🐾 Aardvark Animal Tag – Neon Circle Ram

STEP 1: Build players and animal names → STEP 2: Everyone picks a unique number 1–20 → STEP 3: Hit “Done guessing / pick Aardvark” → STEP 4: Aardvark calls animals from the centre, called players escape from their circle, and if they fail in 10 seconds Aardvark rams them and they swap positions and roles.

• STEP 1 – Setup
  • Choose at least 5 slots.
  • For each row: type the name and animal.
  • Tick “Bot” for any slot that should auto-play.
• STEP 2 – Unique number guesses (1–20)
  • Each player chooses a number between 1 and 20 in their row.
  • No duplicates allowed – if a number is already taken, the game rejects it.
  • After all are filled and unique, press
    “STEP 3 – Done guessing / pick Aardvark”.
• STEP 3 – Picking Aardvark
  • The game secretly chooses a number 1–20.
  • Whoever is closest becomes Aardvark in the middle circle.
  • Their original animal is removed from the pack – they are now just called “Aardvark”.
• STEP 4 – Calling from the centre
  • Aardvark sees a typing box inside the centre circle.
  • They type the animal name of a player on the ring and click/press ENTER using
    “Call & start 10s”.
  • If that animal does not belong to any player, Aardvark loses 2 points.
  • If it matches a real player animal, a 10-second ram round starts.
• STEP 5 – Escaping on the ring
  • The called player’s circle shows a typing box beside it only for them.
  • They must type the animal of a different player (not themselves, not Aardvark) and press ENTER with
    “Call & escape”.
  • If they type a wrong animal, they lose 2 points, but the timer continues.
  • If they escape in time (before 10): called player +5, Aardvark −5.
• STEP 6 – 10 seconds, ram, and no-ram rounds
  • The glowing bar counts down 10 seconds while Aardvark counts 1–10.
  • When the bar empties, the “Ram & swap” button unlocks.
  • If the target still hasn't escaped and Aardvark rams them in real life and clicks “Ram & swap”:
    • Aardvark +5, target −5.
    • The game animates a ram dash – the centre circle slams into the target.
    • They swap original animals and swap positions. The target becomes the new Aardvark in the middle, with their animal removed from the pack.
  • If Aardvark does not ram and clicks “Round over – no ram”, nobody scores and Aardvark stays in.
• Streaming names & fake animals
  • The scrolling list shows a mix of real player animals and fake decoy names.
  • No animal faces here – just names. The real faces only appear briefly at the start.
  • Calling a non-existing animal during the game costs −2 points.
• Peeking the animals (−2 points)
  • At any time during play, anyone can briefly show all animals again.
  • Select who is peeking and press “Peek animals (−2 pts)”.
  • That player loses 2 points and the animal list flashes again for a few seconds.
  • Screenshots are against the spirit of the game – memory only!
• Bots
  • Marked with a BOT tag.
  • Bot Aardvarks automatically call animals after a short delay.
  • Bot targets automatically try to escape by calling another animal during their 10s window.
• Game end
  • Game runs for 5 minutes.
  • When the timer hits 0, the highest score wins.
  • Press “Play again” to restart fresh.