I call it "irish" but I don't know what you call it - it's a game, now you can play it on discord, and now it's written in rust!
Everyone puts clues into a bowl, then take turns performing the clues to someone else. There's 3 (or some number other than 3) rounds
- Use any words except what's written on the clue
- Use only one word that's not written on the clue
- Charades (or sound effects for voice only) n) ... ? use your imagination
All rounds use the same set of clues and they go back into the bowl at the end of each round.
This is my discord bot to run the game so you can play it over the internet during a global pandemic when you can't go round to your friends' houses.
Do the usual things to add a bot to your discord channel. This guy is run off a few commands
Direct message the bot with
!add-clue <TEXT>
to add <TEXT>
as a clue
use !join
to join the game
When there's enough players and clues, type into a text channel
!start-game
and follow instructions from there.
Everyone is assigned a single person to perform to, when it's your turn you'll be performing your clue to that other person and them alone. Only when they guess correctly can you move on to the next clue. This one-at-a-time rule is to deal with the problems with having many people yelling over voice/video chat at the same time.
When it's your turn to perform, the bot will direct message you a clue. Reply to the bot with y
or Y
to get the next clue.
At the end of your turn the bot will recap which clues you solved - the last one shown to you is put back into the bowl. The recap message will be REDACTED after a certain delay, so you can't just scroll up the channel to remind yourself what clues there are.