15 Fun Texting Games For Couples

Keep the fiery passion burning bright in your relationship even over text!

By Harini Natarajan, Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

Not everyone likes to talk over the phone, and some prefer texting to stay connected. If you are in a long-distance relationship, you know how convenient it is to be in touch over texts. However, it may get boring after a point. To spice things up, you may try any of the texting games for couples. There are interesting games that can double the fun and keep you hooked. These games are engaging, quirky, and help maintain the connection. Scroll down to check out the 15 engaging text games for couples that you may try to spice up the usual text conversations.

15 Best Texting Games For Couples

1. Fill In The Blanks

Fill In The Blanks is a naughty and flirty texting game that lets you know whether your partner is on the same page as you or not? The game is pretty easy to play.

How To Play

Text your partner an incomplete sentence and ask them to fill in the blanks! For example, “You miss me when you _.” or “I was thinking of you since _.”

2. Emoji Game

Emojis are fun and quirky! And this emoji game is a fun way to express what you want to say. Most of you must have understood the game by now, but still, let us get you through it.

How To Play

Step 1: Create a row of emojis to express what you want to say.

Step 2: Send it to your partner to guess.

You can continue playing this game to discover each other’s fun and quirky side.

Add some twist to the game by putting across challenges, like if your partner gets everything right, they get a chance to express their feelings via emojis. And if they get it wrong, they owe you a treat or a surprise (dinner or lunch date).

3. Never Have I Ever

This is a drinking game, but you make it fun playing it over text messages with your boyfriend or girlfriend. All you have to do is frame a question as below for your partner to answer. For instance, “Never have I ever kissed a girl/boy.”

How To Play

Step 1: Explain the rules in advance that one can answer only as “ I have” and “ I have not.”

Step 2: Text the question you want to ask.

Step 3: Wait for their answer.

This is the perfect game to know their secrets or ask questions that you might not be able to ask directly.

4. I Spy

I Spy a texting game for couples

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This is not the game you used to play as a kid. This fun and flirty texting game lets you get creative in every possible way. Before you start, remember that you can ask about things in your room and not on the internet or anywhere else.

How To Play

The rule is, you can spy on something that is there in your room or the place you are in. You cannot take the internet’s help.

Step 1: Check around your room and pick something to spy on.

Step 2: Text your partner saying, “I spy…” (finish the sentence by describing the object). For instance, “I Spy on something soft.”

Step 3: Your partner may guess if it’s a plushy or a silk scarf.

Step 4: You can text them back say “ not really!” and help them guess with more hints.

This conversation can be flirty and let you explore more in your relationship. However, ensure you set your limits in advance.

5. Kiss, Marry, Or Kill

Kiss, Marry, Or Kill is a game to know where your relationship stands and set your priorities right. The rules of this game are pretty easy. You just have to ask some questions with options and ask them whom they would like to kiss, marry, or kill.

How To Play

Step 1: Text your partner a question stating whom they would like to kiss, marry, or kill.

Step 2: Give them three options to choose from – you, maybe a common friend, and a celebrity.

Wait for the answer!

6. Confession Game

As the name suggests, this is an icebreaker game that allows the couples to confess to each other. If you have any difficulty or feel shy in confessing or expressing your heart’s desires, this game makes it easy. You can take this game to any tangent – share your secrets or wildest fantasy and wait for your partner to reveal their desires.

How To Play

Step 1: Text and confess something to your partner. For instance, text them saying “I confess that I love you.”

Step 2: Ask your partner to type the response as “I confess that I know.”

Step 3: Now, it’s time for your partner to confess something, and you have to respond to their confession.

7. Personal Trivia

This is a fun texting game where you can ask your partner any personal questions and get to know more about their personal lives. This game is ideal for those in new relationships and cannot directly ask each other to reveal their personal life.

How To Play

Step 1: Ask a personal question to your partner.

Step 2: Wait for the answer.

Step 3: Now, ask your partner to ask you a question and continue the game.

This game will help you get to know each other at a deeper and more personal level. However, be careful with what you ask and set your limits in advance.

8. Truth And Dare

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The classic truth and dare is an all-time fun and entertaining game. And it’s pretty interesting to play it via texts. It is just that if your partner chooses dares, they must present photo proof of the dare.

How To Play

Step 1: Ask your partner to choose either truth or dare.

Step 2: If they select truth, ask them to respond to your question truthfully.

Step 3: If they select dare, give them a fun task to do, and do not forget to ask for a photo or a video of them doing it.

9. Would You Rather

Would You Rather is a fun and engaging game that would let you step even more inside your partner’s mindset. This game is suitable for new lovers as it lets you know about the preferences and personalities of your partner. Playing this game is pretty easy – you just need to ask some questions.

How To Play

Step 1: Ask your partner questions like “Would you rather give up brushing for a month or the internet?”.

Step 2: Wait for your partner’s reply and get to know what they prefer more.

10. What If

This is a personal question game that reveals the crazy side of your partner. In this game, you ask your partner any random question and wait for their exciting replies. You can get creative, weird, and whacky with your questions.

How To Play

Step 1: Ask your partner a question in the manner, “what if you were left on an island for a week?”

Step 2: Wait for their creative answer.

Step 3: Now, it is your partner’s turn to ask you a question, and it continues this way.

11. Story Making

If you are a creative couple who love to spin stories and develop plots, this game is for you. This fun texting game will get your imagination to a different level.

How To Play

Step 1: To begin this game, start a story and text your partner the first line. For instance, you may text him: “Once in the woods lived a beautiful girl.”

Do not worry about the grammar or how twisted the plot gets. You may write a sentence or paragraphs, you decide.

Step 2: Ask your partner to add to the story, and that is how the game continues. They may respond humorously:

“ Once in the woods lived a beautiful girl.”

“Her name was April, but she was born in June.”

This game will keep both of you amused and have fun with words.

12. Guess The Lyrics

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This texting game calls for your expertise in movies and songs. All you need to do is text any random movie dialogue or song lyrics to your partner and ask them to complete it. This game can get extremely interesting and requires quite some brainstorming. You can make it a scoring game and let your partner know that whoever loses has to surprise or pamper the winner.

13. Last Letter Game

Last Letter Game is another fun texting game that you can play to kill boredom. In this game, you text a word or a name related to any particular category or genre. The other person has to respond with a different word starting from your word’s last letter. Confusing? Have a look at the below steps!

How To Play

Step 1: Pick any category or genre – for example, music.

Step 2: Text your partner any word related to that category. It could be a singer’s name or a musical instrument’s name. For example, Michael Jackson, Piano, Jazz, etc.

Step 3: Your partner has to respond with a related word that starts with the last letter of the word you texted. For instance, if you texted Michael Jackson, your partner may respond – Norah Jones.

14. Complete My Sentence

Complete My Sentence is another fun and flirty game in which one partner sends an incomplete sentence, and the other has to complete it over the text. This exciting game is associated with communication and connection in a relationship.

How To Play

Step 1: To begin this game, frame an incomplete sentence and ask your partner to complete it. For example, “I just got back from work, opened my closet and _.”

“I just entered my room and found _.”

Step 2: Wait for your partner’s reply and then ask them to send you an incomplete sentence.

15. Where Am I?

This is a fun texting game that is sure to keep you both entertained for hours on end.

How To Play

Step 1: Describe the surroundings of the place you are in. Ensure that it is a location that both of you are familiar with.

Step 2: Your partner has to guess the place within 2 minutes.

Step 3: If they are right, they get to ask you to identify a place.

The best part about this game is that you don’t have to be physically present at the place you are describing to your partner. You can talk about places that you both have been to together or popular landmarks. Remember to only give a generic description and not obvious clues. Let your partner sweat it out a bit!

Romantic relationships have to be a good balance of fun, communication, commitment, and flirtation. Whether you live together or are separated by physical distance, texting a random ’hi’ to let your partner know that you are thinking of them is never a bad idea. However, texting might seem like a chore if you are not creative enough. There are only so many ways to enjoy texting in a relationship. Or so it may have seemed before you let this article introduce you to some fun and flirty texting games for couples! Use these games to enjoy texting with your partner while also getting to know details about them that don’t come up in your usual conversations.

Key Takeaways

  • Texting your partner is a sweet way to show them you are thinking about them.
  • Sometimes, you need to add a fun element while texting your significant other to keep the spark alive.
  • You can incorporate fun texting games, like a confession game or Truth and Dare, to spice up your usual conversation.

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