A circle, one sack, and someone says your name.

What happens

You need four people and something soft to throw. One person is the caller, and the caller does not receive while calling.

1. The caller says a name out loud.
2. Whoever is holding the sack sends it to that person.
3. If they receive it, that is one completed pass. Nobody scores alone.

That is the whole game. Everything after this is a way of playing it better — the rest of the rules are two minutes of reading.

If you want a phone in the circle

You do not need one. Everything above is playable with a sack and five minutes, and that is how it will be played at recess, where nobody has a phone.

What the app adds is fairness you would have to be superhuman to manage:

• It chooses receivers so that everyone touches equally, in an order nobody can predict.
• It rotates the caller too, so the quiet player is never the one who ends up never calling.
• Each person records their own name once, and it plays back to whoever is calling — so the circle learns to say it the way its owner does.

Free, no account, works with no signal. Names, voices and photos stay on the phone that recorded them. What the app does, in full.

sey belongs to everyone

The rules are released CC0. Play it, teach it, run tournaments, print it in a textbook, build your own app for it. No permission is needed and none can be withheld.

Where the name comes from, and what is free and what is not.