Hot Potato is the new party game of Sociale: from 2 to 8 players around a table, one potato, and a fuse nobody can see. Whoever has the potato answers a quick question about Sociale or xat: right answer, you pass it; wrong answer, it explodes in your hands. The last one standing wins. It sounds simple, and it is, until the potato starts sweating.
In this guide you find everything: how to start a game, the rules, the power-ups, the teams, the bets in coins and XP, the rewards, the potato badge that grows with you, the game of the hour and the Sunday cup. The game is also in Italian (Patata Bollente) and Spanish (Papa Caliente).
Starting a game
Open Hot Potato (you need a free Sociale account) and choose:
- Game language: Italian, Spanish or English. Questions and texts follow the language of the room.
- Mode: Everyone for themselves or Teams (Gold against Blue, see below).
- Prize of the private room: Just for fun, Coins or XP. With coins or XP everyone bets before the start and the winner takes the whole pot.
- Custom rules (optional): 1, 2 or 3 lives, 6, 10 or 15 seconds to answer, only questions about Sociale or only about xat, with or without power-ups, and Chaos mode (the Golden potato comes out much more often).
Then press Create private room to get a code for your friends, or Quick match to join an open room with whoever is there. Have a code? Write it in Have a code? and join.
On the right you always see your potato (level, badge, missions of today and looks) and the next game of the hour.
The lobby: invite and challenge your friends
When you create a room you get a big room code, with Copy code and Copy link. Your friends join from the game menu with the code, or straight from the link. You can also write a username in Challenge a friend: they get a notification with the link of your room.
The host chooses when to start. In a room just for fun the host can add bots to fill the table: they have funny names, answer like real players and sometimes get it wrong.
How a round works
- The round starts and the potato falls from above onto the table, in front of a random player.
- Whoever has it gets a question about Sociale or xat with four answers, only on their screen. The others see the countdown. 10 seconds to answer.
- Right answer: tap another player at the table, or use the Pass it to buttons. With only one opponent left, the potato goes by itself.
- Wrong answer or time up: the potato explodes in your hands and you lose a life.
- There is also a hidden fuse: the potato can explode at any moment, even if everyone answers right. You cannot see it, but you can feel it: when the potato sweats, shakes and the table turns red hot, it is close. Do not keep it too long.
- Everyone has 2 lives. With 3 or more players you cannot pass it straight back to whoever just gave it to you.
- The last one standing wins. Whoever is out keeps watching and can cheer for the others with hearts.
A commentator follows the game with jokes at the bottom of the table ("Alex held it for 9 seconds: bravery or madness?"), and the quick phrases appear in a bubble above your photo: from "Catch!" to "Such hot hands!" and "It burns, but I like it". The game is cheeky on purpose.
Power-ups
Every 2 rounds you get a power-up (2 at most). Each one has its moment: the Use button lights up only when you can use it.
- Shield: for 5 seconds the potato cannot reach you, it bounces back to whoever threw it.
- Reverse: the next pass to you goes to a random player instead.
- Double pass: you can pass it back to whoever just gave it to you.
- Freeze: 4 more seconds to answer.
- Steal: you steal a random power-up from an opponent.
- Ghost potato: nobody sees your next throw leave.
- Easy question: you swap your question for another one.
Golden potato, sudden death and combos
- Golden potato: about 1 round in 10 the potato turns gold. Every right answer is worth double.
- Sudden death: when only two players are left (after starting with 3 or more), the time to answer is cut in half and power-ups are off. Only nerves.
- Lightning answer: answer in less than 3 seconds. Combo: right answers in a row. Both give you more points, and the commentator will notice.
Teams: Gold against Blue
Choose Teams in the menu and create a private room. There are two teams, Gold and Blue, up to 4 people each (8 in total).
- Whoever creates the room is the captain of the Gold team; the first one who joins the Blue team is its captain.
- Every captain has a Copy team link button: whoever opens that link joins their team directly. Without a link you go to the smaller team, and you can switch with Join this team.
- The captain can remove someone from the team. The game starts when everyone is in a team and each side has at least one player.
At the table every player has a ring with the colour of their team, and the seats alternate Gold and Blue. You pass the potato only to the other team. The team that still has someone in the game wins, and all its players win, even those who were already out.
Bets: play for coins or XP
In a private room you can choose to play for coins or for XP. In the lobby everyone bets from 1 to 100 (buttons 10, 25, 50, 100 or any number), and you see the pot grow. The game starts only when everyone has bet, and there are no bots: the pot is only for people.
The last one standing takes the whole pot. Example: 8 players bet 50 each, the pot is 400, and the winner takes 400.
- Coins: they leave your balance as soon as you bet (so nobody can spend them somewhere else during the game). If you leave the lobby or change your bet, they come back at once.
- XP: these are your real xat XP, the ones of the Sociale Card. You can bet only the XP you can spend (not the ones locked by xat rewards already taken), so you need an active Sociale Card. At the end every player who lost gifts their bet to the winner through MewBots. MewBots daily gift limits apply: if the winner reaches the limit, the rest arrives on the next days.
- Before the start the site checks the bets again: if someone does not have enough any more, their bet goes back to zero and the game does not start.
- If you leave once the game has started, you lose your bet. If the room closes before the end, everyone gets the bet back.
The winner gets a notification with what they won. In a betting room the prize is the pot, with no extra XP.
Rewards for every game
You do not need to win to get something. With at least 2 people at the table:
- Coins for every right answer, and extra coins for the podium (1st, 2nd, 3rd) with 3 or more people.
- XP for playing, double for the first game of the day. Whoever wins with 3 or more people also gets the victory prize.
- There is a daily limit on the coins of the game, so nobody can farm them.
- Games with custom rules give rewards and progress, but do not count for the monthly season.
Your potato: levels, a badge that grows, looks
Every game, right answer and win gives points to your potato, and the potato grows. Its badge appears on your profile and changes by itself:
- Level 1: Raw potato
- Level 3: Boiled potato
- Level 6: Baked potato
- Level 10: Fried potato
- Level 18: Crispy chip
- Level 30: Golden potato, the top
You can also change the look of your potato: Classic, Sunny, Frozen, Zombie, Lava, Night and Golden. They unlock with your level, or you can buy some of them earlier with your coins. When the potato is in your hands, the whole table sees it with your look.
Daily missions, streaks and achievements
- 3 missions a day, the same for everyone (for example "Answer right 10 times" or "Make a combo of 4"). Each one gives coins and XP.
- Streak: play every day. 7 days in a row = a chest with 100 coins.
- Achievements, as badges on your profile: Lightning hands, Last breath (win with one life), Potato thief, Ice in the veins, Combo machine, Potato veteran and Potato legend.
Monthly season and leaderboards
Every game gives season points: 10, 6 and 3 for the podium, plus 1 for every right answer. You see them in the Sociale leaderboard. On the 1st of every month the top 3 of the month before win 500, 300 and 150 coins and the Hot Potato champion badge.
The game of the hour and the Sunday cup
Every evening at 21:00 (Italian time) there is the game of the hour: a room opens 10 minutes before, and at the hour it starts by itself with whoever is there. The winner takes 150 coins. Press Remind me in the menu and you get a notification 10 minutes before (on your phone and on Telegram too).
On Sunday the game of the hour becomes the Sunday cup: a bigger prize (500 coins) and the Cup badge for the winner.
Halloween on Hot Potato
From October 28 to November 2 the table goes purple, with spider webs, bats and a little ghost that comes out of every explosion. The prize of the game of the hour is double, and if you play 3 games in those days you win the Hot pumpkin look, yours forever.
More things you can do
- Watch and cheer: if a game has already started you can watch it and send hearts to the players.
- Share: at the end, share an image with the ranking, or a short video of the explosion.
- Suggest a question: write a question about Sociale or xat. If the staff approves it you get 30 coins, then 5 more every 20 times it comes up in a game.
- Your friends: when you start playing, friends who follow you back get a notification to join you.
- Telegram: in the menu of @mysociale_bot there is a Hot Potato section with your level, your missions and the next game of the hour.
- In the xat room: type !games patata (or !juegos patata) to get the link and the next game of the hour.
- Sound: the music speeds up with the heat and the phone vibrates when the potato reaches you. You can turn the sound off with one tap.
Questions
Is it free? Yes, you only need a free account on mysociale.net. How many players? From 2 to 8. Can I play alone? In a private room just for fun you can add bots. Do I need the Sociale Card? Only to bet XP and to get the XP on xat: coins arrive anyway. Can I lose my coins? Only if you choose a betting room and you do not win, and never more than 100 per game.
Play Hot Potato now and see how long you can keep it in your hands.
