How to play Clash — free online debate and argument game
Defend a ridiculous combo. Argue why it wins. Take the crowd.
- Players
- 3–4
- Length
- ~10 min
- Type
- Debate
- Price
- Free
Clash deals you a challenger nobody would choose — a fighter plus a superpower, combined at random — and then drops a scenario that has nothing to do with either. Who wins the bake-off? Who survives the office party?
You get one shot: type the most convincing case you can for why your ridiculous combination takes it. Then the room votes on the argument, not the combo, which means a terrible hand argued well beats a great hand argued lazily.
Your challenger is dealt in secret, and your own combo is greyed out on the vote board.
Free, no app and no sign-up to join — players hop in with a 4-letter code on their own phone.
How to play Clash
The host picks the round count
Six rounds is the default. Four is a quick game; eight is a long one, and the arguments get better as people warm up.
You're dealt a challenger in secret
A fighter and a superpower land on your screen alone. Nobody else knows what you're holding until the vote.
A matchup scenario drops
The same silly scenario goes to everyone — and it's deliberately unrelated to the combos, so nobody is dealt an automatic win.
Write your case
Type why YOUR challenger wins this specific scenario. Everyone writes at once under one clock.
The room votes
Every case comes back shuffled and anonymous, with your own greyed out. The most convincing argument takes the round.
What Clash looks like
How scoring works
Votes are the score: each vote your case collects banks points, so the game is judged purely on persuasion.
You can't vote for your own argument — it's greyed out on the board — so there's no self-dealing.
Points accumulate across rounds and the highest total wins. Because the combos are random, the scoreboard measures how well you argue rather than how lucky your draw was.
Tips for winning Clash
- Argue the scenario, not the fighter. The winning cases explain why this specific combo suits this specific situation.
- Lean into the bad hand. A combination that's obviously terrible is funnier to defend, and funny wins votes.
- Be concrete. 'He'd win because he's strong' loses to a case with an actual sequence of events in it.
- Keep it short enough to read in the voting window. A wall of text loses to a sharp two-sentence case.
Frequently asked questions
How many players do you need for Clash?
Three to four. Three is the floor because you need enough cases on the board for a real vote.
Do I pick my own fighter?
No — the combination is dealt to you at random and in secret. Working with what you're given is the game.
How long is a game?
About 10 minutes at the default six rounds.
Is it free?
Yes, free to play and free to host, with no account needed to join a room.
Free, no app and no sign-up to join — players hop in with a 4-letter code on their own phone.