A game about the men’s room

Pick the wrong urinal. Everyone will know.

The unwritten rules, written down. Urinal etiquette, men’s health without the awkward bit, and the strangest airport restrooms on Earth. From the makers of the game.

The game is coming to the App Store. Get one email when it’s out.

The rules

Think you know urinal etiquette?

Six rooms, one choice each. It’s scored exactly the way the game scores it.

Pop quiz · 1/6

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You walk in. Which urinal do you pick?

Tap a free urinal.

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Memes

Send one to the group chat

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Schiphol etched a fly into its urinals in the early ’90s. Thirty years later, men are still trying to kill it.

THE PEEKER: Looks around. Looks down. Never stand next to him.

When you pick the urinal next to the guy on a call: Congratulations. You’re in the meeting now.

“So… how’s work going?” Sir. We are at a urinal.

Answering emails mid-stream: Harmless. Just don’t read over his shoulder.

Rule #1: Eyes on the wall. Rule #2: See rule #1.

Health

Men’s health, without the awkward bit

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Three cartoon men standing at urinals, one of them smiling and chatting

Health

Shoulder to shoulder: why men lose their friends, and how to get them back

Men don’t talk face to face, they talk shoulder to shoulder. Why so many of us drift to having no close friends, and the simple, male ways back.

Four cartoon men at urinals, every one of them wearing a moustache

Health

Movember: what it is, how to join and the checks that actually matter

Movember in one page: why men grow moustaches in November, how to take part, and the health checks worth booking while the mo grows in.

A sweating cartoon man at a urinal next to an out-of-order sign

Health

Peeing more at night? What your prostate might be telling you

Getting up at night to pee, a weak stream, or never quite finishing: the common signs of an enlarged prostate, what else they can mean and when to see a doctor.

Etiquette & travel

The science and the airports

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Hand-painted map of Asia with pins on the airports in Urinal Rules Forever

Travel

How to use a Japanese toilet: the buttons, the Sound Princess and the slippers

A traveller’s guide to Japanese toilets: what おしり, ビデ, 止 and 乾燥 mean, how to flush, what the Sound Princess is for and the slipper rule.

The game’s Brussels restroom: a framed Manneken Pis on the tiled wall and a shelf of his tiny costumes

Travel

Manneken Pis: the true story of Brussels’ most famous little boy

Manneken Pis facts and legends: how old the statue really is, why the one on the corner is a copy, the thefts, and his 1,000-outfit wardrobe.

The game’s Paris Charles de Gaulle restroom

Travel

Paris street urinals: the vespasiennes, the last one standing and the red ones nobody wanted

Paris once had more than 1,200 street urinals. How the vespasiennes got their name, where the last one survives, and what replaced them.

The game

54 airports. One rule: read the room.

Peekers, callers, a dad with a very curious son, a cleaner who has seen everything. Every room is a tiny logic puzzle with a social cost. Start at Amsterdam Schiphol, aim for the fly, and work your way round the world.

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