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Slow Reveal: Everyday Things

A picture opens up second by second. Name it as early as you dare.

A picture starts almost entirely hidden and opens up second by second. Name what it is as early as you dare: the more of the picture is still covered when you get it, the more points you take.

The whole game is one specific feeling — the moment where you are seventy per cent sure, the picture is still a mess of colour, and somebody else has just locked in an answer.

Everyone plays every round at once. Getting it first does not end the round for anybody else, and nobody is told what you answered — only that you have it.

Every picture is a real photograph from Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed and credited to the photographer the moment the round ends.

  • 1–8 players
  • About 5 minutes
  • Free
  • No download
A picture of a hot air balloon half uncovered, with dark tiles lifting away from one corner

How to play

  1. A hidden picture starts opening on every screen at the same moment.
  2. Type what you think it is, as early as you dare.
  3. A correct answer banks whatever it was worth right then — 100 points at the start, falling to 5 by the end.
  4. A wrong answer costs you two seconds of silence, not points.
  5. The round ends when everyone has it or the clock runs out. Most points after the last picture wins.

Questions

Is Slow Reveal: Everyday Things free to play?

Yes, and there is nothing to buy later. Slow Reveal: Everyday Things runs in your browser: no download, no app store, no payment.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Open the link and play. It works on a phone, a tablet, a laptop and any television with a browser, and everyone at a table can be on a different kind of device.

What does “In one room” mean?

Open the board on the television, laptop or tablet everyone can see. The picture opens there, big, while each player types their answer on their own phone. The board tells the room who has it already — never what they said — so the pressure builds on everyone still looking. This is the mode the game was designed for: the shared gasp when the picture finally resolves is the whole point.

What does “Online, anywhere” mean?

You open a game and share a short link or a four-character code. Friends join from their own phone, tablet or laptop, wherever they are. The picture opens on every screen at exactly the same moment, from one clock on our server, so an answer at forty per cent revealed is worth the same to everybody. Make the game public and players from around the world can join in.

What does “Just me” mean?

One picture at a time against the clock, scored exactly as a real game scores it: 100 points at the start of the reveal, 5 by the end. Nobody to race, which makes it the honest way to find out how early you can actually name things. No code, no account, no waiting for anyone.

How many people can play?

1–8 players. You can play a solo round against the deck, or fill a table with up to 8 people — in the same room or spread across the world.

How long does a game take?

About 5 minutes. Want a shorter or a longer game? Choose “Set up your own game” and pick how many cards it takes to win.

Do I need an account?

Only if you want to start a game for other people to join. Playing on your own screen works without one, and so does joining a game a friend started — you just choose a name.

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Ready when your friends are.

No download, no app. Slow Reveal: Everyday Things opens in the browser they already have.

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