A custom Guess Who board you can actually print
This draws a replacement card for the Hasbro Guess Who game at the size of the real thing, 10.5625 by 7.625 inches, on US Letter paper in landscape at 300 DPI. The geometry came off a real 2008 board with a tape measure, so the tiles land behind the doors instead of near them. You supply 24 names and 24 pictures and it does the rest.
The layout matches the original card. There is a reference strip of 12 by 2 small tiles along the top, the one that slides into the slot, and a grid of 8 by 3 larger tiles underneath, the ones that sit behind the red flip down doors. Each of your 24 entries appears in both, and the lower grid is shuffled against the top strip exactly like the factory card.
Everything renders in your browser on a canvas. The pictures you add are read off your own disk and never uploaded anywhere.
How to make a custom Guess Who board
- Give the board a title. It prints sideways down the left tab, where the original has one.
- Fill in 24 names, either by typing them or by pasting a list into the bulk box.
- Add a picture to each tile. Click a square to browse, or drag an image file onto it.
- Choose centered if you are printing double sided, or corner if you are doing one board per sheet.
- Set how many copies you want, then print at 100 percent and cut the dashed lines.
Centered or corner, and why it matters
Centered puts an even margin on all four sides. Print double sided with the flip on the short edge, and the board on the back lines up with the board on the front, so one set of four cuts frees both. That is the mode to use for two players off one sheet.
Corner pushes the art into the top left of the paper instead. The paper's own factory edges become the left and top edges of the board, so you only cut twice, down the right and across the bottom. It is more forgiving of a printer that cannot quite reach the edge, and it is the better choice for one board per sheet.
Why every copy comes out shuffled
Two players sitting across from each other with identical boards can guess by position rather than by question. Each copy this tool makes reshuffles its own lower door grid, so the same 24 characters land in a different order on every sheet. Hit Reshuffle to roll new layouts for all of them.
Frequently asked questions
What size is a Guess Who board?
About 10 9/16 by 7 5/8 inches, which is 10.5625 by 7.625. That measurement is off a 2008 Hasbro card, and it is what this tool draws to.
How many characters are on a Guess Who board?
Twenty four. Each shows up twice on the card, once small in the top reference strip and once larger in the grid of doors.
My board printed too small. What went wrong?
Almost always the print scaling. "Fit to page" and "Shrink oversized pages" both shrink the art and the cut lines end up in the wrong place. Set it to Actual size or 100 percent.
The edges got clipped.
The card is wider than many printers can print. Turn on borderless or minimum margins, or switch to the corner layout, which needs less reach.
Does collating break the cutting?
No. Collate only changes the order pages come out, not what is on them. If you are printing several copies of one board, collate off keeps them together.
Is this free, and do my pictures get uploaded?
Free, no account, no watermark. The pictures are read straight off your device by your own browser and are never sent anywhere.
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