Yap Battle

How to play

Yap Battle is a comedy writing game. Before it starts, the host picks a prompt pack, and a standard game runs for five rounds, or fewer if the pack runs out of prompts.

Each round, everyone gets the same ridiculous prompt on their phone and writes an answer. By default you have 60 seconds to write, and the host can adjust the timer before starting. Then the answers appear anonymously on the TV, and everyone has 30 seconds to vote for their favourite. You cannot vote for your own.

Points come from votes, and votes are worth more as the game goes on: 100 points each in rounds one and two, 200 in rounds three and four, and 300 from round five. The answer with the most votes earns a 200-point first-place bonus, and an answer that wins every other player’s vote gets an extra 250 for a clean sweep. The answers are revealed one by one, so the room hears each joke before seeing the score.

What makes it work is the anonymity. A quiet player can win a round with a single perfect line, and nobody knows whose answer it was until the votes land.

Tips for hosts

• Choose a pack that suits the room before you start. You know your crowd better than any prompt does.
• Short answers tend to win. Encourage people to write the punchline, not the setup.
• Read the answers out loud as they appear. Delivery is half of the comedy.
• Late-round votes are worth more, so a player who is behind is never really out of it.

Best for

Best for: Groups with funny friends who need a stage, even shy ones.

Play Yap Battle

Open Sofa Showdown on a laptop or computer connected to your TV, choose Yap Battle from the game shelf, and share the four-letter room code with your friends.

Play now Opens hosting on this screen. Nothing starts until you choose a game.

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