1. Starting a Game There's no separate "create game" step — open the game URL (add ?game=ROOMNAME if you're starting a brand-new room), type a username, and press OK. Whoever does that first in a room automatically becomes its host; the room itself is created at that moment. Everyone after that lands in the same lobby. You need at least 2 players before the host's Start Game button turns on — there's no maximum, but turns go one player at a time, so very large groups mean a longer wait between your turns. The host can set 1–5 rounds in the Settings ⚙️ menu (default 2).
2. Custom Category (Optional) The host can create a custom trivia category from the 👑 Host Controls panel. If one is set up, every player is shown 3 quick questions. Answer any of them and leave the rest blank, or choose Skip for now (you can come back later from the lobby's 📋 Answer pre-game questions button). The host can start either way. Your answers become trivia questions about you during play!
3. Optional Room Password After saving a custom category, the host can set a password on the Custom Category tab. Visitors to a locked URL must enter it before they see names or join. The password is not in the share link or QR code — tell people out of band.
4. Vote for Categories Pressing Start Game doesn't jump straight into play — it opens a Category Voting screen first. Everyone gets 5 votes to spend across category chips (max 1 vote per chip), and anyone can type in their own topic idea. The top 10 most-voted categories become this game's wheel (a custom category, if configured, always claims the 10th slot). The host can press Close voting & start game at any time — it lights up once every player has used all 5 votes, but the host doesn't have to wait for that.
5. Taking Your Turn — Spin! When it's your turn, press 🎰 Spin! to spin three slot reels. Each reel randomly lands on one of this game's 10 voted categories or the Joker's Wild 🃏. Everyone else sees your spin result in real time.
6. How Points Are Calculated 🎰 Points are based on how many reels landed on the same category — each matching reel adds 50 pts:

   1 reel matches50 pts

   2 reels match (same category)100 pts

   3 reels match (triple!)150 pts
7. Joker's Wild 🃏 If any reel lands on Joker's Wild, all 10 voted categories become available to pick, not just the ones that landed. Each Joker reel adds a +50 pt bonus to every category on top of any matching reels:

   1 Joker (no other matches)50 pts per category

   1 Joker + 1 matching reel100 pts for that category

   2 Jokers100 pts per category

   3 Jokers (triple Joker!)150 pts per category
8. Pick a Category Select the category you want to answer. Without a Joker you can only choose from the categories that actually landed on the reels. The point value is shown on each button.
9. Answer the Question Read the question on your screen and speak your answer aloud. You have 60 seconds. The written answer is hidden from you but visible to everyone else so they can judge. Done early? Press 🔒 Lock In My Answer to reveal it and let voting start right away instead of waiting out the clock. (If you go AFK, the host has a 👁 Reveal Answer Now fallback so the room doesn't get stuck waiting on you.)
10. Ask a Friend 🤝 During your 60 seconds you can press Ask a Friend and pick another player to help you — this also reveals your written answer to everyone (except your friend, who stays blind to it too). If the group votes Correct, you and your friend split the points for that turn (your friend gets the smaller or equal half). If the answer is wrong or ruled a bad question, neither of you scores. Your friend sits out the vote on this turn, since they helped answer it — unless it's just the two of you playing, in which case they still vote.
11. Voting All other players vote: ✓ Correct, ✗ Incorrect, or ⚠ Bad Question. Voting has its own 30-second timer that starts once the answer is revealed (so up to 90 seconds total from when the question first appeared) — votes resolve at that timer, or sooner as soon as everyone eligible has voted. Ties go to Correct.
12. Bad Question ⚠ Vote this when the question or answer key is broken — it doesn't match its category, or the listed answer is wrong — not when you just think the player got it wrong (use Incorrect for that). If the majority votes Bad Question, no points are lost and the turn does not advance. A brand-new question from the same category is immediately chosen and voting starts fresh.
13. Scoring & Winning A majority Correct vote earns you (and your friend, if any) the full points for that category. A majority Incorrect vote awards no points. After all rounds the player with the most points wins! 🏆
14. 2× Points One player per round is picked by the server for 2× on a correct answer. The room sees it at the start of that player's turn, before they spin.
15. Game Over — What's Next? When the game ends, the host can either 🃏 Play Another Round (adds one more round for the same players, same scores, same 10 categories — no re-voting, straight back to spinning) or 🔄 Start New Game (a full reset: scores back to zero, everyone returns to the lobby, and Category Voting happens again from scratch).

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