What is the What Am I guessing game?

What Am I is the thing-version of Who Am I: instead of a famous person, your secret identity is an animal, an object, or a job — a penguin, a firefighter, a giraffe. Everyone knows what you are except you, and you guess through yes/no questions or clues from the room.

What are good What Am I game questions?

Open with category splits: “Am I alive?”, “Am I an animal?”, “Am I something you can hold?”, “Am I found indoors?”. Then narrow with properties — size, color, sound, what people use me for. The same halve-the-options strategy as Who Am I, pointed at things instead of people.

What's the difference between Who Am I and What Am I?

Only the deck. Who Am I deals people and characters; What Am I deals things — which makes the questions more concrete and the game friendlier for younger kids who know animals better than celebrities. In this app it's the same game with the animals and jobs packs selected.

Can kids play the What Am I game?

It's the best version for kids — every entry in the animals and jobs packs is family-safe, and guessing “a giraffe” needs no pop-culture knowledge at all. Classrooms use it for vocabulary practice; the family filter keeps everything else out of the deck.

What Am I Guessing Game

What Am I is Who Am I's sibling: instead of being a famous person, you're a thing — an animal, a job, an object — and you have to guess what. Same rules, same one phone, played straight from our animals and jobs packs.

How to play What Am I

Pick the animals or jobs pack (or both) in the game setup.
Each player is dealt a secret thing instead of a person — a penguin, a firefighter, a giraffe.
Forehead mode: hold the phone up and let the room act out or describe your thing.
Classic mode: ask yes/no questions — “Am I alive?”, “Am I bigger than a car?”, “Do people use me at work?”.
Guess it to score; pass if you're hopeless. Highest score after the last round wins.

Good What Am I questions

Category first: “Am I an animal?”, “Am I something you can hold?”, “Am I found indoors?”. Then properties: size, color, sound, use. The same binary-split strategy as Who Am I, just pointed at things instead of people.

Built on the animals & jobs packs

Our animals pack covers safari stars to backyard bugs, and the jobs pack runs from astronaut to zookeeper — every entry with three hints, all family-safe. They're the perfect What Am I decks, and they mix freely with the people packs if your group likes chaos.

Animal Who Am I NamesLionElephantGiraffeZebraHippopotamusCheetahGorillaTiger Jobs & Professions Who Am I NamesFirefighterPolice OfficerDoctorTeacherChefAstronautPilotFarmer

Frequently asked questions

What is the What Am I guessing game?: What Am I is the thing-version of Who Am I: instead of a famous person, your secret identity is an animal, an object, or a job — a penguin, a firefighter, a giraffe. Everyone knows what you are except you, and you guess through yes/no questions or clues from the room.
What are good What Am I game questions?: Open with category splits: “Am I alive?”, “Am I an animal?”, “Am I something you can hold?”, “Am I found indoors?”. Then narrow with properties — size, color, sound, what people use me for. The same halve-the-options strategy as Who Am I, pointed at things instead of people.
What's the difference between Who Am I and What Am I?: Only the deck. Who Am I deals people and characters; What Am I deals things — which makes the questions more concrete and the game friendlier for younger kids who know animals better than celebrities. In this app it's the same game with the animals and jobs packs selected.
Can kids play the What Am I game?: It's the best version for kids — every entry in the animals and jobs packs is family-safe, and guessing “a giraffe” needs no pop-culture knowledge at all. Classrooms use it for vocabulary practice; the family filter keeps everything else out of the deck.

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