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How to play
Three-Six-Nine

Count upward, but clap instead of saying 3, 6 or 9.

Players
3–12 players
You need
One phone
Origin
Korea
Shelf
Quick rounds

The rules

4 steps.

  1. Go around the circle counting up: one, two, clap, four, five, clap…
  2. Any number containing a 3, 6 or 9 is replaced by a clap.
  3. The group decides if the current player got it right — tap correct or wrong.
  4. Get it wrong and you are out.

The bit everyone gets wrong

Numbers with two qualifying digits need two claps. 33, 36, 69 and 99 are where everyone dies.

What the phone does

The phone keeps the count and tells you how many claps the next number needs. It cannot hear a clap, so the room judges.

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.

Three-Six-Nine 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.