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Watch a full turn played out loud: who describes, who guesses, how points land and how a slip is caught. Pick a mode and press Play; nothing plays until you do, and captions follow every line.

The worked example from How to play: a 60-second turn with a near miss, bonus words, a reported slip, a grace-period guess and the end-of-turn vote.

  • AshaClues
  • BenGuess
  • ChenGuess
  • DevWatch
  • 2 moreWatch
Team 10
Team 20
Turn clock1:00

Asha's screen: the describer and the watching team see every word. Ben and Chen see blank tiles with points.

PenguinEASY+7
VolcanoEASY+8
UmbrellaEASY+8
AirportEASY+7
ToothbrushMEDIUM+20
SunflowerMEDIUM+21
WindmillMEDIUM+19
ThunderMEDIUM+19
CurriculumHARD+32
CowardiceHARD+32

Typed guesses

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    1. Guide: Here's one 60-second turn, with reporting and voting on. Asha describes for Team 1, Ben and Chen type their guesses, and Dev's team watches for slips.
    2. Asha: Okay, easy ones first. A bird that can't fly. Lives on the ice, wears a little tuxedo.
    3. Ben: Penguin!
    4. Asha: Yes! Next, a mountain that explodes. Hot lava pours out the top.
    5. Chen: Ooh, volcano!
    6. Asha: You open it when it rains, so you don't get wet.
    7. Ben: Umbrella!
    8. Asha: Every morning and night, you put paste on it and scrub your smile.
    9. Ben: Toothbrush! Oh no, I missed a letter.
    10. Chen: Got it. Toothbrush, spelled right this time.
    11. Guide: Nine of ten letters is 90% similar, so Ben's typo was a near miss for half points: 10. Chen's exact guess swapped that for the full 20.
    12. Asha: Where planes take off and land.
    13. Chen: Airport!
    14. Asha: A tall yellow flower that turns to face the sun.
    15. Ben: Sunflower!
    16. Guide: That's the sixth exact guess of the turn, so 3 bonus words drop onto the board.
    17. Dev: Hang on. She said flower, and sun. Both are pieces of Sunflower. I'm reporting it.
    18. Guide: Two of Team 2's three watchers tapped the tile. That's a majority, so the slip is confirmed and held for the vote.
    19. Asha: Keep going! Big sails that turn in the breeze. Old farms in Holland have them.
    20. Chen: Is it... a wheel? No. Windmill!
    21. Asha: Bonus word! Two wheels and pedals. You ride it to school.
    22. Ben: Bike? Bicycle!
    23. Asha: Last one, quick! Everything a school plans to teach, for the whole year.
    24. Chen: Syllabus? Wait, wait. Curriculum!
    25. Guide: The clock ran out while Chen was typing, but his guess landed inside the 2-second grace period, so it counts: 130.
    26. Guide: Now the 30-second vote on Sunflower. Everyone in the game votes, and the slip stands with at least 60% yes.
    27. Asha: Come on, it was one clue!
    28. Dev: Sorry, Asha. Rules are rules. I'm voting yes.
    29. Guide: 4 yes and 2 no is 67%, above the 60% needed, so Sunflower's 21 points come off.
    30. Guide: Team 1 ends the turn with 109. Thunder, Cowardice and the two unused bonus words cost nothing. That's a full turn!

    Voices generated with Kokoro (Apache 2.0). The players are made up; the words, points and rules are the game's own.