The trivia contest lived on one page. Survivor pools on another. Squares somewhere else entirely. People would find one and never learn the other four existed, which is a daft way to run a house that's mostly made of games.
So the Game Room is one door with everything behind it. Free to play, no bookie in sight, and one house law worth stating up front:
Buy-ins are counted in SARDINES. Bragging rights only, always. We never hold, transfer or process anybody's money — not for any pool, not ever. Your office settles up the way it already settles up for lunch orders.
Compete: There's A Real Prize
The weekly NFL trivia contest — ten questions, one point each, resets every Monday. Top score wins a Velvet membership, and the tiebreak game comes straight off the live wire.
No random draw. No email trap. You just have to know more football than everybody else that week.
The leaderboard carries the standings, the streaks and the names to beat.
Office Pools: Four Full Engines
The reason most office pools die by Week 5 has nothing to do with the format. The commissioner burns out. One person gets tired of chasing picks on Slack and maintaining a spreadsheet at 11pm on a Sunday, and the whole thing quietly evaporates.
All four engines here grade themselves.
Pick'em — the one everybody can play, because nobody gets eliminated. Run it for one week, a month, or all eighteen. The short version is the easiest sell to people who won't commit to a season.
Survivor — generates more lunchroom conversation per person than any other format. Every team can only be used once, which makes it a resource problem rather than a weekly one. The Survivor Solver plans your full 18-week path and re-solves around teams you've already burned.
The Gauntlet — survivor played every single day across every league in season. One pick a night, longest streak wins. The strategy is genuinely different: which league you shop in matters more than which team you take, because a huge baseball favourite still loses better than one night in three.
Squares — requires zero sports knowledge, which is exactly why it's the best office pool ever invented. Your coworker who doesn't watch a single game ends up screaming about a two-yard gain because she needs a 7. Build a grid here.
Every pool generates a shareable link, a QR code and a printable poster you can tape by the coffee machine. Friction is what kills participation, not interest — people who'd happily play won't fill in an emailed form, but they'll scan a poster while waiting for coffee.
Strategy guides for all of it: survivor, pick'em, gauntlet and squares. Plus a rulebook per format that matches your actual settings rather than a generic one — which kills the entire "well I thought" category of argument before it starts.
My Games: The Locker
Every pool you've joined and every entry you're sweating, in one place. If you're in four pools across three formats, this is the page that stops you forgetting one until Tuesday.
The Toys
The season simulator — unlimited mock drafts from your exact slot, because drafting from the 1 and drafting from the 12 are different games and the people who win from a rough slot planned for it.
Plus the team name generator, for the twenty minutes every August that everybody spends on it anyway.
And Now Wrestling
243 wrestling questions in a ring that shakes when you get one wrong and flashes gold when you're right. Golden era through the Bloodline — Montreal, the nWo turn, Foley off the Cell, ECW, AEW, NJPW, plus a full glossary section.
It lives on The Squared Circle, our wrestling page built with the Not Moved Podcast, alongside the full WWE and AEW calendar.
Why It's All Free
Because there's nothing to take a cut of. We don't touch buy-ins, so a pool costs us nothing to run and costs you nothing to join.
The tools that genuinely cost money to run — the live scans across nine sportsbooks — have a daily allowance instead. If the site becomes part of your routine, a Velvet seat is $9.99 a month and lifts the limits. That's the whole model. No tiers, no upsells.
And if you'd rather argue than play, the community is right there.