Nine Lights Stall

Press Open the Stall on the title screen, leave the four choices on Today's Crowd, Everyday, Standard and Neon Street, and press it again. Your very first night walks you through it: a finger points at the icon to switch off, then at a second one, then shows you that you still have time for a third after your guest raises a hand. Nothing is installed and nothing loads between that and playing.

It is free to play in your browser with nothing to download, no account and no sign-in. There is no shop, no currency and no advertisement before you play. Your best scores, stars and the words you have met are kept in the browser on the device you played on, which is the only place any of it is stored.

Yes — the game is built for a phone held upright, and the whole sign sits in the lower half of the screen where your thumb already is. Turning the phone sideways moves the meters to the left and the sign to the right with the same rules and the same timings. On a computer you get that same phone layout, centred on the page with dark edges either side, and the mouse works exactly like a finger.

There isn't one, and that is the whole trick of the game. Your guest speaks up on their own the moment the blue bar passes the pink one, so the icon you switch off last is your submit. That is also why the order you switch icons off matters more than anything else: the wrong icon at the wrong moment sends a guess you were not ready to make.

No. Switching off is permanent for that guest, and there is no undo button anywhere in the game. The one way back is to switch off a strong toward-your-card icon so the blue bar drops below pink again: your guest lowers their hand, no verdict is given, and you carry on with the icons you have left. It costs power and time but it saves a reputation bulb.

Blue dots are how much that icon points at the card in your hand, and pink dots are how much it points at something else entirely. An icon with three pink dots and no blue ones is pure noise, so switching it off drops the pink bar by three and costs you nothing in blue. Icons that fit lots of different words are noisy by nature, which is why the obvious-looking ones are your strongest tool.

Because that part is the guest, not the sign. The striped band above the pink bar is the most they could still be wrong by, and it narrows as they think the picture over until it settles on the real amount. You are always betting on how much of that band is left, and pushing the blue bar above the top of the band is the only thing that makes a guess certain.

Speed is probably not your problem; margin is. The usual mistake is spending both three-pink-dot icons early because they look useless, which leaves you crossing the line on a one-point icon with nothing big in reserve. Your guest raises a hand right then, you have nothing left to finish with, and they blurt out the wrong thing. Walk the bars up with the small icons and keep one big one for after the hand goes up.

Three stars needs 11,000 points in one night, against 5,000 for two and 1,400 for one. Getting there means being fast rather than safe: the payout shrinks every second you spend, a run of guests adds ten percent each up to double at eleven in a row, and eight in a row with full reputation lights the whole sign for another thirty percent. The biggest single item is the double you get for letting a hand go up while you are still in the striped band and then landing blue exactly on the hollow star.

Lit icons stop responding, the battery bar flashes red, and a tapped icon rocks sideways instead of going out, so you always know the tap registered. You can still wave guests away, but if three guests in a row pass without you being able to switch anything off, the night ends there. A night gives you 90 units of power on Standard, one per switch, shared across all 24 guests.

Your reputation is safe, which is the point of the button, but your streak resets to one and the power you already spent on that guest is not refunded. On a long run that is expensive, because the streak multiplier is worth up to double. Waving off is the right move in two places: when a guest is beyond what your remaining icons can reach, and when a one-star guest is not worth more power.

Yes, in Pass the Phone. One of you sets the sign with no timer and no power limit, a curtain hides the concept card, and then the other person looks only at the icons still lit and picks which of six cards was meant. Both of you score when the pick is right. It runs five rounds and keeps no records, so it never touches your stars or best scores.

Your stars, unlocks, best scores and the words you have met are saved in this browser on this device, written at the end of each night and whenever you change a setting. A night in progress is not saved across a reload. The game needs a connection to load, then plays with no network at all — nothing is uploaded, and there are no accounts, leaderboards or cross-device sync. Private windows, clearing site data or a different device start you from zero, and if the browser refuses to save, Settings says so and the night still counts.

If the error panel appears, press Try again, then check your connection and reload the page. For sound, open Pause then Settings and check the Sound switch, then your device volume and, on an iPhone, the silent switch; vibration and reduce motion are in the same panel. If taps do nothing, look at whether the icon is already dark or the battery bar is empty — dark icons are deliberately dead, and an empty battery makes lit ones rock instead of going out.

No reading is needed and it suits all ages from about six. The card is a picture, the icons are pictures, what your guest says is a picture, and every word on screen is a label you can ignore. There is no violence, nothing frightening, nothing to buy, no chat and no content from other players, and the concepts are everyday things, weather and simple actions. A screen reader names every icon and reads both meters aloud.