I’ve been working on this concept for 16 years, and just launched a playable MVP it’s called JuryNow, and I’d love your take on it.
The idea:
You ask any personal dilemma or life choice (serious or silly) and get a snap verdict from 12 real people from around the world, anonymously, within 3 minutes.
But here's the game loop:
💡 To get your verdict, you "pay" with ** Jury Duty** answering other people’s questions for a 3 minutes. The questions can be on any topic from a fashion dilemma to a workplace problem, to a big life decision or a mini political poll.It’s fast, instinctive, and weirdly addictive.
There is no commentary, discussion or debate...it's just a binary choice powered by human collective intelligence. It gives you a global perspective on a decision if you are stuck, and if you aren't!
JuryNow plays like a global social deduction/party game, where objectivity, empathy, and instinct matter more than logic or debate.
You can ask questions like:
"Is Atlas more of a girl name or a boy name?"
"Celery vs. broccoli/ which is more hated by kids?"
"Someone keeps ripping down my LGBTQ activism stickers off of lightposts. Should I super glue them or give up?"
It’s kind of like Wavelength, Cards Against Humanity, or The Resistance, but... micro-sized and real-time.
🎮 Play it here: https://www.jurynow.app/
Would love your honest feedback as board game fans ...what works, what doesn’t, how you’d explain it to others, or whether this could ever make sense as an app or even a table top version one day?
Thank you! 🙏
Just to clarify up front: JuryNow® is trademarked and not open source and not designed for self-hosting. It’s a live, centralized platform I’ve built over many years, and I’m sharing it here and would love feedback from board ganers! (not to release the code or architecture.)
Hello Wolf, Thanks so much for taking the time to play and for this generous feedback! The "negative" feedback when it's so constructive like this, is incredibly valuable so truly grateful! The reason I posted this on Board Games is that i feel members here will have a more critical eye for games, and JuryNow is more board game that Grand Auto Theft! Indeed, it's easy to post your question in a biased way to engineer the result to please, but I feel that when you are limited to one question a day, and after time, players will understand that subtle way of phrasing things and if they genuinely want an unbiased opinion, they will learn what works. The AI simulation (sadly) is a necessary part of this MVP (which is literally just launched!) because the MVP is really there to demonstrate how the game functions, but as soon as there are enough regular players across different time zones, it will be permanently abolosihed. Now the dropped question was one of the bugs and glitches that was sorted out in the very first phase of testing with family/friends months ago and I'm kind of aghast that it's back! Argh...Thank you again so much for your time & thoughts!! much appreciated