👑 King's Game

🕹️ How to play

1. Set up a round of the King's Game: Choose how many are playing (3–20, best at 4–12) and which kind of night it is: friends, work night, family or date night. Names are optional — you can hit start without typing anything and the lots are generated from the count alone.
2. Pass the phone and draw the lots: Send the phone around the table in seat order. Whoever's turn it is taps "my turn" and swipes a stick up (a tap works too) to pull their lot. After reading the number they tap "got it", the number leaves the screen, and the phone moves on.
3. Crown the king and pick an order: Once everyone has drawn, the reveal screen crowns the round's king. Three face-down order cards are dealt — turning one over sets tonight's order. The king can also choose "I'll say it myself" and phrase the order out loud instead.
4. Let the app decide who performs: The target is rolled by the app, never chosen by the king. When the number reel stops, whoever holds that number owns up and performs. Two-person orders roll two different numbers in a row so nobody can be called twice.

📖 Rules & variants

Core rules: every player draws one lot that only they can see, and one of those lots carries the crown. After the round of drawing, the king reveals himself, picks an order, and the app rolls the number that has to carry it out. Seat order (who holds the phone) and lot numbers are two separate numbering systems and are never mixed on screen, so nobody assumes "I sat third, so I am number three".

Can the king be called on himself: yes by default. "King holds a number" is on, which puts his number in the pool and gives him a 1-in-N chance of hitting himself — the classic brake on harsh orders. Turn it off for the traditional variant: one crown lot plus the numbers 1..N-1, and the king can never be called.

Where the orders come from: four original decks, sorted by the kind of night. Family is completely clean with no drinking wording at all. Work night avoids looks, romance, income and rank. Friends will make you mildly ridiculous but always laughable. Date night is flirty with zero physical contact. A spicy deck sits behind an adult confirmation — free like everything else, just deliberate.

Refusing is allowed: the act screen always shows three equally sized exits — done, swap it, and pass with a sip. A swap changes the order but never the number (you cannot re-roll your way to a different victim) and is capped at two per round. Passing is a legal move written into the rules: no loss, no penalty, no score.

Round length: 60–90 seconds. On a six-player table that is roughly 35 seconds of drawing, 5 to crown, 10 to pick an order and 20 to perform. There is no winner and no leaderboard — most tables play 10 to 25 rounds a night, and "next round" jumps straight back to drawing with the player count, names, scene and custom orders all kept.

House rules worth agreeing on: the classic mode with the king out of the pool; doubling up when a two-person order lands; running the whole night on "I'll say it myself" and using the page as a pure lot drawer; handing the next round's start to whoever was just called; and turning on fast mode to skip the choreography late at night. One more that saves arguments: if somebody sees your number, the round is void — hit redraw.

Fairness and secrecy: the draw uses the site's shared random source and every round is dealt from scratch, with no weighting against whoever was king last time. This round's number assignment and the king's seat exist only in memory and are written to no local record, which is exactly why refreshing or closing the tab voids the round. If somebody forgets their number, a corner entry lets them look it up — and that panel only ever shows that one person's number.

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