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2019 · 4-8 players · 40min · weight 1.29 · 512 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
265684
Name
Subtext
Year
2019
Rank
7006
Min players
4
Max players
8
Playing time
40
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
40
Avg weight
1.2857
Num weights
7
Bayes avg
5.66769
Average
6.45892
Users rated
512
Num owned
903
Wanting
16
Wishing
134
Num comments
121
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Hidden RolesPaper-and-PencilTargeted CluesVoting
Categories (1)
Party Game
Description (1012 chars)

In Subtext, players try to communicate with one another by drawing hints about the word on their card. Drawing well is not required — just being clever in selecting your hints. Each round, one person is the dealer. This player looks at their word, then shuffles the card into the cards for the other players and distributes them randomly. By doing this, one player will have the same word as the dealer, but nobody — not even the dealer — knows who it is. The dealer then draws a picture, and you want to hint at your word so that ideally only the person who has the same word will understand what you're depicting. In the subsequent guessing phase, all players (including the dealer) guess which player got the same word as the dealer. Points are awarded based on the number of incorrect guesses, but the dealer and their partner have to guess correctly to even get points. How vague do you want to be in your drawing efforts to still get your message across without anyone else knowing it?

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).