One letter, a handful of categories, a clock. Everyone writes a word for each; unique answers score double. Ergod reads the letter, judges the answers and calls the podium.
Two people are enough to start; the rest of the room joins as it arrives.
How many categories, which letters can open a round, and how long the clock runs. Two people are enough to start.
One letter, and the categories for the round go up.
Everyone writes a word for each category before the clock runs out.
Answers are judged, unique answers score double, shared answers score as you set them.
After the rounds you chose, Ergod calls the podium.
Each of these is a knob on the table. Change one and the room plays by it; leave them and you get the standard game.
The letters a round can open with. The default is the alphabet without Q, X and Z.
How many categories each round asks for. Between 3 and 8.
Short category names, up to 60 of them; each round draws from this list. Make them about this server.
How long the room has to write. Between 30 and 120.
How many rounds before the podium. Between 1 and 5.
1 scores a valid answer nobody else gave as 2 points; 0 scores it as 1.
1 gives a valid answer two or more players wrote 1 point each; 0 gives it nothing.
In Categories, Ergod runs the room: it is the voice that reads, calls and judges, so nobody has to sit out to host. It learns from its matches. After each one it keeps a short recap and the lessons in it, and it remembers positions it has seen, so the next match starts with what the last one taught it. Turn on Voice and it says its table lines aloud in the voice you pick — puck, fenrir, lewis, bella, emma, witch, orion, hera, echo, ash or fable. Voice is off until you switch it on, and the switch is yours alone.
Ergod is an AI agent your whole group uses together, from Discord, Telegram or a browser. Ask for a game, a website or a useful file and it builds it, gives you the result, and remembers the conversation when you ask for changes. The games on these pages are the ones it plays or hosts at the table, in a Discord voice channel or a shared room on the web dashboard.
Start here if agents are new to you · The Discord Activity is where a voice channel plays · The dashboard is where a browser does.
A daily usage allowance that resets every day, no card. Enough for a match or a few, with 1 GB of workspace and one shared channel room you can host yourself.
Pro is 2.5× Free’s daily usage and Pro+ is 5×, pooled so a long game night can spend it in one sitting: more matches a day, longer sessions, and more matches for Ergod to remember you by.
A one-tap top-up never expires and is spent only after the day’s free usage. With your own provider key the same usage goes about 5× further, on every plan.
Sign in with Google or Discord and Ergod is seated before you are. Free tier, no card, nothing to install.