MASH Game

How to play

The letters M, A, S and H are four places you might live: a mansion, an apartment, a shack or a house. Below them sit six lists: a partner, how many kids, a job, a car, a city and a pet, with four options each. A magic number counts around the board and crosses out an option every time it lands, until only one option survives in each list. Those leftovers are your future.

1. Press Play MASH to open the lists.
2. Change any line, or press Random under a list to refill it.
3. Press Draw the spiral and let it grow. Press Stop whenever you like, and the rings set your magic number. Or just tap a number from 3 to 10.
4. Watch the count cross options out one by one.
5. Your future appears as a single sentence. Press Play again to try new lists.

Controls

• Play MASH leaves the example future and opens your lists.
• Random refills one list with four random ideas. The four homes always stay the same.
• Draw the spiral starts drawing and Stop ends it. Each full ring counts as one, from 3 up to 10.
• 3 to 10: tap a number to skip the spiral.
• Skip to my future jumps past the counting, and Play again takes you back to your lists.

Tips

• Put one or two awful options in every list. Landing a shack, a monster truck or a pet tarantula is half the fun.
• Let a friend press Stop so nobody controls the number.
• Fill in the lists before anyone picks a number. If you know the number first, you could park your favorites on the lines that win.
• Leave a line blank and the game fills it with a random idea when the count starts.
• This player has no share button, so take a screenshot of your future to send it to friends.

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