How to play Cover Word with Gather
Cover Word is played in two teams: the 5×5 grid is on the TV, while clues and reveals go through the phones. You need at least four players and an Apple TV, iPad or Mac as the table screen.
Open a room and join
On the table screen, choose “Cover Word”, “With your phones” and “Open a room”. At least four players join and tap “Ready”, then “Start game”.
Teams and clue givers
Gather splits everyone alternately, in room order, into Team Red and Team Blue and draws one clue giver per team. The top of your phone tells you your role: “Team Red” or “Clue giver · Red”.
Word language
Before the first clue, the TV shows “Words: German”; pressing it switches to English words.
Give a clue
The clue giver’s phone shows the key – which card belongs to which team. They type a single word into “One word”, choose the number and tap “Send clue”. If the word is (partly) on the grid or contains spaces, Gather rejects it.
Propose and reveal
The guessing team sees the grid on their phones. Tapping a word proposes it, and teammates can see the proposal; “Reveal “…”” flips it on the TV. The top shows how many guesses are left.
End the turn
If you don’t want to guess further, tap “End turn”. A wrong word ends the turn automatically and the other team is up.
Finish and play again
The TV announces the winning team and the phones reveal the whole key. “Play again” starts a new game, “Done” on the table screen closes the room.
TV and phone
The TV shows the grid, which team is up, how many words each team still needs and the clues so far. It doesn’t show the colors of hidden cards – so the clue giver keeps their eyes on their own phone to avoid giving anything away.
If the clue giver leaves, Gather draws a new one from the same team. If a team has no players left, the game ends.