Three Signals

How to play

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   Three Signals supports 4–12 players. The server privately shuffles them into two teams whose sizes differ by at most one; each team receives the same number of turns, equal to the larger team’s size.

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   Guides rotate within each team. Everyone guides at least once, and a member of the smaller team repeats only after its full cycle. Teams alternate, and every turn uses a new target from 60 original cards.

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   Everyone sees the current target’s category and difficulty, but only the Guide can open the target behind a private curtain. Briefing lasts up to 12 seconds and readiness can be confirmed after 3; the target and accepted variants are absent from every other player’s and observer’s markup.

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   The first channel is free spoken description for 30 seconds. The Guide may not say the target, a related word form, a translation, a word fragment, its length, or its opening sound. Solving here gives the team 300 points.

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   Active teammates send guesses as text in the app. An exact target or approved variant is solved by the server immediately; only the Guide may accept a semantically equivalent guess. Authors see receipts for their own guesses, while the Guide receives the current channel’s inbox.

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   If unsolved, the Guide has up to 12 seconds to submit exactly one clue word. It cannot be the target, a variant, related form, or translation. The team then sees that word and has another 18 seconds; a solve is worth 200 points.

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   The final channel lasts 20 seconds. The Guide acts out the target without speech, sounds, written symbols, or prepared prop clues while teammates continue submitting guesses. A solve is worth 100 points.

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   After each channel’s minimum window, the Guide may move on early or finish without a solve. Deadlines make the same transition automatically; the app never invents a clue or guess for a player.

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   A target awards exactly one result: 300, 200, 100, or 0. It is added once to the team total and to every member’s room score; neither the Guide nor the accepted guesser gets a hidden bonus.

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    The 12-second reveal shows the target, successful channel, one-word clue, submitted guesses, omissions, and award. The host may continue after 4 seconds. Before reveal, opponents and observers see only teams, category, difficulty, stage, timer, and score; they do not receive the target, one-word clue, or the active team’s guess text.

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    Spoken description and gestures require players to be together or use an external voice/video call. play2gether.fun neither requests nor records a camera or microphone; game decisions and guesses are recorded only through explicit app actions.

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    A reconnecting player receives only their authorized current information and accepted receipts. Retrying cannot create another guess, clue, transition, or award; late joiners remain observers until a new game.

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    After both teams complete the same number of turns, the higher target total wins. Equal totals share the win; the final archive lists every turn and team result without a hidden tie-break.