Coax

“Assassin” has been played on campuses, in offices and at weddings for decades — secret targets, whispered accusations, and one overworked organizer running the whole thing off a spreadsheet and the honor system. Coax puts the referee in everyone's pocket: the app deals each player a secret target and a secret trigger word, verifies every elimination, hands the victim's target to their killer, and keeps score until one player is left standing. Because a kill counts whether the word is said out loud or typed in the group chat, a game runs quietly inside real life — a dinner, a road trip, an office week — with no board, no turns, and no huddling around a screen.

Coax is designed, built and shipped by one person. It speaks nine languages, scales from a table of three to a five-hundred-person venue — big rooms get a live game board projected from playcoax.com/board — and it sells no gameplay advantage: paid tiers add capacity, modes and cosmetics, never an edge. There is no GPS and no location tracking; the game runs on words, not maps.