Barnisan

Pass the phone.
Start yapping.

A party word game about building gloriously terrible sentences out of whatever words you happen to be dealt. 2–8 players, one device, no internet.

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How it plays

Someone has to explain why the goose was at the wedding. Tonight, that someone is you.

A prompt goes up

One prompt on screen for everyone to answer, somewhere between mildly unhinged and fully feral.

You get 20 random words

Dealt in balanced hands, so there's always something to build with. Thirty seconds on the clock.

Pass the phone along

No peeking. Everyone taps together the funniest answer they can manage out of the hand they were given.

The judge picks a winner

All the answers get read out. First player to 5 prompt cards takes the game.

The prompt

Write a review of a gym run by monks.

Your words, tap to add

huh terrible orchestrated across immediately toilet officiated fragile client-ready borrowed religious politician stars

You never get the words you want. You get alpaca, respectfully and plunger, and you have to make it work anyway. The terrible hands are the best ones.

A look at it

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Setup screen: the YapOff logo above a player count of three, with Bear, Panda and Frog each set to Human, a Start Game button, and a note that the first to five prompt cards wins.
Set up the table
Round prompt card reading “Explain why your car is full of toilet paper rolls.” with a Get Different Prompt button, a badge showing Unicorn is judging, and a Let’s Go button.
The prompt lands
Handoff screen with a pointing hand, reading “Pass the phone to Fox , everyone else: look away!” above a button labelled “I’ve got the phone!”
Pass it along, no peeking
Building an answer as Priya: a countdown running down, the prompt “Write a message to your boss about the ‘incident’ in the break room.”, eight chosen word chips forming a sentence, and a bank of remaining words to tap, with Clear and Yap buttons.
Thirty seconds to build
Judging screen headed “Judge: Unicorn” with the toilet paper prompt and two submitted answers to tap between.
The judge decides
Round result: a trophy and “Fox wins this round!” above the winning answer and a scoreboard showing Fox on one point.
Somebody wins, briefly
Round result: Tiger wins with “a greasy dinner unleashed errr spilled pepperoni”, scoreboard showing Fox and Tiger on one point each.
The scores start moving
Judging screen with the prompt about the magician and the plumber, and two answers for the judge to choose between.
Two answers, one call
Round result: Tiger wins again with “accidentally vanished essential thermos”, moving to two points on the scoreboard.
First to five takes it

What's inside

201
prompts, mildly unhinged to fully feral
666
word cards, dealt in balanced hands
2–8
players, all on one device
  • Computer players to fill an empty seat, and to judge the round when it's just the two of you.
  • Thirty-second turns. First to 5 prompt cards wins.
  • Open it and play. There is nothing to set up and nothing to sign into.

Privacy

It doesn't collect anything, because there's nowhere for it to send anything.

No accounts No internet No ads No tracking No data collected

YapOff has no networking code in it at all: no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Player names live in memory for the length of a game and are gone when you close it. Read the full privacy policy.

Good for

Kitchen tables. Long car journeys. The pub. The group chat that finally met up in person.

Anyone who has ever had to explain themselves and made it worse.

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