Purpose

What Charades is for, who it is for, and what it is not. From the repo's own pages.

What it is

A charades party game for one room. Players act out the title on a card; the player holding the phone guesses (play). It has 5,149 cards in 32 packs across four worlds: Bollywood, Tollywood, Hollywood, and Family & Kids (packs). It answers PROB-0001: rival apps break up play with ads, paywalls mid-round and a need for signal.

Who it is for

Families and friend groups playing in one room. India first, global second (marketing context).

What it is not

• Not ad-funded: there is no ad SDK. Money comes only from packs (offline-first).
• Not a subscription: packs are bought once (pricing).
• Not online: there is no backend, and a round needs no network (offline-first).
• Not Bollywood only, though the Android package name says so (bundle-ids).

Status

Live on Google Play (1.0.35). On the App Store, 1.0.35 is ready for distribution (ASC API, 2026-10-31). The live state per store is in release.yml. Words used here: glossary.