Poet and Didn’t Know It: Start by entering a phrase. Ask your bard-iest friend to respond with a phrase that rhymes with it.

Play text-based games with friends using SMS text messaging or chat apps like WhatsApp or iMessage. There's no need to download another app! You can play classic games everyone will have heard of, ...

Yet even Colossal Cave Adventure has recently got a refresh in the form of a 3D graphical version, which has led [Bryan Lunduke] to take a look at how to best revisit the original text adventure.

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Let’s be honest, you’re going to have trouble getting kids to play text-based adventure games these days. But this is one way to get them interested. This weekend you should get together with ...

The free, virtual reality game SMS Racing forces you to text and drive while racing against other cars. A good sense of humor keeps things from getting too serious, though. The goal, like most ...

I’m Thinking of a Number: There’s literally no easier game to play. Think of a number. Text your friends that you’re thinking of a number between 1 and 100. Let them guess. The end.