Closest
Everyone guesses your answer before you give it.
Who is playing?
What are you to each other?
Nothing anyone says is written down. There is no account, and the only thing sent anywhere is a page-view count.
Before the first card
- One name comes up at a time. Everyone except that person says out loud what they think the answer will be.
- Then they answer — and they get the last word on who came closest. That person scores.
- If nobody came close, they score double. There is nothing to gain from a safe answer.
- Whoever is on the card can skip it. No reason, no penalty, no comment from anyone else. That is a rule, not a favour.
- It gets deeper each round and stops in between to ask whether to go on.
Agree one thing now: is anyone allowed to bring any of this up tomorrow?
Warm
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That was Warm.
Real
Closest
The questions
How it works
The good version of this evening already exists and it is not an app — it is the moment two hours in when somebody asks a real question and the table goes quiet. Everything that tries to manufacture that moment does it by pointing at one person and demanding a confession, which is an interrogation, and an interrogation gets you the shortest true-ish answer available.
So the exposure moves. When four people have to guess what you will say before you say it, they are the ones on the line. You are the answer key, and you get the last word about who actually knows you. Being known is the prize instead of the price.
The rest is pacing. You cannot open on the darkest card — the rounds are gated and the game stops between them to ask. Colleagues and a table of people who have just met get two rounds, not three, because the deep questions are not written for them. And the skip belongs to whoever is on the card, so leaving one alone is an ordinary thing that happens several times a night rather than an admission.
Where anything goes
Nowhere. The page is static and there is no account: names, scores and which cards have come up sit in this browser so a reload does not end the night, and no answer anybody gives is ever typed in or stored. Sharing a deck means putting questions inside a link — never anything anyone said.
The only thing this page sends anywhere is a page-view count to my own counter: that the page was opened, which site linked here, and a campaign tag if the link carried one — no cookies, no IP addresses, nothing that ties one day’s visit to the next. It never records names, scores, answers or the contents of a deck. Opening the page once with ?nostats=1 switches the counter off in this browser. The typefaces load from Google Fonts, the one other request the page makes.
Question 219 of a list of ideas, built end to end. The rest of them.