Release notes
Imposter Game Updates & News
Track every public Imposter Game change in one place. Each update includes the exact release date, what changed, and why it matters for one-phone pass-and-play rounds.
Latest Imposter Game changes
Border Hop, a geography game on a globe
A new game: get from one country to another by naming the countries between them, on a 3D globe you can spin.
- A climb from Easy, with one or two countries between, up to the longest route on Earth, with seventeen. Every guess is marked on the globe: on a shortest route, a short detour or off course.
- A daily route that is the same for everyone, a streak to keep, and a shortest route drawn for you if you give up.
- Border Hop is in English for now.
Football leagues, local word packs, no repeats and dark mode
Football now has 393 players and a pool per league, Arabic, Indonesian and Turkish get packs of their own, words you have had are skipped on every device, and the site has a dark mode.
- Football has grown to 393 players, and you can play one league: Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Brasileirão, Süper Lig or Saudi Pro League.
- The Arabic, Indonesian and Turkish sites get three packs written in their own language: local food, places and stars.
- Words you have already had are skipped on this device, and on every device you sign in on. Your account now counts your pass-and-play rounds too.
- Dark mode follows your phone's setting, or choose Light or Dark at the bottom of any page.
Chaos rounds, every Pokémon, Halloween and Christmas
Rounds that break the rules now and then, all 1,025 Pokémon by generation, two holiday modes, and picker wheels that remember every spin.
- Turn on Chaos rounds and about one round in six breaks the rules: no imposter, everyone an imposter, or one extra. Nobody finds out until the results.
- The Pokémon mode now deals all 1,025 Pokémon under their official names in each language, and you can play a single generation.
- New Halloween and Christmas modes, with 100 words each, written for every language.
- The picker wheels can take each winner off the wheel automatically and keep a list of every spin.
Daily Imposter, accounts and Undercover
A new daily word puzzle, optional sign-in to keep your stats, and an Undercover setting where the odd ones out get a different word.
- Daily Imposter gives everyone the same secret word each day, in every language: read the crew's hint, find the word in six guesses and keep your streak going.
- Sign in with Google or Discord to keep your streak, online wins and quiz bests on every device. Every game still works without an account, and we never ask for your email.
- The new Undercover setting, in local and online games, deals the imposters a different word from the same category, and nobody tells them.
Fairer, smoother online rooms
Online rooms keep roles secret, keep moving when someone drops out, and let late arrivals watch and join the next round.
- Each phone now only receives its own role, so nobody can dig up the imposter or the secret word.
- Rounds move on without players who leave, the host role passes on if the host drops out, and your browser tab flashes when it's your turn.
- Tied votes get a quick revote, results show who voted for whom, and the imposter's guess forgives accents and small typos.
- Rooms show their language with a flag, people can join mid-round to watch, and chat adds clue reactions, mute and vote-to-remove.
Translations and mobile fixes
Clearer game text, a translated country guide, and quiz lists that fit on phones.
- Repaired game labels, image descriptions and broken characters across languages.
- Fixed mobile quiz overflow and made ad loading wait for pauses in play.
Every hint and page, in your language
Hints in the anime, basketball, ice hockey, Ninjago, cities and Clash Royale modes now appear in all 25 languages, and dozens of mistranslated pages were rewritten.
- About 38,000 hint translations were added, so the imposter no longer gets an English hint on a translated screen.
- The reveal screen now says “you are the imposter” the same way in every mode, and pages that had slipped into a neighbouring language or a machine-translation error were corrected.
- The first link in every page's breadcrumb trail now names the game instead of saying “Home”.
Anime mode: 100 characters from 70 different series
A new anime imposter mode. One hundred characters from seventy different series, from Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon through to Chainsaw Man, Frieren and Dandadan. No series contributes more than three characters, so a round never turns into a quiz about one show.
- One hundred anime characters from seventy different series. Play the top 50 list when the group's viewing habits are mixed, or the full hundred when everyone watches a lot.
- At most three characters come from any single series, so someone who only watches shonen and someone who only watches Ghibli both get a fair chance at the same round.
- Every character has eight imposter hints that describe traits rather than plot, so the hint gives an imposter something to bluff with without handing over the answer.
- The mode has its own look, and the word list, rules and FAQ are translated into all 26 languages rather than falling back to English.
All 32 quizzes in one place
The name-all quizzes have a page of their own now: ten subject tiles, a picker that shows every quiz inside a subject, and a difficulty on each one. The Discord invite moved into the header, so it is on every page.
- A new Quizzes page gathers all 32 typing quizzes into ten subjects — countries, capital cities, Pokemon, sports teams, the United States, the periodic table and more.
- Tapping a subject opens a picker listing every quiz in it, with how many answers it holds and how hard it is, so you can pick a two-minute round or a twenty-minute one on purpose.
- Every quiz now has a difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert. It is set by how far people actually get rather than by the answer count — Kanto's 151 Pokemon are Medium and the 118 elements are Expert.
- The Discord invite is in the header on every page, and it also appears when a round ends, while an online room waits for players, and after you finish a quiz.
A new look, and answers that fly to the board
The site now has three typefaces instead of the device's default, every surface sits on a real shadow, picker wheels show every name in full, and a correct quiz answer flies from the box to its square.
- Headings, body text and numbers each have their own typeface now, so titles read as titles and clocks and scores stop jumping about as the digits change.
- Cards, buttons, tiles and the wheel sit on deeper shadows, so a page reads as a stack of surfaces instead of one flat sheet.
- Every slice of every picker wheel shows its full name, however many slices there are — no more shortened codes or names cut off mid-word.
- On the name-all quizzes, a correct answer flies from the typing box to its square with a green tick, so you can see exactly what you just landed.
Mode cards got a darker game style
Every imposter mode card now uses the same dark, collectible game-icon art style instead of a mix of photos and older banners.
- Classic words, countries, animals, sports, movies, cities, famous people and fan modes now share one cohesive visual style.
- The new WebP assets are smaller, square, and built for the homepage grid and mode cross-links.
- Football, basketball, cities, NFL and picker-wheel share images now point at the refreshed art too.
Twenty more quizzes, and answers that count as you type
Thirty-two name-all quizzes now: every Pokemon region through Unova, all 118 elements, the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and Premier League, state capitals, national parks and more.
- Twenty new quizzes: Pokemon from Kanto to Unova, the periodic table, US presidents, state capitals, national parks, the books of the Bible, capital cities in Europe, Africa and Asia, EU and NATO members, and NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and Premier League teams.
- Answers count the moment you finish spelling them, with no Enter to press. Niger lands as soon as you type it, and carrying straight on to Nigeria lands that one as well.
- 2,172 answers across 32 quizzes. The quizzes are in English for now.
Eleven more name-all quizzes, and your own timer
Name all the countries in the world, the 50 US states, every Clash Royale card and the full Alola and Kalos Pokedex — with a timer you set yourself, or a count-up clock that stops the moment you finish.
- Twelve quizzes in all: countries of the world plus one for every continent, the 50 US states, Clash Royale cards, Alola and Kalos Pokemon, and Brawl Stars brawlers.
- Pick 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes before you start, or choose Count up — no limit, and the clock stops on your last answer so you can race your own time.
- On a phone the board now scrolls to each answer as it lands. The quizzes are in English for now.
Brawl Stars quiz, and NFL on the homepage
A new timed quiz that asks you to name all 108 Brawl Stars brawlers from memory, and the NFL mode now has its own card in the homepage mode grid.
- Name all Brawl Stars brawlers: ten minutes, 108 names, grouped by rarity, with everything you missed revealed at the end.
- Spelling is forgiving: 8bit, el primo and larry and lawrie all count. The quiz is in English for now.
- The NFL mode is now one tap from the homepage instead of only reachable from search.
NFL imposter mode
A new mode where the secret word is an NFL player or team: 150 greats of all time and all 32 franchises, with a subtle hint for the imposter.
- 150 NFL players, from the all-time greats to the stars carrying the league right now.
- All 32 franchises as their own pool, so you can play teams instead of players.
- Every language fully translated, hints included.
Ice Hockey imposter mode
A new mode where the secret word is a hockey player: 104 greats from the NHL and beyond, with a subtle hint for the imposter.
- 104 hockey players, from Original Six legends to the stars carrying the league right now.
- Imposters can get a subtle hint instead of a blank screen: a country, a club city, a position or a style of play.
- Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are fully translated, hints included.
New wheel colours and 888 new prompts
Every picker wheel now spins in four brand colours, the dark ring that showed up on phones is gone, and the four word games gained 888 new prompts in all 26 languages.
- Every wheel now rotates through four purple brand colours instead of a different colour per slice, so it stays readable however many names you add.
- Fixed the dark ring that sat over the middle of the wheel on phones.
- Truth or Dare, Would You Rather, Never Have I Ever and the Charades Word Generator gained 888 new prompts between them, translated into all 26 languages.
- The free party tool links are now cards, each with its own icon and a line saying what that tool does.
Picker wheels rebuilt with a new layout
Every spin wheel now leads with the wheel: the controls sit in a side panel on wide screens and stack under the wheel on phones.
- The wheel comes first — on the left on wide screens, at the top on phones — so the spin is what you see straight away.
- Inputs and the on-the-wheel list share one panel that you switch with two buttons next to the wheel.
- The pointer moved into the centre hub and the sound button sits in the corner beside the wheel, so the rim stays clear.
- Tool Settings under every wheel set spin speed and length, manual stop, confetti, sound, colours, background and the centre button.
Truth or Dare, Would You Rather and Never Have I Ever added
Three new party generators with player rosters, real scoring and 700 prompts in every language we support.
- Truth or Dare runs a turn order for the whole group, with a dare timer and a tally of completed dares.
- Would You Rather collects a vote from every player and shows the split as a live tug-of-war bar.
- Never Have I Ever keeps score with lives, eliminates players one by one and crowns a winner.
Random Team Generator added
Added a free random team generator that splits a list of names into balanced teams, with keep-together and keep-apart rules.
- Paste or type a roster and split it by number of teams or by players per team.
- Keep-together and keep-apart rules pin two players to the same team or force them onto different ones.
- Teams are colour-coded and renameable, and the result can be copied or shared to a group chat.
Five new picker wheels
Spin a random US state, Premier League club, NBA team, or Kalos or Alola Pokémon on five new wheels, complete with state flags, team colours, filters and result counters.
- The State Picker Wheel spins all 50 US states with their flags, and filters down to the Northeast, Midwest, South or West.
- The Premier League and NBA wheels cover all 20 clubs and all 30 teams in their own colours, filtered by region or by conference.
- The Kalos and Alola wheels hold both complete regional dexes — 72 and 88 Pokémon — colour-coded by type, with starters, legendaries and Ultra Beasts as filters.
Greek is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Greek, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Greek now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Greek translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- Greek page links, language selection and search previews now connect players to the complete localized experience.
Finnish is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Finnish, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Finnish now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Finnish translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- Finnish page links, language selection and search previews now connect players to the complete localized experience.
Ukrainian is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Ukrainian, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Ukrainian now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Ukrainian translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- Ukrainian page links, language selection and search previews now connect players to the complete localized experience.
Vietnamese is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Vietnamese, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Vietnamese now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Vietnamese translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- The complete how-to guide, the pass-and-play reveal and results screens and the word customizer are now translated as well.
Romanian is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Romanian, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Romanian now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Romanian translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- Romanian page links, language selection and search previews now connect players to the complete localized experience.
Italian is now available
Imposter Games is now fully available in Italian, including every game mode, setup flow, word list and imposter hint.
- Italian now covers the full interface, instructions, room flows, settings, mode descriptions and searchable word lists.
- All 5,928 per-item clues have reviewed Italian translations, while proper names, franchise terms and familiar gaming vocabulary stay recognizable.
- Italian page links, language selection and search previews now connect players to the complete localized experience.
Vibration feedback on phones
Phones now vibrate on button presses, role reveals, countdowns and round results, with a switch to turn it off.
- Every button gives a short buzz when tapped on a touch device, and starting a game gets a firmer one.
- Role reveals buzz differently for crew and imposter, and countdowns, clue turns, discussion timers and round results each have their own pattern.
- A Turn off vibration switch sits in the footer and beside the sound toggle in online rooms; it stays hidden on devices that cannot vibrate or that ask for reduced motion.
Simpler online room setup
Online hosting now creates public rooms only, mode pages focus on setup, and live online prompts make open rooms easier to find.
- Removed the private room choice from /online so hosts create public rooms from the room settings flow.
- Removed the Pass the phone and Online switch buttons from every mode setup page, including Animals.
- Added live online prompts on the homepage and local results screen so players can find public rooms, see online activity, and move to everyone-on-their-own-phone play.
Sticky next round button and motion feedback
Round-end screens now keep Play next round within thumb reach and add subtle motion and vibration feedback for key actions.
- Added a sticky Play next round button across local, themed, and online result screens.
- Votes, guesses, round results, and next-round taps now use short haptic feedback where the browser supports it.
- Ready, reveal, timer, chat, progress, result, and confetti motion now share the same reduced-motion-safe feedback system.
Online room timers and cleaner mode pages
Hosts can now set voting time for online rooms, empty rooms close automatically, and local mode pages use a flatter layout.
- Added a host-controlled voting timer alongside discussion and clue timers for online rooms.
- Online rooms now close when no players remain connected, so stale public rooms disappear faster.
- Mode landing pages now use a flat shell instead of an extra outer card around their section cards.
Smoother responsive UI
The homepage, shared navigation, how-to guide, online lobby, and setup controls now feel better on phones with clearer responsive layouts and lightweight motion.
- Homepage sections now use staggered reveals, smoother accordions, stronger mode-card feedback, and more readable mobile rows.
- Shared controls such as the header menu, breadcrumbs, footer links, share buttons, cookie banner, and contact form now animate and wrap more cleanly.
- Online lobby and mode setup controls now add smoother hero motion, count pops, sliding toggles, category check feedback, and stronger focus states.
Fairer rounds by default
Pass-and-play rounds now rotate the starting player in order and balance imposter selection automatically, with duplicate controls removed from settings.
- Every new round starts with the next player in the current player order, so clue turns move around the group predictably.
- Imposter selection now stays balanced by default across word and card modes, even if an old saved setting tried to turn it off.
- Settings modals no longer duplicate the player-count and imposter-count steppers or expose fairness toggles; those controls stay on the setup page.
Homepage redesign: pick a mode at a glance
The homepage now opens with a cleaner, mobile-first layout: a focused hero, a Pass & Play / Online switch, a swipeable mode picker, a random-category shortcut, and a quick feature strip.
- Rebuilt the top of the homepage into a compact, mobile-first layout with a centered hero, a Pass & Play / Online toggle, a horizontally scrollable row of game modes, and a Random category shortcut.
- Added a three-up feature strip highlighting no accounts, 2–20 players, and 15+ modes, with all of the new copy translated into every supported language.
- Replaced the site header with a compact ImposterGames.org wordmark and a single menu button holding the Online and Updates links, the YouTube channel, and the full language switcher.
Online multiplayer: chat, timers & live rounds
Online rooms now play like a real party game — with live chat, a synced round countdown, a timed discussion phase, simultaneous voting, and new animations.
- Every room now has a live text chat (with join and leave notices) that stays open from the lobby through reveal, discussion, voting, and results.
- Rounds start with a synchronized 3·2·1 countdown, then open a timed discussion phase — the host sets the length — where players trade clues before everyone votes at once.
- Added player avatars, an animated word reveal, a discussion timer, results confetti, and optional sound effects — all respecting reduced-motion and translated into every language.
Online multiplayer added
Added real-time online rooms so players can create or join a room and play together from their own devices over the network.
- Create a room to get a short code, or join a friend's room with theirs — every player reveals their own role privately on their own device instead of passing one phone around.
- A self-hosted WebSocket server keeps every player's game state in sync in real time, with automatic reconnection for flaky mobile connections.
- The new Online flow is reachable from the homepage and the site header, supports every word category, and is fully translated across all supported languages.
Mexican Spanish locale added
Added a dedicated Mexican Spanish version with localized pages, SEO alternates, mode copy, and ready/reveal flow coverage.
- New /es-mx routes use es-MX metadata, hreflang alternates, sitemap entries, and a Mexican Spanish language selector label.
- Mode pages, ready screens, reveal screens, game hints, and shared SEO copy now include Mexican Spanish coverage.
- Update parity, SEO, static-route, and locale-copy checks were expanded for the new locale.
Countries Spin Wheel launched
Added a random country spin wheel using the Countries Imposter Mode wordlist, with continent filters, no-repeat mode, result history, localized SEO, and links back into Countries Mode.
- The wheel uses the same 192 countries as Countries Imposter Mode.
- All supported languages received page copy, metadata, FAQ, and sitemap alternates.
- Added a local updates-locale guard so future update notes stay aligned across languages.
Japanese and Korean localization completed
Finished Japanese and Korean coverage for reveal and ready pages, global navigation labels, cookie settings, and gameplay word/hint data.
- Reveal and ready flows now show Japanese and Korean role, vote, score, setup, and pass-phone copy.
- Global footer, header, and cookie labels use natural Japanese and Korean wording.
- Word and hint translation coverage was checked for the supported gameplay pools.
Homepage SEO and structured data refresh
Rewrote the title, meta description, H1, intro copy, player-count section, mode-card links, image alt text, freshness signals, and JSON-LD schema.
- The homepage title now starts with “Imposter Game” and the meta description explains the one-phone flow.
- Added WebApplication, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD for the tool, FAQ, and site hierarchy.
- Mode cards now use descriptive “Play ... Imposter Game” anchor text and keyword-rich image alt text.
- Added this dedicated updates page with specific dates and translated copy for all 18 supported languages.
One Piece Mode launched
Added a One Piece imposter game mode built around the 2026 WT100 top 100 character list, translated hints, and one-phone reveals.
- Crew sees the One Piece character name while imposters see a blank card or small hint.
- The mode uses the 2026 WT100 top 100 character set.
- Hints and mode copy were localized for non-English groups.
Star Wars and Naruto modes added
Added Star Wars and Naruto imposter game modes with 100 characters each, local images, and imposter hints in seven languages.
- Star Wars mode added a 100-character prompt pool for reveal and bluffing rounds.
- Naruto mode added a separate 100-character prompt pool with the same one-phone flow.
- Both modes include local image assets and translated imposter hints in seven languages.