One question goes to the whole room. Everyone types an honest answer in secret, the answers come back shuffled with no names on them, and then you all work out who wrote what.
The one where everyone scribbles an answer and you guess the handwriting, without the paper, the folding, or the person who has to read them all out. Neegma hides the names, shuffles the answers, and scores the guessing.
What is your favourite food?
Everyone's answer, no names on any of them. The ones people agreed on grow.
What actually happens
There is no house question bank, which is deliberate: every prompt is one you wrote. What is the most overrated food. What is a small lie you tell all the time. What would you do with a free Tuesday. Each prompt is one round. Write a set in the Playground before the night, or just start the game and type a question there and then, which is the version to use when you want to ask the room something and see what comes back.
On the night the prompt lands on every phone at once and everyone types their own answer in private. Once the answers are in they go up on the shared screen, shuffled and unsigned, and the room reads them cold. Then the guessing starts: you match each answer to the person you think wrote it, either all of them at once or one at a time with a vote and an argument for each.
You reveal the authors and the board moves. Whoever matched the most that round takes the most points, and the shouting starts immediately, because the answer everyone pinned on the quiet one belongs to the head of finance. Answers show up as a word cloud by default, so three people writing the same thing swells up in the middle of the screen on its own; flip to the numbered list if you would rather read them one by one.
The rules
Everyone sees the same question and types their own answer in secret on their phone
The answers are shuffled and shown to the room with no names attached
Work out who wrote each answer: match the whole board at once, or vote on them one at a time
The authors are revealed and the round scores go up
A new question starts the next round
You score for every answer you pin on the right person. Whoever gets the most right in a round scores 1000, the lowest scorer who still got at least one right scores 500, and getting none right scores nothing. Points stack across the rounds and the highest total wins. You are never scored on your own answer.
Half writing, half detective work
Two ways to guess
The whole board at once, or one answer at a time
Answers land in a word cloud as they come in, so you see where the room agreed
The questions 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
Once Who Said It is running, the scoring, the leaderboard, and the ending are handled. You get to be in the room instead of behind a spreadsheet.
Leaderboard
Round 6 of 10
Final podium
Vlad
3,500
Josh
4,500
Kristin
3,000
Final scores after eight prompts
A code goes on your screen. People point a camera at it, type a name, and they are in. No app, no accounts, no one asking what the wifi password is.
Answers are marked as they land and the board updates between rounds. You are not holding a clipboard, and nobody is arguing about who said it first.
Top three on the big screen at the end, and every player gets their own result card on their phone that they can save or send to the group chat.
Where Who Said It shines
Every prompt is one you wrote. Prepare a set in the Playground or type each question live as you host, choose All at Once for a big room or One by One for a small one. The answers land as a word cloud by default, so the room sees at a glance when it converges on the same answer.
Team offsite
A team lead writes eight prompts on the train down: the worst job you have had, the thing you would ban from the office, the meeting you would happily skip. At the offsite the answers come back unsigned and the room reads them out. The engineer who has not said a word all morning turns out to have written the two funniest answers of the day, and everyone spends lunch quoting him.
Hen do
The maid of honour writes prompts aimed squarely at the bride: her worst date, the thing she would never admit to liking, what she was actually doing that weekend nobody can account for. School friends against work friends against cousins, all convinced they can pick her out of a lineup of four sentences. Half of them cannot, and the reveal is the loudest ten minutes of the night.
Remote team social
Nine people on a video call at four on a Friday. The host runs it One by One, so a single answer goes up, the call argues about it for thirty seconds, everyone votes, and the author owns up. It takes longer, and that is the point: the discussion is the game, and nobody is quietly reading Slack in another tab.
Aim the prompts at work: the process you would delete, the tool you secretly hate, the perk you would trade. It gets people honest faster than a retro does.
Point every prompt at the guest of honour and let three friendship groups fight over who actually knows them.
Prompts about holidays, old arguments, and the family story everyone tells differently. Grandparents are unexpectedly good at this one.
It loses nothing over video. The answers go up on the shared screen and the call does the accusing.
How Who Said It plays
Show every answer at once and let the room match them all, or reveal them one at a time and vote on each. Play as individuals or in teams, on prompts you wrote.
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.
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.
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.
Playing in the room with no phones out? Pass one device around the circle so each person types their answer in private, then hands it back. The answers come up shuffled on the shared screen, the room guesses out loud, and you tap in who got what. Same prompts, same scoring, one phone.
