Jab Al Eid

The phone goes around the circle. You draw a curse — speak with your lips covering your teeth, or keep your arms pinned to your sides like a T-Rex — then answer the prompt while doing it, and pass the phone on before a timer you cannot see runs out. Get caught holding it and you spin the punishment wheel.

Two design decisions carry the whole game

No camera, ever. Party games in this category usually reach for the camera, and that single choice makes them unplayable in exactly the settings this game is for — a majlis, a wedding, a car full of relatives. Nobody wants to be filmed at a family gathering. Take the camera away and the game can be played anywhere, and the laughter stays in the room instead of on a server.

The timer is hidden. A visible countdown turns the round into arithmetic; you wait it out. An unknown one makes you hurry, and hurrying while cursed is the entire joke.

Content packs

The prompts are grouped into packs that each attack a different faculty — a mouth trap that makes consonants nearly impossible to say, a body lock that turns pouring coffee into a performance, a brain freeze of yes-or-no questions where those two words are banned. Content lives in one data file, so a pack is written rather than engineered.

Shipped

Live on the App Store.