First to pick up loses.
A phone-stacking party game for iPhone. Everyone at the table puts their phone face down, the first to pick theirs up loses, and every other phone says who.
Face Down is a game for the table. Everyone puts their phone face down. The first person to pick theirs up loses, and every other phone at the table plays a loud sound and says the loser's name out loud.
The host's phone shows a four-letter table code and a QR. Friends with the app scan it or type the code; friends without it join from any phone's browser at playfacedown.com, Android too. Choose a house rule: the loser pays the bill, buys the next round, does the dishes, or something of your own. Add a hold timer if you like. When it runs out, everybody wins.
No accounts. A table lives on our server only while it's open and is deleted six hours after its last activity, and your history stays on your iPhone. The game, joining, the Practice table (you against a simulated player named Robin), house rules, the hold timer and share cards are free. Face Down Plus, an in-app purchase, adds saved tables, nightly streaks, history and four more loser sounds.
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A four-letter code, a QR, and everyone's in.
The host taps New table and gets a table code and a QR. Friends with the app scan it or type the code. Friends without it open the table's link in any phone's browser, Android too, with nothing to install. Pick the house rule (the bill, the next round, the dishes, or up to 40 characters of your own) and, if you want one, a hold timer from 15 minutes to 2 hours.
Every player has a color of light.
When the host says phones down, everyone turns theirs over and holds still. Each player's color spills out from under their phone, so the table glows like the lights just went down. Then the round is on, for as long as the table can hold.
First to pick up loses. Out loud.
The moment someone picks up, every other phone at the table plays a loud sound and says their name, and the screen floods with red light. The sounds are our own, synthesized on the phone. The house rule lands on the name: Jordan pays the bill.
Leaving the app counts as picking up.
The phone that picked up gets its own red screen and its own line: you pay the bill. Locking the phone or switching apps counts as picking up too, so there's no quick check of a message and back down again.
Hold out, or call it with Check, please.
Set a hold timer, and when it runs out with every phone still down, everybody wins. Or the host calls it: pick up, tap Check, please within 3 seconds, and the round ends with nobody losing. Every round makes a share card, for Stories or square, with how long the table held and who picked up.
The game itself, joining from the app or any phone’s browser, the Practice table, house rules, the hold timer and share cards are free and stay free.
Saved tables (your rule and timer, one tap), nightly streaks for every night the table holds, history and who picks up most, and four more loser sounds: Buzzer, Siren, Gong and Slide.
There is no account, and every table is deleted six hours after its last activity.
