No.08 — Load the Cannons
Lock each item into a slot the instant it appears — no take-backs
Every other mode lets you see the whole board and arrange it at your leisure. Load the Cannons takes that comfort away. Items come up one at a time in random order, and the crew has to lock each one into a slot on the list the moment it appears — before anyone knows what’s coming next. No rearranging, no take-backs. It’s the ranking equivalent of packing a cannon in a hurry: you commit, and then you live with where it went.
How it plays
- The list size is set (Top 3, 5, or 10). Those slots start empty.
- One item is revealed. The crew must place it into an open slot right now, blind to whatever’s still waiting in the pool.
- That slot is locked the instant it’s filled — no sliding it later when something better shows up.
- Play continues until one slot remains, and the last item loads itself into it, deserving or not.
Top 5 pizza toppings. Mushroom comes up first and the crew, playing it safe, locks it into the No.2 slot. Three items later, pepperoni appears — and there’s no room left above mushroom. Pepperoni jams into No.3, the whole table groans, and mushroom sits smugly at No.2 for the rest of its unearned life.
Ideal crew size
Three to ten. The mode is really about the decision, so it plays well at almost any size — but a mid-sized crew arguing in real time about where to jam an item, with the clock of "everyone’s waiting" ticking, is where the panic-commitment comedy peaks.
Use a smaller list size (Top 5) your first time — with fewer slots, every early placement is a genuine gamble and the regret lands faster. Ban "let’s wait and see": the whole point is that you can’t.
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