BrainBuzz’s 🎲 trivia board goes on your screen or projector. Teams answer out loud and you score from your own device. No student logins, no student devices, nothing to install. That is the board format specifically — the other two below are played on a phone each, and are the right choice when devices are out.
Free forever for hosting, sample packs and the shared board library.
Need the other kind of lesson too? There is also a ⚡ quiz format — timed multiple choice, one device per student, the loop your class already knows. Same "type a topic, get a game" generation, same free tier. Use the board when devices are away, the quiz when they are out.
And for the last ten minutes of a Friday, 🧠 brain games — fourteen small puzzles, 30 to 45 seconds each, on one device per student. Sudoku, a sliding puzzle, a memory flash, a colour-matching game. Eleven of them need no AI at all, so they cost nothing and cannot contain a wrong answer. No subject knowledge is involved, which makes them the one format where the student who never wins a quiz can win.
| What you need | Most quiz tools | BrainBuzz |
|---|---|---|
| A device per student | Required | Your choice — the board runs with none at all (teams answer aloud). The quiz and the brain games work like the tools you know: one device each |
| Student accounts or codes | Usually | Never — students don't sign in at all |
| Making the questions | Type them, or hunt for someone else's | Type a topic — or hand it the lesson plan you already wrote — and get a full board in about a minute |
| If a student does have a phone | — | They can buzz in on it. Optional, not assumed. |
Upload the lesson plan, chapter or notes you already wrote and get a board made from that — not from what the AI happens to know about the topic. Every clue comes from your file; nothing is invented to fill it out, so a short file gives you a shorter board rather than a padded one. Plain text, Markdown or CSV. Your document is used once and never stored.
One tap sets turn order, a generous timer, hints on, and catch-up scoring so the team that's behind still has something to play for.
Marked a team wrong by accident in front of thirty people? One button puts the points, the lockout and the turn back exactly as they were.
Rewrite a clue mid-game if it lands badly. Every generated board is fact-checked, and you can re-run the check yourself.
Every AI board passes a content filter before it reaches the screen, and again before anyone can publish it to the shared library.
Switch the whole game to Spanish — and generate boards written in Spanish, not translated afterwards. Useful for dual-language rooms.
No phone, or a device that won't connect? Add them to a team by name and they play exactly like everyone else.
Free to play, no AI credit needed. A few of the classroom sets in the shared library:
Pick a ready-made one, type your unit — "Photosynthesis", "Unit 4 vocabulary" — or upload your own lesson plan and have the board built from that.
One per table group. Add names for students without a device.
Open the TV link on your projector or smart TV. No projector? Play straight from your own screen.
Tap a value, read the clue, hear the answer, tap ✓ or ✗. About 30–45 minutes, or stop whenever the bell goes.
No. Students never sign in and never give an email address. Only you have an account, and it's free to create.
That's the normal case here. Add each team by name, run the whole game from your screen, and have students answer out loud. Take-turns mode suits this best — turns come round in a fixed order, so there's nothing to race for.
Every generated board is fact-checked by a second pass, but skim it before class — 📋 Manage your boards, on your account page, lets you rewrite any clue and re-run the check yourself. Treat it as a strong first draft, not a finished worksheet.
Hosting games, the sample packs and the shared board library are free forever, and every new account gets three free AI boards. If you want unlimited AI boards and an unlimited saved library it's $7/month, cancel anytime. See pricing.
Yes — save it to your library and load it any time. You can also publish one to the shared library if you want other teachers to use it, or keep it private, which is the default.
Students aren't asked for any. No accounts, no emails. If a student adds a photo from their own phone it lives in server memory for that game only and is gone when the room closes. See the privacy policy.
BrainBuzz is an independent trivia game inspired by classic TV game shows. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to Jeopardy!, Jeopardy Productions, Inc., or Sony Pictures.