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Brain Freeze! — the online word game

One theme and ten seconds per word, 2 to 20 people on the same call. No host and nothing to install: someone creates the room and shares the 4-letter code.

A theme comes up — "something you find in a bathroom" — and everyone gets ten seconds to name one thing. The letter you used goes dark for everybody, so whoever plays last gets the leftovers. Think somebody's word does not count? Call VAR.

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Joining a room is free. To create one, the account needs the 24-hour pass or the subscription — and the first pass is on us.

Tip of the tongue

2 to 20 players
ten seconds a turn
no host

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Manual · Read before the clock starts

How to play

The theme is easy. Remembering anything at all in ten seconds, with the good letters already burned by everyone else, is not.

1
Gather everyone
2 to 20 people on the same call. One creates the room and picks how many cards win the game and how long each turn lasts; the others join with the 4-letter code and hit Ready.
2
A draw opens the round
Every round the system shuffles the order and shows who starts. Nobody picks, nobody argues.
3
The card and the alphabet
A theme comes up — "something you find in a bathroom" — and the whole keyboard lights up: 23 letters in Portuguese, 26 in English.
4
Ten seconds, and the clock is against you
Only the player on turn can type. The word must start with a letter still lit; if the letter is gone, the field blinks and clears without costing your turn. Send it and the letter goes dark for everybody. Miss the clock and you are out of the round.
5
VAR is the challenge
The word stays on screen for three seconds. Anyone who thinks it has nothing to do with the theme hits VAR — only the first click counts. An AI reviews the word against the theme: if the word was fine, the challenger is out; if it was not, the author is out and the letter lights up again.
6
The card goes to the survivor
The round ends when one person is left, and they take the card. If the letters run out first, the card carries over and another one comes — whoever wins takes the whole pile at once.

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