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Everything we’ve written about playing Type & Stars, breaking the ice and why people keep asking each other what they’re like.
- How to play: Rules for Type & Stars, a free browser party game: pass one phone around, 8 questions each, then every pair’s score is revealed. Friends elsewhere can join by link.
- Friend group chemistry test: A chemistry test for your whole friend group: 8 questions each on one phone, then every pair gets a score. Nobody needs to know their type first.
- Friendship test: A friendship compatibility test: answer 12 questions, send your friend a link, and they see your match score the moment they finish. No app, no sign-up.
- Christmas party icebreaker: A Christmas party icebreaker that needs one phone and nothing else: 8 questions each, then every pair gets a score. How to run it for 6, 8 or 12 people.
- Icebreakers for introverts: Six low-pressure icebreakers for parties and small groups, where nobody has to perform for the room. Includes a one-phone game where everyone answers privately.
- Introvert or extrovert test: A quick introvert or extrovert test: 12 questions in about 90 seconds, with a percentage instead of a label. Then send a friend the link and compare. No sign-up.
- Get to know you game: A get to know you game with 12 either-or questions. Ask them out loud with no app at all, or let one phone score every pair in the room.
- A short history of “What’s your sign?”: How 1930s newspaper columns became a famous 1970s bar line, and why young people in China now ask “are you an i or an e?” instead. Dates and sources included.
* For entertainment and ice-breaking only. Not a psychological assessment and not a prediction of any kind.