Let a ball go into a field of pegs and watch it bounce down. Every peg it touches multiplies your score. One press each, three rounds, everybody watching. 1 to 6 people, about 10 minutes.
Nobody has to be taught it and nobody has to read anything out. There are nine buttons, you press one, and the first ball explains the rest of the game to the whole table at once — which makes it the thing to put on while the last two people are still joining the call.
A turn is three seconds of falling with five colleagues watching and nothing anybody can do about it. That is the entire social mechanism: everyone is shouting at a ball rather than at a person, and being beaten by somebody is being beaten by a bounce.
It never knocks anybody out and it never leaves anybody with nothing to do. Everyone drops in every round, everyone has a number the whole way through, and the person who is last on the board is four seconds away from the biggest score of the sitting.
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