Press Conference online
Answer the room in character. Nobody knows who you are.
- Players
- 3–12 players
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Length
- 20–30 min
- Type
- Improv
One player steps up to the podium with a secret: a beekeeper who has lost the queen, a pilot who took a wrong turn, an architect who forgot the stairs. Everyone else is a journalist.
The journalists ask whatever they like. The speaker answers in character, and may never say what they are. Then the floor files its guesses and finds out.
The trick is that the speaker wants to be guessed. Stonewalling is easy and makes for a terrible round, so surviving unguessed and being correctly identified are worth exactly the same — there is nothing to be gained by being obtuse, only by being interesting.
Guesses are filed rather than shouted, so the fifth journalist is not simply agreeing with the first.
How to play Press Conference
- 1Create a room and share the 6-letter code. Three or more players.
- 2One player is handed a secret role. Nobody else can see it.
- 3The rest of the room asks questions out loud. The speaker answers in character.
- 4The speaker never names their role, but should give the room something to work with.
- 5When the speaker calls it — or the clock runs out — everyone writes down who they think it was.
- 6The guesses are revealed together with the real role. Correct journalists score; if nobody gets it, the speaker does.
Press Conference FAQ
How is this different from Forehead?+
It is the inversion. In Forehead everybody can see your word except you. Here only you can see it, and your job is to be guessable without saying it.
Can I just refuse to give anything away?+
You can, and the scoring is designed so it gains you nothing — surviving unguessed and being guessed are worth the same three points. The round is only good if you give the room a thread to pull.
How close does a guess have to be?+
It needs the distinctive words of the role, not the exact phrasing. "The beekeeper, they lost their queen" counts; "a person who has a thing" does not.
Do I need to be good at improv?+
No. The roles are absurd enough that a flat, confused answer is usually funnier than a polished one.
Is there an 18+ version?+
No, deliberately. Nothing about the mechanic needs one and the roles are written to be played in front of anybody.
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