Countdown · the new year's eve pack · Debate & laughs
The Resolution Committee
A rotating judge, a prompt, and everyone's answers with no names on them. Win the judge, not the room.
- ~15 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- In the Countdown pack
- Ages 10+
The Resolution Committee is one of the ten games in Countdown, a pack bought once and kept by your group.
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What it feels like
Every year, the resolutions are made in a hurry and forgotten by February. Tonight, a committee reviews them properly. And the committee is one of you. Here's how it works. In a private turn, answer a few prompts. You'll skip the one you're judging. Each round has a judge, and the answers to their prompt come up with no names. The judge reads them all aloud, then picks a favourite, for any reason at all. Then the names come out. Each time the judge picks your answer, you score two points. So forget pleasing the room. Win the judge.
How to play
- Take a private turn each: answer a few prompts. You'll skip the one you're judging.
- Each round has a judge. The answers to their prompt come up with no names.
- The judge reads them all aloud, then picks a favourite — any reason counts.
- Then the names come out.
Scoring: 2 points each time the judge picks your answer.
You'll get prompts like
- “A resolution nobody will keep past January”
- “The best excuse for breaking a resolution”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
