FORMAT · QUICKFIRE

Multiple choice on every phone. Faster scores more.

A multiple-choice question on the TV, four options on every phone, a clock running. Tap your answer before the others do. The Party Quiz scores it the moment you reveal, every player for themselves, or in teams where a big team gets no head start.

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What is a quickfire round?

Quickfire is a live multiple-choice quiz. Each question appears on the TV with up to six options, each marked with a symbol, ♠, ♥, ♦, ♣ for the first four, and every player taps their answer on their own phone before the countdown runs out.

It's scored automatically: a correct answer is worth between half and all of its points depending on how fast it came in, and the fastest correct answer earns a bonus. Play it everyone-for-themselves and each player's points are their own, on a leaderboard of up to 24. Play it in teams and a team scores the average of its players, so six people don't beat two just by being six.

Quickfire at a glance

Rounds: 1 to 6 rounds, of 5 to 25 questions each
Options: Four per question to start; two to six in the editor
Scoring: A correct answer earns 50–100% of its points by speed, plus a bonus for the fastest, or switch to accuracy only
Teams or solo: Quiz Starter: up to 10 phones in 4 teams, or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster and an event with Quiz Night: up to 100 phones in 20 teams, or 24 solo players. Solo play is available in gameshow and Quickfire, and a Would You Rather quiz is always solo; pub quiz is team-only.
Clock: Starts when you open the question; 15 seconds by default
Needs: A phone for every player, this format is answered on phones
Length: About 10–20 minutes for two rounds

ON EVERY PHONE

Big, colourful, impossible to mis-tap

Every phone shows the question and the options as four big bands, each in its own colour and suit. The same suits are on the TV, so when you say “it's the diamond”, everyone knows which one you mean.

Answers are locked in with one tap. The TV shows how many people have answered, and nothing about what they chose until you reveal.

Phone buzzers

THE REVEAL

The room finds out together

Press reveal and the right option lights up green on the TV, with a bar for how many people chose each one. Then the standings: who was right, who was fastest, and who's in front.

Keeping the chart hidden until the reveal matters, a live bar chart would tell everyone still deciding which way the room is leaning.

Teams & scoring

EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES

Your own score, on your own phone

Everyone already answers quickfire on their own phone, so it plays naturally solo. Choose “Everyone for themselves” and there are no teams to pick: whoever joins is on the leaderboard, and every point they earn is their own.

Past eight players the TV ranks the room in two columns, so the question everyone asks, “where am I?”, has an answer at a glance.

Play individually in gameshow or Quickfire: each player has their own score. Up to 10 solo players on Quiz Starter, or 24 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event.
Speed-weighted points per person
A ranked leaderboard on the TV

Play quickfire solo

How a quickfire question plays

Open the question
It appears on the TV and on every phone, and the clock starts straight away.
Everyone taps
One tap per player. The TV counts the answers coming in.
Reveal
The right option turns green and the answer distribution appears.
Scores update
Speed-weighted points for everyone who was right, a bonus for the fastest, and the standings on screen.

Questions about quickfire

Is quickfire like Kahoot?

It works in a similar way, a question on the big screen, options on the phones, faster answers scoring more, and you can play it solo, like Kahoot, or in teams, where a team scores its players' average. It also lives in the same product as a game show board and a pub quiz.

Does the host play too?

No. The host's screen has the answers on it, so the host is never an entrant. That's also why the TV, which anyone in the room can see, never shows the answer before you reveal it.

What if someone answers twice?

Only their first answer counts. Tapping every option gains nothing.

Can I turn off speed scoring?

Yes. Set the round to accuracy only and every correct answer scores the same, however long it took.

Can people play on their own instead of in teams?

Play individually in gameshow or Quickfire: each player has their own score. Up to 10 solo players on Quiz Starter, or 24 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event.

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