ReveriePastimes

ReveriePastimes turns your phone into the game master for an old-fashioned game night. It is a party game companion app — not a game itself, but a leather-bound library of forty classic parlour games, complete with rules, history, hosting notes and a built-in referee that runs the rounds, keeps the timer and tallies every score, so the hosts can actually play instead of constantly checking the rulebook. Open the app and you are greeted by a warm, candlelit library: a "Game of the Day" picked fresh every evening, and a shelf of five leather-bound volumes — Word & Mind, Movement & Active, Drawing & Acting, Forfeits & Whimsy, and Card Games — each holding eight games with full rules, a short history, hosting tips and even music suggestions for the room. Pick a game, seat your guests from the Visitor's Book, and hand the evening over to the app: it reveals prompts, runs a countdown clock, deals with card-game scoring, or simply keeps the tally, depending on what the game needs. When the last round is played, it crowns a winner, writes up a few "fun statistics" about the evening, and — if you like — inks the whole thing into your Evening Ledger for good. KEY FEATURES ✓ Forty classic parlour games — Charades, Twenty Questions, Botticelli, Sardines, Musical Chairs, Whist, Cribbage, Snap and more, each with step-by-step rules, a short history and hosting tips ✓ Built-in game master — the app reveals prompts, runs the round timer, and tallies scores automatically, so nobody has to referee ✓ A Visitor's Book — keep vintage calling-card style profiles for every regular guest, with a portrait, evenings joined, best category and favourite game ✓ An Evening Ledger — every hosted evening is recorded with the games played, who attended and who won, so your group's history builds up over time ✓ A "Game of the Day" pick — a fresh, deterministic suggestion every day to help indecisive hosts get started ✓ Five curated categories — word games, active games, acting and drawing games, whimsical forfeits, and classic card games, each with its own filter strip for player count, playing time and equipment on hand ✓ Save your favourites — star any game to keep it close at hand for next time HOW IT WORKS 1. Browse the shelf, or take the Game of the Day pick, and open a game to read the rules, history and hosting notes. 2. Seat your table from the Visitor's Book — add new guests with a name, portrait and a line about them, or invite regulars back for another round. 3. Start the game and let the app run the evening: it shows whose turn it is, reveals prompts or runs the timer as the game requires, and keeps score as you award each round. 4. When play is done, see who won the evening, read the fun statistics, and save it to your Evening Ledger to keep the record. WHY REVERIEPASTIMES — most party-game apps hand you a digital game to play on a screen. This one does the opposite: it stays out of the way of the actual game — the cards, the charades, the guessing — and only handles the bookkeeping a good host would rather not do by hand: timing, scoring, turn order and keeping track of who has come to play. The design is unapologetically old-fashioned, styled after a private library at midnight, because the games inside it are old-fashioned too — this is Charades and Whist and Musical Chairs, not a new social game invented for an app. PRIVACY — Everything you enter, from your Visitor's Book to your Evening Ledger, stays on your device. There is no account, no sign-in and no ads. The app makes only one kind of network request, to fetch a public illustration for a small number of well-known games — no personal information is ever sent. Questions or ideas? We would love to hear from you.