Public Games

How a public game differs from a private one, how many games you can run at once, and what is expected from the host and the players.

When creating a game you choose whether it is public or private. Everything else — the pack, the rules, the scoring — works the same way.

Public and private

	Public	Private
Shown in the game list	Yes, to everyone	No
Who can join	Any signed in user	Anyone with the link
Where the link comes from	The list on the site	The host shares it

A private game is not secret: whoever gets the link can open it. Keep the link inside your group if you want to play with your own people only.

Visibility cannot be changed after the game is created. If you started a private game and want it to appear in the list, stop it and create a new one.

Limits

You can keep no more than 3 running games at a time on one account. Stop a finished game to free a slot.
A game with no activity for 30 minutes stops automatically, and no game lives longer than 5 hours.

The host of a public game

Strangers come to a public game, so the host is responsible for the order in it:

they can kick a participant — the person may come back;
they can ban a participant — the person cannot join this game any more;
they decide the speed, the reading mode, and pauses;
they judge every answer, including a wrong one that they may still count with a ×0.5 multiplier.

What is expected from everyone

Play the pack, not the chat: no insults, no harassment, no spam.
Do not look up answers on purpose and do not spoil them to the other teams.
Everything published in a public game — the pack, the nickname, the avatar, the chat — falls under the terms of use of the service.

A host who systematically breaks these expectations may lose access to public games.

Game rules

Roles, question types, the buzzer, scoring, and the final round.