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A PUNCHLINE WITH A LITTLE PULL

Tightrope

For communities that take friendly rivalry and terrible jokes equally seriously.

Two anonymous jokes. Your audience decides which way the rope moves. Play two teams, host versus chat, or with comebacks.

Team Writers · Audience Votes

First to twoEst. 10–15 minIn the FunFab Extension

A LITTLE TASTE · INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE

See the moment. Be the audience.

A short illustration of Tightrope. No room, sign-in, or live votes.

ON THE SHARED STAGEEXAMPLE

Tightrope

The least impressive feature on a luxury spaceship.

THE SETUP

The host sets the scene. Your audience takes it from here.

YOUR AUDIENCE CONTROLLER

Which sample joke deserves your vote?

This illustrates a blind ballot with two sample jokes from the teams format. In a live round, the reveal shows the result and side credit after voting closes. It takes repeated pulls to win a rope round. No team, tally, or rope movement is simulated here.

Read the sample reveals

You picked the cupholder. In the game, a winning ballot earns its joke’s side one rope pull. Your sample vote alone does not decide a winner.

You picked the observation deck. In the game, a winning ballot earns its joke’s side one rope pull. Your sample vote alone does not decide a winner.

HOW A SHOW RUNS

Here’s how the room gets into it.

Balanced teams rotate one writer each. Blind votes earn one rope pull. Positive ties do not move the rope. First team to win two rounds takes the match.

THE HOST

Set up the moment.

Pick a format, read the prompt and both anonymous jokes, then open the vote. The rope reveal shows which side earned a pull. Keep the rivalry playful.

THE AUDIENCE

Make it yours.

Join a side and volunteer for a writing turn, or vote on the anonymous jokes. Writers cannot vote for their own entry. Vote for the joke you like before its side is revealed.

BEFORE YOU START

A little preparation.

Three ways to play: two chat teams; the streamer versus chat, where you write against the room; or rebuttal, where the writer who lost the vote gets one twenty-second comeback and the room votes on whether it landed. One winning ballot earns one rope pull regardless of margin; a tie does not move it. The first side to win two rope rounds takes the match — at one round each, the next round decides it.

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FAIR PLAY

Same rules every show.

YOUR PEOPLE. THIS GAME.

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