---
title: "Start Game In Breakouts"
method: POST
path: "/chatrooms/{room_name}/games/start-in-breakouts"
tags: ["games"]
---

# Start Game In Breakouts

`POST /chatrooms/{room_name}/games/start-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.

## Path parameters

- `room_name` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable

## Request body

- StartGameEverywhereRequest
  - `game_type` string, required
  - `config` object, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

---

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