Red flag, green flag — and the beige ones in between

Players
Exactly 2
Time
About 6 minutes
Cost
Free
Account
Not needed

Thirty small, extremely human behaviours. Replies to every message in nine seconds. Has a colour-coded spreadsheet for a four-day holiday. Names their car. You each call it red, beige or green in secret, and then it flips over.

The deck is deliberately weighted towards things reasonable people split on. Nothing here is actually alarming — the fun is entirely in discovering that the other person thinks something you consider obviously fine is a serious problem.

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How to play

  1. 01

    Both call it in secret

    Neither verdict appears until you've both committed, so nobody can just agree with whoever went first.

  2. 02

    Beige is doing real work

    Beige means harmless but deeply strange. It's where most of the laughing happens, and where most of the arguments start.

  3. 03

    Argue about the splits

    At the end you get every scenario you disagreed on, side by side. That list is the actual point of the game.

Good for

  • A first date that's gone quiet
  • Anyone who likes being told they're wrong
  • Warming up before something longer

Questions

Is it mean?

No. The scenarios are about small habits, not people you know, and nothing in the deck is genuinely alarming.

How long is it?

Twelve scenarios per round, drawn from a deck of thirty, so about six minutes and different each time.

Play Red Flag, Green Flag now

Make a room, send the code to one other person. It takes about ten seconds and there’s nothing to sign up for.

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