Race 1 · what it’s for

Thirteen seconds of not knowing

A coin toss is over before anyone leans in. A race gives you a start, a scramble through the middle, about four lead changes, and one time in four a finish close enough to argue about. The decision gets made either way. This way everybody watches it happen.

Up to eight players, each on their own phone, watching the same race at the same moment.

Settle things like:

Who pays? Eight people, one bill, and nobody reaching for it.
Who goes first? Settles the board game before the board game starts.
Who does the dishes? A result no roommate can argue with afterwards.

Race 2 · the main event

Knockout tournaments

Brackets are their own kind of fun. People fill them in for tournaments they have no stake in, and watch them to the end. Draw one for up to eight players and the matches run in parallel, so you race yours while everyone else races theirs and the bracket fills in live as the results land.

Everyone races One race in a big group means six people watching two. A bracket puts the whole room on the track in round one.
It lasts longer A single race settles things in thirteen seconds. A bracket keeps the room going for three rounds.
The stakes climb Quarterfinal, semifinal, final. By the last one there are two players left and everybody else has an opinion.

The host starts each round, so there is time to go over the last one first.

Quarterfinal
Dumpster Dan
Trash Panda
Bin Bandit
Midnight Snack
Sticky Fingers
Compost Carl
Graveyard Shift
Alley Appetizer
Semifinal
Dumpster Dan
Bin Bandit
Graveyard Shift
Sticky Fingers
Final
Dumpster Dan
Graveyard Shift
Champion
Dumpster Dan WINNER

Byes fall out of the draw itself. Nobody hands them out.

Race 3 · the going

What you need

Everyone together
One room. The phones talk to each other directly.
Wi-Fi switched on
But not necessarily connected to anything. No network needed, and no internet access is needed either.
Two to eight players
Two is a head-to-head. Eight is a full bracket.
Nothing else
No accounts, no sign-ups, no ads, no data leaving your phone.