A live drawing game where your friends race the AI

Draw it live, crack it live

In Fool the Bot, each round has a sender with a secret word. Drawing is one way to send it: you sketch on a shared canvas and everyone else sees each line the moment you draw it. When a player knows, they tap "Got it!" and have 15 seconds to type. A wrong answer means a 2-second wait before the next tap. Rounds last 30 seconds.

The canvas is simple on purpose: a few colours, two pen sizes, an eraser, undo and clear. Stick figures are fine. What matters is what you choose to draw.

The twist: the bot is racing you

The bot keeps looking at your drawing as it grows, without being told the word, and takes guesses. It also sees every wrong guess so far, so it never repeats one. Every guess, the players' and the bot's, is shown live to the whole table.

So the classic approach, drawing the clearest textbook picture, backfires. The best drawings are the ones your friends get from a few lines the bot can't make sense of: the dog that's obviously your friend's dog, the logo of the place you always go, a scene from a night out.

Table vs Bot scoring

The first correct answer ends the round. If a player gets there first, the table wins it. If the bot does, the bot wins it. The winner takes points by speed: 10 for an instant crack, down to 5 at the buzzer. The sender wins with the table.

After each round, a short reveal shows the word, who won the race and when, and every wrong guess, the bot's included, which are often the best laugh of the night.

Not just drawing

Drawing is one of two channels. The other is writing short clues, one every 5 seconds. Both run on the same rules and the same bot, so play whichever suits your group.

Nothing to install

It runs in the browser for 2 to 6 players. The host shares a link, a QR code or a four-letter code, and friends join from their phones. Drawing with a finger is half the fun. Alone? Send a Challenge: draw a word in 30 seconds and your friend races the bot as it replays at its real pace.