🎯 Goal of the Game

There are two teams (for example: boys vs girls, or Team A vs Team B).
Your team wins when all four seats on the “couch” are filled with members of your team.

👥 What You Need

• 4 chairs placed side-by-side — this is the couch

• Enough chairs for everyone in a big circle

• Everyone knows each other’s names (or each person draws a random name on a slip of paper)

• 1 empty chair in the circle

Players: 8–25 works great.

📝 Setup

1. Arrange all chairs in a big circle.

2. Choose any 4 seats next to each other to be the couch.

3. Fill the couch with two people from each team (mixed order).

4. Everyone says their name out loud once.

   • OR: give each person a slip of paper with someone else’s name on it.

5. Make sure one chair in the circle is empty.

🎮 How to Play

1️⃣ The player sitting to the left of the empty chair goes first.

They must call out the name of someone in the room.

Example:

“I call… Sarah!”

2️⃣ The person with that name must move to the empty chair.

3️⃣ Now their old chair becomes the new empty chair.

4️⃣ The turn now passes to the player to the left of the new empty chair, and they call a name.

This continues around and around the circle.

❗ Important Rule

You cannot call the name of the person who just moved from the empty chair.
(Otherwise two people could keep calling each other forever.)

🤯 Strategy Tips

Your team wants to:

• Bring your teammates onto the couch

• Push opposing players off the couch

• Create chains of moves that help your team take control of all four seats

It becomes a game of:

• memory (who is sitting where)

• deception

• teamwork

• clever calling of names

🏆 Winning the Game

Your team wins when all four couch seats are filled with players from your team only.