Everyone secretly picks a famous name. The app writes a farce starring all of them. Then you put the phone down and play.
Free to play. No sign-up, no account, works offline. Best with 6–12 people, plays with 4–16, in a living room, a pub, or a tent.
Works in any browser. Add it to your home screen and it runs like an app.
The app handles the setup and the story. The actual game is played face to face, with the phone put away.
Each player privately types a name — usually someone famous. Nobody else sees it.
The app writes a short farce weaving every name in, with no clue who chose what.
Two teams take turns guessing which name belongs to whom. Guess right and you steal them.
A real story, generated from six names. Over 1,900 famous people and characters are recognised, each with their own moment.
The lights went out for six minutes at a country estate in the middle of a blackout, and when they came back on the host was missing and the trifle had been interfered with.
Beyoncé immediately declared it a murder, on no evidence whatsoever, and began assigning suspects. None of this was improved by the fact that Gandalf planted a staff in the doorway and refused to let latecomers through, trapping half the party outside for a solid ten minutes.
Jen formed a rival investigation on the grounds that the first one was incompetent, and started interviewing people separately. The situation deteriorated further when Neymar curved something around an obstacle purely to prove it could be done, and nobody ever found where it landed.
Aunt Susan turned out to have been in the kitchen the whole time, which cleared them of everything except eating the trifle. Any hope of resolving it quietly ended when Homer Simpson ate the entire supply of snacks before anyone realised they were meant to last. The only remark on record is: “D’oh!”
It resolved itself ten minutes later for reasons nobody has satisfactorily explained.
Two scenarios free. Buy a pack here and you get an unlock code by email — no account needed, and it works on every device you own.
Two scenarios to try it out: a country-house murder with a disturbed trifle, and a wedding running badly behind.
Play nowDetective, Western, Gothic, Romance, Fantasy, Medieval, Spy, Crime, Space Voyage and Pirate's Cove — five scenarios each.
Any 3 for £5.99Prices include VAT. Codes arrive by email within a minute and can be re-used on any device you own.
No. It runs in your browser. If you'd like it to behave like a proper app, use your browser's “Add to Home Screen” option — it will then open full-screen and work with no connection at all.
Four at a minimum. Best with 6–12 players, and it plays comfortably up to 16 — bigger groups make for longer, more chaotic stories.
Not at all — you can use anyone. Famous names get their own jokes, because the app recognises around 1,900 of them. Everyone else just appears in the story as themselves.
Names stay on your device by default. Well-known names are counted locally to help decide which packs to build next, and — if you also turn on sharing in Settings — those counts get shared anonymously too. Both are on by default and can be turned off at any time; names that look personal are never recorded either way.
Enter the email address you paid with on the code recovery page and we'll send your codes again.
The web version is the same game and gets updates first. Native apps are on the way.