Corners

A game for friends watching the Premier League. Like in the pub, everyone puts in the same stake, a random player starts with the Corner flag, and the flag passes along the order every time either team gets a corner. Whoever holds it at full time takes the pot.

The stake is whatever the players agree, typed in as text: "£5 each", "losers buy a round" or "bragging rights". Corners only shows it. It never takes, holds or pays out money; you settle up between yourselves.

The earlier version, with tokens, competitions, side pots and golden corners, is kept on the classic branch (tag classic-v1).

Match day

1. Start a game: put in your name. The game is called after you, like "Alex's game", and can be renamed.
2. Pick the match from today's fixtures, another day, or a test match. For a local game the feed doesn't have, enter it yourself: the two teams and, if you like, the kick-off time. With no feed, anyone watching taps +1 Corner each time one is given (two phones tapping the same corner count it once) and Full time at the whistle.
3. Agree the stake, the same for everyone. It carries over to the next match, so later games skip this step.
4. Send your mates the link (or read out the 6-letter code). A mate opening it sees who asked them, the match and the stake, taps their name, and is in.
5. Who's in shows everyone. You put yourself in or sit out from your own phone; a mate without a phone can be added and put in by anyone. Once two are in, Draw the order and start goes live.
6. At full time every phone shows who takes the pot and who owes what, like "Alex owes Ben £5". The result stays on the Match tab until the next match kicks off. Everyone who played stays in for the next match, so the same lot can go again straight away; anyone can sit out.

Groups

Everyone who has played together stays together as a group, so the next match is just pick, share and play. The same phone can be in several groups, and the chips under the logo switch between them. The Group tab lists the players, who set it up (only they can remove a player), the join code, alerts and teams you follow. Leave group only takes it off your phone. Whoever set the group up can also Delete group, after typing its name: the group, its players and results are gone for everyone, and other phones drop it the next time they open it.

The table

Once a group has played three matches, a Table tab appears: pots won, games played and recent results, with win rate and streaks under More stats. Everything is worked out from the saved results.

Chat and the host

During a match everyone can tap a reaction or send a short line (up to 80 characters), shown with their name. The person who set up a group is its host: only they can remove a player, since that can't be undone. Groups from before this keep their first player as host.

Alerts

Each phone can turn on alerts per group on the Group tab. Nobody picks matches one by one:

• Game on: when the first person says they're in for the next match, the rest of the group is told (at most once every 2 hours), and again when the match kicks off.
• During the match: your phone buzzes when the flag lands on you ("You've got the flag!"), and everyone hears the result at full time. The feed is checked while anyone in the group has the app open, so these come as long as one of you is watching in the app.
• Teams you follow: pick teams once. On days they play, you get one nudge at about 10am.
• Nothing is sent between 11pm and 8am (UK time). On iPhone, alerts only work once Corners has been added to the home screen and opened from there. The bell at the top of the page, a link under the alerts switch and a link on the join screen all open the four steps. While a group is open, the address stays on its invite link, so the home screen icon opens straight into that group.

Alerts need three settings in Vercel (see Set it up). Without them the app works as before, and the alerts section stays hidden.

Rules

1. Everyone in puts in the same stake, agreed as text before the match. Sitting out is fine.
2. Your own phone says whether you're in. A friend at the table without the app can be put in by anyone.
3. At the start the order is shuffled and the first player in it holds the flag.
4. Every corner to either team, stoppage time included, moves the flag one place along.
5. The flag holder at full time wins the pot. No corners means the starter wins.
6. If the live feed takes a corner back, the flag moves back too.
7. An abandoned or postponed match has no winner.

Golden corner

Optional, under ★ Add a golden corner on the who's-in screen. When it's on, the box turns gold and shows the prize. Tick it and write the prize, like "a packet of crisps". At kick-off a secret corner from 1 to 12 is drawn. Whoever the flag goes to on that corner wins the prize, on top of the pot. The number shows once it's been taken, and if the match never gets that many corners nobody wins it. It stays on for the next match until it's turned off.

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