Are you tired of all your nights out going so smoothly? How boring is it when everyone gets along, no one ends up vomiting in your shoes, and terrible secrets remain unspoken? I know- it’s time to make things messy.
A new app created by a group of Columbia students can help you do just that. I promise, after an hour of playing “Callouts,” all of your girlfriends will be crying and you’ll be fall-down-drunk because of being voted the friend that most people “want to secretly punch in the face” – which is basically the group dynamic of everyone walking into the Jane anyway, so perfect!
According to one of the game’s creators, the game goes as follows:
Each round consists of a question or a mini-game, in which the players are asked to answer with the name of one of the participants. Awkward yet hilarious questions like “Who would you throw off a sinking ship first?” make this game brutally honest, yet simple and fun. At the end of the round, a countdown reveals the players with the most votes, signaling for the losers (or some might say winners) to take a drink of their favorite beverage.
Now, I know it may seem like I’m being sarcastic, but honestly, who doesn’t love a little drama? As ill-advised as it may seem, you know this game is going to be fun. Remember that horrifying Facebook application called Honesty Box and its equally tragic cousin Formspring? You know you checked yours constantly just waiting for someone to say something especially nasty. The wait is over – your best friends have been dying to unleash their honest feelings about you for so long! Throw a little tequila into the mix, and this will be a night no one will ever forget.
Purely as an informative experiment, my friends and I decided to try this game over the weekend. Here’s the rundown:
10:00 p.m. Open the application for the game, which you can download here
10:02 p.m. Immediately become alarmed at the aggressive nature of the questions, example here (name has been blurred):
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10:06 p.m. Decide to play anyway, because YOLO (and also because every once in a while you get to find out who the most people want to see naked)
10:53 p.m. Creators of the app promised that we would look like this:
But we really looked more like this:
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11:15 p.m. After I’d cleaned the mascara off of my bawling friend’s face, we decided to go get f*cked up. So, basically, successful pregame!
2 thumbs up, Callouts!