Best Party Game of 2019—according to Golden Geek, Dice Tower, and Cardboard Republic. Three minutes to read the rules, four seconds to start playing, an eternity of fun. Meet Wavelength!

The Game Wavelength

“Wavelength” burst onto the scene in 2019 as a roaring hit. Like all top party games, it’s deceptively simple. You’ll grasp the rules in minutes, but mid-game, you’ll realize: this game runs deeper than it looks. It scales to almost any group—2 players to infinity—and offers both team-based and cooperative modes.

Gameplay

The heart of the game is its unique device: a rotating dial with a colored target zone, a screen hiding it from view, and a pointer you’ll work to align with the zone’s center.

Only one player—the “psychic”—knows where the colored zone lies behind the screen. Their job? Guide their team to aim the pointer at the right spot.

Each round, the psychic draws a card with opposites—say, “Hot – Cold.” If the target zone leans toward “hot,” they give a clue that’s hot, but not too hot. “Coffee,” they might say—it’s usually drunk hot, though hotter things exist...

The team’s task is to debate the psychic’s clue and decide where to point the red arrow, aiming as close to the target zone’s center as possible. Expect wild guesses and heated debates as you try to read the psychic’s mind. Do they drink cold coffee? Were they thinking of the sun or lava?

Revealing the screen is the round’s emotional peak—cheers of triumph, groans of dismay, bursts of laughter—a whirlwind of feelings around one table. That’s “Wavelength” in a nutshell: a ridiculously simple game brimming with fiery arguments, lively discussions, and the pure magic of words and associations.

Oh, and the device? A tactile delight. Crafted from high-quality, smooth plastic, the dial spins with a gentle hum, and the pointer turns with a satisfying click, like a radio tuner. You’ll want to fiddle with it endlessly.