Guess Who Wrote It

🕹️ How to play

1. Start a game in one tap: The player list comes pre-filled with P1–P4, so you can hit Start right away, or type real names one per line (3–10 players, no duplicates). Pick 3 rounds, 5 rounds or one round each. The first player picks the question: the game draws an open-ended prompt, which you can swap up to three times or replace with your own.
2. Write your answers in secret: Pass the phone in player order. Whoever holds it taps “I’m …” to see the question and an empty box, types one line (30 characters max) and submits — the screen flips straight back to the hand-off page for the next person. Nobody ever sees an earlier answer, and “Not me, go back” leaves no trace if the phone lands in the wrong hands.
3. Guess who wrote each answer: When everyone is in, lay the phone in the middle and reveal the wall: every answer as a shuffled card. Starting with the player after the question picker, tap a card, tap the name you suspect and confirm. A correct guess scores 1, flips the card and knocks that author out for the round while you keep guessing; a wrong one stamps “Not: X” on the card and passes the turn.
4. Score the round and play on: The round ends when only one player is left unmasked — they were hardest to read and get +2. The question picker can heart a favourite answer for +1. After the last round you get the final standings with ties shared, plus three titles: Mind Reader, Hardest to Read and Best Line. “Same group, play again” keeps the names and settings.

📖 Rules & variants

Players and rounds: 3–10 players, with 4–7 the sweet spot. The question picker rotates through the list and still writes and guesses like everyone else. Choose 3 rounds, 5 rounds or one round per player; a five-player round takes about 4–7 minutes. With 8 or more players, switch on the 30-second writing timer — it only nudges, it never submits for you.

Chain guessing: pick a face-down card, then pick an author from the players still in (not yourself), plus the Mystery author if it is in play, minus anyone already ruled out on that card. Right: +1, the card flips, that author sits out the rest of the round and you go again. Wrong: the card is stamped with the name you guessed and the next player still in takes over. You may even guess on your own card to play dumb — the screen never marks which card is yours, because that would give it away.

Stuck cards: after 3 wrong guesses a card shows a Reveal button the current guesser can use instead of a guess — it flips with no points and the author is out. At 5 wrong guesses a card reveals itself. Every round is guaranteed to finish.

Scoring: +1 for each correct author (Mystery included), +2 for the last player left unmasked, +1 for the answer the question picker hearts (not their own, not Mystery, skipping is fine). Revealed cards score nothing. Equal totals share a rank (1, 1, 3); a shared top score is a shared win, no tiebreak. Titles go to most correct guesses, most rounds survived and most hearts — a title nobody earned is not shown.

The Mystery answer and question levels: with 3–4 players a pre-written fake answer joins the wall by default, so process of elimination gets harder; guessing it right still scores 1. From 5 players it is off by default, and you can force it on or off under More settings. Questions come in Easy, Deep and Spicy; only Easy is on by default, and Spicy is for adults who know each other and needs everyone’s OK. Custom questions have no Mystery answer.

How to win: to bank the +2, write something that doesn’t sound like you — change your tone or take the opposite view. When guessing, start with the card you are surest of, since a hit keeps your turn; read the “Not:” stamps to narrow things down; and remember the Mystery answer tends to sound a little too neat and generic.

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