Free online party game for remote teams

Double Booked The funniest-answer game

Two answers. One slot. The room decides.

Double Booked is a party game about work life. You write short answers to prompts like “The most elaborate excuse for keeping your camera off.” Two answers claim the same slot, everyone else votes, and the room decides which one keeps it.

It’s an icebreaker game for any team on a call: finance, sales, HR, support and, yes, engineering. The prompts are about work and everyday life, and nobody needs to know anything technical.

Engineering team? Play the Merge Conflict edition: the same game with git, deploys and code review.

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At a glance

Players: 3–16, best with 3–8
Audience: up to 100, watching and voting
Length: about 6 minutes (Short) or 8–12 minutes (Standard)
Plays on: any laptop or phone with a modern browser
Price: free

How to play Double Booked

The short version

1
Write. Answer your prompts in 60 characters or fewer.
2
Vote. Answers face off in pairs, anonymously. Pick your favorite.
3
Get accepted. Points follow the votes. Win every vote in a matchup and your answer is ALL ACCEPTED.

Round 1

Each prompt goes to two players. With up to 8 players, you get two prompts and 80 seconds. With 9 or more, you get one prompt and 50 seconds (when the numbers are odd, one random player gets a second). Press Enter to submit, and your answer is SENT.

Voting

Each matchup shows the prompt and two anonymous answers, booked into the same slot. Click or tap your favorite, or press 1 or 2 (the arrow keys work too). You have 20 seconds, and you can change your vote until voting closes.

If one of the answers is yours, you sit that matchup out.

Nobody sees which way the vote is going until the reveal. Then the winner is stamped ACCEPTED, the other answer is DECLINED, the authors are named, and the points count up.

ALL ACCEPTED

If every player who votes picks the same answer, and at least two of them voted, that answer is stamped ALL ACCEPTED and earns 250 bonus points.

TENTATIVE

A tied vote means both answers stay on the calendar. Both are marked TENTATIVE and split the points evenly, with no winner’s bonus. A tie is not a loss, so nobody is DECLINED.

DUPLICATE INVITE

If two players write the same answer, it is stamped DUPLICATE INVITE and skips the vote. Nobody scores. Great minds, zero points.

AutoComplete™

Stuck? Press “AutoComplete it” and AutoComplete™ fills in a suggestion. It will be extremely bland, along the lines of “Great question! It depends.” Submit it as is and it scores half points and can’t be ALL ACCEPTED. Change it and it’s yours. If you run out of time, AutoComplete™ answers for you, also at half points.

Round 2: Double points

Standard games only. New pairings, and every point counts double. Short games go straight to the final.

The Last Word

The final round. The calendar flips to Friday, 4:59 p.m., and everyone answers the same acronym prompt, like “What L.G.T.M. really stands for.” You get 75 seconds and 80 characters. Letter tiles light up as your words match the acronym. That’s a hint, not a rule: funny beats accurate.

Then everyone awards gold, silver and bronze medals to three different answers, never their own. You have 40 seconds. In a three-player game there are only two other answers, so you award gold and silver. The audience gets a say too, worth one extra voter’s medals.

The medals land, the answers re-sort by points, and the highest total score wins the game. Ties share the podium.

Scoring, in plain words

Every matchup is worth 1,000 points (2,000 in Round 2), split by share of the vote.
The answer with more votes gets a winner’s bonus: 100 points (200 in Round 2).
ALL ACCEPTED adds 250 more (500 in Round 2).
The audience counts as one extra vote, split the way the audience voted.
AutoComplete™ answers score half. Duplicates and censored answers score nothing.
In The Last Word, a gold medal is worth 750 points, silver 500 and bronze 250.
Highest total after The Last Word wins.

Example

In Round 1, four players vote 3 to 1. The accepted answer gets 750 for its share of the vote plus the 100 bonus, so 850. The declined one gets 250. If all four had voted for it, it would get 1,000 + 100 + 250 = 1,350.

Players and timing

3–16 players, best with 3–8. Up to 12, everyone gets their own mascot. From 13, mascots can repeat in different colors.
Audience: up to 100 people. Anyone who arrives mid-game joins the audience and moves into a seat at the next game if one is free.
Short: one round plus The Last Word. About 6 minutes.
Standard: two rounds plus The Last Word. About 8–12 minutes, depending on group size.
Best for: a Monday kickoff (Short), a Friday wind-down (Standard), or a new hire’s first week.

Timer	Normal	With Extended timers
Write, two prompts	80 s	160 s
Write, one prompt	50 s	100 s
Vote, per matchup	20 s	40 s
The Last Word, write	75 s	150 s
The Last Word, medals	40 s	80 s

Every phase ends early once everyone has answered or voted, so a quick group finishes well inside the timers.

Play on Zoom, Meet or Teams

Stay on the call for faces and voices. Start a party, paste the invite link into the chat, and everyone plays in their own browser tab, on a laptop or a phone. Nobody screen-shares the game, so there is no laggy stream to squint at. It’s free, and nobody signs up or installs anything. Looking for a free Quiplash or Jackbox alternative for work? This is it.

Tips

Be specific. “A meeting” loses to “the meeting about the meeting.”
Write for the room. A joke your team gets beats a joke anyone would get.
Keep it short. 60 characters is a ceiling, not a target.
Use the keyboard. Enter submits. 1 or 2 votes. The arrow keys work too.
Don’t let AutoComplete™ write for you. It scores half and is never ALL ACCEPTED.
Play the letters in The Last Word. The tiles light up as you match them, but a funny answer that misses a letter can still win.
Spend your medals well. You can’t medal your own answer, so give gold to whatever made you laugh first.
VIPs, match the game to the meeting. Short for a team meeting, Standard for socials, Extended timers for big groups or phone typists.

Sample prompts

Eight real prompts from the game.

Work Life
The most elaborate excuse for keeping your camera off
Work Life
An honest out-of-office message
Work Life
The least quick topic ever booked as a “quick sync”
Work Life
The recurring meeting nobody remembers the purpose of anymore
Everyday
The self-checkout machine’s resignation letter
Everyday
A classic fairy tale, retold as a customer complaint
Everyday
What the printer is actually doing when it says “Printing…”
Everyday
The snooze button’s motivational speech

And one from The Last Word:

What A.S.A.P. really stands for in an email subject line

Settings

The VIP (usually whoever started the room) changes these in the lobby. Everyone else can see them.

Family filter on by default: Swaps profanity in names and answers for comic grawlix, like #@$%!. Leave it on for anything your manager attends. The VIP can still censor any answer.
Extended timers off by default: Doubles the time to write and vote. Good for big groups, phone typists and anyone who likes to think before they type.
Audience on by default: Lets late arrivals, and anyone past the 16th player, watch and vote. Together the audience counts as one extra vote. Turn it off for a closed game.
Prompts for Any team by default: Any team: Work Life and Everyday. Meetings, mute buttons, the home office, cameras off, and everyday life with a light office flavor. This is Double Booked. Works at any team social.

Engineering: adds Dev Life: git, deploys, code review, the utils folder. The game becomes the Merge Conflict edition. Mixed room? Keep Any team so nobody’s left out.

Customize: turn the packs on and off one by one (keep at least one).
Length Standard by default: Standard is two rounds plus The Last Word, about 8–12 minutes. Short is one round plus The Last Word, about 6.

VIP controls during a game

Pause and resume.
Skip the current timer.
Censor an answer during voting or medals. It’s hidden and scores nothing.
Remove a player.
Lock the room, so nobody new can join.
End the game and go back to the lobby.

If the VIP drops off for more than 20 seconds, the VIP role passes to whoever has been connected longest.

Ready when you are.

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