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Lives
Hearts big enough to see across the room. Lose one, gain one, out at zero.
Made by the PaperCarnival team · Updated
Add players in the Players tab and each one gets 3 lives.
Lives each
One pool or one each
Every player has their own lives and goes out at zero.
Players
No players yet. Type a name and press Add.
Add at least one player and their lives appear on the board.
Names stay in this browser. They are never put in a link, and every tool with players reads the same list.
Sound
A life lost, a life gained and going out each make their own sound, and all three are written on the board as well.
The bit of the game nobody wants to do
Elimination games run on a number everybody has to remember, and somebody always remembers it differently. Three lives each sounds simple until the fourth round, when one player is certain they had two left and the rest of the table is certain they had one.
Hearts on a screen in the middle of the table end that. Every change is a button press anybody can see, the count is in the open, and out is written next to the name rather than argued about. It works for musical statues, quiz knockouts, card games with three lives, and any playground game that runs until one person is left.
Put it on the board in full screen and pair it with the countdown timer for the round and the scoreboard for points that do not run out. The bag of tokens picks who answers next without anybody calling a name.
Kept in this browser under pph.lives.state, pph.lives.start, pph.lives.mode, pph.lives.muted and pph.players, and nowhere else. Accounts, printing, storage and what the page loads are answered on the FAQ.
Questions
- Can the whole table share one set of lives?
- Yes. Switch to a shared pool and there is one row of hearts for everybody, which is how most co-operative games work: the group fails together or not at all.
- Can somebody come back after they are out?
- Yes. Out is a state, not an ending: press the plus and they are back in with one life. Nothing about the board stops you, because plenty of games hand lives back.
- Does the board survive a refresh?
- Yes. The hearts are written into this browser after every change, so a reload or a closed tab does not lose the game. Reset all puts everybody back to full.
- Where do the names come from?
- The shared roster, which you type once and every tool with players reads. The names stay in this browser and are never put into a link.
More from Trackers and meters
Health bar tracker
Hit points with a bar that changes colour and says its band in words. Damage, heal, and a boss bar.
OpenEnergy meter
A meter per player that you top up, spend, or let drain on its own while the round is running.
OpenProgress track
A winding path of five to fifty spaces, a piece for every player, and a built-in die to move them.
OpenEverything in Trackers and meters, and every family on the tools page.