Filters and games on Instagram Stories to play and challenge your friends during quarantine
Instagram Stories have become a means to spend with friends in this quarantine. Using some filters and putting a bit of ingenuity you can have a fun time improvising games and challenges.
If you do not know where to start, do not worry, we share some ideas to play and challenge your friends from Instagram Stories.
DON’T BLINK … NO, DON’T
Yana Mishkinis has created two versions of “Don´t blink”. The first one challenges you not to blink for 6 seconds. As you see in the first image, a counter will appear when detecting your face while you keep blinking.
If this seems too simple then try the second option. The challenge is to hold out as long as possible without blinking repeating the same dynamics of the counter.
Of course, the idea is that you do the challenge in your Stories and challenge a friend just by mentioning it. They can improvise a little competition with your friends or extend it to your Instagram followers.
You will find these filters in the Instagram profile of Yana Mishkinis, just go through all the available options within the filters until you find “Blink at 6,000” and “Don´t blink”
GET CREATIVE AND CREATE BINGO TEMPLATES
If you don’t like interacting with the filters, you can opt for those bingo-style cards that pose different questions to your friends.
If you don’t know how to create them, you can be inspired by templates like the ones shared by @trencadis7, @luceslusia or @lurqui, who has a Pinterest board with very funny templates for Stories.
Or you can take advantage of the templates that Canva offers and customize them using its editor, such as perhaps in the third image.
Find a fun and popular topic for inspiration and you’re done. It can be something so simple with the bingo halls you see in the first two images. Or it can be something more personal and fun, since it is a game of friends.
Once you share your bingo in your Stories, pass the challenge on to a friend to create their own version and so on.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH YOUR FRIENDS KNOW YOU
You can use the Stories sticker to quiz and challenge your friends to show how much they know about you. Google 24 motives 24 names Instagram challenge. Try it with your friends, make it quirky and think of fun questions.
Instagram already offers you some options when you roll the dice, but the idea is to have fun so be original and create your own quiz. And don’t forget to mention a friend to follow the game’s post and repeat the same dynamic.
Or maybe change the rules a bit. Rather than just about you, the questions you come up with can engage all of your friends and let your Instagram follower’s answer. A fun way to reveal secrets and bond with your fans.
TRUTH OR DARE
This is a very entertaining filter to have a good time with your friends. You will find it in the Instagram profile of @lordeleal under the name “Truth or Challenge”.
You just add it to your camera or test it and you will see what the dynamics is like. The two little signs appear, you choose Truth or Challenge and it will tell you the action you must take or what question you must answer.
Then you pass the challenge on to a friend by mentioning it in your Stories.
QUICK CHALLENGES USING TEMPLATES
There are tons of templates in Canva that you can use to create challenges with your friends. They do not have to be complicated, something quick that got some laughs and allows us to have a good time.
To do this, you have to log in to Canva and in the search engine type “Instagram Stories” so that it shows all the available template designs. From there, you can customize them to create your own games.
- Challenge your friends to describe you with emojis. The first is a template to complete with emojis from the premise of describing different aspects of yourself. You can write it in English or any language of your choosing, add more situations or change the slogans, etc. And then challenge some of your friends to create their version of emojis about you.
- How your friends describe themselves with emojis. Break the quarantine ice by mentioning all your friends so they can create their emoji combinations to describe themselves.
- Are there secrets that your friends want to know about you? Give them a unique opportunity to ask you fun questions. Canva also has templates that you can customize to improvise this type of game.
You see? It doesn’t take much to brighten a friend’s day, break the ice, and then spend the entire afternoon having fun with Instagram.