work without internet?
Yes. Every word and every language is stored in the app, so it works in airplane mode, on a mountain, or anywhere the signal drops. It never asks for an account and collects no personal data.
05Is it spelled impostor or imposter?
Both spellings are in common use. Impostor is the older form and the one the game uses; imposter turns up just as often in everyday English. Either way it means the same thing here - the one player at the table who does not know the secret word and has to fake it.
06What ages is it good for?
Anyone who can read the word can play. Younger players do well with Animals, Food and Movies, while categories like Brands and Countries suit older groups. There is no violence, no chat with strangers, and no ads.
07Is there an Android version?
Impostor is on iPhone and iPad today. The Android version is built and finished, and is waiting on Google Play review - this page will link straight to it the day it goes live.
Someone in your group is a very good liar.
You just have not played the game that proves it yet.