Majority Rules
Say what everybody else is about to say. Being interesting costs you.
A prompt goes out and you write the most obvious answer you can think of. Being clever is the mistake: points come from matching other people, so the winner is whoever reads the room best.
- Players
- 3 to 16 players
- Usually takes
- About 15 minutes
- What it plays from
- Prompts to write or draw from
- Ways to play
- Pass and play, Online room
How it plays
Everybody answers the same prompt at the same time, in a few words. Koven groups the answers that mean the same thing, and the biggest group scores. The answer nobody else gave scores nothing at all, which sounds harsh until the first time somebody writes something brilliant and gets a zero for it. It plays quickly, it plays well with people who do not know each other, and it produces a surprising amount of argument about whether two answers were really the same.
What happens in a round
Straight from the game itself: these are the phases the room moves through, in order, with the clock each one starts on.
Go with the herd
Write what you think most of the table is about to write.
45 seconds
What the table said
The answer most of you gave scores. The one nobody shared takes the sheep.
12 seconds
Who it suits
- A group that has just met and needs something with no learning curve
- Larger rooms, up to sixteen
- Anybody who enjoys being told they are too original for their own good
How you can play it
Pass and play
One phone, passed around the room. No signal needed, no accounts, nothing to set up.
Online room
Everybody on their own phone, in the same room or three hundred miles apart. Guests join with a four letter code and no download.
Play it with your own words
Every format runs on a deck, and you can write your own. A deck you make is yours to share with your family by code straight away. Anything you publish to strangers is read by a moderator first.
Play it tonight
Koven is in beta. Leave your email and we will send you a link when there is space, or open the player if somebody has already given you a room code.
Join the waitlist Open the player
Free on the free tier, like every other format in Koven.