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Eldoria · a party game for the TV

How to play
Hunt

Two teams. Everybody hides somewhere in the house and writes two clues about where they are. Then two of you go up on the TV at a time — one from each team — and everybody else gets one guess. Your team scores only if your team gets it and the other team doesn't. So the clue that wins this game is the one your friends can read and strangers can't.

4–8 players one TV, a phone each 1, 2 or 3 rounds 4–12 minutes 164 hiding places

The whole game in one rule

Be obvious to your friends and useless to everyone else

Your clue goes up on the TV where both teams read it, in the same second, with the same clock. There's no private channel and there never is one. The only edge your own team has is that they know you.

So every clue is a trade, and it's a trade with two bad ends. Too vague and nobody reaches you and nobody scores. Too sharp and an opponent gets there — and then they take the points instead of you, not as well as you.

"Upstairs."

42 places. Nobody scores. Including you.

"Upstairs, somewhere soft."

22 places. Getting warmer, still a lot of doors.

"The bathroom, damp, low down."

4 places. Everyone gets this. Which means they do.

"Where we put the tree."

One place, to one person. Nothing on the tag list can do this.

Every hiding place has a floor, a room, a height, a kind of place (in, under, behind, on top of) and a few qualities (soft, hard, damp, warm, dark, enclosed, a squeeze). Your phone lists the true ones and you can tap them straight in. They're a floor to stand on when nothing clever arrives — never the ceiling. Name the room and two attributes and you're down to about two places, which is exactly the clue everybody in the room can solve.

Setting up

Getting everyone in

1

Open Hunt on the TV

Pick Hunt from the party-games home screen. The TV shows a four-letter room code and a QR code — that's all anyone needs.

2

Everyone joins, and the teams split themselves

Scan the code, put in a name, and you're in. Teams alternate by join order — Reds and Blues — so nobody has to pick sides. The host can tap any name to move them across if the split put both parents on one team.

The host also sets two dials: how many rounds, and how long each clue stays up (20, 30 or 45 seconds).

The TV, waiting for players The Hunt lobby on a TV: a QR code, the room code, two team panels — Reds with Arya and Cersei, Blues with Bran and Daenerys — chips reading '1 round - 30s a clue' and '86 places - 2 floors', and a line naming the host who starts it
Your phone A phone showing 'You're in, Arya!' with 'You're on the Reds', a picker for how many rounds, a second picker for how long a clue stays up, a row of names to swap between teams, and a Start the game button
3

The house grows with the crowd

Four players get the ground floor and upstairs. Six opens the loft. Eight opens the cellar as well — sixteen rooms and 164 hiding places. Closed floors are drawn on the TV, greyed and marked shut, so you can always see what's out of bounds.

It's the same house every game. That's on purpose — by the third round of the night your team has private shorthand for half of it, and private shorthand is the whole point.

A round, start to finish

Hide, write, guess

1

Hide and write — 75 seconds

Pick a room, then pick a place in it. Then write your two clues: a vague one and a sharper one. Nobody sees either until you're up.

You're allowed to share a hiding place. Two of you behind the same sofa is legal, and a genuinely funny way to lose both spotlights.

Run the clock out and the house writes your clues for you, off the true facts about where you are. Competent, never inspired — and never worth waiting for.

The TV — two ready, two still writing The TV during hiding: 'Hide, and write your two clues', both team panels on nil-nil, a 69-second clock, an hourglass naming Bran and Daenerys as the two still writing, and the cutaway house with the loft and cellar greyed out and marked shut
Your phone, mid-clue A phone showing 'You are in the oven, Kitchen', two clue boxes labelled 'Clue 1 - worth 2' and 'Clue 2 - worth 1' holding "I'm having second thoughts" and "Kitchen, in something, low down", a row of tappable chips reading kitchen, low, in, enclosed, hard, squeeze, and a 'Lock in my clues' button
2

Two go up — one from each team

The TV shows two first clues side by side, one per team, and starts the clock. You get one guess — and it's one guess total, not one each.

  • Guess your teammate's spot and you're covering them: a save.
  • Guess your opponent's and you're taking their points: a burn.

You can't do both. Going for the burn is cover you didn't give — which is what makes the choice worth making, and why the TV puts both clues in front of you at once.

Nobody learns anything until the clock runs out. Not who guessed, not what they guessed, not whether anyone was right. If you're one of the two up there, you still guess — at the other one.

The TV, first clue The TV during a spotlight: 'One guess each' above two big clue cards side by side — Cersei's in red reading 'where the towels live' and Bran's in blue reading 'I'm having second thoughts', both marked 'Clue 1 - 2 pts' — a 28-second clock, '0/4 guesses in', and both team score panels on nil-nil
Your phone — pick a target, then a place Arya's phone showing the two clue cards, an 'Aim at' toggle with two buttons reading 'Cersei save' and 'Bran burn' with the first selected and filled red, and the room-by-room list of hiding places beneath
3

Then the second clue, worth half

Anyone nobody got drops their second clue and the clock runs again — but now the spotlight is only worth 1 instead of 2. Everybody gets one fresh guess.

Somebody already read on the first clue sits the second one out. Their card goes grey and says Read — and nothing else, because the reveal is still to come.

The TV, second clue — one already settled The TV showing the second clue: Cersei's card greyed and dashed reading 'Read' with 'Clue 2 - 1 pts' beneath, Bran's showing the sharper 'Kitchen, in something, low down', the clock running again, and the Reds already on 2 points

Who gets the points

Saved, burned, or nobody

When the clock stops, every guess is opened at once and each spotlight settles one of three ways.

Only your own team got it → saved

Your team scores the clue's value. This is the good one, and it's the only one you can aim for.

Anyone on the other team got it → burned

They score it. You score nothing — however many of your own teammates also got there.

Nobody got it → nothing

No points to anybody. Which is better than being burned, and worse than being read.

That middle rule is the one to hold on to: a burn beats a save on the same clue. Being findable isn't the goal — being findable selectively is.

Then the TV shows both hiding places, both clues, and who read them. This is the screen that makes the next round better: you find out that "somewhere damp" meant the bath, and that Daenerys has now hidden in the wardrobe twice.

The reveal — a save and a burn The TV reveal: Cersei's card reading 'on the airing cupboard shelf' with a house icon and '+2 Reds' and Arya named as the reader, Bran's dashed card reading 'in the oven' with a flame and '+1 Reds' and Cersei named, both players' clues listed with the scoring one picked out, and the cutaway house with a pip on each spot
Your phone, guess spent Cersei's phone, her own card greyed and marked 'Read' and '(you)': 'Guess locked in' above the place she guessed and whose spotlight it was aimed at, an hourglass, and the count of guesses in — and no indication of whether it was right

Winning

Most points takes it

Everybody is spotlit exactly once a round, one pair at a time, so both teams get the same number of goes and there's no bad draw to be unlucky with. Add the points up across every round; the biggest total wins the house.

Level on points, it goes to saves — the times your own team read you and nobody else did. Which is a fair way to break a tie in a game about knowing your friends.

The tally, after a round The TV reading 'Reds take the round' above a table of each team's points for that round, their saves and their burns, with the running total replaced by a 'Scores sealed' padlock because this is the last round
The finale The TV reading 'Reds win the house' above a table giving the Reds 3 points, 1 save, 1 burn and 1 round to the Blues' nil, with a line naming who picks what to play next

An odd number of you

The dog

Five, seven — somebody's team is a player short, which would leave the pairs out of step and somebody never spotlit at all. So the short team fields the dog: an extra character, hidden by the house, that takes the spare spotlight.

Its two clues are written by the house off the true facts about where it is. That makes it the one spotlight in the game where neither team has an edge — no shared history, no in-jokes, just how well you know the place. It scores for the short team like anybody else, and either team can burn it.

In short

The seven things to remember

  1. Hide somewhere, then write a vague clue and a sharper one.
  2. Both teams read your clue, at the same time, on the same TV.
  3. Your team scores only if your team gets it and the other lot don't.
  4. The first clue is worth 2; the second is worth 1.
  5. One guess a clue, and two people are up — save your own, or burn theirs.
  6. The tag chips are a floor. The clue that wins is the one only your lot get.
  7. Everybody goes up once a round. Most points across the game wins.