Stay Cool is simple. We ask you to do nothing complicated — but you must do everything at the same time...

When you are the active player in the first round, you must verbally answer the questions asked by your left-hand neighbor while you "write" answers to the questions asked by your right-hand neighbor, using seven letter dice to "write" three- or four-letter answers. While you're doing this, another player flips a 30-second sand timer four times, giving you two minutes to answer as many questions as you can. At the end of that time, multiply the number of answers you gave for the questions from both the left and the right to determine your score.

In the second round, you do the same thing once again with new questions, but you must tell the player watching the sand timer to flip it before it can run out of sand, with a maximum of two minutes of playing time. If you fail to tell the player to flip the timer before it runs out of sand, your turn is over immediately. However your turn ends, you score points as mentioned above.

In the third and final round, you must do everything described in the third round except now you can't see the sand timer!