Chuckle Quartz

Fill-in-the-blank word games & silly stories

Your story, your blanks

Story game maker

Write a story, swap some words for blanks like [noun] or [silly word], and turn it into a game you can play, print or send to a friend.

Blanks go in square brackets: [noun]. To use the same answer twice, tag it: [name:hero] … [name:hero]. A capital letter, as in [Silly word], gives the answer a capital too. You can also drop a .txt file here.

Checks

10 blanks · 59 words of story · 480 of 8,000 characters

  1. 1adjective
  2. 2animal×3 “pet”
  3. 3silly word×2 “name”
  4. 4number
  5. 5food
  6. 6verb (past tense)
  7. 7name
  8. 8adjective
  9. 9adjective
  10. 10item of clothing

Looks good: ready to play.

Saved in this browser

  • Nothing saved yet. Press Save to keep a game in this browser.

How to write a good story game

  1. Write the story first, with real words. A short story of 100 to 200 words, read aloud in under a minute, works best.
  2. Swap 10 to 15 words for blanks. Pick the words that matter most: who, what they ate, what they did and how. Too few blanks and the story stays sensible; too many and nobody can follow it.
  3. Mix the prompts. Nouns and adjectives are the backbone, but a [sound], a [silly word] or an [exclamation] in a quote gets the biggest laughs.
  4. Play it once yourself, then share it.

The checks panel lists each prompt in the order players will see it and points out stray brackets with their line number. Write “a” before a blank and the game switches it to “an” when the answer needs it.

Sharing: Copy share link puts your whole story inside the link, after the # sign. Browsers never send that part to a server, so the game is not stored anywhere online; anyone with the link can play it. Save keeps a copy in this browser only.

Questions

Can I use my own prompts, like [teacher’s name]?

Yes. Anything in square brackets becomes a prompt. Prompts the site knows, such as [noun] or [verb ending in -ing], show a hint and get random words; your own prompts are shown just as you wrote them.

Where are my games saved?

Only in this browser, on this device. Your current draft is kept automatically, and Save adds the game to your list. To move a game to another device, use Download .txt or a share link.

How long can a story be?

Up to 8,000 characters and 80 blanks. Most good games are much shorter: about one page and a dozen blanks.