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Every player gets a card only they can read: a secret word, a mission, a target. Passed around, never uploaded.
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Add the players first, in the Players tab.
Add the players first, in the Players tab.
A party where everybody is up to something
Give each person a small thing to pull off during the evening and an ordinary dinner turns into a game that runs underneath the conversation. Get somebody to say the word banana. Get two people to swap seats. Work a word into a sentence without anybody noticing it was planned. Nobody announces anything, and at the end you go round the table and find out who managed theirs.
The same idea carries a team day or a long family lunch, because it asks nothing of anybody except that they keep talking. The ready-made missions are written to be possible for a nine-year-old and still awkward for an adult, and you can replace the lot by typing your own, one per line.
It does the same job for an escape room or a treasure hunt, where each player holds one piece of a clue that only means something once the group pools it. The names come from the shared roster, the same one the secret role cards and the turn order use, so a group that plays a few things types its names once. Put the countdown timer next to it if the round needs a clock.
Kept in this browser under pph.hidden.cards, pph.hidden.deal, pph.hidden.reveal and pph.players, and nowhere else. Accounts, printing, storage and what the page loads are answered on the FAQ.
Questions
- Can a player read their card again later?
- Yes. Tap their name on the stage and the card comes back the same private way it was dealt, without starting a new game. It is the fix for the player who looked too quickly and the one who was still finding their seat.
- Does the person holding the phone see everybody's card?
- Not while the game is running. The screen names whose turn it is to look and shows nothing else, and a card appears only while that person holds the button. There is a reveal for the end of the game and it sits behind a confirmation.
- Can two players be given the same card?
- Only if you ask for it. Leave A card may repeat switched off and every player gets a different one, which means you need at least as many cards as players. Switch it on and a short list is shared out across a bigger table.
- Where do the cards I write go?
- Into this browser and nowhere else. They are kept so a refresh does not lose them, they are never uploaded, and a share link carries only which ready-made set you chose, never a word you typed.
- What stops somebody being given themselves as a target?
- The targets are handed out in a ring: everybody is watching one person and being watched by one person, and the ring closes on itself, so your own name can never come up on your own card.
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