1Host & project. One person hosts the room and puts their screen on the projector — they facilitate, the room plays.
2Join with a code. Everyone opens the join link on their own computer or phone and types a name. No accounts, nothing installed.
3Play it wrong, then see it. Round one rewards the obvious move. The board shows how that went — then one rule changes and the same room plays again.
4Practise it alone first. Every game on the Flow page is this exact room, played single-player. Same floor, same levers, same reveal — so a run through on your own is a rehearsal for hosting.
See the flow
The Release Game
Round one’s instinct: “Start more. A gate standing idle helps nobody.”
Everyone hands out the blanks on the same afternoon; the board shows that cards finished barely moved, and everything else did.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
Four a Day Is Not Four Days
Round one’s instinct: “Say yes because the shop does four a day, without looking at the board”
Everybody works the same fortnight at their own counter. Cakes baked comes out level across the room; whether they were ready on the day promised does not.
best with 3–15 Host a session →
The Dice Relay
Round one’s instinct: “A fair line of averages will make the average”
Everybody runs their own line on the identical dice, so nobody had a lucky day. The spread down the board is entirely what people did with their moves.
best with 3–15 Host a session →
The Busy Trap
Round one’s instinct: “Keep every machine nearly full”
Everyone works a barrier on the same afternoon; the board shows cars parked came out level and the driving round did not.
best with 4–15 Host a session →
The Batch Splitter
Round one’s instinct: “Move it all at once. Extra trips are extra work.”
No luck in this one at all — same machines, same speeds, same towels. The whole spread down the board is the batch sizes people chose.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
Your Area Over Time
Round one’s instinct: “Keep starting everything, because starting less looks like going slower”
Everybody runs the identical year, so the spread is entirely WHEN people dug. The ones who never dug and the ones who panicked late land almost on top of each other.
best with 3–15 Host a session →
Run the line
Balance the Line
Round one’s instinct: “Help whoever has the biggest pile”
Everybody gets the same day, the same helper and the same questions. The board shows what changed when people sent them to different people.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
The Hidden Machine
Round one’s instinct: “The machine is full. Ask for another one.”
Everyone gets the same machine missing its numbers and the same four fixes to choose from; the overview shows whose choices found the hidden hours.
best with 3–15 Host a session →
The Pit Stop
Round one’s instinct: “Keep the crew moving and the change will be quick”
Everyone runs the same changeover against the same clock, twice, and the room puts the two rounds side by side.
best with 3–15 Host a session →
The Job Shop
Round one’s instinct: “Say yes to every job”
Everyone promises dates to the same five customers from the same shop; the overview shows whose promises the busy machine was ever going to keep.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
Pull, don’t push
Push vs Pull
Round one’s instinct: “Build to the guess. It is the plan.”
Everyone supplies the same wobbling demand their own way; stock and empty shelves keep the score the guess never sees.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
The Beer Game
Round one’s instinct: “Order what you are short, plus a bit to be safe”
Four roles per chain, real people ordering from each other with real delays. One tiny change and the room makes its own mess.
best with 4, 8 or 12 Host a session →
Network Priority
Round one’s instinct: “Hit your own factory numbers”
One shed each, and a bike only counts with all four parts. Nobody can see what the others are building — so you have to say it out loud.
best with 3–10 Host a session →
Quality & the workplace
The Quality Cascade
Round one’s instinct: “The wrong ones came back, so put the wrong ones right. That is what the check table is for.”
Everyone places the same checks along the same line; faults that got out and work done twice keep the score.
best with 3–12 Host a session →
The Red Bead Experiment
Round one’s instinct: “Have a word with anybody having a bad day”
Everyone draws from the same rigged bead box while the room votes on who did best. Then the chart tells on the whole exercise.
best with 4–20 Host a session →
The 5S Hunt
Round one’s instinct: “Find it faster. Just concentrate.”
The whole room hunts the same messy bench at once; the times collapse when the layout changes, not when the people try harder.
best with 3–20 Host a session →