Run a hen party the girls will still be quoting next year.
A scoreboard, a deck of secret missions and a forfeit wheel for the weekend. Build it the week before, send one link to the group chat, and run the whole thing from your phone.
Every hen draws a mission each day that nobody else can see. Points go up for the things that were going to happen anyway, the wheel decides the rest, and the trophies are handed out on the last night.
The awkward part of a weekend like this is usually the half of the girls who have never met each other. A scoreboard fixes that in about an hour.
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 hen party starts with
Every one of these is a switch, and this is where a hen 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.
Secret missions
A sealed mission each day; nobody knows what anybody else drew.
Trophies
A cabinet of awards and a ceremony at the end.
Forfeits
A wheel, a menu, and who is carrying what.
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.
Brackets and cupsparty
Knockouts and round-robins with the draw done for you.
Running counts
Who did it most, counted by everyone.
Boards
A quote board, and predictions sealed until the end.
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.
Get the first invitation
It opens to strangers before the summer. Leave an address and you will hear once, the day it does.