Kallan കള്ളൻ

Four to twelve players, one room. Everybody is shown the same secret Malayalam word — except the impostor, who gets a different but related one, and Mr. White, who gets nothing at all and has to bluff from scratch. One clue each, then a vote. Say too much and the impostor learns the word; say too little and the room votes you out.

How a round goes

  1. Everyone joins one room with a code, then the host deals.
  2. Your phone shows your secret word — the same one for most of the room.
  3. One player holds a related but different word, and in bigger games one holds nothing at all.
  4. Turn by turn, everyone gives a one-word clue about their word out loud.
  5. Then a vote, with Skip. A voted-out impostor gets one chance to steal the win by naming the civilians’ word — the server judges it, in either script.
  6. Civilians win when the impostors are gone; the impostors win by lasting.

Free, no sign-up, and nothing to install — it runs in the browser on one office network. Words are everyday Malayalam pairs — chaya and kaapi, kadal and puzha — and a guess is accepted in Malayalam script, in transliteration, or close to either.