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House Rules

A free party game night in San Diego. Three games, a wheel picks them, and the teams keep moving so you actually meet people. No cover, no signup, no reason not to. Come alone. I'll handle the rest.

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First night coming soon ·Come alone or bring two ·Leave with a group chat ·No cover, ever ·21+ ·Three games ·The wheel decides the teams ·

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One email when the first night is locked in, then about one a week before each night. Unsubscribe any time. I don't sell or share your info, and I never hand the list to a venue.

What actually happens

You walk in alone. You leave with a group chat.

You scan a code at the door and put your name in. Twenty seconds, and it is the only thing you have to do all night. You check in with whoever you walked in with, up to three of you. Game one runs the whole first hour while people arrive. After that a wheel decides how the teams work, and your phone tells you where to sit. Nobody gets picked last, because nobody is picking.

You start next to whoever you came with. You finish next to people you'd never have talked to. That's the whole design.

Points stick to you, not to your team. However the teams move, whatever you score stays yours, and you can watch it on your phone all night.

  1. Doors

    Scan the code, put your name in, grab a name tag and a drink. Check in with whoever you walked in with, up to three of you. The first game is already running, so being late costs you nothing.

  2. Game one

    The Warm-Up. You sit with your people and whoever else lands at your table. It runs the whole first hour while people arrive.

  3. The format

    The wheel already picked how teams work tonight. The Pod, The Drift, or The Anchor. Your phone tells you where to sit. Three minutes.

  4. Game two

    Trust Issues. Somebody at your table is lying to you.

  5. The reshuffle

    Whatever the format says, the table changes. Some of you move, some of you stay.

  6. Game three

    Full Send. Everybody standing, everybody loud.

  7. Last call

    Whoever has the most points wins. A tie gets settled with one short tie-breaker game, on the mic. Then the board resets and next week starts at zero.

Runs about two hours. Exact times posted once the venue is set.

The format

Three ways the teams can work. A wheel picks one.

Game one you sit with your people. For games two and three the wheel picks one of these, the same night it picks the games. You find out the day before, on Instagram, along with everything else.

  • THE POD

    Your group stays together.

    Your group is one pod. A team is your pod plus two other pods, and which pods you get re-draws between games.

    If you came with two friends

    The three of you never split up. The five or six other faces at your table change between game two and game three.

  • THE DRIFT

    Together, then scattered.

    Game two you keep your group. Game three the whole room scatters and nobody keeps anybody.

    If you came with two friends

    Game two the three of you are still together. Game three you are each somewhere else in the room.

  • THE ANCHOR

    Keep one person.

    You pick one person to keep. Everybody else at your table rotates every game, so this one puts you in front of the most people.

    If you came with two friends

    You keep one of them. The rest of the table is new faces for game two and new faces again for game three.

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The name tag

Everybody writes two things.

Your name, and the answer to that week's question. It changes every week. It is the cheapest conversation starter ever invented and it works every single time.

This week's question is a surprise. Yes, people do argue about the animal one.

Hello my name is

your least favorite animal

House Rule #1

You start with your people. The wheel decides the rest.

House Rule #2

Everybody plays.

House Rule #3

If you came alone, you're not staying alone.

There are more than three →

The rest of the house rules
  1. No phones during the accusation round
  2. The reshuffle is not optional
  3. Losing is funnier than winning
  4. You have to learn one person's name before you leave
  5. Nobody sits out because they got eliminated
  6. First-timers get a shoutout, whether they want it or not
  7. Cheating is allowed if it's entertaining
  8. The person who came alone picks the tiebreaker
  9. We reset every week, so nothing carries over
  10. You are allowed to be bad at this
  11. The bar is why this is free
  12. If you're standing by yourself, that's my fault, come find me
The Library

18 games. Three every week. Never the same two weeks running.

Three categories, one game from each, every single night. You find out which three the day before, on Instagram.

See all 18 games →

Why this exists

Technology keeps getting better at everything except putting people in the same room. I think we're short on that right now, and I don't think that fixes itself.

There's no shortage of things to do in San Diego. There is a shortage of things you can walk into by yourself, on a weeknight, without a plan, and come out of knowing people. Something that happens every week, that's different every week, and that's actually built for the person who showed up alone.

So I'm building one. Come alone. That's the ideal way to do this.

Chase, founder and the guy holding the mic

Questions people actually ask
Is it really free?

Yes. No cover, no ticket, no signup. The bar pays for it, which is House Rule #14. You buy your own drinks, or you don't, and nobody checks.

Do I need a team?

No. Come with up to two other people and you check in as one group. Come alone and you get put with people in about a minute, and a wheel decides how the teams work from there.

Can I come alone?

That's the ideal way to do this. It's the entire reason the format exists. If you walk in alone you get put on a team within about a minute.

Do I have to sign up?

Never. Walk in. The email form on this page is only so I can tell you when and where the next one is.

Is this trivia?

No. There are 18 games in rotation and they're different every week. One of them has a question round in it. The other seventeen don't.

Am I going to get put on the spot?

Not alone. Everything is on a team, and House Rule #13 is that you're allowed to be bad at this. The people who are worst at these games have the best nights.

What if I show up late?

Doesn't matter. The first game runs the whole first hour and is built for people arriving. You get a card, a name tag, and a team.

Is there an age limit?

21+. It's in a bar.

Can I bring seven friends?

Yes. Seven of you check in as three groups, and depending on what the wheel picked that week you either stay together all night or end up scattered across the room. Bring them anyway.

Come alone. Leave with a group chat.

One email when the first night is locked in, then about one a week before each night. Unsubscribe any time. I don't sell or share your info, and I never hand the list to a venue.

Or just show up. That's always allowed.