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How to play
Red Light, Green Light

Run on green. Freeze on red. Reach the phone.

Players
2–16 players
You need
One phone
Origin
Korea
Shelf
On your feet

The rules

4 steps.

  1. Prop the phone at one end of the room or garden. Everyone lines up at the other.
  2. On GREEN LIGHT, move towards it.
  3. On RED LIGHT, stop dead. Anyone still moving goes back to the start.
  4. First to reach the phone wins the round.

The bit everyone gets wrong

Nobody has to face the wall any more, which means nobody can be accused of peeking. That was always the real argument.

What the phone does

The phone calls the lights at unpredictable intervals and turns the whole screen that colour, so you can see it out of the corner of your eye.

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.

Red Light, Green Light 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.