100+ Unique & Cursed Ideas to Spice Up Your Next Gartic Phone Game

Influencer Gia Rutkowski shares fun prompt ideas for Gartic Phone

Co-authored by Glenn Carreau Reviewed by Gia Rutkowski

Last Updated: February 3, 2026 Fact Checked

• Funny Prompts
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• Easy
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• Weird
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• Quirky
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• Dark
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• Cursed
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• Kids
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• Adults
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• How to Play Gartic Phone
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Excited to play Gartic Phone—the game combining Pictionary and Telephone—with your friends? It’s a ton of fun to play…but if you’re anxious about coming up with prompts for the game, we’re here to help! Gartic Phone is a drawing game in which players come up with prompts that get shuffled around, and different players must try to draw the prompt they’re given. Whether you’re a fan of funny, weird, or downright cursed drawing prompts, we’ve totally got you covered. Read on for a huge collection of Gartic Phone prompts, including tips from influencer Gia Rutkowski—plus a guide to playing the game for beginners.

Examples of Funny & Cursed Gartic Phone Prompts

Influencer Gia Rutkowski suggests using hyperbolic and absolute language (like “the biggest” or “the smallest), personifying inanimate objects (“crying potatoes,” “laughing trees”), and using familiar characters like Sonic, Batman, or Italian Brainrot. Here are a few ideas you can try:

• Becoming best friends with a fire-breathing dragon
• The world’s biggest sneeze
• Mickey Mouse is afraid of heights
• Mario going Super Saiyan
• The moon howling at a wolf
• A sad slice of bread about to get toasted
• An alien driving a car

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Funny Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Gartic Phone is designed to encourage all the laughs—and that starts with funny drawing prompts. Rutkowski suggests using hyperbolic and absolute language (“the biggest,” “the smallest”). You can also personify inanimate objects or place objects and animals in strange circumstances. If you need a little help coming up with some truly funny ideas, here are some Gartic Phone prompts guaranteed to lead to hilarious results:

   • Becoming best friends with a fire-breathing dragon
   • Getting scared by a spider
   • Link fights Ganondorf in an inflatable frog costume
   • Donut realizing it doesn’t have a center
   • Someone throwing coffee at the Mona Lisa
   • Witches upgrading from flying brooms to zambonis
   • Your superpower is morphing into a worm
   • A zombie prom night
   • The world’s biggest sneeze
   • A hippo running on a treadmill
   • Aliens trying to find a parking space for their spaceship
   • Taylor Swift gets abducted by aliens
   • Mickey Mouse is afraid of heights
   • A milkshake bringing everyone to the yard
   • Chicken hatches a lizard egg

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Easy Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Maybe you aren’t aiming for humor so much as you’re looking for something that won’t be too hard for players to recreate. That’s totally understandable! After all, drawing isn’t everyone’s forte. So, if “easy” is your goal, here are a few simpler drawing prompts to use in your next Gartic Phone game:

   • Crying potatoes
   • Laughing trees
   • Dancing forks
   • A hot dog with wings
   • A giant squid that’s totally kawaii
   • An octopus with spoons instead of tentacles
   • A shark eating a cupcake
   • A dancing lobster
   • A crying crayon
   • A cloud raining sprinkles
   • A skipping stick figure
   • A lollipop garden
   • Your favorite emoji ever

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Weird Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Gartic Phone is also beloved for its ability to get really weird between prompts—that’s why people play it! But why wait around for things to get wacky? If you want to create maximum artistic chaos from the very beginning, use any of these weird and wonderful Gartic Phone prompts:

   • Cult members trying to summon a demon
   • Dinosaurs throwing a garden tea party
   • Mario going Super Saiyan
   • Batman is evil and Joker is good
   • A washing machine and dryer in love
   • Social media platforms battling for supremacy
   • A banana doing an elegant ice skating routine
   • Bookworm eating a stack of books
   • A sea monster is terrified of a tiny kitten
   • Flamingo dance competition
   • A spaceship traffic jam
   • A new design for the $1 bill
   • Sonic the Hedgehog loses a race
   • Tiny clownfish thinks he’s kind of the seven seas
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Quirky Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Plenty of the best Gartic Phone prompts could also be described as quirky: a little strange or eccentric, definitely silly, and creative to boot! Capture the “quirky” vibe with these unusual (but fun!) Gartic Phone ideas:

   • A dog with human facial hair
   • A wizard summoning pizza
   • The cow is actually jumping over the moon
   • A shrimp frying rice
   • A super small cowboy trying to ride a horse
   • Pikachu is elected President
   • The sun challenging the moon to a duel
   • A balloon with a fear of heights
   • Dracula eating a McRib for the first time
   • Mario drops all his gold coins down a green pipe
   • A comfy, cozy pig in a blanket
   • The muffin man starts making scones and everyone hates it
   • The moon howling at a wolf
   • Platypus enjoying a lazy river ride
   • A vegetarian running away from meat

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Dark Humor Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Would you define your sense of humor as being a little dark or morbid? Do you enjoy making fun of things that other people might shy away from? If the answer to both questions is “yes,” you might enjoy trying a few darker (but still funny) Gartic Phone prompts in your next games. Rutkowski says it’s popular to mix familiar characters like Sonic the Hedgehog, Batman, Superman, and Italian Brainrot with deviant actions. Here are a few ideas:

   • A turkey sitting at the Thanksgiving table
   • Batman finally goes to therapy
   • The last chunk of Earth is devoured by a black hole
   • Bugs Bunny vs. the Joker
   • Toad (from Mario) learning to twerk
   • Old McDonald’s farm animals stage a coup and throw him out
   • Marshmallow trying desperately not to melt over a campfire
   • A guppy gets put in the shark tank by accident
   • A sad slice of bread about to get toasted
   • Pluto the dog walking Goofy on a leash
   • Harry Potter zombie apocalypse
   • Mickey Mouse committing arson
   • Looney Tunes characters doing the Harlem Shake
   • An artistic rendition of the “cocaine bear”
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Cursed & Dirty Gartic Phone Prompts

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   Some Gartic Phone prompts are funny, some are weird…and some are just plain unhinged. If you’re a fan of cursed humor and downright dirty, hilarious drawing prompts, then see what happens the next time you play Gartic Phone with any of these crazy and unhinged ideas:

   • Grimace trying a Grimace shake
   • Minions doing a Magic Mike-style strip tease
   • SpongeBob commits a felony
   • The poop emoji winning an emoji beauty pageant
   • Batman and Superman sipping pina coladas while caught in the rain
   • A moth making out with a street lamp
   • Kermit is pregnant with Ms. Piggy’s child
   • Spider-Man vs. Spider-Pig
   • Jack and Jill fall down the hill and into quicksand
   • An Among Us orgy
   • The grossest, nastiest thing you can think of
   • A guy whose farts smell like pizza
   • The red M&M is dating Chester Cheetah

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Gartic Phone Prompts for Kids

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   Gartic Phone isn’t strictly for kids or adults—it’s all in the type of prompts you use! So, if you need some more kid-friendly drawing ideas for your next game, check out the following list:

   • A dog driving a car
   • T. rex getting a tooth pulled at the dentist
   • Elephant sneezing
   • A giraffe with corgi-sized legs
   • A llama surfing
   • Robots learning to do ballet
   • A cat burglar that’s actually a cat
   • An alien driving a car
   • A pirate in a hammock with all their treasure
   • A person with donuts instead of eyes
   • A unicorn that can breathe out rainbows
   • A kangaroo jumping on a trampoline
   • A troll on a unicycle
   • A flying hot dog
   • A shark driving a speedboat
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Gartic Phone Prompts for Adults

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   Finally, let’s take a look at some prompts for adult audiences! These prompts aren’t the most kid-friendly (either because of the references they make or the language they use), but they’re perfect for pop culture-savvy adults enjoying a game of Gartic Phone. Take a look:

   • Being chased by the Duolingo owl
   • Gordon Ramsay calling someone an idiot sandwich
   • Sunbathing penguins on a sunny beach
   • Fox dancing at the discotheque
   • A vampire on a juice cleanse
   • Waluigi painted like the Mona Lisa
   • The knives pointing at the smug cat meme
   • A really flirty cactus
   • Shrek riding a roller coaster and eating Taco Bell
   • Your rendition of the betrayal of Julius Caesar
   • Bigfoot and Mothman playing chess
   • A cat that’s absolutely zooted on catnip
   • Aliens lost in an IKEA store
   • Godzilla napping and being adorable

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How to Play the Gartic Phone Game

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   Set up a game of Gartic Phone via the official website. Simply visit the Gartic Phone website and click or tap the Start button to start a game. You’ll be taken to another screen, where you can choose a preset (Normal for the basic Gartic Phone rules, unless there’s another one you want) and invite other players to the game.

   • In the Custom Settings tab, you can also set the number of turns per album, the task flow (i.e., writing then drawing, which is the default), and the time allotted per round.
   • Select the Invite button to get a link you can send to other players. When you’re ready, select the Start button once more to begin the game!
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   Begin the game by writing a drawing prompt. Here’s where our suggested prompts above will come in handy! At the start of each game, you’ll have to come up with a prompt or phrase and type it into the text box shown on screen. This prompt can be anything, from something really simple to super complex. Rutkowski suggests “broadly aiming for total absurdity. The wilder, the better!”

   • When you’ve finished your prompt, select the “Done!” button to finalize it.
   • After entering your prompt, you’ll also be able to customize the settings for that album.
   • You can choose the display mode, whether or not there’s a voice-over, and the exhibition flow (whether albums show from beginning to end or vice versa).
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   Draw the Gartic Phone prompt you’re given. Once all prompts are entered, the game will automatically send you another player’s prompt (and send yours to another player, too). Read the prompt you’re given, then do your best to illustrate it! You’ll have a limited amount of time (typically around 60 seconds, unless you changed the game’s settings) to do so.

   • You can be as artistic or basic as you want with these illustrations. It’s all about the humor and the attempt, not drawing perfectly!
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   Try to guess the original prompt for another drawing. Gartic Phone automatically shuffles around prompts and drawings each round—so, once you finish your drawing, you’ll be shown someone else’s, and you’ll have to try and guess what the original prompt for that drawing was. Type your best guess into the text box given and enter it. When the timer runs out, the next round will begin!

   • Try to be descriptive when you’re guessing a prompt. The more you add, the more the next artist will have to work with.
   • Gartic Phone is a lot like the classic game of Telephone—but instead of whispering phrases to one another, you’re drawing them and seeing how twisted the original message gets.
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   Keep drawing and guessing prompts until the game ends. Gartic Phone’s gameplay is a cycle—you’ll draw a prompt, try to guess a prompt based on a drawing, then make another drawing based on someone else’s interpretation of a prompt, and so on. The game will end after every prompt’s album has a certain number of drawings and guesses; after that, all that remains is to look at the results!

   • At the end of the game, Gartic Phone will take you all through each prompt and subsequent drawings and guesses, so you can see their evolution.
   • You can also opt to save a prompt album as a GIF (which plays screenshots of the prompt, drawing, prompt, drawing, and so on).
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