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How to play Anime Guess Who

2 to 8 players · online, each side on its own phone · about 10 minutes

Anime Guess Who is the board game with anime characters: a board of 24 faces, a secret pick on each side, and yes or no questions until someone names the other side's character. It runs in the browser, so each side plays on its own phone and nobody can peek.

Play Anime Guess Who

The rules

Pick the anime, or play All Anime. Both sides get the same board of 24 characters.
Each side secretly picks one character from the board.
Before any question, both sides lock in a blind guess at the other side's pick. Get it right and you score 2 points before the round even starts. Then both sides tap Ready. There's no clock on picking.
On your turn you either ask one of 3 question cards, which the game answers for you from the character data (gender, tier, anime, team, ratings and more), or type your own question, which the other side answers by hand.
Flipping faces down is up to you, like the board game.
When you think you know, guess. Right wins the round and 3 points. Wrong hands the round to the other side.
Three rounds by default (the host can change it). Most points wins.

Teams

With 3 or more players the game splits into two teams that share a board and a secret pick. In the party lobby everyone chooses Team Pink, Team Blue or Any team, and the players who chose Any fill the smaller team.

Why the questions are cards

In the board game, the best move is a question that cuts the board in half every time ("Is their name A to M?"). That works so well it makes the game feel solved. Here the 3 question cards are drawn at random from the questions that still split your board, so you can't halve it every turn and you have to think about which card helps most. You can always type your own question instead.

No timers

Take as long as you like to think. If the other side goes quiet for 90 seconds in the middle of a round, you can skip them (pass their turn or drop an unanswered question), so one idle phone can't freeze the game.

Tips that actually help

Take the blind guess seriously. 2 free points is most of a round. Think about which face on the board people pick most.
Pick the card that splits your board most evenly, not the one you're most curious about.
Typed questions can be sneaky: one question about a scar or a weapon can clear half the board at once.

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