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Start Game In Breakouts

Start the same game in every open breakout, from the main room.

Asked for after the 2026-08-27 workshop: a teacher who sends four groups off to play something had to visit each room and start it there, by which time the first group has been sitting in silence for two minutes.

The teacher is not IN any of these rooms, so this authorises on the PARENT (host only) and starts on their behalf without seating them anywhere. Each breakout gets its own seating from its own participants, which is why the fan-out reuses _seat_and_start rather than reimplementing it.

Partial success is the normal case and is reported rather than hidden: a breakout with one person in it cannot play a two-player game, and the teacher needs to know which one that was. One room failing never stops the others.

post/chatrooms/{room_name}/games/start-in-breakouts

Path parameters

room_namestring required

Headers

authorizationstring nullable

Request body

game_typestring required
configobject nullable

Response

Successful Response

{"stackTrail":"paths:/chatrooms/{room_name}/games/start-in-breakouts:post:responses:200:content:application/json:schema","oasType":"schema","type":"unknown"}

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