A live social elimination game
Talk your way to the last seat
Your seat at the long table is complimentary. Form alliances among strangers, survive the secret vote, and decide each round whether to leave with your share of a real purse or keep your seat for a richer one. Persuasion decides who keeps it.
Do you have what it takes to roll the dice?
Table conversation
One table from a larger room, simulated with play chips. In a real game, eliminations are drawn from every table at once. Rules and payouts shown are for illustration.
I · The evening
Four courses.
One survivor.
Every round follows the same ritual, brisk at first and slower as the stakes rise. The cuts grow from 10% of the room to 15, 20 and 25%, until nine remain. Then Lady Fortuna returns the gallery guest with the most favor, and the true final ten leave one at a time.
- I
Take your seat
Accept your invitation and sit among strangers, many tables at once. Before anyone speaks, Lady Fortuna claims the first guest of the room, who gets a head start in the gallery.
- II
Converse
The table opens. Charm, plead, bluff, and spend your two private whispers to seal an alliance.
- III
The vote
Charles reads the sealed votes. The top third of every table by votes is protected. The cut is drawn from the whole room: those who sit out have left their fate to Lady Fortuna and go first, then those who voted but drew none, then the fewest votes.
- IV
Stay or depart
Fifteen seconds to choose. Leave with your share, or keep your seat. At the end, the final two choose Split or All.
Two ways to survive the draw: win the room, or win Fortuna's favor.
II · Your hosts
Charles keeps the table.
Fortuna keeps the luck.
Charles
He opens every round, reads each vote aloud, announces who stays and who goes, and shows every payout to the cent. He keeps the house rules and never takes sides.
“Good evening. The table is now open for conversation.”
Lady Fortuna
Every round she spares up to three guests, chosen at random from those who received no votes. And she watches the gallery: the guest who earns the most favor there returns to complete the final table. Sweet talk her in the chat if you like. She cannot be bribed.
“Lady Fortuna has made her choice.”
III · The Grand Ball
Complimentary seats.
A real purse.
Every seat is free. Every Saturday, our sponsors provide a purse in real money. Seats are limited and given by invitation.
- Entry
- Complimentary. No purchase necessary, ever.
- Seats
- Limited each week, granted from the waitlist in order and by guest invitation.
- Invitations
- Each guest receives two to give. Invitations can never be bought or sold.
- Leaving early
- Leave after any round with 85% of your share of the purse. 15% stays on the table for those who remain.
Purse amounts are announced before each Grand Ball. Official rules will be published before the first event. 18+. Void where prohibited.
IV · The spectacle
Built to be
watched.
Every evening writes its own story: the alliance that held, the betrayal no one saw coming, the reveal that came down to a single vote.
- The gallery
- Being cut is not the end. In the gallery, every sharp remark, thumbs up and correct prediction earns Lady Fortuna's favor, and the guest with the most favor returns to complete the final table. Give thumbs up to the sharpest remarks and call who survives the next reveal. Every comment and every thumbs up you earn adds Prestige, and watching to the very end earns 100.
- The Grand Ball
- Every Saturday, a final table worth watching even without a seat.
V · Prestige
Rise through
the peerage.
Every evening earns Prestige, win or lose. It builds your title, places your house name on the season leaderboard, and decides who is invited to the Masquerade Ball.
- Commoner0
- Esquire100
- Baronet300
- Baron600
- Viscount1,000
- Earl1,600
- Marquess2,500
- Duke4,000
- Survive a round
- 10 Prestige, plus 2 for every vote you receive.
- Leave with your share
- 25 Prestige for knowing when to go.
- The final table
- 100 for reaching it, 200 for the final two.
- Last one standing
- 500 Prestige. A split pays 250 each.
- From the gallery
- 15 for each correct prediction, more for a streak, and 100 for watching to the very end.
- Gallery talk
- 1 for each comment, up to 100 a night, and 1 for every thumbs up the gallery gives you.
- First blood
- Taken by Fortuna before the first word? 50 Prestige, with her apologies.
- Leaderboard
- The weekly top 50 are guaranteed a seat at the next Grand Ball.
- New titles
- Every new title brings one extra invitation to give.
Your house name is yours for good and appears only on the leaderboard and in your salon. At the table you are always given a new name. Prestige has no cash value and cannot be bought, sold or traded.
VI · Once a month
The Masquerade Ball.
The most extravagant evening of the season, held once a month and only once: the largest purse, the strangest twists, and a guest list drawn only from Marquesses and Dukes. Masks required.
By title only
No waitlist and no invitations to give. Only guests who reach Marquess or Duke receive a card.
Alliances allowed
For one night, guests may plot together. Secret code words are welcome. Real names and personal details are never allowed.
Unmasked at midnight
When the evening ends, the final table removes its masks and every finalist's house name is revealed to the room.
VII · Sponsor a table
Put your name
at the table.
Founding sponsors fund the purse and take their place in the room, in front of every guest at every table.
- I
Table sponsor
Your name on a table's place card, and a word from Charles to every guest seated there.
- II
Round sponsor
Charles names you as the votes are read: "Tonight's reveal is brought to you by..."
- III
Presenting sponsor
The Saturday Grand Ball, presented by you. On the invitation and the official rules.
VIII · House rules
Strangers only.
No shortcuts.
Anonymous
A new table name every evening. Your house name stays hidden until the final table is unmasked at the end. Revealing a real name, number or handle is grounds for removal.
Random seating
Guests are spread across many tables, so friends almost never dine together. Private correspondence between guests is closed while you play and reopens when the evening ends.
Free, always
No purchase, no buy-in, no fees. Seats and invitations can never be bought, sold or traded.
Founding Guests
Take a seat before the doors open
Before the first Grand Ball, we are hosting a handful of private test evenings. Join one, play a few rounds, and tell us what you think. Every guest who takes part is marked a Founding Guest for good and holds a reserved seat at the first Grand Ball, where a real $1,000 purse is on the table.
- IA private invitation to our test evenings
- IIThe Founding Guest mark beside your house name, forever
- IIIA reserved seat at the first Grand Ball
Sponsors, use the same form and we will be in touch.