Ask a Hundred — One guess each, against a board that was written before you sat down.

Six answers hidden in rank order behind a question with no right answer. One blind guess each, and the top square pays six. 3 to 8 people, about 10 minutes.

Nobody can prepare for it. Not one board asks you to know something — no brands, no sport, no politics, nothing that is true in one country and not in another — so the newest person in the room is on level terms with the person who has been here nine years, and so is anybody reading in their second language.

Everybody types at the same moment, so a table of eight takes exactly as long as a table of three. There is no buzzer and no turn order: nobody spends the round watching one colleague answer while the other six wait.

The part a room remembers is the reveal, and specifically the squares nobody found. Five people against six squares leaves two or three of them still face up and unclaimed at the end, and working out how the whole table walked past one of them is what the call spends the next minute on.

A round

The question goes upOne guess each, blindThe board turns overThe squares nobody found

On the sheet

+6Whoever names the top square — the board turns over

+5 to +1Whoever names the second square down to the sixth — by the square's own position, and two people may take the same one

0Anybody not on the board — including a blank slip, which is a move somebody may make on purpose

0Everybody — a question ended before its board turned over — nothing is banked for it at all

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How to play Ask a Hundred