Yaka: Party Games with Friends

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All it takes is one link. Six of you around the same table, or everyone at home on a Tuesday night. Someone opens Yaka, sends the link, and the whole group is seated in ten seconds. Nobody installs fourteen different apps, nobody signs up, nobody reads the rules out loud for twenty minutes. FOURTEEN GAMES, ONE APP You bluff with dice, you lie with a straight face, you draw badly, you hunt for the outsider, you miss a one-foot putt. When a game ends, the next one is already on the table: the room votes, and off you go. Nobody goes back to a menu, nobody drifts away. EVERYONE ON THEIR OWN PHONE Your hand stays in your hand. That is what makes bluffing work: the people next to you can read your face, not your cards. And if your friends are two hundred miles away, it works exactly the same. ALONE WORKS TOO Thirteen of the fourteen games can be played solo, against our regulars, each with a character of their own. The careful one stalls, the reckless one dares you. A good way to learn the rules without asking anybody. WHAT YOU EARN Points after every game, levels, goals to chase, and a shop for new boards, cards, backdrops and characters. Everything is earned by playing. Nothing is bought with money. WHAT YOU WON’T FIND No ads. No in-app purchases. No trackers. The download is free, and the whole game is in it. PRINTED, NOT RENDERED Cream paper, bold inks, hard shadows. Yaka looks like a board game you take out of a box, not like one more app. Readable at a glance, even with three of you crowded round the same phone. THE FOURTEEN GAMES Mini Golf, Dudo, Karma, Billet Doux, Yams, Magnat, Flower or Skull, Liar!, The Outsider, Chili!, Sheriff, Draw & Guess, Word Race, Bust! English and French. Two to eight players, depending on the game.