One prompt goes to the whole room. Everyone writes an answer they think nobody else will write, the answers come back grouped, and whoever wrote something truly unique scores. Being popular gets you nothing.
The one where you all shout an answer and count how many of you said something different. Neegma runs the prompts, groups the matching answers automatically, and settles who was actually unique before anyone can argue.
Something in your pocket right now
Everyone's answer, grouped. The unique ones (size 1) score.
What actually happens
A prompt goes up: something in your pocket right now, a place you've visited that nobody else has, a word that describes your mood today. Everyone types one answer in secret on their own phone. The trick is that you are not answering for the room, you are answering for yourself. The question is never what everyone else likes, it is what nobody else will think of.
Once the answers are in they land on the shared screen together, grouped by whoever wrote the same thing, with the matching ones growing bigger. Nobody has scored yet, so the room gets to read them cold and work out for itself where it diverged. Then you score the round and the unique answers light up.
The round is worth 1000 points and everyone with a unique answer takes their share, while everyone else takes nothing. If multiple unique answers exist, the 1000 is split between them, so each unique answer scores its portion. And if every single answer matches someone else, no unique answers formed: nobody scores that round, which is its own kind of result for a room that thinks alike.
The rules
Everyone sees the same prompt, like 'something in your pocket right now'
Write an answer you think nobody else will write, in secret on your phone
All the answers go up together, with matching ones grouped
Your host can fold together answers that clearly meant the same thing
The unique answers (groups of one) score, everyone else scores nothing
A new prompt starts the next round
You are not trying to be popular, you are trying to be unique. The round is worth 1000 points. Everyone whose answer stands alone takes it, everyone else scores nothing. If multiple unique answers exist, the 1000 is split between them, so each unique answer scores its share. An answer that matches someone else never scores, so a room where everybody converges on the same answer scores nothing at all. Points stack across rounds and the highest total wins.
Score by thinking differently from everyone else, not by matching
Answers land in a word cloud, so the unique answers are the smallest words
Multiple unique answers split the pot
Being uniquely different in your own way pays
The prompts are yours
Write a set in the Playground, or type them live as you host
Plays as individuals or teams, online or around one device
While you host
Use the host controls to collect answers, decide when the unique answers are revealed, and keep the prompts coming for as long as the room is enjoying it.
Leaderboard
After round 3
Example final podium
Alex
5,500
Maya
6,000
Sam
4,500
Final scores after eight prompts
Run a Playground set for a planned running order, or write each prompt during the game. Live prompts have no fixed round count, so you keep going until you choose Finish game.
Answers arrive anonymously and group themselves on screen, with matching ones growing larger. Nothing is scored until you say so, which gives the room a moment to guess where it landed.
Matching ignores capitals, spacing and punctuation at the ends of an answer, and if you think two wordings mean the same thing you can merge them before scoring. The unique answers (groups of one) take the round's 1000 points, split evenly when multiple exist.
Read the prompt aloud as it lands so nobody is squinting at a phone. Put the grouped answers where the whole group can see them before you score the round.
Share the answer board and let the grouping do the talking. Give the room a beat to react to the shape of it before you reveal the unique answers.
Avoid prompts that only one site would answer the same way, since local references create false matches. Keep prompts everyday and everyone stays in with a chance.
Use cases
Every prompt is one you wrote. Prepare a set in the Playground or type each one live as you host. The best prompts have no obvious popular answer, since a prompt everyone matches on scores nobody any points.
Team offsites and away days
Prompts about the office: the meeting everyone dreads, the snack that vanishes first, the excuse people actually use. Obvious answers score nothing, so groupthink stops mattering by round two and the team finds out how differently it actually thinks.
Find team icebreakersBirthdays and house parties
Keep the prompts personal and specific, then let the grouping do the comedy. Guests who have never met still land in different crowds, which is a faster introduction than going round the room with names.
Plan a birthday gamePub quizzes and bar nights
Run three prompt rounds before the real quiz. Teams that would be nowhere on general knowledge are suddenly level, because guessing what a room of strangers won't write has nothing to do with revision. It gets the tables talking to each other.
See pub and bar gamesRemote and hybrid calls
It loses nothing over video. Everyone types in private, the answers group on the shared screen, and the call reacts to the shape of it together instead of taking turns to speak.
Explore games for video callsBuild a set around your subject, guests or occasion in the Playground.
Customise ConcentrationHow Concentration plays
Play as individuals or in teams, on prompts you wrote in the Playground or typed live while hosting. A team writes one answer together and scores as a unit.
One code, and the whole room is in.
People point their camera at the code on your screen, type a name, and they are playing. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, and it works the same whether they are in the room with you or dialled in from three time zones away.
Best for
virtual sessions, hybrid offsites, and any crowd big enough that you want everyone answering at once.
Two to five teams, one answer each.
Split the room into colour-coded teams. A team huddles, argues, and sends one answer. You can also let every member answer for their team if you would rather nobody sits out.
Best for
in-person offsites, weddings, and family gatherings, where you want people talking to each other instead of into their phones.
Write the round yourself.
Open the Playground and type your own questions, or upload a spreadsheet of them. Your company's acronyms, the couple's first date, the group chat's running joke. Save the set and run it again whenever you need it.
Best for
facilitators, community managers, MCs, and brand teams who want the round to be about the people in the room.
Offline
Playing in the room with no phones out? Pass one device around so each person types their answer in private, then hands it back. The answers come up grouped on the shared screen and the unique answers are scored exactly as they are online. Same prompts, same rules, one phone.
Before you start
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