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Kalambury emoji — rules and features in the BluGame app

2–4 players

The table's host knows the word or phrase and describes it using emoji only — adding them one by one while everyone else sees them appear live on their phones and types in guesses. The first to get it right scores a point; a round lasts at most two minutes. The describer's role never rotates — the same player, the host, describes throughout the game.

Rules

How to play Kalambury emoji

These are the same rules the app shows players in the game menu.

Goal

One person — the table's host — knows the hidden word or phrase and describes it using emoji only. Everyone else sees those emoji on their phones and tries to guess it. The first to give the correct answer scores a point.

Roles

The host describes, everyone else guesses. The describer never changes — the same player, the host, describes throughout the game.

How a round goes

The app picks a word or phrase and shows it in large type to the host only. The host adds emoji one at a time — tapping them in a grid of selected popular emoji or typing their own from the phone keyboard — there is no limit on how many emoji. Each new emoji appears right away on the other players' phones. Players type an answer into the "Your answer" field and confirm with "Guess!". You can try as many times as you like.

Time and the end of a round

A round lasts at most two minutes. It ends when someone guesses right, or when time runs out — then nobody scores. If two correct answers arrive almost at the same moment, the point goes to the one that arrived first; the other player sees "You got it, but someone was faster!". After every round the app shows everyone a short summary with the word revealed and starts the next round by itself — the host doesn't have to tap anything.

Checking answers

An answer has to match the word letter for letter: the app ignores capital letters and spaces at the start and end, but requires accents and special characters as written (the word bank is in Polish, e.g. "żółw", not "zolw"). Typos are not tolerated.

Points and game length

The first to get it right scores a point. A game is a series of rounds — the host sets the number of rounds (1 to 10, 5 by default) when creating the table. Words never repeat within one game. After the last round the player with the highest score above zero wins. On a tie, or if nobody scored, the app shows a draw — there is no tiebreak.

The table

The game is for 2–4 players. It starts when everyone gathered agrees to begin, or automatically when the host chose to wait for a set number of players and that many have joined.

Example

What a game looks like

Step by step, the way it plays out at the table.

Setting up the table

Ala creates a table for 3 rounds and becomes the host. Bartek and Celina join over Bluetooth and everyone agrees to start.

Round one

The app shows Ala the word "pizza". Ala adds 🍕, and a moment later 🇮🇹. Bartek types "pasta" and sees "Not yet — keep trying.". Celina types "pizza" and scores: the round ends right away.

Round two

Ala describes the word with a few emoji, but two minutes pass and nobody guesses. A summary with the revealed word appears, the round ends with no point, and a moment later the next one starts.

Results

Celina wins the third round too. After the last round the app shows the results: Celina 2 points, Bartek 0 — Celina wins. Ala doesn't guess because she describes, so only Bartek and Celina can score.

In the BluGame app

What the app does for you

What happens in the phones and what stays at the table.

Only the host sees the word

The word is only on the host's phone — guests receive just the emoji the host adds one by one.

Emoji in real time

Every emoji that's added appears immediately on all players' phones.

The app settles the race

When two correct answers arrive almost together, the app gives the point to the first one.

Clock and points

The app keeps the two-minute round limit, counts points, moves on by itself after every round and shows the results at the end.

Word bank in the app

The words are built into the app and never repeat within one game. For now they are in Polish only.

Platform

The same in every BluGame game

No internet, no server

Phones connect directly over Bluetooth — game data never reaches the internet.

No account

You don't create an account or log in — you sit down and play.

Everyone in their own language

Each phone picks up its own language, so at one table everyone plays in theirs.

Custom

Standard and Custom

Standard is the full game for everyone. Custom is an option for venues and events — it adds the venue's logo and welcome text and a few extras.

In the Standard version

  • The full game, freeAll the rules described on this page, tables over Bluetooth, no account and no internet needed during play.

With Custom enabled

  • Venue logo and welcomeThe venue's logo and its own welcome text on the app's home screen.
  • Your own text on the gameA banner with the venue's own text (e.g. house rules, notes for players) on this game's screen.
  • App themeA ready-made visual theme for the whole app during a session at the venue.
  • Featured gameThe venue can highlight this game on the app home screen.

Custom doesn't change this game's rules — it adds the venue's logo, welcome text and house rules shown in the app.

Learn more about Custom →

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Play Kalambury emoji

The app is free, with no account and no internet needed during play.

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