EKLI Game Night
Bible games for the whole room
One screen runs the game, on a TV or just a phone. Everyone else plays on their own phone with a four-letter code. No app, no account.
The games
🎨
Draw Near
Draw it. Guess it. Blame the pencil.
One person draws a Bible scene live on the TV. Everyone else races to guess it on their phone.
2+ players
🐺
In Sheep's Clothing
One of these sheep got a different question.
Everyone answers the same question, except one person who was quietly asked another. Spot the odd answer.
3+ players
⛪
Sunday Service
Nobody made the slides. The sermon starts in ten minutes.
Nobody wrote the sermon. Three rounds build its opening, message and close from your drawings, then the room preaches it.
3+ players
🎤
Lord, Have Melody!
Sing what's on the screen. Don't break.
One person leads a song everyone knows. Everyone else has quietly rewritten a line. Try not to laugh.
3+ players
📜
Nicaea: 2076
The Council has spoken. God help us all.
“They will not listen to the sound doctrine.” Real Scripture, terrible rulings: two delegates rule on each controversy and the council votes one ORTHODOX, one HERESY.
3+ players
🙏
Prayer Chain
Pray it in emojis. Hope it arrives in one piece.
Prayer requests passed down the line in emojis and back again. Funny, sweet, and never what it started as.
2+ players (best with 4+)
🚪
The Narrow Way
Poll the flock. Then bet on it.
Poll the room on a yes-or-no question, then one player guesses the split and everyone else bets higher or lower.
3+ players
📣
The Announcement
Say a plain thing with a terrible vocabulary.
Everyone gets the same plain church announcement and a hand of odd fragments. Build it from the hand alone; the room votes for the funniest.
3+ players
💬
Who Said That?
Everyone answers. The room guesses who.
Everyone answers the same question anonymously, then the room guesses who said what. The icebreaker.
3+ players
📜
Lost in Translation
A famous passage, in the dullest words possible.
A passage in the dullest paraphrase possible. Find it on the shelf: book and chapter, no buttons to pick from. Close counts.
1+ players
⏳
The Time Machine
Somewhere in history. Power running low.
A cooperative adventure. You've landed somewhere in biblical history; each phone has a different clue. Pool them, then enter a year and a book. Get home before the power runs out.
2+ players
🪙
Thirty Pieces of Silver
One of you has already taken the money.
Social deduction by day and by night. Everyone works somewhere in the city; a slip or a betrayal fails the place. Cast someone out at the council. Then night, when Judas, the priests' contact, Peter, Mary and Thomas each have one thing they can do, and every phone looks the same.
5+ players (4 with a bot)
❓
Trivia
Big buttons. Faster scores more.
Quick Bible questions on the big screen, four big buttons on every phone. Faster scores more.
1+ players
How it works
Open Host a room on whatever screen everyone can see: a TV, a laptop, or a phone if that's all you have. Everyone else goes to ekli.org/play/join on their phone and types the four-letter code, or scans the QR code.
No TV? Host from your phone and turn on No TV: every phone shows the big screen whenever it has nothing else to do, and you can play too from the same phone.