SHIFT: Line It Up

SHIFT is a party game for people who are already in the same room. Everyone sits at the same table, each with their own iPhone. One person creates a room, the others join with a four-letter code, and the game runs on the phones you already brought. No account to create, no server, no internet connection. HOW A ROUND WORKS A theme comes up — "How scary is this?", scaled from "totally fine" to "terrifying". You get a secret number from 1 to 100 that nobody else can see. You don't say the number. You write an example at that intensity: a 9 might be "finding a hair in your food", an 88 might be "public speaking with no slides". Then the table does the hard part. Everyone's answers go up on screen, and the group has to arrange them from lowest to highest — out loud, arguing, second-guessing each other. Nobody shows a number. When you're ready, the reveal goes one card at a time, in the order…