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Introducing fun family games for Chromecast
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Over the past year
Chromecast
has added hundreds of your favorite apps, and brought anything on the web to the TV via Android mirroring and Chrome tab casting. Just in time for the holidays, we’re adding even more apps to the list. So whether you’re looking forward to a quiet evening watching your favorite holiday heartwarmer or a rousing game night with the gang, there’s something for everyone.
Family-friendly games for Chromecast
Chromecast uses your phone or tablet as the controller and your TV screen like a game or score board to let you play games like
Wheel of Fortune
or classics like
Hasbro’s
Monopoly Dash
,
Scrabble Blitz
,
Connect Four Quads
and
Simon Swipe
on your big screen.
If you prefer to dance around, check out
Just Dance Now
. Your smartphone can tell if you’re fist pumping high or shaking your hands down low, which earns you points. To show off your mental moves instead,
Big Web Quiz
and
Emoji Party
for Chromecast bring trivia to the TV. Astound your friends with your answers to questions like: How many goats tall is Taylor Swift? What does the "Queen of Hearts" look like in emoji? Big Web Quiz uses
Google Knowledge Graph
to create hundreds of questions, while Emoji Party uses your knowledge of emojis to guess movie titles based on the pictures.
There's no hassle or expense with extra controllers. Anyone with a phone or tablet can join in on any of these games, so download these apps from the Play Store or App Store so all your family and friends can shake it, show off their smarts or just play.
More movies and shows with Showtime Anytime and Starz
Nothing says winter like a TV binge on a cold, gray day. With
Showtime Anytime
you can catch up on past and current seasons of the network’s original series including
Homeland
and
The Affair
. With
Starz Play
, get your tartan on with the first season of
Outlander
, or have a marathon of Friday night flicks.
Easily explore and discover new things to cast
To make it easier for you to navigate through the many great apps available with
Chromecast
and find exactly what you’d like to cast, we’ve added category tabs to the chromecast.com/apps page. Choose from TV & Movies, Music & Audio, Games, Sports, Photos & Video, or More.
Posted by Wendi Zhang, three-peat Scrabble champ
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