Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 11:47 am
Hands up & Charades Game – Board Game Review
Hands up & Charades Game is a Board/Entertainment/Word game from Alisa Potapova, first launched in 26th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 143+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hands up & Charades Game Stand Out
FEATURES:
► Really fun and very simple!
► Place the phone on forehead, explain and guess the words
► Correct answer – tilt the phone screen down, pass – tilt the phone screen up
► Huge database of words – over 41 000!
► 45 interesting decks: guess celebrities, movies, music, books and lots more
► Add your own words to the game
► Different modes: explain using words, show with gestures, draw on paper
► Add new players or teams
► Choose time for answer: 30, 60, 90 or 120 seconds
► Change the game result if necessary
► Suitable for kids and adults
► No Ads & in-Apps
GAME RULES
- Place your phone on forehead. Other players should explain to you the word on the screen
- If you guessed the word, tilt the phone screen down
- If you don’t know the answer, tilt the phone screen up to go to the next word
GAME MODE
Words can be explained in different ways, depending on the selected game mode:
- Words: explain using other words
- Gestures: explain using gestures without words – show pantomime
- Drawing: explain using drawing on a paper
- One word: explain using just one word
- Backwards: read word backwards
- Random: random selection of any mode
45 INTERESTING DECKS
Start set, Kids, Mix set, Act it out, Animals, All words, Easy words, Brainstorm, Family, Celebrities, Movies and TV, Cartoons, Travel, Meal and food, Sport, Literature, Art, Music, Science, Phrases, Trends, Brands, Nature, House, Professions, School, Hobbies, Act it out – Hard, Celebrities – Hard, Movies & TV – Hard, Literature – Hard, Music – Hard, Sport – Hard, Art – Hard, Science – Hard, Travel – Hard, Transport, Inventions, Technology, Men, Women, Person, Summertime, New Year, Clothes
ADD YOUR OWN WORDS
You can add your own words to the game
ADD NEW PLAYERS OR TEAMS
You can add new players. Last result, total score and games are shown for each player. Click on a player's name to change it – from 1 to 14 symbols.
NO ADS & Subscriptions
App contains NO Ads and Subscriptions.
Have a nice game!
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hands up & Charades Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2024
Recent improvements include:
iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max support added
iOS 18.2 support added
Download & Availability
Hands up & Charades Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Hands up & Charades Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
WE ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME PLAYING THIS GAME.
This game is fine it is a five star review it is a family game doesnt matter how old you are you should play this game so then we give it five stars.
Played with family and we found out our mother is troubled but other then that great apps.
Fun and enjoyable for all angles above 4ish.
Playing with our sister was so fun game.
Our daughter and we have so much fun playing this. Thank you for the laughter.
Love this game so much! Such a a wonderful memories with our friends.
Fun game to play with your friends and family of a certain age. Some of the questions arent designed for little ones. By that, we mean, to reference work by some of these people isnt in their knowledge base.
Fun game but it passes you too quickly, which is the same as a fail. In other words, when we flip our phone forward after a correct answer, then bring it back to the normal position, it oftentimes slips to a pass, instead of continuing with the next word.
Wish the free version offered more categories. Its fun though.
You can only play 3 games and the rest you have to buy for two dollars and its so annoying when you know it and you say the right thing it says its not right they need to fix the problem now or else we will call your manager.
Way too many obscure references and nowhere near enough good and interesting ones.
We like the games it is just that when we get something right it sometimes counts it wrong but we like it.
This game is bad because it doesnt let you choose the theme you wan when you click a theme all it says is 16 things and 4000 words so kids under seven dont play this or maybe kids under eight dont play this.
You could only do the beginners version. You had to buy the others. The real version is two dollars. No wonder it was free. This was terrible.
On the free version you could only do the beginners and after a few rounds of it thy started to reappear and we just didn't like it. Also, whenever you would try to turn it up or down it wouldn't really work. And the only reason we're giving it one star is because it won't let us send the review without at least putting one. This game does not deserve a star.
This does not work. There do not seem to be sound effects and the tilt is too sensitive. The English is poor — the first instruction is to attach the phone to your head somehow, which can be dangerous. Very bad! Horrible.
We don't get how you play it doesn't give us enough time to acculturation do something and it's really hard.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0.3
- Size: 130.49 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Alisa Potapova]()
Last updated: 17th December 2024 | Genre: Board, Entertainment | Developer: Alisa Potapova