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Outlier

Spot the odd one. Pick it first.

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Play Outlier
  • Players: 1–8 players; bots fill the empty seats
  • Full game: about 4 min
  • Quick version: about 1½ min
  • Easy to pick up

A crowd of shapes, all alike but one: find the odd one before anyone else. It is never the colour: the odd one is another shape, turned another way, or a bit bigger. Other rounds ask which shape moved, or how many of one kind you can count. The first to find it gets the most points.

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How to start

  1. Open Gonfetti on your phone and start a room. Bots fill the empty seats, so you can play right away. Nothing to install.
  2. Friends join with the room's link or code, each on their own phone, side by side or far away.
  3. Or put Gonfetti on a TV, laptop or tablet everyone can see: everyone scans the QR code, and their phone becomes their controller. Gamepads and keyboards work too.

How to play Outlier

Find the one shape that is not like the others, before anyone else.

How you win: the first to find it gets 5 points, the second 3, the third 2 and anyone else 1. Most points after the last round wins: 10 rounds in the Quick game, 20 in the full game, harder and harder, where the crowds start to drift.

  1. Find the odd one

    You steer the ring in your colour. Move it onto the shape that is different and pick it. Once someone finds it, the others have 3 more seconds at most (less if the round's time runs out first).

  2. Never by colour

    The odd one is another shape, turned another way, a star with a point too few or too many, or a bit bigger or smaller. A wrong pick freezes you for a moment.

  3. Which one moved?

    Look at the crowd. It hides for a moment and one shape moves to an empty spot. Pick the one that moved.

  4. Count them

    Count one kind of shape, then pick the right number in the row under the crowd.

Your controls

  • Move your ringthe stick, WASD, the arrow keys, the mouse or drag a finger on the board
  • Pick it takes the shape nearest your ringA, Space, Enter, a click or a tap on the shape, or the Pick button
  • Zoom a magnifier round your ring and finer aim; press again to stopB, Left Shift, Right Shift, the right button or the Zoom button

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