Dead Giveaway
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How to Play

Point · Read the room · Match the crowd

The “most likely to” party game. A question drops, everyone secretly points at someone, and you score by how much of the room agreed with your pick.

3–20 players · 7 quick rounds · ~10 minute games

A round, beat by beat

1. A question drops

Every round the room gets one “most likely to…” prompt. There's no right answer — it's all about reading the room. Pick a tone before you start: Family, Party or Spicy.

2. Secretly point at someone

Quietly lock your pick on the player the question fits best. You can choose anyone in the room except yourself — no self-picks, no mercy.

3. The big reveal

Once everyone's locked in, the tally flips up: who the room pointed at, and how the votes stacked. The most-picked player gets crowned Most Likely Champion (a cosmetic flex, never scored).

4. Score by matching the crowd

You earn points for agreeing with everyone else, not for being right. Then the next question drops — seven rounds in all before the final standings.

Scoring

  • Match the room— your points for a question scale with how many other players made the same pick you did.
  • Go unanimous— if everyone points at the same person, every one of those voters banks the full points. Total agreement is the jackpot.
  • Stand alone, score nothing — a pick nobody else shared pays zero. It's consensus, not correctness.
  • Most Likely Champion — the most-pointed-at player each round gets crowned. It's a cosmetic flex and never affects the scoreboard.

Spotlight tips

Don't pick who you think is true — pick who the room will pick. Consensus pays, hot takes don't.

A unanimous pick is the jackpot. When a question is obvious, everyone piling on the same person means full points for all of them.

Going lone-wolf earns nothing, so resist the urge to be clever unless you're sure others will follow.

With a bigger crowd the safe, popular reads get even safer — use the room's personalities to your advantage.

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