Party & games line
Books you play, not just read.
Hand one to a room full of people and something happens. That's the whole brief. These are games, quizzes and puzzle-books that need no app, no batteries and no setup — just a page and someone willing to go first.
The flagship
Party Battle Book
Your party, zero phones, one book. 117 rounds across seven kinds of battle — charades, bluffs, debates, letter storms. Open a page and the room is playing in ten seconds.
Paperback · 128 pages · 2–12 players · ages 10–99
The shelf
One book in print, and more in production
Party Battle Book is the whole of this shelf right now. That is deliberate: we would rather publish one game book a room actually finishes than fill a page with titles nobody would recommend.
The pages above are the rest of the line while it grows — several hundred questions, twenty Christmas party games and fifteen for Halloween with the rules in full, all free to read and nothing to install.
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Ten extra rounds that aren't in Party Battle Book, as a printable PDF, plus a score sheet built to survive a kitchen table. We'll also send a note whenever a new book hatches.
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Try it first
Play a round right now, for free
Would You Rather is one of the seven kinds of round in the book, and there are several hundred of them on this site to read off a phone before you buy anything: a hundred questions for any room with the rules and the history of the game, two hundred for teens, and two hundred built for meetings and offsites.
Seasonal, with the rules in full: twenty Christmas party games — nine need nothing bought and seventeen are safe at an office party — and, for October, fifteen Halloween party games with two hundred Halloween would you rather questions beside them.
Charades is the first of the seven kinds of round in the book, and there are 200 charades ideas here with the rules and the standard signals.
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If you came for the facts
The other side of the house publishes fact books rather than games: Astonishing Curiosities collects 320 facts, each with the story behind it and the published source it came from. It has a free pack of its own.