Can't Find Your Kenya at 50 Box? Here's the Kenyan Party Game on Your Phone

You know the feeling. It is a Saturday evening. The nyama choma is almost ready, everyone is settled in, someone suggests Kenya at 50 — the 50-50 board game — and then comes the search. The living room cupboard. The shelf behind the TV. Under the bed. The box is somewhere — it was definitely here at Christmas — but nobody can find it, and by the time it surfaces (if it surfaces), the moment has passed and someone has started a movie.

Or maybe you are not at home at all. You are at a chama, or a birthday gathering, or a spontaneous Friday hang at someone's place, and the energy is right for a game but nobody thought to bring anything. The Kenya at 50 box is at home. The cards are probably in three different rooms. The timer ran out of sand sometime in 2023.

This is the gap that Unajua? was built to fill.

What Unajua? Is

Unajua? is a Kenyan charades party game, free on Android and iPhone. One player holds the phone to their forehead — screen facing out — while their team acts out or describes the word on screen. Tilt down for correct. Tilt up to pass. Score as many as you can before the timer runs out.

The content is entirely Kenyan. Celebrities, Sheng slang, Nairobi landmarks, Kenyan food, musicians, campus life, hustle culture, TikTok Kenya — everything that makes a room of Kenyans immediately recognise what is on the card and immediately disagree about how to act it out.

No box. No setup. No cards to sort, no tokens to find, no sand timer to flip. Open the app, pick a deck, and you are playing in fifteen seconds.

Why Kenya at 50 Fans Specifically Will Love It

If you love Kenya at 50, the appeal of Unajua? is immediate. Both games are built around the same core pleasure: the specific joy of watching a Kenyan try to describe a deeply Kenyan thing to other Kenyans without saying the word. Both games work because the content is culturally specific enough that everyone in the room has a strong reaction to what comes up on the card. Both games are loudest when the subject matter hits close to home.

The difference is purely practical. The creators of 50-50 made the game specifically to get people off their phones. They succeeded — the physical experience of passing cards, flipping the timer, and huddling around a board has a texture that a screen cannot fully replicate. If you have the Kenya at 50 box and the time and the setup, it is brilliant.

But Unajua? is always with you. It does not need to be found. It does not run out of cards. It does not require four people minimum to make sense. It works when you are three people at a table and someone says "should we play something?" at 11pm on a Tuesday.

The Occasions Unajua? Was Made For

The impromptu hangout. Nobody planned a game night. It just became one. Unajua? is ready before anyone finishes their sentence.

The road trip. The person in the passenger seat holds the phone to their forehead. The driver is the only one who cannot play. Everyone else describes. The kilometres disappear.

The chama where nobody brought the Kenya at 50 box. The chamas that ended early because there was nothing to do after the contributions are now the chamas that go until midnight.

The campus game night. No one has Ksh 4,000 for a board game right now. Unajua? is free.

The diaspora group chat visit. Someone is back from the UK for two weeks. You want to do something genuinely Kenyan. Unajua? covers that.

The family gathering where you need to manage the cousins. Works for ages 12 and up. No explaining required.

Try It Tonight

Unajua? is free on Android and iPhone. Kenya's #1 game on the App Store. No sign-up, no login, works offline.

If the Kenya at 50 box turns up later, play both.