Questions

Set aside the 8 special cards, shuffle the 100 Player Cards and deal every player a face-up hand. Play the Opening Kickoff card before the first snap, then watch the live game. When the event on one of your cards happens, call it, complete the action, bank the card and draw again. When the game ends, the player with the most points wins.

About five minutes. The deck includes Start Here, Know Your Cards and Quick Tips reference cards, so nobody has to memorize anything — if you can follow the game on TV, you already know most of it.

Deal only from the 100 Player Cards. Before dealing, set aside the 8 special cards: the 3 reference cards, Opening Kickoff and the 4 House Rules cards. The Player Cards you do not deal become the draw pile.

Turn the deck face-up. Every Player Card has a gold “NO.” number in the top-left corner, from NO. 001 to NO. 100. The 8 special cards have no number: the 3 reference cards and 4 House Rules cards are marked “REFERENCE”, and Opening Kickoff is marked “PLAY FIRST”. All 108 cards share the same back.

Yes. After you take out the 8 special cards, shuffle the 100 Player Cards well, then deal.

Start Here, Know Your Cards and Quick Tips are the rules on three cards. They are never dealt and score no points — keep them on the table so anyone can check a rule mid-game.

They are blank on purpose. Your group can write in a rule you all agree on before you start — or leave them in the box. They are optional, never dealt and score no points.

For 2–5 players, deal 5 cards face-up to each player. For 6–12 players, deal 3 cards face-up to each player.

Face-up. Hands stay face-up for the whole game. Everyone can see every card.

Put the cards you did not deal face-down in the middle of the table as the draw pile. When you complete a card, put it face-up in a bank pile in front of you, so your points are easy to count at the end.

The card that starts every game. Before the first snap, every player calls heads or tails on the broadcast's opening coin toss. Started after the TV toss? Choose one person to flip a coin of your choice, and everyone calls that instead. Wrong calls take one drink — optional, as every drink call is.

Yes. Deal as normal and play Opening Kickoff with a real coin: one person flips, everyone calls heads or tails first. Then start watching for your cards from the next play.

Bank it. Its points now count toward your score. Then draw another card.

Everyone holding a matching card calls it and banks it. There is no race — you only ever call your own cards.

Yes. You can call a card any time later in the game, as long as the moment happened while the card was in your hand. If the table is unsure what happened, a quick majority vote decides.

Go with the final call after the review. If the moment no longer happened, the card goes back into your hand. If the table can't agree, majority vote decides.

Lock It In cards are predictions. Keep the card face-up until the prediction is decided, then bank it.

Each banked card is worth the points printed on it — 1 for common calls, up to 5 for very rare ones. Play Cards are worth 0. A few cards also steal or double points; keep a quick note of those and apply them at the end. The player with the most points wins.

Steals move points, not cards. When a card such as Steal or Score Prediction tells a player to steal points, the banked cards stay where they are. Jot down the amount — subtract it from the player who lost it and add it to the player who took it. At the end, each score is that player's banked cards plus or minus the tally.

Keep playing with the cards already dealt.

Majority vote. The table decides, and the game moves on.

Yes. Deal them a hand from the draw pile — 5 cards if your table has 2–5 players, 3 if it has 6–12 — and they start at 0 points.

Yes. Two players each get 5 face-up cards, and the game plays exactly the same way — it works as well on the couch as at a watch party.

As long as the football game you are watching — usually around three hours on TV,, including halftime. Final Whistle ends when the live game does.

When the live football game ends, Final Whistle ends. If the game goes to overtime, keep playing. Once the final result is settled, resolve any remaining Lock It In predictions and total your points.

The player with more banked cards wins. If it is still tied, flip a coin.

One complete 108-card deck: 100 player cards, 3 reference cards, 1 Opening Kickoff card and 4 House Rules cards. No app, charging, subscription or expansion required.

108 in the box, but you deal from 100. The 100 Player Cards are the playing deck; the other 8 are set aside before dealing. Nothing else to buy, and no app to download.

Two to twelve. For 2–5 players, deal 5 cards face-up to each player; for 6–12 players, deal 3 cards face-up to each player.

You need a full game on screen — the broadcast is the game board. Any live professional American football game works, and so does a recorded game nobody in the room has seen yet. The deck is written for the pro game — college football's rules and rhythm are slightly different. Highlights do not work well, because the cards depend on the flow of a full game.

Yes. A championship broadcast gives the deck plenty to work with: a televised coin toss for Opening Kickoff, long ad breaks and a halftime show for the Break cards, and a whole evening of predictions to lock in. It also plays with up to 12 people, so it suits a big room.

You need a screen of some kind, since every card is tied to something happening in the broadcast. A phone or tablet propped up in the tailgate is enough — the deck itself needs no power, no app and no signal.

No. Alcohol is not required — any beverage works. Every card carries a points value and an optional drink call, any player may skip any drink, and a skipped drink never stops the card from banking. Final Whistle is for adults 21+. Never drink and drive.

Final Whistle is on sale now on Amazon and Walmart. The Buy on Amazon and Buy at Walmart buttons on this site link straight to each listing, and the retailer handles payment, shipping and returns.

No. Final Whistle is an independent party game from Slytiger Games. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Football League or any professional football team.