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Crowns

Secret orders, secret votes, open betrayal. Six houses, one crown.

Opens a room on this screen. Put it on the TV; everyone joins from their phone.

Players: 1 to 6
On your phone: Taps
Length: 30–45 min, ten rounds at most
Join mid-game: Next game
Streamer mode: Chat cheers
Across homes: Yes
Saves progress: No: every game starts fresh

What it's like

A game of secret orders and open betrayal for up to six houses, with an AI house in every empty seat, so one player is enough to learn it. Each round you vote in the council, give every army its orders in secret and bet on what will happen.

Then the TV reveals it all at once: seals break, orders flip, armies march and battles are fought. The court is open the whole time: send gold with a note, make pacts, take loans, buy whispers or hire an assassin. Promises cost nothing. Keeping them is up to you.

How to play

One question at a time
Your phone asks what each army does, how you vote and what you bid. Tap your answers and seal them before the timer runs out.
Back anyone you like
A Support order can back any house in a battle, and nobody learns which until the battle.
Bid for the crown
Rounds 1, 4, 7 and 10 open with a secret bid for the crown, and every house pays what it bid.
Man the Wall
When the threat from the north reaches a notch, every house secretly decides how many men to send.
Count the castles
After ten rounds, or as soon as a house holds seven castles, the Ledger of Lies reads out who did what. Castles score most, then land.

Streamer mode

Chat cheers

Your viewers get one big Cheer button on their phones. The more of them tap, the fuller the meter on your stream, then confetti. Crowns plays the same with or without them.

How Streamer mode works

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