Kairos: Stop the Clock

Zero One Labs Pvt. Ltd.

About this game

Kairos is a party game about the sense of time, for 2 to 6 players on one phone.

Everyone puts a finger on the screen. A hidden clock starts. Lift your finger
when you think eight seconds have passed. Closest wins.

No clock. No countdown. Nothing on screen to help you. Just your own sense of
time — and the person beside you lifting early, making you doubt it.


THE LIFT — 2 to 6 players, one phone

Put the phone flat on the table. Everyone claims a piece of the screen and
holds. The screen goes dark and a hidden clock starts.

Everybody plays every round, at the same time. Nobody sits and waits their turn,
and nobody passes the phone. If you have been looking for games to play with
friends on one phone, this is the part that is different.

The instant somebody lifts, everyone still holding sees it — and has to decide
whether to trust their own count, or the person who just committed. That moment,
four fingers on the glass and one of them gone, is the whole game.

Then the photo finish: every lift, to the hundredth of a second, in one picture.


SLAM — solo, or the whole table in turns

The classic stop the clock challenge. Slam the button to start a hidden clock.
Slam it to stop. Closest to the target takes it. Play it alone anywhere, or pass
the phone around.


PRACTICE — sharpen your count

Drills for your internal clock, including one where the clock runs in full view
the entire time. You can't learn to feel a second you have never actually
watched pass.


DISTORTION — for when it gets too easy

Turn it up and the game starts fighting you. A wrong number drifting past.
Shapes at the edge of your vision. A pulse moving side to side at a tempo that
keeps changing. Every level is announced before the round, and every one of
them is beatable. You choose it, you see it coming, and it's still your fault
when you miss.


PLAY IT YOUR WAY

• First to 12 points — the podium scores 3, 2 and 1, so a round is never over
for everyone the moment one person has won it
• Elimination — worst finger each round is out, last player standing takes it
• Optional handicap for whoever is running away with it, shown on screen
rather than applied behind your back


BUILT TO BE FAIR

Every lift is timed from the raw touch input, to the millisecond, and the result
is shown to the hundredth of a second. A perfect round is genuinely rare and
never rounded in your favour. When you lose, you can see exactly by how much.


• Works completely offline — no wifi, no signal, no problem
• No account, ever
• No sign-up, no profile to make
• No notifications asking you to come back

Kairos is a game about eight seconds. It should not want more of your day than
that.

What’s new

First release.

THE LIFT — 2 to 6 players on one phone, everyone playing the
same round at the same time. SLAM and PRACTICE to play alone.
Every lift is timed to the millisecond and scored to the
hundredth of a second. Works offline, no account, no
notifications.

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