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Friyay, a Small Game Night App for Work

Friyay, a Small Game Night App for Work

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We have a Fun Friday thing at work. Once in a while, everyone drops what they are doing, gathers around one screen, and plays some silly games for an hour.

This time I wanted something a little nicer than a slide deck to put on the screen, so I made a small web app for it. It is called Friyay.

It is not a big project. It is a few pages with some questions in them. But it was fun to make, so I wanted to put it somewhere.

The Friyay home page with a pixel-font FRIYAY title and a Start Playing button
The home page. Mostly there to set the mood before the first round.

The rounds

There are four rounds right now, laid out as a little stack of cards you pick from.

  • Trivia. Ten multiple choice questions. Things like what the first item ever sold on eBay was, or what colour a polar bear's skin is.
  • Rebus. Ten picture puzzles where the words are arranged to hint at a phrase. You just flip through them and people shout answers.
  • Logo Quiz. Show a logo, guess the brand.
  • True or False. Fifteen statements, some true, some popular myths.
Four round cards stacked and slightly tilted, with the True or False card on top
Picking a round. Hover a card to peek, click to play.

For trivia, nobody needs to use their phone. Whoever is hosting clicks an option for each person's guess, and the bars fill up so the room can see how split everyone is. Then you press reveal.

A trivia question about Walmart's top-selling product with vote percentages on each option
Each click is one guess. The answer stays hidden until you hit reveal.

True or False, standing up

This round is played standing up. Everyone stands. Hands on your head means true, hands on your hips means false. If you guess wrong, you sit down. Last person standing wins.

It is a very simple idea, but it gets people moving and paying attention, which is more than most work meetings manage.

A True or False card that reads 'Goldfish have a 3-second memory', with head equals true and hips equals false labels
Goldfish actually remember things for months. The reveal shows a short explanation.

How it works

It is a plain Next.js app. The only part I like a little is how rounds are added. Each round is just a folder:

rounds/
  1-trivia/questions.json
  2-rebus/1.jpg, 2.jpg, ...
  3-logo-quiz/1.png, 2.png, ...
  4-true-or-false/statements.json

The app looks at what is inside each folder and decides what kind of round it is. A folder of images becomes a picture round. A questions.json becomes a quiz. A statements.json becomes True or False. The number at the front sets the order and the rest becomes the title.

So the next time I run this, I just add a new folder and the round shows up. No database, no admin page.

The look is a bit loud on purpose: a pixel font for headings, hand-written notes, chunky shadows, and tilted sticker labels. I wanted it to feel like a party on a projector, not a form.

That is it

That is all there is to it. A small thing I made to make a Friday a bit more fun. If you want to run something similar at your workplace, the code is on GitHub and you can swap in your own rounds.

Note

Got a good trivia question or a True or False statement that fools everyone? Send it my way and it might end up in the next round.

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Sarath Tharayil
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