Host guide
Back to my quizzesEverything you need to run a great game, in about five minutes of reading.
Quick start
- Sign in (top of My quizzes) before you build, so your quizzes are saved to your account and follow you to any device.
- Build your quiz in four steps (tap between them in any order): Basics (your name, in the room or remote, sound), Rounds (rounds and questions -- write your own, or pull them in from your Question bank, where you keep questions to reuse; press ๐พ on a question to keep it there), Look (theme, colour, logo) and Awards (awards and Wildcards).
- Answers at the end? Each round (or every round at once, at the top of Rounds) can reveal its answers after each question (the default), at the end of the round or at the end of the quiz (Quizzer). You press Lock in & next question and nothing is marked. When the round is over, everyone gets a second chance to answer what they left blank or passed on, then you press Start reading the answers and reveal them one by one, each scoring as it lands. At the end of the quiz, scores stay secret until then, and Wildcards and round awards are switched off. Fastest answer, bidding, connections, mini games, Draw it, Last one standing, Winner stays on and rounds with lives still reveal as they happen.
- Want it on paper? ๐จ Print (on each quiz in My quizzes, or in the builder) gives you a host sheet with every question, answer, point value and note of yours (Quiz Master), plus a blank answer sheet for each team and a marking sheet for swapping papers. Print them, or save as a PDF from the print window. Mini games and Draw it need the app, so they're listed as left out. The โฌ Backup file (free) keeps the whole quiz; restore it from ๐ Import a quiz, on this account or another. โฌ Download all my quizzes on My quizzes backs up everything in one go.
- Already written one? ๐ Import a quiz (on My quizzes) reads your Word document or PDF, or pasted text, into rounds and questions: โก Quick read goes by the layout (round headings, numbered questions, answers in brackets), and โจ AI read (Quiz Master) copes with messier documents. Check what it found, round by round (change a round's or a question's type, fix answers, tick off anything flagged โ ๏ธ), then open it in the builder to save. Got a question's type wrong anywhere? Change it from the dropdown on the question: its answers come with it.
- Try it with โถ Preview: a private practice game with bots, showing your controls, the shared screen and a phone side by side. Nobody else can join.
- Press Host. Open the shared screen link on a TV or projector. Players scan the QR code or go to the join page and type the room code.
- Start the game once everyone's in, then run each question from your own phone or laptop: reveal, then next.
๐ก Get everyone joined before you start -- once a game begins, anyone arriving late can only watch.
The three screens
๐๏ธ Your controls
Only you see this. Start the game, reveal answers, mark free-text answers, move to the next question.
It never shows on the TV, so you can peek at what's coming.
๐บ Shared screen
For the TV or projector: questions, the countdown, reveals, scoreboards and awards, in your theme.
Watch-only -- no buttons, nothing to click by accident.
๐ฑ Players' phones
Each player answers here. Phones show the question too, so anyone who can't see the TV can still play.
๐ Playing remotely (Zoom, Teams, Meet)?
You have two options. Pick one in the builder's Basics step, or in the lobby.
๐บ On a shared screen: open the shared screen link and screen-share that window on the call, exactly like a TV. Never share your host controls -- they have your buttons, and players would be watching the wrong page.
๐ฑ On their own phones: nobody screen-shares. Once someone has answered, their phone also shows everyone's screen -- who's answered, the reveal, scoreboards, the mini-game race -- and plays the sounds.
Paste the join link from the lobby into the call's chat. Keep talking on the call as usual.
Question types
Every question type can sit in any round, so mix them. Points are set per question (bidding and mini games work their own out).
๐ Multiple choice
A question with a few options. Usually one is right and players tap it. Switch "Right answers" to "Several" for "which of these were monarchs?".
- The right answer lights up on the shared screen at the reveal, with how many picked each option.
- With several right answers, tick every right option when you build it: that number is the limit players see ("Pick 3"), and their phones stop at it.
- Each right pick scores the question's points. Picks left empty score nothing, and you can switch on a point off for each wrong pick. It never goes below zero. Only a perfect answer counts as "right" for lives and the % got it right.
Marking: Automatic.
Best for: Any group, any size -- the fastest, easiest round type. Several right answers needs at least one wrong option left.
โ๏ธ Free text
Players type their answer.
- Add accepted answers and matching answers are marked right straight away (small typos are forgiven).
- Leave accepted answers out for opinion or judgement questions -- you mark each answer at the reveal.
- You can always override a mark at the reveal.
Marking: Automatic with accepted answers, otherwise by you.
Best for: Small and medium groups. For big groups, always add accepted answers.
๐ข Guess the order
Players put a shuffled list in the right order (oldest to newest, smallest to biggest...).
- Only the exact order counts -- one swap and it's wrong.
Marking: Automatic.
Best for: Any size. Keep lists to 4 or 5 items so it's fair on a phone.
๐ฏ Nearest wins
Players guess a number (a year, a height, a count).
- Whoever is closest wins the points. If two guesses are equally close, both win.
- Optional exact bonus: extra points on top for hitting the number exactly.
- Not just a number: set the answer as years and months, hours/minutes/seconds, minutes and seconds, feet and inches, or a date. Phones get a box for each part, and closest still wins (a guess of 140 months is the same as 11 yrs 8 mths).
Marking: Automatic, at the reveal.
Best for: Any size -- everyone has a chance, even with no idea.
๐ฐ Bids
A "how many can you name?" challenge, e.g. "Name countries beginning with A".
- Everyone secretly bids how many they can name.
- You open the floor: the highest secret bid starts, and anyone can raise with +1 taps.
- Set a maximum bid in the question (e.g. 27 for EU countries) so nobody bids more answers than exist.
- You lock it in when bidding dies down (there's no timer). Whoever holds the bid types their answers on their phone (only you see them) or says them out loud.
- You mark them Succeeded (they win points equal to the bid) or Failed (they lose that many).
- If the question has a list of accepted answers, you also get the list as tap-able chips under each bidder: tick each answer as it's said, and tap โ for a wrong or repeated one. It finishes by itself, and the room only hears how many they got, never which.
- Or set the question so a failed bid gives everyone else what they fell short by: you just enter how many they got right at the end (never one by one, so the next bidder hears nothing), and the other players -- or teams -- gain the difference.
- People who bid the same top amount all go for it -- or either can raise to take it alone -- and you judge each one.
Marking: By you, live.
Best for: Small groups, or as a showpiece finale. Only the top bidder plays, so big groups spend it watching.
Needs Quizzer to host.
โก Fastest answer
Multiple choice where speed matters. It's a setting on a round: switch on "Fastest right answer wins" for every multiple-choice question, or tick it on just the ones you choose.
- The fastest right answer wins the points, then chooses: keep them, or steal the same amount from another player.
- Anyone who answers wrong loses the points, however fast they were -- so guessing is risky.
- Answers within a quarter of a second of each other count as a tie, and both players win.
Marking: Automatic.
Best for: Any size. The steal causes the best arguments.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐งฉ Connections
Clues appear one at a time, all pointing at one answer ("Angel, Niagara, Victoria..." -> Waterfalls).
- You reveal each clue with the big Reveal clue button. Players can guess at any point: the fewer clues showing, the more points.
- With four clues, guessing after the first is worth 4 points and after the last is worth 1 -- or set your own points for each clue in the question (e.g. 5, 3, 2, 2).
- Each player gets one guess. A wrong guess locks that player out of the question. With round lives set, it also costs a life (and so does not guessing at all).
- Players who aren't sure can tap Not sure yet to ask for the next clue. It costs nothing, and they can still guess on any later clue. You see how many have guessed and how many are waiting; when everyone is one or the other, an auto-hosted game shows the next clue straight away, and your Reveal clue button says everyone's ready.
- When Quizzee reads the quiz, clue 1 appears as he says it, not when the question does.
- You see every guess as it lands, and can Mark right a guess the accepted answers missed (it gets its points, and its life back).
Marking: Automatic -- add accepted answers.
Best for: Any size. Great tension as clues drop.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐จ Draw it (Quiz Master)
Everyone gets a secret prompt to draw on their phone, then guesses each other's drawings.
- Each player gets a different prompt from your list (type or paste them, or tap From my question bank). They have 60 seconds by default -- no letters!
- Press Start guessing when pens are down. Every drawing goes up, one at a time; everyone but the artist types a guess.
- Press Reveal the prompt: each right guess scores (2 by default) and the artist scores for every person who got it (1 each).
- Only each artist ever sees their own prompt.
Marking: Automatic (typo tolerant).
Best for: Groups up to about 10 -- every drawing is guessed, so a big room takes a while.
๐ฆ Unique answers
"Name something you'd find on a bus" -- driver, seats, passengers... answers nobody else gives score most.
- Everyone types an answer. At the reveal, matching answers are grouped on the screen -- "Seats ร4", "๐ฆ Chewing gum".
- You set the points: a unique answer (default 3), a shared one (0, or minus to punish the obvious) and a not-valid one.
- Tap Not valid for answers that don't count ("a giraffe"), or merge two that mean the same ("driver" and "bus driver"). Scores follow instantly.
- Optional: a list of valid answers (paste it, comma-separated) -- off-list answers don't count, and typos group with the right one.
- Optional: extra points for the same answer as yours ("a point for anyone with the same drink as me") -- at the reveal, tap ๐ฏ Same as mine on it.
Marking: Automatic grouping; you judge validity (or give a list).
Best for: A great opener at any size. A round of 10 works well.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐ Last one standing
Players take turns naming things from a big list ("UK Christmas number ones"). A repeat or a wrong answer costs a life.
- Add the list in the builder (paste it, comma-separated). Pick the lives each player gets (3 by default), the points for each right answer (1), and, if you like, a time for each turn.
- Players go in the order they're on the screen (or shuffled). The screen shows whose turn it is, everyone's lives and what's been said.
- Players can say their answer out loud -- tap it on your list (tap one already said to mark a repeat, or โ Wrong) -- or type it on their phone, when it's checked against the list for you.
- Run out of lives and you're out. It ends when one player is left, or the list runs out. Every right answer scores, so lasting longer is worth more.
- With nobody hosting, the list is needed (that's how answers are checked and repeats spotted) and every turn has a clock: 30 seconds unless you set one.
- Make the list big enough: about 6 players with 3 lives can get through 15 or more answers.
Marking: Automatic with a list (typos allowed); otherwise you tap each answer.
Best for: Groups of 3 to 12. A great finisher for music, films and lists.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐ Winner stays on
Players take turns in a fixed order. Get a question right and you choose a prize and keep going; get it wrong and it passes on.
- Add it with + Add turn-based round. The round's rules (prizes, lives, clocks, the order) sit at the top and its questions below, in order: multiple choice, free text or a number. A number has to be matched exactly, so put any range in the wording ("to the nearest hundred, how many years old is the USA?").
- The order of players is set before the first question (the order on the screen, or shuffled). The first player gets the first question on their phone; everyone else watches.
- Right: they choose to add points to their own score, or take points off any other player (you set both amounts for the round; a take can't push anyone below nothing). Then they get the next question.
- Wrong, or out of time: they lose a life and it passes to the next player in the order, who gets a new question. At zero lives you're out and skipped. Set lives to 0 for none.
- You can limit how many right answers one player can chain before control passes on, and set a clock for each turn and for the whole round. It ends when the questions, the time or the lives run out (with lives, once only one player is left in).
- Free text with accepted answers is marked for you (typos allowed). With none, you see what they typed and tap Right or Wrong. With nobody hosting, every free-text question needs accepted answers, and every turn has a 30-second clock unless you set one.
Marking: Automatic, except free text with no accepted answers, which you mark.
Best for: A fast finisher for 3 to 12 players. Players play as individuals in team games.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐ต Multiple answers
One question, several answers, e.g. "Name the song AND the artist".
- Each part has its own points, plus an optional bonus for getting them all.
- Parts with accepted answers are marked straight away; the rest you mark at the reveal.
Marking: Automatic with accepted answers, otherwise by you.
Best for: Music and film rounds. Add accepted answers for big groups.
Needs Quizzer to host.
๐ฎ Mini games
A quick game everyone plays on their own phone, dropped into a round like a question.
- Stop the Clock: stop the timer as close to the target as possible. The clock disappears after 3 seconds.
- Colour Clash: tap the colour the word is written in, not the word. +1 right, -1 wrong.
- Hurdles: tap to jump. Clean jumps speed you up; hitting a hurdle costs a point.
- Roulette: bet free chips, or risk your own points for double winnings. The wheel spins on the shared screen.
- Quick Draw: tap the moment the screen turns green, five times. Fastest average wins; tapping early costs a second.
- Balloon Pump: tap like mad to pump balloons until they pop. Most pops wins.
- Higher or Lower: call the next card. One wrong call ends your run -- the longest streak wins.
- Memory Pads: watch the pads flash, then repeat the sequence as it grows. One slip and you're out.
- Points go by finishing place (by default 1st 5, 2nd 3, 3rd 2, and 1 for everyone else who played).
- Anyone who doesn't play at all (phone left on the table) scores nothing and takes no place.
Marking: Automatic.
Best for: Any size -- a palate cleanser between question rounds.
Stop the Clock and Quick Draw are free; the other six need Quizzer.
Round settings
There are three things to add: + Add round (everyone at once) (you can mix any kinds of question in it -- a sports round could be multiple choice, nearest wins and a mini game), + Add turn-based round (players take turns and the winner stays on), and โ + Add break. Inside a round, the + Add buttons add questions, and "More question types" lists everything else with a line on what it is. Things like a picture, a quote, lives and fastest answer are settings you switch on, not separate round types.
๐ฃ๏ธ Who said it?
Each question is a quote (shown in quote marks) with two suspects. They stay hidden -- on every screen -- until you tap ๐ฅ Reveal the suspects, with a drumroll. Any multiple-choice question can do this: tick "Hide the options until I reveal them".
๐ท๏ธ Subtitle
An optional line of context under the round's name -- handy when the name is a clue or an in-joke, e.g. Building Better Worlds with the subtitle Switch sprint stats.
It shows under the round name on the shared screen, on phones and on the "Up next" screen.
โฑ๏ธ Timer
Give every question in a round its own countdown (30 seconds by default).
Choose Starts by itself (a few seconds of reading time, then answers open) or You start it -- handy if you read questions out loud first.
Works on multiple choice, free text, guess the order, nearest wins and multiple answers.
๐ญ Reveal drama
How much show the reveals put on: Quick (results straight away), Standard or Dramatic (longer pauses). Set it for the whole quiz on the Look step, or give a round its own.
It covers the scoreboard countdown and the reveals for nearest wins, guess the order, unique answers and the vote bars, and the Connections story (each clue again with who guessed, who didn't, what everyone said, the answer, how everyone did). Free for everyone. A device set to "reduce motion" always gets Quick.
โค๏ธ Lives
Give any round lives (3 to start). A wrong or blank answer on a question costs one life, however many parts it has: a pick-all or multiple-answers question costs one unless every part is right. At zero a player watches the rest of the round, the screen shows how many are still standing, and if nobody is, the round ends early. Resets every round.
Mini games, Draw it, bids and the turn-based games (Last one standing, Winner stays on) never cost a life. The Survivor round style is simply a round that starts with lives switched on.
๐ก Hints
Add a hint to multiple choice, free text, guess the order, nearest wins or multiple-answer questions, then reveal it from your controls if the room is stuck.
๐ผ๏ธ Pictures and audio
Attach an image or a short audio clip to a question (up to 5MB).
๐จ Make a picture opens a small editor: add several images, move, resize and turn them, add text, choose a canvas size and shape (a TV shape, square, a circle...) and a colour or gradient background, then use it as the question's picture. Select an image and press โ๏ธ Cut out to remove a colour (a plain background, say) or rub parts out with a brush.
Audio can play on the shared screen for everyone, or privately on each player's phone (best for "name that tune" with headphones, or noisy rooms).
๐จ Theme and sound
Pick a look for the quiz (27 themes -- see them all in the Theme showroom). With Quiz Master, each round can have its own.
Sound effects play on the shared screen; you can switch them off for the quiz.
๐ค Tie-breaker
Add nearest-wins questions at the end of the quiz (up to five). They're only asked if the game ends tied for first. Only the tied players answer; if they're still level, the next one appears by itself, for just whoever is still level.
When yours run out, questions about the night itself follow, which the app works out the answers to: how many answers were marked right, how many wrong, the average score, the lowest score and everyone's total. They carry on until someone is ahead. If the players guess every one the same, it stays a tie and they share the win. You can switch these off, or use them on their own with no tie-breaker of your own.
Rounds for your crowd
๐ฅ Big groups (15+ players)
Great: multiple choice, fastest answer, nearest wins, guess the order, connections and mini games -- everyone plays at once and it's all marked for you.
Careful: free text and multiple answers without accepted answers -- you'll be marking every single answer by hand.
Skip or save for the finale: bidding -- only the top bidder plays.
Turn on a round timer to keep things moving, and use Quick awards so breaks stay short.
๐๏ธ Small groups (2-8 players)
Everything works. Bidding, free text and connections with lives are at their best here -- the banter is the point.
Leave timers off (or long) so people can talk it through.
๐ก A good shape for a night: 5-8 rounds of 5-10 questions, a mini game between heavier rounds, and your trickiest round last. Preview it once with bots to check the pace.
๐ก Venue wifi is usually the weak point with lots of players. Ask people to join while you set up, and have them use mobile data if the wifi struggles.
Must-know mechanics
- Answers stay hidden until you reveal. Nobody, including you, sees what people answered until you press reveal.
- See who's still thinking. With up to 24 players, the shared screen shows everyone's token, lighting up with a tick as they answer, and your controls list who has answered -- handy for a friendly nudge. Bigger rooms just show the count.
- The scoreboard shows between rounds, not after every question -- it keeps the suspense, and the end-of-round reveal counts down from last place to first.
- Late arrivals watch, they don't join. Once the game starts, joining closes (they'd have missed points). Anyone opening the link sees the shared screen on their phone instead.
- Faces and reactions. Everyone gets an avatar when they join (a random face, remembered on their phone) and can build or draw another in the lobby. Players can send emoji reactions that float up the shared screen, except while they still have a question to answer. Switch reactions off on your controls if they get too much.
- ๐ญ Rascal, your sidekick (Quiz Master). Tap Rascal's pink face in the corner of your controls for her menu. The top shows what's happening and the button to move on, so you never have to close it. โAsk Rascalโ has questions for the moment (โHow are you, Rascal?โ in the lobby, โWho's going to win?โ between rounds): say it out loud, tap, and she answers. Quick buttons are always there: joke, one-liner, roast someone, praise someone, roast me, ๐ฎ crystal ball. โGet to know Rascalโ asks about her jobs, where she grew up, and her favourite food and music. The ๐๏ธ Chattiness slider (in the builder and the menu) sets how often she chips in by itself, from โonly when I tapโ to โvery activeโ, and ๐ค Be quiet shuts her up until you bring her back. Switch on ๐ Quizzee & Rascal in the builder's Basics (โถ Hear it to try it). You host and Rascal, the logo's googly eyes in pink in the shared screen's corner, is your sidekick: she has a sharp-tongued South Wales valleys voice. Quizzee, her purple partner, only turns up when a quiz is played with nobody hosting, where he reads the questions. Your controls get buttons for her to chip in: ask when you're starting (in the lobby), say hello, crack a joke, agree with you, heckle the room or hurry them up. By default she never says anyone's name: the scores are read as positions and points (โIn first placeโฆ on thirty points!โ, โThe next three are all on twelveโ) in plenty of different wordings, and you're โour hostโ. Names are a beta: tick โSay players' and teams' namesโ in the builder (or in her menu during the game) and she greets players by name as they join (you can switch that off in the lobby), roasts you by name (๐ฅ Roast me), and names the leader and whoever's last; if she isn't sure how to say a name, that player's phone asks them how it sounds. Either way she kicks off the quiz, reads the scores after each round and at the end, and pipes up now and then when everyone gets one wrong. Her comedy buttons tell a joke, a story or a musing, big up or roast the room, fill an awkward silence, or honk a clown horn where a rude word would be. Ask โ๐ถ Any kids here?โ and answer ๐ง Yes or ๐บ No: adults-only unlocks the cheekier jokes and the honks. Family-friendly games get the gentle lines only. Muting the screen (๐) silences her.
- ๐ช Family-friendly. Tick it in the builder's Basics (or on your controls in the lobby or during the game) and swear words in players' names, team names, answers and guesses are starred out (f***) on every screen. You can also hide a rude Draw it drawing (๐ Hide this drawing) and reset a rude drawn face (๐ฅ Players: remove or reset).
- After the quiz. Every phone gets a ๐ธ Your night card (place, points, right answers, awards) to share or save. Back in the builder and your Question bank, each question shows ๐ % got it right, so you can see which were too hard or too easy.
- Someone joined twice, or had to leave? A name can only be used once, so the same person on their phone and a laptop is stopped at the door. To take someone out, open ๐ฅ Players: remove or reset on your controls (in the lobby or during the game): they drop off the scoreboard, can't rejoin from that device, and you can let them back in.
- Closed the page by accident? Reopening the link on the same phone carries straight on. Moving to a different phone mid-game isn't possible yet.
- Tap the TV once for sound. Browsers only allow sound after a tap, so the shared screen shows "Tap to turn on sound" -- tap it before you start.
- Keep your host controls open. Your device holds the answers and does the marking (so players can't peek or fake a score). Connections guesses are marked the moment they land, so leave the page open while people guess. Host from the device, or signed-in account, you started the game on.
- "๐คท I don't know" lets a player pass on multiple choice, free text, ordering and multiple-answer questions: it counts as answered, so you're not left waiting, and scores nothing.
- Wrong answers can cost points in fastest answer (you lose the question's points) and in bidding (you lose your bid). Everywhere else a wrong answer just scores nothing.
- You can re-mark answers. Mark a free-text answer or a bid wrongly and just change it -- the score adjusts without double counting.
- Repeat warnings: if the same question appears twice in a quiz (same type, wording and answer), the builder flags it. Nothing is blocked.
- Light or dark? Use the ๐ / โ๏ธ / ๐ฑ switch (on My quizzes, the builder and this guide) to pick how your screens look. Players' phones and the shared screen always show the quiz's theme.
- Sign in to keep your quizzes. Quizzes built without signing in live in that one browser. Signing in keeps them on your account, on every device.
- ๐ Host notes. Give any question a note ("You could have had...") and any round an intro ("Multiple choice, 20 seconds each"). Only your controls show them: a round's intro as it starts, a question's note after the reveal. Players and the shared screen never see them.
- "How tonight works". While people join, the shared screen and phones show a slideshow of the rules your quiz uses (teams, captains, Wildcards, timers...). It never names awards or mini games, and only lists round names if you tick that. Switch it off in the builder's Basics step.
- Unsaved changes are kept on your device. If your phone closes the builder in the background, reopen it and your changes come back. They're only on that device until you press Save quiz, so save before switching devices.
Team games (Quizzer; captains Quiz Master)
๐ฅ How it works
Pick Teams in the builder's Basics step and name 2-8 teams. Everyone still answers on their own phone and scores for themselves; teams are ranked on their players' points.
Team score: the average per player (fair when teams are different sizes) or the total (bigger teams have an edge). You choose per quiz.
๐ Getting into teams
Players pick on their phone in the lobby, you Shuffle everyone into even teams, or you choose each player's team.
Whichever you pick, you can move anyone in the lobby. Anyone still without a team goes into the smallest one when you start, and teams are fixed from then on.
Teams name themselves: in the lobby, each team's first member can rename it from their phone. (In a Shuffle game, tap Shuffle before starting so teams have time to.)
๐งข Captain mode
Pick Captain answers and each team gives one answer per question. Teammates tap their suggestion; the captain sees them all (with who suggested what) and locks in the team's answer.
The captaincy takes turns round by round, or stays with the team's first member. If a captain doesn't answer, the team's most popular suggestion counts (not for fastest answer).
Team picks lets each team vote for its captain before every round (from round 2). With ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Mutiny on, any crew member can call a mutiny on the captain due to take over (the crew see that captain's record first, and the captain gets a โhow did you do so farโ page). The rest of the crew then have 20 seconds to vote Mutiny, Keep or Abstain, in secret. It only passes if Mutiny beats Keep, with at least two votes, and then whoever called it is captain. A tie keeps the captain. It runs on its own clocks, so there's nothing to press (you can skip ahead).
Every suggestion is marked at the reveal, so the app knows who made the good calls: captains who trusted their gut and were right, captains who walked past a right answer, and the crewmate whose advice is usually spot on. With awards on it turns that into a few cheeky-but-friendly awards (Captain Fantastic, Gut Feeling, Trust Issues, Voice of Reason, The Prophet, Dodgy Navigatorโฆ; the teasing ones are left out of family-friendly games), and each player's โYour nightโ card tells their own story as captain and crew. Only questions the app can judge by itself count, and it's that night only.
Bids are the captain's call. In mini games everyone plays and the team's best result counts. Team scores are the team's points, so every team has the same chances whatever its size.
๐ Scores and awards
Scoreboards show the teams first, then every player with their team.
With awards on, the final ceremony includes the winning team's MVP; the winning team itself gets the trophy on the final scores. A tie between top teams goes to the tie-breaker question, answered by everyone on those teams.
Wildcards are off in team games.
Breaks (Quiz Master)
โ A break before a round
On any round after the first, set Break before this round to 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes, with an optional message ("Bar's open!"). When the round before it ends, every screen shows the countdown, "Back at 8:45", the scoreboard and a few highlights: who leads, who scored most last round, the trickiest question.
๐ค Rascal's set (Quiz Master)
With Rascal switched on, tick Rascal performs a short set during the break and she does a few bits by himself when the break starts: jokes and a one-liner with their stings, a story, a roast of the room. You also get a ๐ค Rascal's set button on the break screen whenever you want one. โBe quiet, Rascalโ stops it.
โถ You start the next part
The break never ends by itself: press Start next round whenever you're ready (even early), or +5 minutes if the bar's busy. With nobody hosting, the game carries on once the time is up. Wildcards and team votes come after the break.
Scheduled quizzes (Quiz Master)
๐ Book it ahead
On My quizzes, open ๐ Scheduled quizzes and pick a quiz, a date and time, where it is (or online), a few words about it, and when the lobby opens (5 to 60 minutes before). You can keep editing the quiz until the night.
๐ One link, before and on the night
Each quiz gets its own link and QR code. Before the night it shows the details, a countdown, Add to calendar and team sign-ups; once the lobby opens, the same link is where players join. Download a printable poster and a social media image with the QR on.
๐ฅ Teams register ahead
For a team quiz, teams register a name and a captain (you choose how many can). On the night players tap their team, and the phone that registered it goes straight in as captain. You can add, rename or remove teams. A solo quiz lets people say they're coming.
๐ช Opening the room
Open the room any time that day (My quizzes reminds you on the day): players can't join until the lobby time, and nothing starts until you press Start. Your page (/hosts/your-name) lists everything you have coming up.
Sharing your quiz: the Quiz library (Quiz Master)
๐ค Send it in
Once a quiz is ready to share, press Share for auto-hosting on My quizzes. You tick an agreement (nothing illegal, sexual, hateful or abusive, and the quiz is yours to share), add a line or two about it and up to three tags. A person then looks at every question, picture and sound before it goes live. Breaking the agreement means the account is closed with no refund.
โ The answer
The card on My quizzes shows waiting, approved or changes needed, with the reviewer's comments on each question they flagged. Fix it and send it again. An approved quiz is frozen: if you change it later, people keep playing the approved version until you send the new one in.
๐ Playing it
Approved quizzes appear on the Quiz library page. Anyone with a free account can start a game of one with their friends, with nobody hosting: Quizzee reads it and Rascal keeps score. They open with a joke that they didn't write the questions, and finish by pointing players to Tell the quiz maker. Your host name and picture are shown as the creator, and you can share a link to all your quizzes.
โ Contested answers
With nobody hosting, a player marked wrong on a free-text question can challenge it ("I said Birmingham, the answer was Birmingham New Street"). The room votes Yes, No or Abstain for 20 seconds: Yes has to outvote No, with at least two votes (or a quarter of the room). If it passes, everyone who typed the same thing is marked right, and you get a note suggesting you add it to the accepted answers. Everyone has two challenges a game; a failed one uses one up. It also works for Multiple answers parts and Unique answers the list didn't accept. In a game you're hosting, press ๐ณ Room? beside a free-text answer to put it to the vote yourself.
๐ฌ Feedback
Players can give a ๐ or ๐ at the end (the percentage shows once five have voted), and write you a note. Notes appear on your quiz's card as notes from players, without names. A quiz can be taken down if it's reported and found to break the rules; you're told why.
Awards and Wildcards
Every quiz gets the big round announcements, reactions with personality and a scoreboard with commentary. On the Awards step you choose these two extras:
๐ Awards
Choose Off, Every round (a few funny awards after each round, then a final ceremony) or Final ceremony only.
Quick style shows a round's awards on one screen; the final ceremony reveals them one at a time.
๐ Wildcards (Quizzer)
Players are dealt cards at the draws you choose, then play them in secret -- double or nothing, steal points, swap scores, slow a rival's timer and more. A card can be played when any round is announced, not only at a draw: anyone holding one gets a "Play wildcards now" button for a few seconds.
The cards flip over together on the screen (with who played them), then pay out at the end of the round. Last place gets an extra card, so they're a great comeback tool.
If a player has Slow-Mo time left, your Reveal button waits for them -- they bought that time fair and square.
Plans
Players never pay -- only the host needs a plan. Anything marked ๐ can still be built and tried in โถ Preview; hosting it for real needs the plan it names. Quizzes saved before plans began keep hosting as they were. See the plans
Free
3 quizzes, up to 4 rounds and 5 questions a round, up to 10 players. Before you sign up you can save 1 quiz to try it; signing up (free) keeps it and lets you save 3.
Multiple choice, free text, nearest wins and guess the order, one kind of question to a round. No timers: you move on when everyone is ready.
A choice of themes, plus seasonal themes in season. Quizzard, the question bank, backups and a one-bot Preview.
Rascal in the lobby and over the final scores, the final awards ceremony (3 awards) and Play again.
Quizzer
20 quizzes, up to 10 rounds and 10 questions a round, up to 25 players.
Mix question types in a round, every question type including Draw it, all the mini games, pictures and audio.
Timers and pace, lives, hints and notes, Wildcards, team games, all the awards, answers revealed at the end, every theme, import and your own templates.
Rascal for the whole game, saying players' and teams' names.
Quiz Master
100 quizzes, up to 50 rounds and 20 questions a round, up to 100 players.
Breaks, tie-breakers, captains (with team picks and Mutiny), your logo and a theme per round.
Quizzee as host and hosting without you, Rascal's prompts for you, scheduled quizzes, and printable host and answer sheets.
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