The fairest brew decider
Settle it fair and square.
Then get the kettle on.
Seven games decide who's making the round — played across everyone's phones, or by passing one handset round the desks. Then the full order becomes a checklist you tick off at the kettle.
No brew left to chance ✦
The fairest brew decider
Settle it fair and square.
Then get the kettle on.
No brew left to chance ✦
How it works
Set up once, then it's a ritual that takes under a minute — and nobody has to keep a tally in their head.
Start a crew and you get a code like BREW-K7F3QX. Share it round the office; everyone joins from their own phone. No sign-up, no password.
Tap Call a brew round and the whole crew gets a notification. They've got two minutes to tap "I'm in" — latecomers miss out.
Pick one of seven games. One name comes out, and the loser gets everyone's order as a checklist to tick off while the kettle boils.
Two ways to play
A toggle at the top of the game picker switches between them. Same games either way.
Everyone plays from their own handset and the round stays in sync over iCloud. Secret picks stay secret, reaction times are measured on your own phone so lag can't cheat anyone, and the whole crew watches the result land at once. Works just as well when half the crew is at home.
Only one person has the app? Pass the phone round and take your turns on the same screen. Some games are built for exactly this — Pass the Bomb only ever runs on one device, and the others hide your choice before they hand over.
Seven ways to settle it
Every game is properly random or properly even-handed — never a stitch-up. Pick whichever suits the mood of the office that morning.
Spin for a victim.
Everyone in the round gets a slice. The host spins, the wheel slows, and wherever it lands — they're brewing. Everyone else watches it happen live on their own screen.
Wherever it lands, they're brewing.
Everyone hides 0–3 coins. Guess right and you're safe.
The proper pub classic. Hide coins in your fist, then call your guess at the grand total — and each number can only be called once, so the later you go the harder it gets. Guess it exactly and you're out of the running. Rounds repeat until one poor soul is left.
Round 2
Guess the grand total. Correct = you drop out.
Still in:
How many coins in your fist?
✊ 🪙🪙
3/4 locked in
Jump the gun and it's you.
Every phone waits a random beat, then flashes TAP! at once. Slowest reaction makes the drinks — but twitch too early and it's a false start, which loses outright. Times are measured on your own handset, so a dodgy office wifi can't cost you the round.
⚡ Quick Draw
Slowest finger brews.
2/5 have drawn
Secret fuse. Hold the phone, hold the risk.
Light the fuse and pass the handset round the circle. Nobody knows how long it's got — somewhere between eight and twenty-two seconds — and whoever's holding it when it goes bang is on brew duty. The rest of the crew watches from their own phones.
💣 Pass the Bomb
Secret fuse. Hold the phone, hold the risk.
One of these is short. Choose wisely.
A fist of identical straws with one short one hidden in it. Everyone pulls, either on their own phone or by passing one round — and nothing is revealed until the last straw is out. Then they all open at once.
One of these is short.
Choose wisely.
✊ no peeking ✊
3/5 straws pulled
One name. No arguments.
For when the kettle's already boiled and nobody has time for a wheel. Names rattle past like a fruit machine, slow to a crawl, and stop on one person. Done in seconds.
One name. No arguments.
Brewing today…
Loser brews. Draws? Middle square loses.
The one game where you can actually save yourself. Pick two people to duel and they fight it out — on two phones with the rest of the crew spectating, or both on one handset. Best of one, or best of three if you fancy your chances.
Best of 3 · Game 2
Dave's go (✕)
Draws? Middle square loses.
The verdict is in
One name fills the screen with confetti and a bit of good-natured abuse — "Get the kettle on, Dave!" · "The tea gods have spoken." · "Milk and two, cheers pal."
Underneath sits the whole order as a checklist you tap as you brew. Each drink strikes through as it's made, so you can put the phone down mid-round and pick up exactly where you left off. No more carrying five orders in your head.
Hit Logged it and the scoreboard updates for the whole crew. Or Rematch, if someone fancies double or quits.
The verdict is in
Get the kettle on, Dave!
☕ The order — 2/5 made
Your usual?
Set your order once when you join. From then on the brewer sees exactly what everyone wants, written out properly.
Four milk options — Milk, Splash, Oat or Black — then sugars from none up to four-plus, or swap to sweeteners. It all renders into one clean line the brewer can read at a glance.
Before any round you can tweak your order just for that one go — an extra sugar, a sweetener instead, hot chocolate because it's Friday. Tap Change, adjust it, and your saved usual stays exactly as it was for next time.
The receipts
Three tabs — your own stats, the league, and every round on the record. "Fewest brews wins. The jammiest sit at the top. 🦥"
Rounds since you last brewed. 🙂 at one or two, 😎 at three, 🔥 from five up — and 😰 the moment it resets, when it reads "You're next in the firing line…"
"Every brew, on the record." The last thirty rounds, who brewed and when. Anyone who's left the crew shows up as 👻 a departed brewer.
Logged one by mistake? Scrub the latest round and the brew comes off everyone's stats, across the whole crew. "Round scrubbed — like it never happened."
Your crew
Start a crew and Brew Duty hands you a six-character code, built from letters that can't be misread across a desk — no O against 0, no I against 1. Share it however you like and everyone joins from their own phone.
No sign-ups, no email addresses, no passwords — it syncs over your iCloud account, so there's no Brew Duty login to forget. Pick a name, pick a mug from twelve characters, set your usual, and you're in.
Only one of you so far? Recruit Brew Bot 🤖 and try the games with a stand-in until the rest of the office catches up.
Invite code
Code copied — go rally the troops
The details
Calling a round notifies the crew and opens a two-minute window to opt in. Whoever taps "I'm in" is in the draw; latecomers miss out. Or skip the call-out and start right now.
A nudge every Monday morning — "7 rounds last week. Dave brewed 3 — raise a mug. ☕" Or, if it's gone quiet, "Someone's dodging duty… 👀"
Fox, frog, panda, unicorn, octopus, bee, whale, koala, lion, penguin, turtle or dinosaur — each with its own colour. That's your face around the office.
Someone wandered off mid-game? Play their turn for them and the round carries on. No round ever stalls because one person put their phone down.
Send the code straight from the app, or just tap to copy it. Joining from a code on your clipboard? Brew Duty spots it and pastes it for you.
No subscription, no paywall, no premium tier, no ads. Every game and every feature is there from the moment you install it.
Questions
Brew Duty is coming to iPhone. Put your name down and we'll send you the TestFlight invite the moment the beta opens.
No brew left to chance ✦