How to Play Power Play

Game guides · Updated 4 September 2026

Power Play is the one game on Spice Up where the players are not equals. One of you leads, the other follows, and the phone belongs to the Lead. Every card is written to them about the one following. What makes it safe is where the cards come from: the deck deals only from what you both already said yes to in Yes, No, Maybe.

Before you start: the contract

Play Yes, No, Maybe first. Each of you answers a checklist privately, lead or follow, mild to wild, and the reveal shows only what overlaps. That overlap is the contract, and Power Play never deals outside it. A card that names spanking is dealt only when spanking is in the contract and both people in front of it said yes. A player who has not answered can still be in the room, but only cards that need no agreement can be about them.

At the door

The game asks who is leading tonight, out loud, and every name gets a chip: Lead or Follow. A couple is one and one. A group can be one Lead and several followers, or several Leads sharing one follower, or pairs. Each side can take a title, Sir, Goddess, Ma'am, pet, or a word of your own, and the cards use it. Titles are optional; names work fine.

Anyone who would sit out, because nobody they play with took the other role, is named under their own row with the fixes to hand: swap their role, or open their Player settings.

The cards

• Command. The core. Have them kneel and wait for your next word
• Service. The follower does something for the Lead, as directed
• Protocol. A rule for the next few cards, with a counter
• Praise. The thing that makes it warm. One true thing they did well, and make them wait a moment for it
• Task. Something to do, with Done and Not done. Done deals a reward from the contract. Not done deals a consequence, also from the contract

Draw, do, draw again. A light tally in the header counts what was done.

Check-ins

Every six to nine cards, whatever the level, a check-in card comes round: ask them for their colour, green, yellow or red, then act on it. Asking is the Lead's job, because a follower deep in a scene may not reach for a word. The safe word in the header stays the hard stop throughout.

Levels

• Gentle: protocol without touch. Positions, eye contact, titles, waiting, permission to speak, being told what to wear, fetching a drink and presenting it properly
• Playful: light touch under instruction, undressing on command, being made to ask, hands held behind the back
• Spicy: explicit direction, full undressing, restraint, edging and denial as instruction, sensation under control
• Wild: explicit, no filter, within every player's limits as always

A card about one follower is capped by that follower's own comfort level, not the room's.

Swapping who leads

Swap who leads is a control under the card. Any follower can become the Lead, or two players trade. In a room where someone chose Either, the game itself offers a swap every dozen or so cards, and goes quiet after two nos. A room where everyone chose a side is never asked.

Ending the scene

End the scene deals three aftercare cards that do not escalate and cannot be skipped past into more scene. Water first. Then tell them, in plain words, what they did well tonight. Whatever was said with a title on, say something now without one. Every other game trails off when people stop tapping; this one insists on landing, because it is the thing a first-timer most needs and least knows to do.

Power Play, answered