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How to play
Musical Statues

Dance while it runs. Freeze the instant it stops.

Players
3–16 players
You need
One phone
Origin
Europe
Shelf
On your feet

The rules

4 steps.

  1. Put the phone somewhere everyone can hear it and start the round.
  2. Move about — dance, march, whatever the room allows.
  3. The moment it shouts STOP, freeze exactly where you are.
  4. The room agrees who moved, and taps their name. Last one still in wins.

The bit everyone gets wrong

Agree what counts as moving before you start. Blinking and breathing are allowed; wobbling is the argument.

What the phone does

The phone picks a moment nobody can predict and shouts. It cannot see who moved — you decide that.

It is a dealer and a scorekeeper, never a judge. It cannot hear the room and it does not decide who was right.

Same engine underneath

If you like this

And 58 more

One phone.
The whole night.

Musical Statues is one game in a library of 59. Finish it and PartyStack names the next one — a different kind each time, so nobody has to go back to a menu.