✦3-16 players · 10-15 minEverybody writes one.
Only one wins.

Twelve prompts about the parts of work everybody recognises. Write a caption, vote for somebody else's, find out whose team this really is.

Rounds

You get a link to send. 3-16 players, about 10-15 min. Nobody needs an account, including you.

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✦ Why it works

The quiet ones win this.

Being funny out loud in a meeting and being funny in a text box are different skills, and the second one is much more evenly distributed. Anonymous submission takes the room's usual comedians out of their advantage entirely.

You cannot vote for your own, which is the only rule that matters. Everything else takes care of itself.

✦ Worth knowing

Prompts, not pictures.

There are no images here, deliberately. A picture-caption game needs a library of images that are safe, funny and not somebody's copyright, and every version that tries ends up with a set that stops being funny the second time you play.

A one-line situation does the same job: the meeting has been going ninety minutes, caption the room. Everybody has an image for that already, and theirs is better than any we could have supplied.

✦ How to play

Three steps, and none of them is signing up.

1
Open a room

One link, everybody joins with a name. Three players minimum.

2
Write a caption

One prompt per round, one line each. Nothing shows until everybody is in.

3
Vote for the best

All the captions appear at once, anonymously. A point for every vote yours attracts.

✦ Questions

Caption this, answered.

No, it is disabled. That is the only rule the game needs, and without it the whole thing collapses in one round.
While you vote, yes. Names appear with the tally at the reveal, which is the moment worth waiting for. Nothing you write is visible to anybody, including a watcher, until every player has submitted.
Three at minimum, and it is much better with five or more. With three there are only two captions to choose between, which is a coin toss rather than a game.
The prompts are. What people write is up to them, which is why this is best played with a team rather than with strangers. Answers are capped at 80 characters.

The game is free forever.
The rest of it is the hard part.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects and tasks the team goes back to once the game is over.

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