Icebreakers
Small questions that get a quiet room talking. Four games in one deck.
Four small games in one deck, built for a table that has only just met. Two truths and a lie, would you rather, and two more like them, with no scoring and nothing to lose.
- Players
- 3 to 16 players
- Usually takes
- About 12 minutes
- What it plays from
- Prompts to write or draw from
- Ways to play
- Pass and play, Online room
How it plays
Every round is a question worth answering rather than a puzzle to solve. You write three things about yourself and let the room guess which one is invented, or you pick a side and defend it. Koven shows how the room split and then moves on. Nobody is eliminated, nobody falls behind, and the whole thing can be stopped after two rounds or run for half an hour without it feeling unfinished.
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.
Two truths and a lie
Write three things about yourself. One of them is not true.
90 seconds
Your turn
Pick one. There is no wrong answer, only an answer you defend.
20 seconds
How the room split
Here is what everybody said. Argue about it while you can.
12 seconds
Who it suits
- A first evening with people who do not know each other yet
- Family gatherings where the ages run from eight to eighty
- Anybody who wants a game that cannot be lost
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
Koven is in beta. Leave your email and we will send you a link when there is space, or open the player if somebody has already given you a room code.
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Free on the free tier, like every other format in Koven.