Need a hand?
Something broke, a game got stuck, or a line went too far? Tell us.
Contact
Email noahjameshall@gmail.com. Include the game, how many people were playing and a screenshot if you can.
Finding the games
- Open Messages and any conversation.
- Tap the + next to the text field, then ThumbBout (under More if you don't see it).
- Pick a game and send it. The bubble is the game from then on.
A game looks stuck
Open the newest bubble for that game. If your move didn't land, ThumbBout offers Send again. Party games let anyone Call it once most of the chat has played.
Something offensive in a game
Everything a game shows comes from the other people in your chat, travelling inside your Messages conversation. ThumbBout has no accounts, feed or server, so it cannot see or remove it. To deal with a person, use Messages: block the sender, report the message with Report Junk (iMessage) or leave the group chat. If a ThumbBout deck or built-in line itself crosses a line, email us the game and the line and we will fix it in an update.
Decks marked 18+ (After Dark in Low Blows, Spicy starters in Coupled Up) are off by default and only the person setting up the game can turn them on.
Photos and privacy
Photo and video proofs go straight into your conversation and are never sent to us. See the privacy policy.
Credits
Type is set in Lilita One (Copyright © 2011 Juan Montoreano) and Fredoka (Copyright © 2016 The Fredoka Project Authors), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the licences ship with the fonts in /fonts.
Word games use word lists derived from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) and ENABLE. The Bars rhyme helper is derived from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Copyright © 1993–2015 Carnegie Mellon University, redistributed under its BSD-style licence; the dictionary is provided "as is" and any expressed or implied warranties are disclaimed.
lexicon.dawg is compiled from ENABLE (public domain) and from a word list generated from SCOWL release 2026.02.25 (https://wordlist.aspell.net), whose notice follows. Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of SCOWLv2, or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. SCOWL is derived from many sources, most of which are in the Public Domain. Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was also used. All data from COCA comes from 3-gram data that is not freely available; however, the usage is within the rights given by the NDA that was signed when purchasing the data. More information on COCA is available at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/. The primary source of words for SCOWL comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K. Both are in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> deserves special credit as he is the author of 12dicts and a major contributor to ENABLE2K. In addition, he gave me an incredible amount of feedback and created a number of special lists in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.