A live quiz, one question at a time, everyone on their own phone
The fast one. A question goes up on the big screen, a clock starts, and every person in the room taps an answer on their own phone. Right is worth points; quick is worth more. Then the scoreboard moves, publicly, and you do it again.
How a game runs
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Pick a topic and a length
Up to 50 questions, and you set how long each one gets — anywhere from 5 seconds to 2 minutes, 20 seconds by default. -
Put the question on the big screen
The TV shows the question and the options. The phones show the answer pad and nothing else, so nobody is reading ahead. -
Everyone joins by code
Four letters, no app, no account. Individuals here, not teams — the quiz scores each person. -
Press start once
In auto mode the quiz runs itself all the way to the podium: question, answers, reveal, scoreboard, next. You can take the handbrake at any point.
What you get
Fast is worth more
Scoring is the Kahoot curve: a correct answer is worth up to 1,000 points, falling with how long you took, floored at half so a slow correct answer still beats a wrong one. Answer streaks add a bonus on top, up to 500.
The scoreboard shows movement
Not just who is winning — who just moved. Every player sees their own position and whether they went up or down, which is the part they actually care about and cannot see from where they are sitting.
A pause that really pauses
The handbrake stops the auto-run and freezes the answer clock together. When you resume, the scoring clock resumes from where it stopped — a two-minute interruption does not quietly cost everyone their speed bonus.
Look back without breaking anything
You can put a question that has already been played back on the screen to argue about it. Scores, streaks and position are untouched, and you cannot look forward at one nobody has answered yet.
The answers are checked, including the wrong ones
The fact-check pass on a quiz looks hardest at the distractors, because an option that is also defensibly correct looks perfect on your console and punishes the players who know the most.
No answer key ever reaches a phone
The correct option is withheld from every player and from the TV until the reveal, on the server, not in the browser. There is nothing to read in the page source.
Ready-made quizzes to play
Free with a BrainBuzz account, no credit spent — or write your own on any topic.
Cultura General en Español Quiz
Record Breakers and Extremes Quiz
Animals: Odd Facts Quiz
Brands and Slogans Quiz
Capital Cities Quiz
Cars and Motoring Quiz
Questions
How is this different from the trivia board?
The board is teams, one shared screen and buzzers, and runs about an hour. The quiz is individuals, a phone each, a clock on every question, and runs in ten to twenty minutes. Same room, very different evening.
Do players need the app?
There is no app. Players open a web page, type a four-letter code and play. Nothing to install, no account, no charge.
Can I run it without a TV?
It is better with one, since that is where the question goes. If there is no second screen, the host console can open the display in its own window.
What if someone’s phone drops out?
Their score is held. A player who loses signal or locks their screen is parked, not deleted, and rejoins under the same name with everything intact.
Can I run the same quiz twice?
Yes. Saving a quiz strips the play state, so a saved quiz always reloads fresh rather than with half its questions already used.
What does it cost?
Free to host and free to play. A new account gets three AI credits on verifying its email; one credit writes one full quiz. Quizzes you write by hand are free and unlimited.
The other two games
Same room, same four-letter code, same account — a different evening.
A TV-style trivia board for teams. Categories across the top, values down the side, and everyone in the room playing off one screen while the phones act as buzzers.
A run of quick puzzles, thirty to forty-five seconds each, everyone playing at once on their own phone. Sudoku, memory, reaction, logic — scored on how much you finish.