board games, word games and party prompts, played in the chat. one game can run in a channel at a time, and their buttons keep working through restarts. minesweeper, dice and the party prompts don’t count as a game, so they work any time.
the games played only with buttons are slash commands too, and work from your own account in any dm, group dm or server: /connect4, /rps play, /tictactoe play, /minesweeper, /dice, /truth, /dare, /tod, /wyr and /nhie. black tea, scramble, fast type and hangman read what people type, so they only work in servers drain is in.

setting it up

games work anywhere until you give them a channel. then every game, typed or slash, stays in that channel and the threads under it, and anywhere else drain says where to play. games started from your own account in a dm or group dm aren’t affected.
open the dashboard, pick your server and go to games. pick the channel under played in, or leave it off to play anywhere, and save.

black tea

word survival for 2 to 10 people. ,blacktea start opens the lobby.
1

the lobby

twenty seconds to press join. the host can start early with start.
2

your turn

drain gives you three letters. you have ten seconds to type a real word containing them.
3

lives

everybody starts with three. a wrong word, a word already used this round, or running out of time costs one. last one standing wins.
while it’s your turn, anything you send counts as your answer.
if the dictionary can’t be reached to check a word, nobody loses a life over it. ,blacktea end (or stop) ends the round. the host or anybody with manage messages can use it.

scramble

,scramble posts a word with its letters mixed up. the first person in the channel to type the word wins, and the card says how long it took. thirty seconds, then drain says what it was.

fast type

,fasttype is the same race, but the word is drawn in a picture, so it can’t be copied and pasted. capitals don’t matter.

hangman

,hangman has everybody in the channel guessing together. type one letter, or the whole word.
  • six wrong guesses and it’s over. a wrong whole word costs a guess too.
  • a letter that was already guessed costs nothing.
  • every guess posts a fresh board and takes the old one away, so the board stays at the bottom.
  • three minutes without a guess ends the game.
while hangman runs, any message that is one letter long, or as long as the word, counts as a guess.

connect four

drop a piece with the column buttons, 1 to 7. four in a row across, down or diagonally wins, and a full board is a draw. the person who challenged goes first.
the game ends five minutes after the last move.

tic tac toe

the person who challenged goes first.
a tic tac toe game ends five minutes after it starts, even mid-game.

rock paper scissors

both players choose privately with buttons. the game waits five minutes.

minesweeper

a field under spoilers: tap a cell to open it. 5 to 10 cells across, eight by default, with ten mines on eight by eight. one cell starts open, and nothing touching it is a mine. * is a mine.

truth or dare

every card has buttons for the next one: truth, dare and random, or another. anybody can press them, so nobody has to type. a channel doesn’t get the same prompt again until it has had forty others.

dice

2 to 1000 sides, six by default.

stats

rps, tic tac toe and black tea each keep wins, losses, ties and your best streak. each leaderboard is the top ten by wins.

ways to type it

every command