One question goes to the whole room. Everyone types an honest answer in secret, the answers come back shuffled with no names on them, and then you all work out who wrote what.
The one where everyone scribbles an answer and you guess the handwriting, without the paper, the folding, or the person who has to read them all out. Neegma hides the names, shuffles the answers, and scores the guessing.
What is your favourite food?
Everyone's answer, no names on any of them. The ones people agreed on grow.
What actually happens
There is no house question bank, which is deliberate: every prompt is one you wrote. What is the most overrated food. What is a small lie you tell all the time. What would you do with a free Tuesday. Each prompt is one round. Write a set in the Playground before the night, or just start the game and type a question there and then, which is the version to use when you want to ask the room something and see what comes back.
On the night the prompt lands on every phone at once and everyone types their own answer in private. Once the answers are in they go up on the shared screen, shuffled and unsigned, and the room reads them cold. Then the guessing starts: you match each answer to the person you think wrote it, either all of them at once or one at a time with a vote and an argument for each.
You reveal the authors and the board moves. Whoever matched the most that round takes the most points, and the shouting starts immediately, because the answer everyone pinned on the quiet one belongs to the head of finance. Answers show up as a word cloud by default, so three people writing the same thing swells up in the middle of the screen on its own; flip to the numbered list if you would rather read them one by one.
The rules
The host shares a prepared or live prompt. Each player, or each team, types an answer on their device.
The answers appear without names. Match each one to its author, either together on one board or one answer at a time.
The host reveals the authors and the round scores. Repeat with the next prompt.
Make the most correct matches to earn the highest points for the round. Scores accumulate across prompts; the player or team with the highest total wins.
Half writing, half detective work
Two ways to guess
The whole board at once, or one answer at a time
Answers land in a word cloud as they come in, so you see where the room agreed
The questions are yours
Write a set in the Playground, or type them live as you host
Plays as individuals or teams, with players on their own devices
While you host
Use the host controls to collect answers, reveal the authors and decide when the next question should land.
Leaderboard
After round 2
Example final podium
Bo
750
Ada
1,000
Cy
500
Example scores after one round
Use a Playground set for a planned running order, or type a question during the game. Live mode lets you keep adding prompts until you choose Finish game.
Answers arrive anonymously in the word cloud. Switch to the numbered list for easier reading; author names stay hidden until you use the reveal controls.
The timer covers writing, while you control the guessing and reveal. Show the round's points, then the overall leaderboard, before moving to the next question.
Give everyone a quiet moment to type before discussing answers. Put the answer board where the whole group can read it.
Share the answer board and read each response aloud in One by One mode. Players make their guesses on their own devices.
Use names everyone recognises, and repeat comments from the room into the microphone. Invite remote authors to explain their answers after the reveal.
Use cases
Use anonymous answers to open a conversation, revisit shared memories or hear a different side of familiar people.
Team offsites and workshops
Ask which fictional job each colleague would try for a day, then let the team match the answers to their authors. The prompt gives everyone a contribution before the discussion starts. After the reveal, invite people to explain the choices that surprised the room.
Find team icebreakersBirthdays, hen dos and family gatherings
Ask guests for a favourite memory of the person being celebrated, then guess who shared each one. Choose One by One to give every story its own reveal. Friends from different parts of their life get a chance to explain the reference afterwards.
Plan a birthday gameRemote icebreakers
Start a video call with a question about an ideal free afternoon. Anonymous answers give everyone something to read before anyone has to speak. Use the guesses to begin the conversation, then let each author explain the choice after their name is revealed.
Explore games for video callsBuild a set around your subject, guests or occasion in the Playground.
Customise Who Said ItReveal styles
Play individually or with at least three teams, with one answer per team. Choose the reveal style before the game starts.
Match every answer together.
Each player matches the anonymous answers to their authors and submits the whole board. The host reveals all authors in one step.
Best for
larger groups or a quicker round.
Discuss, vote and reveal.
One answer appears at a time. Players guess its author before the reveal, giving the group space to discuss each answer.
Best for
eight or fewer players or teams, with more discussion.
Before you start
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