The Jury Game

Twelve people. One room. No hindsight.

You are not watching the trial.
You are sitting on the jury.

Put a real case on the television and hand everyone a phone. The evidence comes in once, the room argues it out, and the verdict history actually returned stays sealed until your jury has locked its own.

Two to twelve jurors · one screen everybody can see · a phone each · nothing to install

How a night works

  1. Pick a case

    Every case is reconstructed from the trial record — the charges, the witnesses, the exhibits that were actually admitted. Choose one from the library and open the courtroom on the big screen.

  2. The room takes its seats

    A join code and a QR appear on the television. Everyone scans it, and their phone becomes their evidence folder, their notebook and their ballot.

  3. The evidence comes in once

    Testimony plays on the screen in order. No rewind, no transcript, no recap — what you remember is what you wrote down, exactly as it was for the jury that sat there.

  4. Deliberate, then compare

    The room argues it out, then everyone votes from their own phone. The television shows the split, and only then reveals what the real jury decided.

Why it plays differently

Nothing the original jury did not have

The historical outcome is sealed on the server, not merely hidden in the page. Until the jury locks its verdict there is no way to read ahead — not in the markup, not in the network tab.

One pass, like the real thing

A witness says it once. The pressure that creates — the note you did not take, the detail two people remember differently — is the game.

Your notebook is private

Notes live with your account and only your account. Nobody else at the table sees them, and they survive a dead battery, a refresh or a second phone.

The room does the arguing

There is no in-app chat by design. Deliberation happens out loud, between people sitting together, which is the only part of a jury room software cannot improve on.

Anyone with a case to make

Write your own cases.

Get a private Case Builder of your own. Write cases around the questions you want people to argue over, publish them to your own library, and run them with your own people.

  • Your own address, case library and Case Builder
  • Invite colleagues to write and publish cases with you
  • Your cases, rooms and players are seen only inside your account
Get your own Case Builder

Separate from playing: this is where cases are written

Court is in session whenever you are.

Hosting takes an account, so the courtroom survives a closed browser. Jurors just need the code on the screen.