House rules

• The wheel picks who is up

  When the ball drops, whoever it lands on walks to the front. The host can name somebody instead.

• Nobody has read the deck

  Not the presenter, not the room. The first slide appears when the ball lands.

• The presenter's phone is the clicker

  Slides move on a tap, and on their own when the time runs out: 60 seconds a slide in Classic and 25 in Lightning, unless the host set another clock.

• The room reacts while you talk

  Six buttons, any time, and every one of them lands on the big screen.

• Then the room scores you

  Confidence, comedy and commitment, one to five each, from every phone except the presenter's.

• Three scores become one number

  Out of a hundred, on the big screen, where you can't hide from it.

• A deck is played once an evening

  The wheel never hands the room a deck it has already seen, and in Classic everyone presents once.

• The mode changes the rules, not the game

  Lightning shortens the clock. Chaos lets the audience slip slides into your talk. Tournament runs heats, a semifinal and a final.

• Free

  The room chooses

  Every phone gets fifteen seconds to say who should go up next. The wheel still turns and lands on whoever the room chose, so nobody has to point at anybody.

• Free

  Pictures from the room

  Between talks the room is asked for one picture each: something on the table, the ceiling, what you are drinking. They can turn up on a slide later the same evening, and every one is deleted when the room closes.

• Party Pass

  Explain!

  When enough of the audience presses at the same moment, the screen freezes and the presenter gets twenty seconds to explain the slide they are standing next to. Once per talk, and never on the last slide.

• Party Pass

  Sabotage

  The audience can slip an extra slide or a message into a talk. The presenter has not seen it either, and the big screen says who did it.

• Party Pass

  Bingo words

  Everyone but the presenter gets five words from the presentation on their phone. A point for each one that gets said, and five more for the full card.

• Party Pass

  Secret objectives

  The presenter is given a secret dare on their phone. After the talk the room votes on whether they managed it, and fifteen points ride on the answer.

• Party Pass

  Heckle prompts

  The audience keeps getting suggestions of something to shout or ask. The presenter cannot see them, and there are no points at stake.

• Party Pass

  Applause meter

  The big screen measures how loud the room claps and puts a number from 0 to 100 on the wall. No sound is recorded, kept or sent anywhere.

• Party Pass

  Translate this

  Now and then the presenter is dealt a presentation in the other language and has to give it in yours. It only happens where there is material in both.

• Party Pass

  Sudden death

  The talk that closes a lap runs on a short clock, with the slides changing on their own. How short is the host's to set. Every other talk of the evening is what it was.

• Free

  Questions after each talk

  The audience gets forty-five seconds to type questions from their phones. They go up one at a time while the presenter answers, which is where the evening stops being a game and becomes a panel.

• Free

  An intro before each talk

  The situation goes up on the big screen before the first slide, and the presenter gets a suggested angle on their phone. It is the presentation itself that supplies both.

• Free

  Drink rules

  A new rule under the result after each talk. It is hidden while the room is set to safe for work, which it is from the start.

• Free

  Your own names in the slides

  A presentation can be written with room for names: the room's, the presenter's, or a guest's. The room fills them in as it deals the presentation, so a slide can say what the company is called.

• Free

  The worst slide of the night

  The evening ends with a card of the slide the room could not look at, counted from the reactions it got. No name, no score and nobody's face on it.

• Firmapakke

  One picture of the evening

  For a company evening: one image of the night for your own channel, with the numbers, the prizes and the worst slide on it and nobody's name.

Questions we get asked

What do we need in the room?

A television or a projector with a web browser, and a phone each. The big screen is a web page, so there is nothing to install and nobody who plays has to make an account.

Does it work on the office guest Wi-Fi?

Usually. The screen and the phones each talk to the internet rather than to each other, so they do not have to be on the same network at all: a phone on mobile data joins the same room as one on the guest network.

How many can play, and what is free?

Six is enough for there to be an audience, and thirty can still follow a round from the back table. Up to 8 players is free, and a Party Pass takes the cap off for the evening.

Can we use our own presentations?

Yes, with a Party Pass. Upload your own and the wheel deals them out beside the library, which is how a department ends up presenting its own quarterly review.

Is it in Danish?

Yes: the site, the room and the material. The Danish decks are written in Danish from the start rather than translated, and a round runs in the language the deck was written in.

How long does an evening take?

A round is four to six minutes with the voting. Three to five rounds is about half an hour, which is the length that leaves people wanting one more.

Is it safe to run at work?

Safe mode is on from the start, so the room only gets material you can put on a screen at the office. Turn it off when the evening has stopped being a work event.