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Arnold: Game Shows ONLINE!

Arnold: Welcome to Game Shows ONLINE! Your TV is the show, and everyone’s phone is their buzzer. Here’s how it works.

Lily: Only the host needs an account. Everyone else just joins on their phone: no account, and no app to download.

Arnold: To join, scan the code on the TV with your phone’s camera, or go to game shows dot online slash play and type the room code.

Lily: Then type your name, and take a selfie or pick a cartoon character. That’s it, you’re in!

Arnold: The host runs the night from their phone: pick a game, start it, and skip ahead whenever you like.

Lily: When it’s time to answer, your phone shows you what to do. Most of the time you just tap your answer, or type it in.

Arnold: Some games want you to say it! Tap the big blue button, say your answer, then tap again to stop. Check what we heard, and tap Yes. And when someone’s answering, everybody else, shhh!

Lily: Quizzes can be played three ways: everyone guesses, buzz in first, or say it out loud to a Quizmaster in the room.

Arnold: That’s all there is to it. Grab your phones, join in, and pick a game!

Arnold: Game night, made easy! Your TV is the stage. Your phones are the buzzers.

Lily: Open Game Shows Online on your TV. Link your host account once, then you're ready.

Arnold: Everyone scans the party code, picks a nickname and picture, and joins. No player app or account.

Lily: Pick teams, or go solo. The host runs the night from their phone, and can play too.

Arnold: Choose a game, a quiz, or a whole show. Set the rules, pause or skip from Backstage.

Lily: Flip the answers. Spin the wheel. Race to buzz. Spot the Imposter. Clash with cards!

Arnold: Plan a whole show ahead. Games flow together, and points add up to one big winner.

Lily: Game Shows Online. Your TV is the stage. Try it free!

Arnold: There are three ways to play a quiz! Let's take them one at a time.

Arnold: First… Everyone guesses! Every phone picks an answer at the same time. Everyone who's right scores. The game does the marking.

Lily: Second… Buzz first! Race to hit your buzzer. The fastest player answers on their phone. The game does the marking.

Arnold: Third… Say it out loud! Shout your answer to the room. The Quizmaster sees the right answer on their phone, and taps Right or Wrong. They know the answers, so they sit that game out.

Lily: That's all three! Want to play along too? Pick Everyone guesses or Buzz first.

Arnold: A show is your whole night, set up in advance. Pick the games, then set their rules, age groups and players before the night.

Lily: Then it flows from game to game. No stopping for setup! The points add up all night, to one big winner.

Arnold: Or pick a one-off game: choose its options when you play, and its points count just for that game.

Arnold: Make a quiz about your guests! Pick baby photos, whose voice, two truths and a lie, or who said this.

Lily: Email each guest their own private link, or send it to a parent, partner or friend to keep the surprise.

Lily: At home, they send answers, photos or a voice clip from their phone.

Arnold: See who's finished on your progress page, with an automatic reminder the day before.

Arnold: On party night, the TV turns those answers into the quiz. Your guests are the questions!

Arnold: Who’s Who Hullabaloo options! Here’s what they’re for.

Arnold: Our guest quiz is all about your players. Switch these options on, and three cards appear. Every one is optional.

Arnold: Someone who knows them: a parent, partner or friend answers that player’s questions, so the answers stay a surprise.

Arnold: People who know everyone, like a coach or a teacher, can answer about any player.

Arnold: And video messages let someone who can’t make it say hello on the night.

Arnold: On party night, I turn all those answers into a quiz on the TV, and everyone guesses who’s who!

Arnold: Leave them empty, and every other game works just the same. Easy!

Arnold: Here's how you answer! Tap the blue button once, say your answer, then tap again to stop. Easy!

Arnold: Then check what we heard: tap Yes if it's right… or Try again!

Arnold: And one golden rule: when someone's answering, everybody else, shhh! The microphone hears the whole room, and we don't want YOUR shouting to count as THEIR answer!

Arnold: Two players face off and race to buzz in first. The higher answer on the board wins control of the round for their team.

Lily: Your team calls out answers to the survey question. Each one on the board flips over and scores its points. But three wrong guesses is three strikes!

Arnold: Three strikes, and the other team gets one guess to steal every point on the board!

Lily: Play through the rounds, and the team with the most points wins Survey Showdown!

Lily: The TV shows the puzzle and its category. When it’s your turn, spin the big wheel from your phone and see what you land on.

Arnold: Pick a letter. Every time it’s in the puzzle, it lights up and you score the points you spun. You can buy a vowel too, once you have enough points.

Lily: Careful! Some wedges lose your turn, and one loses all your points for this puzzle.

Arnold: Know the phrase? Choose Solve and say it into your phone. Only the player who solves it keeps the points. Most points after the puzzles wins!

Arnold: Pick a tile on the board. Every topic hides clues worth points: bigger points, harder clues!

Lily: The clue goes up on the TV. If you know it, buzz in on your phone. The fastest buzzer gets to answer.

Arnold: Say your answer out loud, as a question, like: What is Saturn? Right wins the points. Wrong takes them away, and the others get a go!

Lily: Watch out for Jackpot Clues: bet your points and answer it alone. Then everyone bets in the Big Bet Finale. Most points wins Question Quest!

Arnold: I read each question on the TV. When the buzzers open, hit the big button on your phone. Too early, and you’re locked out for a moment!

Lily: Buzz first, and you pick one of four answers on your phone. Everyone starts on twenty points: right is plus five, wrong is minus five.

Arnold: Once a round, it’s Who am I? The clues get easier one by one. Buzz when you know it, and a wrong guess costs nothing!

Lily: Between rounds, the leader can spend points at the Bargain Counter on a power-up. Then it’s the Snap Minute: sixty seconds of quick-fire questions. Most points wins!

Arnold: Two of you take the hot seats, in lifts on twin towers by the beach. You both get the same question, with four answers on your phone.

Lily: Pick your answer and lock it in. The TV only shows a padlock, never your answer. Right takes you up a floor. Wrong takes you down one. Miss twice on the ground floor, and you’re out!

Lily: Stuck? You have three lifelines. Ring a Mate, Ask the Room, or Split It, which takes away two wrong answers. And only you see the help!

Arnold: Reach the top first, or keep climbing when the other player goes out, and you win! Then bank it, or keep climbing for more. And the very top, the Penthouse, is a million points!

Arnold: Your cards are on your phone, and the pile is on the TV. On your turn, play a card with the same colour or the same number as the one on top.

Lily: Tap a card to pick it up, then tap it again or flick it up to throw it to the TV. Can’t go? Tap the Draw card and take a new one.

Arnold: Watch out for the special cards! A Skip makes the next player miss a go, a Reverse turns play around, a plus two makes them pick up two, and a wild changes the colour.

Lily: Down to one card? Shout LAST CARD, or tap it, before anyone catches you, or you take two! First to play their last card wins the hand.

Arnold: Welcome to COLOUR CLASH! Here's how to play!

Arnold: Turn your phone sideways: your cards are on it, and the table is on the TV.

Arnold: On your turn, play a card that matches the colour… or the number… on the TV.

Arnold: Tap a card to pick it up. Tap it again, or flick it up, to throw it on the pile!

Arnold: Can't go? Tap the Draw card.

Arnold: Skip, Reverse and Draw Two make life hard for the next player… and a Wild changes the colour!

Arnold: Down to one card? Shout LAST CARD! If nobody heard you… you'll be caught, and you take two!

Arnold: First to empty their hand wins! Let's play COLOUR CLASH!

Arnold: Everyone gets two private cards on their phone. Keep them hidden! Chips are just game points, no real money.

Lily: On your turn, your phone shows your choices: fold to leave the hand, check, call to match the bet, or raise it. It only offers the moves you’re allowed.

Arnold: The TV deals three shared cards, then a fourth and a fifth, with betting in between. Make your best hand from your two cards and the shared five.

Lily: If everyone else folds, the last player in wins the pot. If not, the best hand at the showdown takes it. Bluff well!

Lily: In Two-Faced, everyone gets two secret character cards and two coins. Lose both cards and you’re out. The last one with a card left wins!

Arnold: Your cards are on your phone. Hold one down to peek at it, and let go to hide it. Keep them secret!

Lily: On your turn, take a Wage of one coin, a Handout of two, or use a character’s move.

Arnold: The Tax Collector takes three coins. The Thief steals two. The Diplomat swaps cards with the deck. The Hitman pays three to make someone lose a card, and the Bodyguard blocks him.

Lily: Here’s the twist: you can claim any character, whether you have it or not!

Arnold: Think someone’s fibbing? Tap Call the bluff! If they were bluffing, they lose a card. If they really had it, you lose one instead.

Lily: Some moves can be blocked by claiming the right character, and a block can be called a bluff too!

Arnold: Lose a card, and you pick which one to turn face up. With seven coins you can do a Takedown on anyone, and at ten you have to.

Lily: Keep bluffing and keep your nerve. The last player with a card left wins Two-Faced!

Arnold: Everyone gets a secret word on their phone. Hold the card down to peek, and let go to hide it. One of you is the Imposter, and they only see the word IMPOSTER.

Lily: Go round the circle and say one thing about the word, out loud. Not too easy, or the Imposter will guess it! The Imposter doesn’t know the word, so they bluff.

Arnold: When the clues are done, everyone votes on their phone for who they think the Imposter is. Most votes is out, and then the TV shows the whole room if you were right.

Lily: Catch the Imposter and the crew wins the round. But if the crew votes out the wrong person, the Imposter wins!

Arnold: Your phone shows your secret character, and anyone you secretly know about. Most of you are the Cell, but some are Informants working against you!

Lily: The Leader picks who goes on the mission. Talk it over out loud, then everyone taps Yes or No. Five No votes in a row, and the Informants win!

Arnold: The team secretly plays Success or Sabotage. Just one Sabotage and the mission fails, and nobody sees who played what!

Lily: Win three missions and the Cell is nearly there. But then the Hunter gets one guess at who the London Contact is. Guess right, and the Informants win!

Arnold: Everyone in Emberbrook gets a secret character on their phone. Look quietly and keep it to yourself, because some of you are Duskwraiths!

Lily: At night, watch the TV. If your character has a night power, your phone asks you to tap someone. Quick and secret! That’s when the Duskwraiths pick who to knock out.

Arnold: In the morning, the TV shows who was knocked out. Then everyone argues it out: who’s acting strange? The Duskwraiths will lie, so listen carefully!

Lily: Tap who to send out of the village. Most votes is out, then night falls again. Catch every Duskwraith and the village wins, but if there are as many of them as everyone else, the Duskwraiths win!

Arnold: Tap the card on your phone to see who you are. You can say anything about it out loud, even lie, but you can’t show your phone!

Lily: At night, everyone taps something on their phone. Some characters have a power, and I’ll whisper clues to your phone!

Arnold: At dawn, find out who the carnival took. Then talk it out, nominate someone, hear them out, and vote Yes or No.

Lily: Whoever’s on the block is run out of town, and night falls again. Run out the Ringmaster and the town wins!

Arnold: Your phone shows your shape. Bip is the red circle, and Bop is the blue square. Remember which one is yours!

Lily: Watch the TV. When your shape comes up, tap your phone, fast! When it’s not yours, keep your finger still.

Arnold: A star means everyone taps. A triangle means nobody taps! And later, watch out for shapes in the wrong colour. They’re tricks!

Lily: Miss your shape or tap at the wrong time, and you’re out. It gets faster and faster. The last one in wins Bip & Bop!

Arnold: A ticking bomb flies from phone to phone. Keep your phone ready, and watch the TV to see who has it!

Lily: When the bomb lands on your phone, it bounces about the screen. Tap it fast to send it flying to someone else!

Arnold: If the bomb goes off while it’s on your phone, you’re out! Each round, the fuse gets shorter.

Lily: Keep tapping and keep surviving. The last player left wins Tick Tock Boom!

Arnold: Two fleets, Red against Blue. Your ships are on your phone: drag one to move it, tap it to turn it, and they can’t touch. Then tap Ready.

Lily: Then everyone aims at once! Tap a square on the enemy’s ocean, then FIRE. Your team gets one shot for every ship it still has.

Arnold: Watch the TV! A splash is a miss, and a kaboom is a hit. Hit squares keep burning, so you know where to try next.

Lily: Hit every square of a ship and it sinks, and you earn a special shot, like a sonar ping or an air strike. The last fleet afloat wins Torpedo Time!

Arnold: Two teams face off. Each side has an army of critters in a building, with a cannon out in front.

Lily: On your turn, drag on your phone to aim, and hold to fire. Watch the wind arrows, then see your shot land on the TV!

Arnold: Now and then a crate drops in on a parachute. Hit it, and your side gets a special shot, a booster, or a piece to fix your building.

Lily: There’s no round limit. Keep firing until one side’s whole army is knocked out. Last army standing wins Cannon Clash!

Lily: Turn your phone sideways: it’s your controller. Left and right to move, A to jump, and B to run. The whole pack races across the TV!

Arnold: Everyone’s dog walks the world map together. The first to press GO on a stage picks it, and the race begins!

Lily: Bump the blocks for power-ups! A mango makes you big, a chilli throws fireballs, and a Cape Leaf lets you fly. Or find the secret tube for a shortcut.

Arnold: Every coin takes a tenth of a second off your time, so the first dog home doesn’t always win. Fastest time wins Speed Run Dogs!

Lily: The TV shows a scale with two ends, like cold and hot. One player on your team is the clue giver, and only they see the secret target on their phone.

Arnold: The clue giver says one clue that belongs near the target. Not too obvious, and never the target itself!

Lily: Your team talks it over and moves the pointer to where they think the clue belongs. Lock it in when you’re ready.

Arnold: The TV reveals the target. The closer your pointer, the more points your team scores. Then the next clue giver has a go!

Lily: Every player gets their own bingo card on their phone. The host picks the winning pattern before you start.

Arnold: Watch the TV and listen as the numbers are called. Got one on your card? Tap it on your phone to mark it!

Lily: When you’ve got the winning pattern, claim it on your phone. Then wait for the TV to check your card in front of everyone!

Arnold: If your card checks out, you win! Complete the pattern and make a valid claim to win Bingo.

Arnold: Your phone gives you a joke. Read it to yourself, and wait until the TV calls your turn.

Lily: Stand up and tell the joke out loud to the room. Give the punchline a moment to land!

Arnold: Everyone else rates the joke on the Laugh Meter, from one to a hundred. The lowest laughs each round is out!

Lily: Out? You become a judge. Keep going round by round to the final laugh-off. The last comedian standing wins!

Lily: Each turn, one player is the artist. They pick one of three secret words on their phone. Shh, don’t tell!

Arnold: The artist draws on their phone, and every line shows up on the TV as it’s drawn. No letters or numbers allowed!

Lily: Everyone else races to guess! Say your guess into your phone, or type it. The faster you get it, the more points you score.

Arnold: At the end, everyone votes for their favourite drawing in the gallery. Most points wins, and the best drawing makes you artist of the night!

Lily: The host picks one of the machines on the TV. Each one is a crazy contraption of ramps, wheels and chutes!

Arnold: Pick one of the balls on your phone, and send it on its way through the machine!

Lily: Watch it bounce, spin and drop all the way down. At the bottom, out comes your number, from one to ten!

Arnold: Everyone who should be on the wheel joins on their phone. Their names go round the big wheel on the TV.

Lily: The host spins it from the remote. Round and round it goes, with all the names whizzing past!

Arnold: It slows down, ticks past the last few, and lands on one name. Who goes first? The wheel has spoken!