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Hot Potato

Hot Potato is a party game with simple rules. But it requires somobody to play/pause video without playing actual game. So I’ve wrote simple JavaScript to automate this.

Instruction:

1. Open any video on YouTube
2. Open Developer Tools console
3. Paste JavaScript below and press Enter

var play_seconds = 20;  // seconds
var play_variation = 5;  // +- seconds
var pause_seconds = 5;  // seconds

function sleep(s) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, s * 1000));
}

async function game() {
    var video = document.getElementById('movie_player');
    while (true) {
        console.log('play')
        video.playVideo();
        await sleep(play_seconds + Math.floor((Math.random() * (2 * play_variation)) - play_variation));
        console.log('pause')
        video.pauseVideo();
        await sleep(pause_seconds);
    }
}
game()