Ultra Chat Games

Ultra Chat Games puts 23 games in your server's chat, drawn with Minecraft's own pictures. Guess a mob from its shadow, name a song from the first seconds of a music disc, find the impostor with your friends, or win Quiz Night. There is no resource pack and nothing to set up, and it is free.

Join the Discord for help, ideas and what comes next.

Picture games

• Shadow: a thing of the game, black as a shadow, comes out of the dark until someone names it.
• Crafted: a real recipe on a crafting grid. What does it make?
• Odd One Out: a row of the same picture and one that is not quite the same. Click it.
• Faces: the face of someone who plays on your server, drawn from their own skin.
• Effect: the icon of a status effect. Which one is it?
• Flags: a country's flag, drawn in the chat with the game's own blocks.
• Combo: things meet in a recipe, a furnace, a lightning strike or water. What comes out?
• Count: pictures flash on the screen. How many of one kind were there?
• Colors: the name of a color written in another color, or dyes to mix.

Sound games

• Sounds: a creature or a thing of the game makes a sound. Name what made it.
• Discs: the first seconds of a music disc. Name the song.
• A Listen again button plays it once more, only for the player who clicks it.

Party games

• Impostor: everyone gets a secret word, one player gets another. Give clues in turn, then vote.
• Word Chain: name a thing that starts with the last letter of the one before.
• Bomb: a lit bomb goes round. Name a thing with the given letters and pass it on before it goes off.
• Who Said It: a line someone wrote in the chat a while ago. Who was it?

Classics, reinvented

• Unscramble: the letters slide into their places one by one, lit green.
• Reaction: lights come on one by one, then a word shows. Type it, fast.
• Math: a quick sum, or a puzzle where every picture stands for a number.
• Guess the Number: every wrong guess narrows it down, for everyone.
• Trivia: a question about the game with four answers, made from your server's own recipes. The results come like on TV.
• Riddle: "who am I?" in three clues, the hardest first.
• Race: a task out in the world, like mining or fishing. The first to do it wins.

Events

• Quiz Night: a show of rounds with a scoreboard and a podium with prizes, on the days and times you choose.
• Happy Hour: for a while, every prize of every game is worth more.
• Daily Word: one word of the game a day, the same for everyone, with six tries. Days in a row are counted.
• Live Question: ask the server a question of your own with /cg ask. The first to answer wins.

Fair and rewarding

• Wrong guesses are private: nobody copies a near miss, and the chat stays clean.
• A few hearts per round, a speed bonus, and a jackpot that grows when nobody wins.
• Streaks, personal bests and server records. /cg stats shows your wins, points and best times.

Speaks your language

Every word the plugin says is in a language file you can change. It comes in:

• English
• Română (Romanian)
• Deutsch (German)
• Español (Spanish)
• Italiano (Italian)
• Polski (Polish)

Want another one? Copy lang/en.yml to lang/<language>.yml, translate it and write its name under language in config.yml. A line you have not translated yet is said in English.

For server owners

• Paper and Folia, Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.x, one jar. Java 21 or newer.
• Works as soon as it is installed. Every game has its own file to switch it off or change its time, prize and hearts.
• Prizes are money with Vault, or points without it. Commands can run on a win too.
• Games come by themselves every few minutes. They wait for a quiet moment in the chat and count only players who are not away.
• Players can switch the games off for themselves with /cg toggle.
• Placeholders for scoreboards and tab lists, with PlaceholderAPI.
• Nothing is sent anywhere: no statistics, no update checks.

Command	What it does
/cg	The games, and how to play each one
/cg toggle	The games off or on, for you
/cg stats	Your wins, points and best times
/cg word [word]	The Daily Word
/cg event	Quiz Night, Happy Hour and the Daily Word
/cg start [game]	A game right now
/cg stop	Ends the game that is on
/cg quiz start|stop	A Quiz Night right now
/cg happyhour [minutes] [times]	A Happy Hour right now
/cg ask question | answer	A Live Question of your own
/cg reload	Reads the files again

Permission	Who has it	What it allows
ultrachatgames.play	everyone	Seeing the games and playing them
ultrachatgames.admin	operators	Starting and stopping games, Quiz Night, Happy Hour, reload
ultrachatgames.host	operators	Asking a Live Question with /cg ask

Placeholders

With PlaceholderAPI, for scoreboards, tab lists and holograms. Write a game's id in place of <game> (shadow, trivia, riddle...) and a place from 1 to 10 in place of <n>.

Placeholder	What it shows
%ultrachatgames_wins%	The player's wins
%ultrachatgames_points%	The player's points
%ultrachatgames_best_run%	Their longest run of wins in a row
%ultrachatgames_streak%	Their run of wins going on right now
%ultrachatgames_rank%	Their place by wins (rank_points: by points)
%ultrachatgames_wins_<game>%	Their wins at one game
%ultrachatgames_best_<game>%	Their best time at one game (best_<game>_ms in milliseconds)
%ultrachatgames_word_streak%	Their days in a row at the Daily Word (word_best, word_solved too)
%ultrachatgames_word_done%	Whether they played today's word (word_tries: tries used)
%ultrachatgames_games_on%	Whether the games are on for them
%ultrachatgames_top_wins_<n>_name%	Who holds that place by wins (top_wins_<n>: how many)
%ultrachatgames_top_points_<n>_name%	The same by points; top_run and top_word too
%ultrachatgames_record_<game>%	The server's record at a game (record_<game>_name: whose)
%ultrachatgames_game%	The game on right now (game_id, game_time: seconds left)
%ultrachatgames_next_game%	Seconds until the next game comes
%ultrachatgames_run_holder%	Who is on a run of wins (run_count: how long)
%ultrachatgames_happyhour%	Whether Happy Hour is on (happyhour_multiplier, happyhour_left in minutes)
%ultrachatgames_quiznight_next%	When the next Quiz Night is (quiznight: on right now)
%ultrachatgames_word_number%	Today's Daily Word (word_letters, word_solvers)

Questions

Do players need a resource pack or a mod? No. Everything is drawn with the textures every client already has.

Can I turn off a game? Yes. Each game has its own file in games/, with enabled: false to switch it off.

Do I need an economy plugin? No. Without Vault the prizes are points, kept in the plugin's own stats.

Will it fill my chat? Games wait for a quiet moment, wrong guesses are only seen by the player who typed them, and every player can switch the games off for themselves.