Deviation Game

Deviation Game is a co-op party game for 2–6 players. One player draws a secret prompt, such as “Flamingo,” trying to make it clear to the other humans while misleading an image-recognition AI. The guessers and the AI each submit a guess, with only one chance for each guesser. If the AI guesses correctly, the humans lose; if the AI fails and the humans guess correctly, they win.

How to play

Players join using their own mobile devices, scanning a QR code or entering a room code to use their phones as controllers. The drawer chooses a prompt from categories such as objects, actions and concepts, then draws it for the others to interpret. The game supports up to six players, and everyone can join through a smartphone browser by watching the screen of the player who owns the game.

Drawings and consent

At the end of each game, players can choose whether to consent to their drawings being used to potentially train the AI. Data collection is opt-in, and drawings without consent are deleted. The game invites players to find new ways to express prompts and expose blind spots in AI interpretations, including those involving culturally specific drawings.