Reveal ranks on confidence, not speed. That is unusual, and it is the reason the game is interesting instead of a reflex test.
Rule one: only correct answers count
A wrong guess never places. It does not matter how fast it was, how little of the photo you had uncovered, or how close your answer was to the truth. Wrong is unranked, full stop.
So the first job is being right. Everything else is a tiebreak among people who already got there.
Rule two: least revealed wins
Among the correct answers, the ranking goes to whoever had uncovered the smallest amount of the photo at the moment they answered.
Uncover 15% and get it right, and you beat a friend who needed 60% — even if they answered an hour before you did. What you are being scored on is how little information you needed.
Rule three: speed breaks ties
If two people answered correctly at the exact same reveal percentage, the faster answer takes the higher spot. Any tie still standing after that is broken automatically.
Why this way round
Ranking on pure speed would reward whoever happened to have their phone in their hand. Ranking on reveal amount rewards something about the friendship: recognising your friend's world from a fragment.
It also creates the real decision of the game. Every extra second of holding makes you more certain and less competitive. Answering at 20% when you are 80% sure is a genuine gamble — and being wrong drops you out of the ranking entirely.
Resolution
Nobody judges a Reveal. It resolves on its own once the deadline passes. The host has no say in who wins and cannot influence the result.
The minimum
At least 2 friends must have answered by the deadline for anyone to be ranked. Under that, the Reveal resolves with no winners — no penalty for the host, no retry, it simply ends.
Note this counts answers, not correct ones. Two people answering with one right gives you exactly one winner.
Fewer than three correct
The podium fills as far as it can. One correct guess means one winner. Two means first and second. There is no padding out the podium with wrong answers.
The leaderboard
Under the photo, everyone invited is listed.
While it runs, you see who has already answered — by name — with everyone still deciding listed quietly below. You never see how anyone did. That is deliberate: if scores showed live, someone who had answered could read the answer off a friend's row.
Once it resolves, the same list fills in with medals and reveal percentages for the correct guesses, in ranked order.