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.)
This reminds me of an old site I used to frequent called YouThink. It’s dead now, but way-back-machine has some snapshots of how it looked.
Basically you’d do exactly what you’re saying: you have an account, you submit interesting/fun/silly binary questions, and then you sit there and answer others’ questions for hours. T’was a simpler time…
oh thank you!! I’d never heard of it! and it does have simalarities (although JuryNow is designed to just be played 3 minutes a day, otherwise if you play if for 20 minutes, one’s empathy/objectivity levels can plummet!) Thanks so much playing & for your feedback Teawreck!
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Biased Jury: It seems like the ability to give biased choices is going to be a serious hang-up. Many of the options available in the current question bank show this, where the author has qualified a statement erroneously, forcing you to choose between two awful options, or biasing you towards one or the other based on wording.
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AI Jury: I understand the perceived necessity to pad the responses with AI simulations, but when I put in my response and it responded with “These responses were generated with AI”, that SERIOUSLY put me off. Since there is an easy way to just sign up with a dummy email, why not just remove the email bit, and make people sign up to write questions. Then, they could just have a “dashboard” for each question that unlocks when they complete their jury duty for that question.
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3 Minute Promise: don’t make a promise you can’t keep. Rather than promising 3-minute waits, just make it that you have to answer 12 questions in order to see the current vote counts for your question, and then the votes come in when they come in.
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Dropped Question: before my first question, I did a bunch of jury duty. I hadn’t signed up yet, and when I put in a question about whether animals deserved an international bill of rights, it sent me to the next screen to wait, but never returned any results. I refreshed the page, and it took me back to the home landing page. Did the question even get submitted to the bank?
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Double Jeopardy: After I signed up, I went through another bout of jury duty, but I got the same questions, and I’m pretty sure they were in the same order. I was forced to vote a second time. Is this because there is currently such a limited question bank? Either way, I shouldn’t have been able to vote on the same question twice.
Your question about the bill of rights illustrated a huge problem with the game too that I think is relevant to your point #1. In the question, you had something along the lines of animals are executed for consumption, "**which seems to be necessary…**" which I wouldn’t agree with at all, making the rest of the question + potential answers irrelevant. The way the question is posed and what possible answers are provided can make it feel really narrow/shallow. OP should add an option C “fill your own” or a skip button or something.
I agree that it isn’t actually necessary. I put that in because, at the current moment, government will to regulate simply isn’t there, because most governments are fully under the control of special interest groups and corps. As such, the necessity is there unless and until such a bill of rights is enacted. I personally think we should be getting our proteins from lentils.
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
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I dont like the binary nature of it. Comes off as one of those corporate personality tests with only binary answers BUT NOT EVERYTHING IS THAT CUT AND DRY
Thank you for playing Oka and for your feedback! It’s all super helpful. It’s designed more to help people through a decision paralysis, and to get a global perspective on their question - whether it’s a huge big one or something completely trivial. Just knowing that 12 people around the world have just focussed on your question, can guide you a little. But totally understand taht JuryNow won’t be for everyone and I really apprecaite your time commenting & trying it out!
Agreed. If this is actually how they choose juries then I’d be horrible for it
This isn’t a board game. It’s online without any actual guarantee of privacy or security, due to being centralized and closed-source. Your pitch is weak, and doesn’t describe any win condition.
Overall, if I want to get opinions from random people, I can post a poll on the Fediverse. I don’t need to have a “game” for a feature that most social media have had for a decade.
That’s my feedback.
Hello Enydmion, Thank you for trying it out AND for your feedback! It’s all super helpful to see who this appeals to and who it doesn’t! (my daughter insists it’s not a game because there are no winners or competition!) The idea is to get a verdict, rather than opinions, and to get it in real time from a fixed number of 12 who are not in your peer group and have not common interest…just 12 randomly selected people from around the world. But thank you thank you!
Weird that this is being dragged here:
Weird that this is being dragged here:Hey! I posted JuryNow here myself because I’ve always seen it as a kind of social judgment game (in the style of party/deduction-style mechanics. It’s not a tabletop game in the traditional sense, but it does share DNA with games like The Resistance or Wavelength (quick choices, group psychology, no commentary).
Totally fair if it’s not for everyone and i’m just exploring where the concept fits, and what types of players it resonates with. Appreciate the time anyone takes to check it out.
