Chain Poem online with friends
You need no paper and no account: one of you opens a game, shares its link, and everyone plays in their own browser, on a phone or a computer. Up to twelve players, and it's free.
Opening a game
- Press New game, pick a nickname, and choose the game's settings (below).
- Send the game's link to your friends. Whoever opens it picks a nickname and joins; nobody signs up.
- Once everyone is in, the host starts the game, and every player gets a seat and a poem to start. Anyone who joins later, while the room has a free seat, reads the poems, gives hearts and votes with the others; the room has a chat for everything in between.
- At the end, Clone opens a new game with the same settings, for the rematch.
The choices
- Mode: peaceful, with hearts and a badge for everyone, or competitive, with a vote for the best line of every poem and a podium at the end.
- Lines and time: poems of 4, 6, 8 or 12 lines, one line a round, of 30, 60 or 90 seconds each.
- Players: how many the room takes, from two up to twelve. It is optional, an extra layer of privacy: once the room is full, nobody else who opens the link can join it or see the game, the final included.
- Spectators: none, or up to twelve friends who watch the rounds, the poems and the final, and chat, without playing. They have seats of their own, so no player ever loses a seat to them.
- How long the poems are kept after the game: 10 minutes, an hour or a day. After that they are gone.
- For adults only: the host can mark a game so, and every player then declares being 18 or older. It is a note among the players and changes nothing in the game.
Where to play
- Around a table, each on a phone: once the poems are written, one of you reads each one out, and the table hears for the first time what it wrote together.
- On a video call with friends or family far away: share the link in the chat and take turns reading the poems out.
- At a party or a family gathering: a dozen players make a dozen poems, and nobody needs a pen.
A few tips
- For a first game, keep poems of 6 lines and a minute a line.
- Only two or three of you? Choose 4 lines: each poem comes back to you a time or two, and the surprise is still whole, since you only ever see a last word.
- Playing with children? Choose the peaceful mode and 90-second lines: everyone leaves with a badge.
- Want the poems to hold together? Tips for a good last word