Pardon the Turkey
Four rounds of Thanksgiving chaos: plead your way out of a feast-day crime, act or draw the dish, guess whose answer is whose, and tell a real Thanksgiving fact from a bluff.
2–16 players10-20 minNo app or download
About Pardon the Turkey
Pardon the Turkey is four rounds of Thanksgiving nonsense on one shared screen. The Pardon Plea accuses every player of a feast-day crime — caught drinking gravy straight from the boat, caught fake-snoring in the recliner to dodge the dishes — and hands you one sentence to plead for a pardon before the table votes for the plea that earns it.
In Pass the Dish, one player is handed a dish moment and chooses to act it out in silence or draw it on their phone for every screen to see, while everyone else picks which of five near-identical dishes it was. Family Recipe puts an anonymous answer on the board and asks who at this table wrote it — with The Turkey quietly slipping in answers of its own. Stuffed or Bluffed ends the night with eight Thanksgiving statements: some are the real recipe and some are pure bluff, everyone calls each one True or False, and the answer arrives with the line that settles it.
Every round opens with a card explaining how it is played and waits until every phone has tapped ready, so nobody has to have played before and nobody explains rules over a full table. Two to sixteen players, ten to twenty minutes, and every crime, dish and question lives inside Thanksgiving day itself — the turkey, the gravy, the kids’ table, the parade, the nap and the leftovers.
How a room starts
- Pick a game from the catalog — every occasion has its own room.
- Put the game's board screen where everyone can see it: a TV, a laptop, or a shared screen on a video call.
- Players scan the QR code (or type the room code) in their phone's browser. No app, no account.
- Play — everyone answers, votes, and scores from their own phone.
How to play Pardon the Turkey
A short narrated walkthrough of the whole game, from joining on your phone to the final scores: watch the how-to video. It is one tap from inside the room too, so a first-time group never needs the rules explained.
Where Pardon the Turkey fits
You will find it in the Thanksgiving room, alongside the other games picked for that occasion.
Common questions
- How many people can play, and how long does it take?
- Two to sixteen players, and ten to twenty minutes depending on how many rounds the host runs and the pace they set.
- Do we need phones or an app?
- One shared screen for the table plus a phone per player, all in the browser — no app. Phones are for writing pleas, drawing dishes, voting and grabbing wishbone sides.
- Is it family-friendly?
- Yes. The crimes are things like eating the crispy skin off the turkey before it reached the table, and grandparents and kids can play the same game.
- Can someone join from far away?
- Yes. Pass the Dish has a draw option, so a remote player on a video call can sketch their dish on their phone instead of acting it, and every other round is typing and tapping.
- What do we actually have to write?
- One-sentence pardon plea in the first round and short answers to table questions in Family Recipe. Everything else is acting, drawing, guessing and voting.
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