In the game variously known as Chinese whispers, Telephone, Broken Telephone, Whisper Down the Lane, Gossip, Arab Phone (from the French Le téléphone arabe), and Stille Post (Silent Post), the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player. Each player successively whispers what that player believes he or she heard to the next. The last player announces the statement to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first. The game is often played by children as a party game or in the playground. Now for the fun part. We created a digital version of this game. You now have the ability to play Telephone on your iPod Touch and iPhone. This application has push notifications as well as email invite features. Please let us know what you think. We are launching this app next week and look forward to the hours of fun and messages passed around the world. If you would like an advance copy or to be notified of launch please email us at [email protected] We want to set a Guinness World Record for longest distance traveled with a Telephone Game
Sounds like a funny idea. But - any game with too many people in it is sure to get goobered up quickly, and in fact just playing this game with random people I bet the phrase is going to be completely different most of the time. Be sure to include a 0-100% accuracy marking option for the original speaker, this would make for an interesting statistic.
We totally get it drelbs. That is why we have included a private feature where people can create their own games and only invite their friends. Also, we look forward to the thousand turn game where everything gets garbled.
we are going to monitor the servers to make sure we don't have any offensive turns etc... we are also hoping that the private game feature will be utilized amongst friends so we don't have strangers ruining the game for people. as with any user driven game, we will ned to learn from our base and adjust accordingly.
Beta Version is complete We are shipping the game on Tuesday of this week. Please let us know if you would like to be signed up as an inaugural user. You will get a free copy the day of release. email us at [email protected]
Wow - I love the UI! And I think it'll be interesting seeing what all the phrases will sound like after 10 - 20 turns.
Thank You we spent a lot of time customizing this UI. we hope to immerse the gamer in a really innovative iPhone experience
Advanced Copies Those of you who have given us your UDID's ... we will be sending you a copy soon. For those of you who still want an advance copy, please send us your UDID [email protected]
Thank You all The feedback from our advanced users has been very positive. We are very much looking forward to going live.
