How Do You Play Valentine’s Day Charades? The rules for charades are simple. You will want to divide into two equal teams. Once the teams are set you decide who will go first. The first team will draw a card and look at it. Then have a scorekeeper will set a timer (usually 1 minute) or flip over the timer and the team begins acting. They will try to get their team to guess the word before the time runs out. If they do they will get a point. If they don’t the other team has 1 guess, the first word that is said aloud to try and steal. If they get it right then they get the point. The first team to the set number of points wins!