Red Flag Runway
Present your worst quality as if it's a strength.
Four slides to take something genuinely worrying about yourself and sell it as a strength: the flag, where it came from, the spin, and testimonials from people who've dealt with it. Points for honesty and for the spin.
How it works
- 1.Everyone gets a different confession prompt
- 2.It has to be at least partly true
- 3.Reframe it as a strength with a straight face
- 4.Testimonials must be unflattering
Your deck is already started
Nobody starts at a blank white slide. Every player gets these 4 slides pre-laid-out in the Y2K Chrome theme, with a prompt on each one telling you what goes there.
The Flag
Your red flag, stated plainly
Origin Story
Where it started, and who's to blame
Why It's Actually Good
Spin it as a strength, like in a job interview
Testimonials (Hostile)
Real quotes from people who've dealt with you.
How you're scored
After each presentation the room votes on three things specific to this mode, not generic “was it good”.
Honesty
How much of that was actually true?
Made up → Too real
Spin
How well did they reframe it?
No sale → Almost bought it
Alarming
How worried are you now?
Fine → Concerned
Red Flag Runway prompts
Every player is dealt a different one of these.
- My biggest red flag, formatted as a LinkedIn post
- A guided tour of my camera roll's worst folder
- Why I am, in fact, the problem
- My Spotify Wrapped, explained under oath
- Things I've said that got me uninvited
- My texting habits: a threat assessment
- The hill I will die on, and the hill's side of the story
- My worst opinion, defended in full
- A timeline of my most confident mistakes
- Why my friends stopped asking for my advice
- The group project I ruined
- My relationship with deadlines, as a case study
Ready to run Red Flag Runway?
Free, in the browser, nothing to install. Share a six-character code and your friends are in.
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