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What makes a good Imposter word

The best words are concrete things that everyone at the table recognises, with several different angles for a clue. Pizza works because you can hint at Italy, cheese, delivery, Friday night or a slice. Happiness does not, because every clue is vague and the imposter blends in for free. When you build a custom pack, aim for nouns, keep them specific, and mix a few hard ones in with the easy ones.

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Party lists for the occasion

Twelve words each, written for this guide. Type them into a custom pack in the app and you are ready in a minute.

Words from the free packs

Thirty words sampled from each of the ten free packs. The app has the full lists, and draws a new word every round.

Easy Words

224 words in the app, free pack

The best starter pack. Everyday nouns that everyone knows, so new players can focus on the bluffing instead of the vocabulary.

• Bone
• Bottle
• City
• Computer
• Door
• Dress
• Fridge
• Garden
• Gloves
• Horn
• Ice cream
• Map
• Milk
• Moon
• Mug
• Notebook
• Office
• Phone
• Pig
• Radio
• River
• Scarf
• Scissors
• Sponge
• Stairs
• Street
• Tent
• Thunder
• Tooth
• Tunnel

Food

51 words in the app, free pack

Short, tasty and full of angles: origin, texture, time of day, how you eat it. Great for mixed-age tables.

• Apple
• Banana
• Bread
• Burger
• Butter
• Cake
• Chicken
• Chips
• Coffee
• Cola
• Curry
• Fries
• Garlic
• Muesli
• Oil
• Onion
• Orange
• Pasta
• Potato
• Rice
• Sauce
• Sausage
• Soup
• Steak
• Sugar
• Sushi
• Theory
• Tomato
• Water
• Wine

Daily Life and Things

204 words in the app, free pack

Objects from around the house. Clues get creative fast because everyone has a story about a comb or a bike lock.

• Bed
• BeReal Alarm
• Bicycle
• Bike Lock
• Button
• Candlelight
• Christmas Lights
• Comb
• Cooking Spoon
• Desk
• Doctor
• Drugstore
• Hair
• Hand Cream
• Keyboard
• Liferando
• Mailbox
• Potholder
• Printer
• Razor
• Refrigerator
• Ring Light
• Savings Bank
• Savings Pig
• Scale
• Scarf
• Soap
• Tablecloth
• Toothpick
• Traffic Light

Around the World

223 words in the app, free pack

Travel, places and holiday things. Works well when the group has travelled together and can drop private clues.

• Arrival
• Backpacker
• Beach
• Beach Bag
• Beach chair
• Beach Towel
• Big city
• Bikini
• Binoculars
• Bridge
• Camping
• City
• City wall
• Cloud
• English
• Hammock
• Hostel
• Jet Lag
• Jet Ski
• Luggage
• Paris
• Postcard
• Rejection
• Restaurant
• Sailboat
• Ski lift
• Skyscraper
• Snow Chains
• Vaccination Certificate
• Village

Music

50 words in the app, free pack

Genres, instruments and studio words. Ideal for music fans; imposters can hide behind vague clues like "loud".

• Afterparty
• Auto-Tune
• Bass
• Beat
• Boy band
• Bridge
• Chorus
• Dancefloor
• DJ
• Drop
• EDM
• Festival
• Girl group
• House
• Indie
• Intro
• Jazz
• Metal
• Mosh pit
• Newcomer
• Outro
• Overplayed
• Playlist
• Pop
• Popstar
• Rap
• Rapper
• Schlager
• Superstar
• Techno

Sports

100 words in the app, free pack

Disciplines, gear and competition words. Sports fans will give sharp clues, which makes bluffing harder.

• Age group
• Archery
• Biathlon
• Bouldering
• Boxing
• Darts
• Defending champion
• Diving
• Endurance
• Fair play
• Figure skating
• Fitness
• Handball
• High jump
• Hockey
• Home game
• Marathon
• Move
• Muay Thai
• Paragliding
• Performance level
• Rugby
• Serena Williams
• Sprint
• Strain
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Tiger Woods
• Top form
• Transfer

Entertainment

178 words in the app, free pack

Stage, screen and show business. Broad enough that imposters have a chance, specific enough to catch them.

• Audience
• Benefit Concert
• Cameraman
• Choreography
• Circus
• Classical
• Contest
• Controller
• Effects
• Flash mob
• Green Screen
• Harry Potter
• Headphones
• Light Show
• Live band
• Merchandise
• Microphone
• Minecraft
• Mini golf
• News Show
• Opera
• Press Conference
• Prime Time
• Remix
• Shopping bag
• Stage
• Talent Scout
• Titanic
• True Crime
• Turntable

School

50 words in the app, free pack

Classroom life. A nostalgic pack that gets everyone telling stories between rounds.

• Attendance
• Break
• Cafeteria
• Class president
• Class register
• Class test
• Classroom
• Dictation
• Formula sheet
• Grade
• Graduation
• Group work
• Homework
• Janitor
• Library
• Notebook
• PE class
• Pen
• Report card
• Ruler
• School bus
• School trip
• Student
• Substitute teacher
• Tutoring
• Vacation
• Worksheet
• Zoom meeting

Fitness

56 words in the app, free pack

Gym and health words. Try it with a sporty crowd, or as a challenge pack for everyone else.

• BMI
• Carbohydrates
• Dietary supplement
• Discipline
• Dumbbell
• Genetics
• Gymfit
• Health
• Intensity
• Jogging
• Leg workout
• Metabolism
• Motivation
• Nutrition
• Proteins
• Regeneration
• Resilience
• Resolution
• Rest day
• Saturation
• Split
• Sprint
• Strength training
• Team sport
• Technique
• Technology
• Training
• Training plan
• Warm-up
• Weights

Eighties

38 words in the app, free pack

A small themed pack: icons, gadgets and fads. Fun for mixed generations, brutal for anyone born after 2000.

• ABBA
• Aerobics
• Arcade
• Bon Jovi
• Cassette
• Cold War
• David Bowie
• Disco
• Game Boy
• George Michael
• Ghostbusters
• Gorbachev
• Live Aid
• Madonna
• MTV
• Mullet
• Neon
• Phil Collins
• Polaroid
• Prince
• Queen
• Rambo
• Reagan
• Rocky
• Space shuttle
• Synth
• Thatcher
• Top Gun
• U2
• Whitney Houston

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