Gartic Phone Prompts That Get Funnier Every Round
28 copy-paste prompts for Gartic Phone — the online telephone-drawing game. Sorted by difficulty and vibe, from easy-to-draw warmups to chaos-mode phrases that will be unrecognizable by round three.
In short: This page contains 28 copy-paste ready prompts, organized into 5 categories with a description and pro tip for each. The first 5 prompts are free instantly, no signup needed. Hand-curated and tested by the AI Academy team.
Funny & Absurd
6 promptsExistential Giraffe
1/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a giraffe having an existential crisis at the DMV, two specifics plus a feeling nobody can draw. Type it in, then watch the crisis turn into crying, taxes, or whatever they can sketch.
a giraffe having an existential crisis at the DMV
Pro tip: Swap the location each game — a giraffe having an existential crisis at IKEA plays completely differently.
Pigeon Lawyer
2/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a pigeon defending itself in court for stealing a french fry, a courtroom anyone can draw plus a tiny lawyer. Start the chain, then see whether the fry survives to the last caption.
a pigeon defending itself in court for stealing a french fry
Pro tip: Any small animal plus a petty crime works — try a raccoon on trial for tipping over one specific trash can.
Romantic Roomba
3/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a roomba falling in love with a toaster, appliance romance that hearts can carry. Enter it, then enjoy how many people draw the wrong machines.
a roomba falling in love with a toaster
Pro tip: For longer chains, add a love rival — a roomba and a vacuum fighting over a toaster escalates fast.
Buff Baby
4/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby an extremely muscular baby winning a weightlifting competition, an easy body with an absurd contrast. Drop it in a mixed lobby, then listen to the fight over buff baby versus tiny bodybuilder.
an extremely muscular baby winning a weightlifting competition
Pro tip: Contrast prompts are a formula: take something weak and make it win something. A grandma winning a skateboard contest works the same way.
Duck Heist
5/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby three ducks in a trench coat robbing a bank, a classic that lives or dies on the coat. Use it as a mid-game pick, then watch the chain become tall duck commits crime.
three ducks in a trench coat robbing a bank
Pro tip: Change the number of ducks each game and watch the count get argued about in every caption.
Dramatic Lobster
6/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a lobster dramatically quitting its job at a seafood restaurant, dark if you think about it and funny if you do not. Play it, then see the drama shrink into an angry fish.
a lobster dramatically quitting its job at a seafood restaurant
Pro tip: The word "dramatically" is doing heavy lifting; keep an adverb in your prompt and see if it survives the chain.
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Easy to Draw
5 promptsPizza Rain
7/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby it is raining pizza and everyone is happy about it, triangles from clouds plus smiles even weak artists can land. Open a mixed-skill lobby with it, then keep the smiles in the final guess.
it is raining pizza and everyone is happy about it
Pro tip: Swap the food to match your group: raining tacos, raining croissants, raining instant noodles.
Cat Astronaut
8/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a cat in a spacesuit planting a flag on the moon, ears, helmet, flag, and craters anyone can fake. Type it in, then see what players put on the flag.
a cat in a spacesuit planting a flag on the moon
Pro tip: Do not specify the flag design — letting each artist invent it is where the chain goes sideways.
Snowman Vacation
9/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a snowman sunbathing at the beach, simple shapes and a built-in melt-or-not joke. Use it as a warm-up, then compare who let him melt.
a snowman sunbathing at the beach
Pro tip: For a harder variant, write "a snowman regretting his beach vacation" and watch people try to draw regret.
Dog Driver
10/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a dog driving a car through a fast food drive-thru, two things everyone can sort of draw plus a second character. Add it to the list, then watch the window worker appear out of nowhere.
a dog driving a car through a fast food drive-thru
Pro tip: Specify the order for chaos mode — "a dog ordering 40 chicken nuggets at a drive-thru" gives captioners a number to mangle.
Banana Phone
11/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a businessman taking a very serious call on a banana, one object swap that survives stick figures. Save it for a long lobby, then see if the suit and the banana both make it.
a businessman taking a very serious call on a banana
Pro tip: Object-swap prompts are endlessly reusable: a knight fighting with a baguette, a DJ spinning two pancakes.
Chaos Mode (Hard)
6 promptsTime Traveler Regret
12/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a time traveler arriving 10 minutes late to the dinosaur extinction, three hard ideas stacked. Pick it when the group wants chaos, then enjoy sad man and a meteor.
a time traveler arriving 10 minutes late to the dinosaur extinction
Pro tip: Hard prompts work best mid-game when everyone is warmed up — open with easy ones first.
Wifi Ghost
13/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a ghost who can only haunt houses with good wifi, an easy ghost plus an undrawable signal. Enter it, then wait for routers, bars, and brand-new ghost lore.
a ghost who can only haunt houses with good wifi
Pro tip: Abstract conditions ("only on Tuesdays", "but allergic to") are the fastest way to derail a chain on purpose.
Inflation Wizard
14/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a wizard whose only spell is making things slightly more expensive, with slightly as the undrawable word. Use it late, then read the final caption about prices.
a wizard whose only spell is making things slightly more expensive
Pro tip: Useless-superpower prompts are a goldmine: a superhero who can only fly two inches off the ground.
Mirror Argument
15/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a man losing an argument with his own reflection, two identical people with one winning. Choose it to wreck the chain, then see twins, clones, or portals show up.
a man losing an argument with his own reflection
Pro tip: If your lobby has strong artists, raise the stakes: "losing a chess match against his own reflection."
Conspiracy Pigeons
16/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby pigeons holding a secret meeting about replacing all the statues, a crowd plus a motive. Drop it when you want destruction, then notice the statues vanish first.
pigeons holding a secret meeting about replacing all the statues
Pro tip: Any "animals holding a secret meeting about X" template works; the X never survives and that is the fun.
Backwards Birthday
17/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a birthday party where the cake blows out the person, a logic flip artists get and cannot draw. Play it, then compare the five different readings at the reveal.
a birthday party where the cake blows out the person
Pro tip: Inversions are a reliable chaos formula: a fish walking its human, a book reading a child at bedtime.
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Pop Culture
5 promptsMario Day Job
18/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby Mario doing actual plumbing for once, hat and mustache everyone can draw plus a job-title joke. Use it with a pop-culture lobby, then see the pipes stay and the irony go.
Mario doing actual plumbing for once
Pro tip: The "character doing their canonical job badly" template works for almost any franchise.
Shrek Brunch
19/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby Shrek hosting a fancy brunch in his swamp, green ogre plus tiny teacups. Type it in, then flip a coin on whether the swamp survives.
Shrek hosting a fancy brunch in his swamp
Pro tip: Putting a gross character in a fancy setting (or vice versa) is the most reliable pop culture formula.
Vader Parenting
20/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby Darth Vader teaching his kids to ride bikes, a helmet that holds even bad drawings. Start it, then wait for someone to add training wheels to the Death Star.
Darth Vader teaching his kids to ride bikes
Pro tip: Villains doing wholesome chores is endlessly remixable: Godzilla watering his plants, a zombie packing school lunches.
Superhero Laundry
21/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby Batman waiting at a laundromat for his cape to dry, iconic silhouette in a boring room. Use it when artists need machines to fill the page, then keep the boredom in the pose.
Batman waiting at a laundromat for his cape to dry
Pro tip: Avoid niche characters — if half the lobby cannot draw or recognize them, the chain dies instead of mutating.
Pokemon Retirement
22/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby Pikachu at a job interview explaining the gap in his resume, a drawable face plus a desk and tie. Enter it, then let captioners invent the missing years.
Pikachu at a job interview explaining the gap in his resume
Pro tip: Anchor with one famous character max per prompt; two franchises in one phrase confuses the chain too early.
For Work Parties & Streams
6 promptsMeeting Doom
23/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a meeting that could have been an email, a work feeling everyone already has. Open a work party with it, then watch the captions turn into satire.
a meeting that could have been an email
Pro tip: Replace with your team's actual running joke for maximum damage at the reveal.
Camera Off
24/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby someone pretending their camera is broken on a video call, safe, relatable, and just hard enough to lie about. Use it at work or on stream, then enjoy the fake-tech excuses.
someone pretending their camera is broken on a video call
Pro tip: Remote-work prompts land best with distributed teams; office teams prefer printer-rage prompts.
The Printer Fight
25/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby an office worker challenging the printer to a duel, two figures and a villain everyone knows. Play it in an HR-safe lobby, then keep the poses dramatic.
an office worker challenging the printer to a duel
Pro tip: Stream variant: replace the printer with whatever software your chat loves to hate.
Chat Speaks
26/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby a streamer taking advice from chat and immediately regretting it, made for rooms where the audience is the joke. Drop it on stream, then watch chat drawn as a wall of tiny faces.
a streamer taking advice from chat and immediately regretting it
Pro tip: On stream, let viewers submit the next round's prompts and curate the printable ones.
Intern Power
27/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby the intern accidentally getting promoted to CEO, a small desk and a big chair in one phrase. Use it at work, then see accidentally grow into a full coup.
the intern accidentally getting promoted to CEO
Pro tip: Use real (consenting) coworker names sparingly — one per game is funny, five is a meeting with HR.
Coffee Crisis
28/28✨ What it does
This prompt gives the lobby the entire office evacuating because the coffee machine broke, crowd panic over a tiny cause. Close a work session with it, then check that even rushed drawings show the scale mismatch.
the entire office evacuating because the coffee machine broke
Pro tip: Scale-mismatch prompts are a safe template for any audience: city-wide panic over a missing stapler.
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