Hum It
Hum the tune. No words, no lyrics. Everybody else shouts the title.
You get a song on your phone, in private, and then you hum it. That is the entire game, and it is far harder and a great deal funnier than it sounds.
- Players
- 3 to 10 players
- Usually takes
- About 12 minutes
- What it plays from
- Words and phrases
- Ways to play
- Pass and play, Online room
How it plays
The phone goes to whoever is up, they read the title in private, and then they have a minute of humming to get the room there. No words, no lyrics, no tapping out the rhythm on the table if the room is feeling strict. Everybody else shouts guesses out loud, and the host marks what lands. It works on one phone passed around a room, so it needs nothing but people and a willingness to be heard.
What happens in a round
Straight from the game itself: these are the phases the room moves through, in order, with the clock each one starts on.
Your turn to hum
Take the phone, read the song, and start the clock when you are ready.
30 seconds
Hum it
No words and no lyrics. Everybody else shouts the title out loud.
1 minute
How that went
Every song from the round, and who named it.
15 seconds
Final scores
Here is how the room finished.
Ends when the room is ready
Who it suits
- A room that has already had one drink and one loud game
- Car journeys and kitchens, on a single phone
- Three to ten people, ideally across two generations of taste in music
How you can play it
Pass and play
One phone, passed around the room. No signal needed, no accounts, nothing to set up.
Online room
Everybody on their own phone, in the same room or three hundred miles apart. Guests join with a four letter code and no download.
Play it with your own words
Every format runs on a deck, and you can write your own. A deck you make is yours to share with your family by code straight away. Anything you publish to strangers is read by a moderator first.
Play it tonight
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Free on the free tier, like every other format in Koven.