One prompt goes to the whole room. Everyone writes the answer they think most people will write, the answers come back grouped, and whoever landed in the biggest group scores. Being original gets you nothing.
The one where you all shout an answer and count how many of you said the same thing. Neegma runs the prompts, groups the matching answers automatically, and settles who was actually in the crowd before anyone can argue.
Name a pizza topping
Everyone's answer, grouped. The biggest one is the crowd, and it scores.
What actually happens
A prompt goes up: name a pizza topping, a reason to be late for work, something you would find in a hotel room. Everyone types one answer in secret on their own phone. The trick is that you are not answering for yourself, you are answering for the room. The question is never what you like, it is what everyone else is about to write.
Once the answers are in they land on the shared screen together, grouped by whoever wrote the same thing, with the matching ones growing bigger. Nobody has scored yet, so the room gets to read them cold and work out for itself where it converged. Then you score the round and the biggest group lights up.
The round is worth 1000 points and everyone in that group takes it, while everyone else takes nothing. If two answers tie for biggest, the 1000 is split between them, 500 each, so reading the room outright beats landing in one of two halves it split into. And if every single answer is different, no crowd formed and nobody scores at all, which is its own kind of result for a room that thinks it knows each other.
The rules
Everyone sees the same prompt, like 'name a pizza topping'
Write the answer you think most of the room will write, in secret on your phone
All the answers go up together, with matching ones grouped
Your host can fold together answers that clearly meant the same thing
The biggest group is the crowd, and everyone in it scores
A new prompt starts the next round
You are not trying to be clever, you are trying to be popular. The round is worth 1000 points. Everyone whose answer lands in the biggest matching group takes it, everyone else scores nothing. If two answers tie for biggest, the 1000 is split between them, so both groups score 500 each and reading the room outright is worth more than tying. An answer nobody else gave never scores, so a room where everybody says something different scores nothing at all. Points stack across rounds and the highest total wins.
Score by thinking the same as everyone else, not by being original
Answers land in a word cloud, so the crowd is the biggest word on screen
Ties are shared
Two answers can both be the crowd
The prompts are yours
Write a set in the Playground, or type them live as you host
Plays as individuals or teams, online or around one device
While you host
Use the host controls to collect answers, decide when the crowd is revealed, and keep the prompts coming for as long as the room is enjoying it.
Leaderboard
After round 3
Example final podium
Vlad
5,500
Josh
6,000
Kristin
4,500
Final scores after eight prompts
Run a Playground set for a planned running order, or write each prompt during the game. Live prompts have no fixed round count, so you keep going until you choose Finish game.
Answers arrive anonymously and group themselves on screen, with matching ones growing larger. Nothing is scored until you say so, which gives the room a moment to guess where it landed.
Matching ignores capitals, spacing and punctuation at the ends of an answer, and if you think two wordings mean the same thing you can merge them before scoring. The biggest group takes the round's 1000 points, split evenly when groups tie.
Read the prompt aloud as it lands so nobody is squinting at a phone. Put the grouped answers where the whole group can see them before you score the round.
Share the answer board and let the grouping do the talking. Give the room a beat to react to the shape of it before you reveal the crowd.
Avoid prompts that only one site would answer the same way, since local references split the room and no crowd forms. Keep prompts everyday and everyone stays in with a chance.
Use cases
Every prompt is one you wrote. Prepare a set in the Playground or type each one live as you host. The best prompts have an obvious popular answer, since a prompt nobody can match on scores nobody any points.
Team offsites and away days
Prompts about the office: the meeting everyone dreads, the snack that vanishes first, the excuse people actually use. Clever answers score nothing, so seniority stops mattering by round two and the team finds out how much it already agrees on.
Find team icebreakersBirthdays and house parties
Keep the prompts light and everyday, then let the grouping do the comedy. Guests who have never met still land in the same crowd, which is a faster introduction than going round the room with names.
Plan a birthday gamePub quizzes and bar nights
Run three prompt rounds before the real quiz. Teams that would be nowhere on general knowledge are suddenly level, because guessing what a room of strangers will write has nothing to do with revision. It gets the tables talking to each other.
See pub and bar gamesRemote and hybrid calls
It loses nothing over video. Everyone types in private, the answers group on the shared screen, and the call reacts to the shape of it together instead of taking turns to speak.
Explore games for video callsBuild a set around your subject, guests or occasion in the Playground.
Customise TelepathyHow Telepathy plays
Play as individuals or in teams, on prompts you wrote in the Playground or typed live while hosting. A team writes one answer together and scores as a unit.
One code, and the whole room is in.
People point their camera at the code on your screen, type a name, and they are playing. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, and it works the same whether they are in the room with you or dialled in from three time zones away.
Best for
virtual sessions, hybrid offsites, and any crowd big enough that you want everyone answering at once.
Two to five teams, one answer each.
Split the room into colour-coded teams. A team huddles, argues, and sends one answer. You can also let every member answer for their team if you would rather nobody sits out.
Best for
in-person offsites, weddings, and family gatherings, where you want people talking to each other instead of into their phones.
Write the round yourself.
Open the Playground and type your own questions, or upload a spreadsheet of them. Your company's acronyms, the couple's first date, the group chat's running joke. Save the set and run it again whenever you need it.
Best for
facilitators, community managers, MCs, and brand teams who want the round to be about the people in the room.
Offline
Playing in the room with no phones out? Pass one device around so each person types their answer in private, then hands it back. The answers come up grouped on the shared screen and the crowd is scored exactly as it is online. Same prompts, same rules, one phone.
Before you start
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