Sink or Shout

A leaky 1950s submarine, and every phone at the table is one of its control panels: valve wheels, levers, dials, pull chains and guarded torpedo buttons with names like the Pickled Plunger. Your order pops up at the top of your screen, but the control is almost always on somebody else’s panel, so you shout it across the table before the timer runs out while everyone shouts theirs at you.

Missed orders let the water in, and you can see it rise on every screen. Clear enough orders and the sub dives to the next level, deeper and harder: more controls, faster orders, and new trouble every level. Leaks you hold your thumb on, rattling pipes everyone shakes, controls that fall off one panel onto another, two players bumping phones to dock, a kraken that grabs a panel, a captain who has to read out everyone’s orders, and the lights going out.

Features

• 2-8 phones, join by QR or a code, a TV is optional
• 8 kinds of controls that click, snap and ratchet
• Endless levels, each deeper and harder than the last
• Leaks, kraken, docking, captain’s call, lights out
• Crew records for the deepest dive
• Bilge round drinking rule, off by default