Group rooms
Play a cold case with friends, each on your own phone
A room holds up to eight detectives. Everyone reads the same file on their own screen, sees what the others have opened, votes in secret, and the host reveals. Works at one table or across three time zones.
How a room works
- Host creates the room. Press play on any case, choose Create a room, enter a first name. You get a six-letter code and an invite link.
- Friends join. They open the same case, choose Join and type the code, or tap the link. Up to eight people including the host. No accounts, no app.
- Everyone reads. Next to each document you see the initials of the players who have opened it. Split the folders, then swap.
- Everyone votes in secret. Each player presses Accuse on their own phone. Nobody sees the tally.
- Host reveals. The votes appear side by side, the case closes for the whole room at once, and the solution file opens on every screen.
Who pays
Only the host needs access to a case. The free case costs nobody anything. For paid cases, a host who owns the file, or has the yearly plan, can invite seven guests who pay nothing. A room can be reused: close it, create a new one, invite a different group.
Same table or remote
At a table, the room replaces passing one folder around: eight phones, one timeline on paper in the middle. On a video call, agree on fifteen minutes of silent reading, then talk. The reading marks tell you who has covered which folder without asking.
Good group sizes
| Players | How to split | Typical time |
|---|
| 2 | One on statements, one on records; swap at the halfway point | 2.5 h |
| 3–4 | Statements / records / forensics and photos / reports and personal | 2–2.5 h |
| 5–8 | One folder each, one floating reader who builds the timeline | 2 h |
House rules that make it better
- Documents only. "He seems guilty" is not admitted at the table.
- Nobody votes until everyone has read the records folder.
- The host does not reveal until the last vote is in, unless the table agrees to call time.
- Read the solution aloud together. It cites every document, so you find out exactly which page each of you skimmed.
No spoilers by design. Votes are hidden until the reveal, so the player who is sure cannot steer the others. The case closes for everyone at the same moment.
Create a room for the free case