Play MASH online

MASH Game Storyteller - Discover Your Future

It's the paper game kids played on the bus, minus the paper. Pick your options, draw a spiral, and this page does the counting. For the paper rules, see how to play MASH.

Thanks for playing. This page is the browser game. The paper rules live on how to play MASH.

What the browser version does for you

You still draw the spiral yourself. Everything after that is handled for you.

Press Begin a New Game and you get one question at a time, with three blanks under each. Type your own answers, or tap the arrow beside a blank to pick from a list of suggestions. If you can't be bothered, hit All Random and the game fills them in.

Then the spiral. Drag your finger or your mouse in a loop and stop wherever you like. The game counts the lines to get your magic number, then counts around your options and crosses off whatever it lands on. Watch the whole thing play out, or skip ahead to Read Your Story.

Close the tab partway through and Resume Game picks up where you left off. The question artwork is by cartoonist Scott McMahon, same as the iPhone app.

What a finished MASH story looks like

Here's a round from start to finish. Four categories, three options in each:

• Dwelling: mansion, apartment, shack, house
• Spouse: your chemistry teacher, someone you met once at a bus stop, Keanu Reeves
• Kids: none, two, eleven
• Car: a rusted Corolla, a hearse, a monster truck

The spiral came out to seven. After the counting, what survived was shack, chemistry teacher, eleven kids, hearse.

So you'll live in a shack with your old chemistry teacher and eleven children, and you'll drive them all around in a hearse. The bad outcomes are the whole point. Put at least one genuinely terrible option in every category or the game isn't worth playing.

Online, on paper, or on your phone

This page is the quickest way in. Nothing to install and no account needed. It works on a phone as well as a laptop.

To do it the original way, our free printable MASH sheet is a blank chart you can print at home or hand out to a whole classroom. The iPhone and Apple Watch app saves your finished stories so you can send them to people later.

Want something else to play? Our games page has more classics.