Help & FAQ

At least 3. There's no set upper limit, but every extra player makes each chain, and each reveal, longer.

No. Players on the app and players in a browser at play.squigglepig.app can be in the same room. In a browser you can also add Squigglepig to your home screen so it opens like an app.

After you create a game, the lobby shows the room code. Read it out, or tap Share Room Link to send an invite through any messaging app. Anyone who taps the link lands on the join screen with the code filled in.

The host sets the points needed to win, from 1 to 20 (5 by default). Each step is on a timer: 2 minutes to write prompts, 60 seconds to draw, 45 seconds to guess and 60 seconds for the judge to score each chain.

When a chain is revealed, the player who wrote its original prompt judges every drawing and guess in it. Each one they mark as a match earns a point for the player who made it. Every blank drawing costs the player who should have drawn it a point, whether they handed in an empty canvas or ran out of time.

Whatever you've drawn or typed when the timer hits zero is sent in for you, so the game keeps moving. An empty canvas costs you a point. An empty canvas or guess isn't passed on: the next player gets the last drawing or words in the chain that had something in them.

Tap 2× on the canvas to zoom in, then slide two fingers to move around. A small map shows which part of the drawing you're looking at. In a browser, scroll with the mouse wheel or trackpad instead.

You never left. Closing the app or locking your phone doesn't take you out of the room: the others see you as away, and opening Squigglepig takes you straight back. While you're away in a game, your turns are sent in for you when the timer runs out (a blank drawing costs a point). A room closes after 10 minutes with nobody doing anything in it.

No. Once the host starts a game, the room is closed to new players until that game ends. Then anyone with the code can join in time for the next one.

You leave a room by tapping Leave game. If someone leaves during a game and at least 3 players carry on, they're taken out of the rotation straight away, and their score stays on the board. If fewer than 3 would be left, their turns run out the timer and come in blank until the round ends, and the game ends there. If the host leaves or closes the app, the player who has been in the room longest and has it open takes over as host.

Only ones about the room you're in, and only while the app isn't open: when someone enters or leaves the lobby, and, if you're away, that the game has started or that it's your turn (once, until you're back). Turn them off in the app's menu (☰ › Notifications) or in your phone's settings. The web version doesn't send them.

Only while you play. Drawings, prompts and guesses are passed between the players in your room, and the game server keeps a copy of the game while it's running so it can carry on if everyone closes the app. It's deleted when the game ends or the room closes. There are no accounts. See the privacy policy for the details.

Rooms are private, so only people with your room code can join. If someone is making you uncomfortable, leave the room and start a new game with a new code. You can also report them to [email protected]; include the room code, the player's name and roughly when it happened. See the terms of service for what isn't allowed.

Tap Send feedback in the app's menu (☰ on the home screen), or email [email protected]. Say which phone or browser you're using and what happened.