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A chase game for two to four people on one keyboard, built on the oldest rule there is: one person is it, and whoever they touch becomes it instead. A timer runs, and the person holding the role when it expires loses — which turns the last ten seconds into the only part that really counts. That end-loaded scoring is what makes it work as a game rather than an activity. Being it early costs nothing, so the early minutes are loose and the tension builds only as the clock runs down, and the final stretch produces exactly the desperate cornering and last-second passes the format wants. Playing as the chaser is also genuinely different from running — cutting somebody off requires anticipating rather than pursuing. Rounds last a couple of minutes and the keyboard supports up to four sets of controls, which is the point: this is a game to play with people in the room rather than online. The presentation is simple and bright and it is suitable for any age. It runs on anything, needs no download, and is one of the more straightforwardly sociable things in a browser.