Bahá'í games for a room full of people
Five games from the Writings, from Bahá'í history and from the Ruhi books. One phone opens the room; everyone else scans a code and plays on their own phone — in English or Arabic, with no internet at all.
How it works
Your guests use the browser already on their phone. Nothing to download, no account, no sign-in.
Pick a game, a language and who's playing. A code appears.
A camera on the code, a name, and they're in. Take a seat yourself and play too.
Everyone answers on their own screen. Phone on the table, or the room's screen on a television.
The games
Every game speaks English and Arabic — each with its own pool of content, not a translation of the other.
A question goes up and everyone answers on their own phone.
One person gets a virtue and acts it out. Everyone else types what they think it is.
Everyone holds a different clue. Nobody has enough on their own.
A passage arrives with its words scattered. Put it back in order.
Four things a community might really talk about. The room chooses one, together.
For a bigger room
Open the room's screen in any browser — a laptop on a projector, a television — and everyone sees the question, the answer and how the room answered, at a size you can read from the back.
What's inside
From the Bahá'í Writings, from Bahá'í history, and from the Ruhi Institute's books.
Try it now
Pick a game on the phone and play a short round: five quiz questions, two charades, a Clue Detectives puzzle, two passages and a consultation. It is the real app — in a room, everyone would be on their own phone.
The Bahá'í Faith
You don't need to know anything about the Bahá'í Faith to play. These games are made for a room where some people know a great deal and some know nothing at all — which is most rooms.
bahai.org is the Bahá'í community's own international website, and the right place to start.
Circle of Joy is made by Bahá'ís for their own communities. It is not published by, endorsed by or affiliated with any Bahá'í institution, and nothing in it should be taken as authoritative on the Faith. It points at its sources so that you can read them yourself.
Get it
Only the person hosting installs anything. Everybody else needs a camera and a browser.
For Android phones and tablets. In testing now; the button lands here when it is published.
For iPhone and iPad. In review preparation now; the button lands here when it is published.
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