Musical Chairs: Automated lets you automate the starting and stopping of music in a Musical Chairs game. In a typical Musical Chairs game, players walk around a circle of outward-facing chairs while music plays for a random but fairly short amount of time. When the music stops, players try to sit in an empty chair. Since there is always one chair less than the amount of players, there will be one player left standing who didn't sit in an empty chair fast enough, and this player is out of the game along with one chair. The game continues with additional rounds of players walking around while the music is playing and removing a person and a chair when it stops. The last round will have 2 people walking around the chairs, and the winner will be the one who sits in the final chair when the music stops.
To play Musical Chairs, you'll need 2 or more players and one less chair than there are players. For instance, if there are 5 players, you'll need 5 people and 4 chairs to play the game.
Position the chairs in a circle facing outward. Players should be evenly spaced around the chairs, ready to walk around them in the same direction in a circle before the game starts.
On the Game Setup screen, select a song from the Song dropdown that you want to be played during the game and fill out the following inputs with numbers:
Once you're done setting up the game physically and in the app, click the Let's Go button.
After clicking the Let's Go button, you'll see the word Wait! along with an icon of a hand being held up and the amount of seconds until the music starts. Ideally, all players should be positioned around the chairs before the Let's Go button is clicked, but the person who clicked the button might need to walk over to the game area after the button is pressed.
When the music starts, you'll see the word Go! and an icon of a person walking as the selected song is playing. As the music plays, players should walk around the chairs. The selected song will play for a random amount of time between the Min Play Time per Round and Max Play Time per Round that was chosen during Game Setup.
After the music stops, Wait! will be displayed in the app and players should try to sit in an empty chair. The one player left standing after all other players are seated in chairs is out of the game. One chair should also be removed from the game and remaining players can get ready to walk around the chairs when the music starts again.
When the music starts back up, you can start the next round of walking around the chairs while the music is playing and removing a player and chair from the game when it stops.
The game continues like this until 2 players are left in the final round: the one who sits in the final chair after the music stops wins!
At any time while a game is being played or when you see Game Over, click the Return to Game Setup button to end the current game and return to Game Setup to choose options for starting a new game.
At any time while a game is being played or when you see Game Over, click the Restart Game button to start a new game right away with the same options as the game that was being played.