Reverse Tape is a reverse audio challenge you play with friends in the browser. Each round the narrator sees a secret phrase on screen: a celebrity, a film or TV show, or a saying. They read it clearly into the mic. Everyone else receives the recording backwards: a garbled, strange, guaranteed-to-be-funny sound.
You imitate that strange sound as closely as you can and record it. Then you play your own take in reverse, and that's where the magic happens: if your imitation was good, the real phrase pops out. In the studio you can replay the reversed clip, your take and your take in reverse as often as you like; you can re-record too, but each re-record costs points.
When everyone has typed a guess, the results open: the answer, the narrator's original clip and everyone's reversed take side by side. The host can press "Play for everyone" to play any clip on all screens at once, which is where the funniest takes shine. In the lobby you choose the phrase type (celebrities, films and shows, sayings or mixed), how many times each player narrates, and the language.
Create a room, share the link and pick Reverse Tape. The narrator records the secret phrase. Everyone else listens to it backwards and imitates it, then plays their own take in reverse and types what they hear. Correct guesses score, and the next player becomes narrator.
Yes, everyone needs to allow the microphone in the browser. It works on phones and computers. Headphones make the reversed sound clearer. While waiting you can test your mic; that clip isn't sent to anyone.
A correct guess is 100 points. Each re-record in the studio takes 20 points off a correct guess, and a wrong guess never goes below zero. The narrator gets 40 points for each correct guesser, so reading slowly and clearly pays off.
Capitals, accents, punctuation and spaces don't matter. On longer phrases one or two typos still count. Well-known short forms are accepted too, like "Einstein" for "Albert Einstein".