A birthday party with a scoreboard on it.
Challenges, games with the rules on everybody's phone, running counts and a cabinet of trophies — for a thirtieth, a fortieth, or a weekend away that happens to have a cake in it.
Pick what suits the room and release it when the room is ready. Points for the challenges, trophies at the end, and a record of the night that guests actually read the next morning.
Turn off anything that does not fit. A birthday party with no forfeits and no missions is the same product with two switches thrown.
How it goes
Build it in an evening
Pick the kind of event and take what suits from a catalogue of challenges, games, secret missions and trophies that are already written. Set the plan, and the shopping list writes itself. An evening on the sofa, not a spreadsheet.
Send one link
One link into the group chat. Everybody taps their name and they are in — no account, no password, nothing to install. The one thing that needs proving, a secret mission, proves itself with a link of its own.
Run it from your phone
Release a challenge when it suits the room, award the points, spin the wheel, settle the bill. Close it out on the drive home and everyone gets the record of it.
What a birthday party starts with
Every one of these is a switch, and this is where a birthday party starts. Throw any of them the other way and the product is still the product.
The basics
Who is coming, their links, the look and the words.
Challenges
Things to do, released when they suit the crowd.
Points
A leaderboard, points for challenges, undo for mistakes.
Teams
Split the room into sides, and add every side up as it goes.
Trophies
A cabinet of awards, your own among them, handed out or put to a vote, and a ceremony at the end.
Games in the bag
Card and party games with rules on the phone.
Live rounds
Vote rounds, blind hats and call-and-response, run from one phone.
Running counts
Who did it most, counted by everyone.
The plan
Days, times, places, and a nudge when it is time.
Prep and shopping
What to bring, what to buy, what the venue already has.
Nudges
Web push to every phone that opted in.
Faces
A photo of each person beside their name.
Photo uploadsparty
Proof on a challenge, a photo on a memory, receipts on the bill, a gallery in the wrap.
Memories
Everyone writes what they will remember.
The wrap
Close it out: the record, the stats, an export, an optional story.
What is in the catalogue
Every challenge and every game that suits a birthday party, with the rules written out and what each one needs.
Get the first invitation
It opens to strangers before the summer. Leave an address and you will hear once, the day it does.
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