Read Herring

Hot potato with a reading test.

A red herring with a lit fuse lands on your phone, with a trick question. Answer it right and throw the herring to someone else. Answer wrong and the fuse jumps ahead. Nobody knows when it blows.

Play solo →Open the table (TV)Phones only

Solo: Fuse Run on this phone, beat your best score. Table: 2–10 players, each on their own phone, bots fill seats.

Open tables

Looking…

Read carefully

Tap the RED fruit

APPLE

APRICOT

LIME

BANANA

An apple is red, whatever ink it's printed in.

Tap the fruit in RED

APPLE

APRICOT

LIME

BANANA

Now it's about the ink: the word printed in red.

How it plays

Answer right, throw it on. Pick anyone still in, or play "round the circle".
Answer wrong and the fuse jumps ahead, and you get another question. Still holding.
Blows up in your hands? You lose a life. Lose them all and you're out. Last one standing wins.
It gets trickier every two rounds: NOT questions, then words vs pictures, then key words printed in the wrong colour.
The fuse is secret, but your phone buzzes faster as it gets hot. Every round's fuse is a little shorter.