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Family Face-Off plays online on every plan, the free Home plan too. The free packs play in full. Premium packs need Starter, and hosting your own survey pack needs Pro. Up to 4 teams play.
Choose Family Face-Off
Select New Game, then select the Family Face-Off card.
Pick a survey pack
Under Packs for you, select a pack. Family Face-Off Starter and Everyday Life are free on every plan.
Open the lobby
The lobby opens with the teams you started your last Family Face-Off game with, in the same order and colours. The first time, it opens with two teams. The game is played in the room, so players need no phones.
Set your teams
Check the teams or select Add Team. Use the up and down arrows next to a team to change the order: on the big screen, teams 1 and 3 sit on the left, teams 2 and 4 on the right. Under Settings, keep TV scoring, or select Change next to Scoring and pick Per team, per answer. Then select Start Game.
Choose who starts
Read the question out loud. Under Who starts?, select the team that won the face-off.
Reveal answers and add strikes
With TV scoring the round goes from the face-off to play and the steal by itself, and the bar above the board says which team answers. In the face-off, select the answer a team names. For a wrong guess, select the strike button and the other team answers. The team that names an answer plays the board, and each wrong answer is a strike.
Award the round
The round is awarded by itself when the board is clear or the steal is decided. You can still award it by hand: select Award the Round and pick the team that won. The team gets the points and the big screen shows the award, but the board stays as it is. Select Reveal Remaining to turn over the answers nobody found, one every 3 seconds. Continue on your panel hurries it. When the board is face-up and the room has read it, select Next Question. If every answer was found, Next Question comes up at once. With Per team, per answer, Reveal Remaining ends the round, then select Next Question. After the last question, select Final Standings. The award sheet shows the points on the board and each team's score after the award. On a keyboard, press the team's number.
Tips
- Select Big screen > Open big screen in the top bar to open the board for the room on a second screen or projector.
- Phones can join as buzzers for the face-off. Select More > Connect a phone in the top bar to add them.
- Write your own survey questions under Library > Mine > Family Face-Off. Hosting your own pack needs Pro.
- Pressed the wrong answer? Select Undo in the top bar.
- When the game ends, How was this pack? on your panel takes one tap: Good or Not great. Only you see it.
- Under Settings, Face-off rules adds two options: Best answer wins the face-off (a lower answer gives the other team one try to beat it) and Play or pass (the face-off winner plays the board or passes it). Both are off unless you turn them on.
Questions
Do players need the app or their phones?
No. Teams answer out loud and you mark the board. Phones are optional, and only as buzzers.
What is the difference between the two scoring modes?
With TV scoring, one team controls the board and you award the round to the winner. With Per team, per answer, teams take turns and each team keeps the points for the answers it names.
How many teams can play?
Up to 4 teams.
Can a Family Face-Off game end with the Speed Round?
Yes. If your pack has Speed Round questions, the team in the lead plays the bonus round after the board. See Play the Speed Round in Family Face-Off for the steps.
Why can't I select an answer on the board?
The answers lock while an audience vote is open. With Per team, per answer they also lock while no team is in control, and once Reveal Remaining has started. Give a team control, or close the vote, and the answers work again.