List of 200 Ideas for Easy and Hard Charades - Suitable for Any Age Group (Updated 2021)!
Charades is a great game that can be enjoyed by people of all ages! For a great game of charades to work, it’s important to know your audience. If playing with kids, you may want to use easy words and phrases, so they can join in just as much as the adults! If this is the case, you may want to use our free charades generator for kids.
When playing with adults, you may want to use more difficult and challenging words and phrases for others to guess, in which case, you may choose to use our free online charades generator which is directed at a slightly older audience.
However, the people you’re playing with may not always be the reason you want an easier or harder game of charades to play. Among other reasons, time can play a part in whether you would prefer a long or short game of charades. This is where our handy list of easy and hard charades comes in handy!
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Table of Contents
- List of ideas for playing easy and hard charades
- Easy / Hard Actions to act out
- Easy / Hard Movies to act out
- Easy / Hard Songs to act out
- Easy / Hard Books to act out
- Printables for Easy and Hard Charades Ideas
Phrases for playing easy and hard charades
Below you will find lists of easy and hard charades phrases to set you on your way to playing a great game of charades! Just remember, it’s not always about how hard it is to act a certain word out. It’s also about how likely people are going to guess the word or phrase! For example, most people have heard of the book series ‘Harry Potter’, but how many know of the children’s book series ‘The Wren’? These are the types of questions you should ask yourself before playing an easy or hard game of charades!
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List of Easy and Hard Actions to act out
Below is a list of both easy actions to act out and hard actions to act out! With actions, sometimes it’s a simple addition of a word that can make it more difficult!
Easy Charades Ideas:
- Cycling
- Watching TV
- Swimming
- Running
- Flying in a plane
- Sleeping
- Flipping pancakes
- Listening to music
- Driving a car
- Writing a letter
- Skiing
- Giving a haircut
- Drinking
- Typing
- Eating
- Having a snowball fight
- Playing the guitar
- Surfing
- Yawning
- Playing golf
- Praying
- Brushing teeth
- Showering
- Meditating
- Singing
Hard Charades Ideas:
- Cycling a tricycle
- Watching a Romantic Comedy
- Doing the Backstroke
- Running on a treadmill
- Flying in first class
- Sleeping in a hammock
- Cooking meat
- Listening to classical music
- Driving a go kart
- Writing a letter of complaint
- Tobogganing
- Flying a drone
- Winning an award
- Gardening
- Sailing
- Acting on stage
- Playing the cowbell
- Pretending to be surprised
- Putting on a wig
- Wrestling
- Watching YouTube
- Teaching a language
- Having a bath
- Learning
- Paddle boarding
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List of Easy and Hard Movies to act out
When it comes to movies, it’s also about what movies are well-known to people that can make it easy or difficult. A movie nobody knows can sometimes be hard to guess, no matter how easy the title may seem! See below for a list of easy and hard movie examples for charades.
Easy Charades Ideas:
- Up
- Fight Club
- Jaws
- Ran
- Back to the Future
- Home
- 2 Guns
- The Lord of the Rings
- Jurassic Park
- Man of Steel
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Star Wars
- Cars
- The Jungle Book
- Seven
- First Man
- The Godfather
- Good Boys
- Spider-Man
- Tenet
- Marriage Story
- Airplane!
- Monsters Inc.
- It
- Taxi Driver
Hard Charades Ideas:
- Inception
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Terminator
- On the Waterfront
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Vertigo
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Hobbit
- Ratatouille
- American Beauty
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Brave
- The Shining
- Forrest Gump
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- The Prestige
- Oblivion
- Hereditary
- Ad Astra
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Shazam!
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
- Gangs of New York
- Black Widow
- There Will Be Blood
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List of Easy and Hard Songs to act out
One thing you can do to make this category harder, is to make people guess the singer/band as well! See below for a list of easy and hard songs to act out in a great game of charades!
Easy Charades Ideas:
- Heaven (Bryan Adams)
- Outside (Catfish and the Bottlemen)
- Sorry (Justin Bieber)
- Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy)
- Right Now (One Direction)
- Side to Side (Ariana Grande)
- Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
- Dancing Queen (ABBA)
- My Hero (Foo Fighters)
- Umbrella (Rihanna)
- Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
- Jumpman (Drake)
- Hello (Adele)
- Roses (The Chainsmokers)
- My House (Flo Rida)
- 7 Rings (Ariana Grande)
- I'm the One (DJ Khalid)
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
- Shape of You (Ed Sheeran)
- Bad (Michael Jackson)
- Slide (Calvin Harris)
- Your Song (Elton John)
- Bad Guy (Billie Eilish)
- Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)
- Dance Monkey (Tones and I)
Hard Charades Ideas:
- Under Pressure (Queen)
- Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
- Take Me to Church (Hozier)
- Complicated (Avril Lavigne)
- Particles (Nothing But Thieves)
- Stay With Me (Sam Smith)
- I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (Arctic Monkeys)
- Lived a Lie (You Me At Six)
- Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
- Hooked on a Feeling (Blue Swede)
- Boneless (Steve Aoki)
- Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Radioactive (Imagine Dragons)
- You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)
- Tribute (Tenacious D)
- Passionfruit (Drake)
- Raspberry Beret (Prince)
- Better Now (Post Malone)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
- Harmony Hall (Vampire Weekend)
- Intentions (Justin Bieber)
- Space Oddity (David Bowie)
- Blinding Lights (The Weeknd)
- Godzilla (Eminem)
- Savage (Megan Thee Stallion)
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List of Easy and Hard Books to act out
Similar to movies, it can depend on how well-known a book is that makes it easy or difficult to act out. See below for a list of easy and hard books to act out in charades!
Easy Charades Ideas:
- Catch-22
- Harry Potter
- The Red and the Black
- The Hunger Games
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Frankenstein
- The Lord of the Rings
- Little Women
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Rainbow
- Dracula
- The Woman in White
- Money
- The Big Sleep
- Men Without Women
- Angels and Demons
- Bad Blood
- Secondhand Time
- The Road
- Doctor Sleep
- Normal People
- White Teeth
- Moneyball
- Night Watch
- Gone Girl
Hard Charades Ideas:
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The BFG
- Wuthering Heights
- Ulysses
- The DaVinci Code
- The Divine Comedy
- Brave New World
- The Great Gatsby
- Catcher in the Rye
- Atonement
- Charlotte’s Web
- American Pastoral
- LA Confidential
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Atomic Habits
- Matilda
- The Tipping Point
- Gilead
- James and the Giant Peach
- Cloud Atlas
- Misery
- The Siege
- True History of the Kelly Gang
- The Constant Gardner
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Printables for Easy and Hard Charades Ideas
If you would like to play charades the traditional way, we have a bunch of easy and hard charades cards in printable format. These include the above ideas with many more that aren't here. You can click here to check out and purchase our easy charades cards. And if you would rather make things more difficult, our hard charades cards are available here. You can also find our full list of ideas to print off here - thank you so much for supporting us and enjoy!
Easy Charades Ideas Generator
If you would like to generate more easier phrases and words at random, you should use our free online charades generator for kids to help come up with things to act out during a game of charades. It contains all of the ideas above, plus many, many more
Hard Charades Ideas Generator
If you would like to generate random harder words and phrases, you can use our regular online charades generator. Typically, this generator has harder things to act out than our kids generator linked above!