# The Party Quiz > Create a gameshow, pub quiz or quickfire quiz in minutes. Question generation included. Play on your TV; everyone joins by phone. No passwords or player accounts. The Party Quiz (thepartyquiz.com) is a web app with free and paid plans for hosting quizzes on a television. The host builds a gameshow, pub quiz, Quickfire or a combination of their rounds and puts it on the TV. Players join from their phones with a 5-character room code or a QR code. No app or player account is needed. It is made by EXPX B.V., Rotterdam, the Netherlands (KVK 70364338). Other games and apps share the name "Party Quiz". The Party Quiz is the browser-based quiz app at www.thepartyquiz.com. It is not the game of that name on Steam, not a mobile app from an app store, and not any other product with a similar name. This file contains the English marketing page copy, excluding playable demos and the link-only sitemap; the short index is at https://www.thepartyquiz.com/llms.txt. Site copy last updated 2026-11-08. **Key facts** - What it is: a quiz and trivia game for a room with a TV. It runs in a browser on the television (a smart-TV browser, a laptop on HDMI, a cast tab or a projector), the host's phone or laptop, and each player's phone. Nothing to install. - Formats: Gameshow, a Jeopardy-style board answered out loud with phone buzzers; a written pub quiz with printable answer sheets and host marking (✓, ½, ✗); Quickfire multiple choice answered on phones and scored automatically, faster answers scoring more. Choose one format or create a Combination quiz with rounds of two or three types under one room code. - Players: Quiz Starter: Up to 10 connected phones in 4 teams, or as 10 solo players; For non-commercial purposes only. Quiz Host: Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players; For non-commercial purposes only. Quizmaster: Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players; For company, ticketed or otherwise commercial events. Phone, team and solo limits apply together, not on top of one another. A host seat is for someone who creates and hosts quizzes; players do not need seats. - Solo mode ("Everyone for themselves"): in gameshow and quickfire quizzes, every player who joins from a phone is their own player, with their own row on the TV scoreboard. Quiz Starter allows up to 10 solo players; Quiz Host, Quizmaster and Quiz Night allow 24, ranked once there are more than eight. No teams to set up. Chosen when the quiz is created. The pub quiz is team-only. - To host: a free account (email link or Google), a screen everyone can see, and a phone or laptop to run the game from. Players need a phone with a browser, or only a pen for a pub quiz on paper. - Quiz Starter: €0 / month or €0 / year. Private & charity use. 5 saved quizzes; 250 Quiz Coins per month; Up to 10 connected phones in 4 teams, or as 10 solo players; For non-commercial purposes only. - Quiz Host: €2 / month or €19.20 / year. Private & charity use. Unlimited saved quizzes; 1,000 Quiz Coins per month; Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players; For non-commercial purposes only. - Quizmaster: €9 / month or €86.40 / year. Commercial use included. Unlimited saved quizzes; 2,000 Quiz Coins per month; Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players; For company, ticketed or otherwise commercial events. - Quizmaster extra host: €2 / month or €19.20 / year. Add someone who can create and host quizzes on your Quizmaster account. You pay for them monthly or yearly with your subscription. This extra host seat also adds 250 monthly Quiz Coins shared by the account. - Quiz Night: €9 once. Host one company event or paid quiz, with 100 bonus Quiz Coins. For that event: up to 100 phones in 20 teams, or 24 solo players. Available on Quiz Starter and Quiz Host. Your plan’s saved-quiz limit and monthly Quiz Coins stay the same. Unused bonus Quiz Coins stay in your account after the event. Quizmaster already covers commercial events. - 500 Quiz Coins: €3 once. Extra Quiz Coins to generate more quizzes and questions. These extra Quiz Coins do not expire. Your plan’s quiz and player limits stay the same. Commercial use still needs Quizmaster or a Quiz Night pass. - What does one Quiz Coin buy? 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. A pub quiz with 6 rounds of 10 questions costs 60 Quiz Coins. A typical gameshow with two 25-question rounds and a tie-breaker has 51 questions, so it costs 51 Quiz Coins. Regenerating a question you don’t like costs 1 Quiz Coin, including the set of three alternatives to choose from. The same rate applies to action, music and video prompts. You see the cost before generating. Writing or editing questions yourself uses no Quiz Coins. Failed generation is refunded. Music and video questions still need a clip link. - When do monthly Quiz Coins reset? On your account’s monthly anniversary, including with a yearly subscription. Unused monthly Quiz Coins do not roll over. Purchased Quiz Coin packs and Quiz Night bonus Quiz Coins do not expire. - Which plan covers my event? Quiz Starter and Quiz Host cover private events and charity quizzes without paid admission. Company events, ticketed quizzes and paid hosting need a Quiz Night pass for one event or a Quizmaster subscription for ongoing commercial use. Buying a Quiz Coin pack does not change these rights. - I already have more than five free quizzes. What happens? Your existing quizzes are kept. You can view, edit, play and delete them. To create another quiz, reduce your saved total to fewer than five or upgrade to a plan with unlimited saved quizzes. - Are annual Quiz Coins given all at once? No. Monthly allowances still reset each month: 250 on Quiz Starter, 1,000 on Quiz Host, and 2,000 on Quizmaster including its first host. Each extra Quizmaster seat adds 250 to the account’s shared monthly pool. - Languages: TV, phone and host screens in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian; questions in any of 93 languages. The AI generator writes in the quiz's language. - Media: YouTube clips on board clues and pub-quiz questions, as audio-only (guess the song) or video; pictures on pub-quiz and quickfire questions by pasting an image URL (no uploads). - Board extras: action squares (dares hidden in the grid), a countdown that starts on the first buzz (15 s default), steals after a wrong answer, undo, and a closest-guess tie-breaker. - Answers stay hidden: the TV page never receives an answer's text until the host reveals it. - Privacy: players type a first name only; names, buzzes and typed answers are deleted 7 days after the party. - Not included: a public library of ready-made quizzes or image uploads. - Compared with Kahoot!, JeopardyLabs, Factile and Quizado: see the linked comparison pages, checked against each product's own website and dated. --- ## The Party Quiz: Free Quiz App for Your TV and Phones https://www.thepartyquiz.com **Host a Gameshow on your TV** Make a gameshow, pub quiz or quickfire quiz. Put it on your TV and players join from their phones without creating an account. The entire quiz is generated for you based on your instructions. - 3 quiz formats - 93 quiz question languages - 7 screen languages - Free to build and to play ### A quiz often starts with one person reading off their phone. Everyone leans in to hear. Someone shouts over someone else. Nobody agrees who answered first, and the score lives on the back of an envelope until it doesn't. Great questions, and it still feels like admin. ### Give it a screen and a buzzer. The quiz goes on the TV where everyone can read it. Phones become the buzzers, and every phone shows the same order of presses. The scores add themselves up, so you get to host rather than referee. ### Pick the kind of quiz you want Gameshow, pub quiz or quickfire. Or mix their rounds in one quiz. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. ### From nothing to a game in four steps And the longest one is deciding on the categories. 1. Build it: Pick a format and a theme. Write every question yourself, or let the AI draft the whole quiz in your language and change what you don't like. 2. Put it on the TV: Open it on a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. That screen shows the questions and the scores, never the answers until you say so. 3. Everyone joins: Players scan the QR code on the TV or type the five-character room code, then pick a team or just give a name. Their phone is the buzzer. No download, no sign-up. 4. You run the room: From your phone or laptop: open a question, see who buzzed first, give or dock the points, show the answer, next. ### Three screens, one game Open a clue on your phone and it opens on the TV, and every buzzer in the room wakes up. - THE TV: The room's screen: The board, the question, the clock and the scores, with every player's name under their team. It follows your controls live, and never shows an answer before you do. - YOUR PHONE: The host's controls: Open a question, watch the buzzes land, give or dock the points, reveal, next. A lobby before kick-off tells you the TV is up and who has arrived. - THEIR PHONES: The buzzers: A room code, a team, and one big button that only wakes up when a question is open. Every phone sees the same order of presses, so the fastest thumb wins, not the loudest voice. ### More than questions on a screen - Phone buzzers: Everyone buzzes from their own phone, and every screen shows the same order. A wrong answer re-arms the buzzers so another team can steal. - Action squares: Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a question and which one has them humming a TV theme tune. - Music & video: Paste a YouTube link: play it audio-only with the picture hidden for guess-the-song, or as a clip everyone watches. - Answer sheets: Print the pub-quiz sheets from the host screen, or let teams type on their phones. Either way, the totals are done for you. - Answer clock: A countdown that starts by itself the moment someone buzzes. Fifteen seconds by default; change it or switch it off. - Fair scoring: Half points, steals and undo. In quickfire a team scores its players' average, so a big team has no head start. ### Play in teams or on your own 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; pub quiz is team-only. Solo needs no set-up. Whoever joins is in, points go to the person who earned them, and past eight players the TV turns the scoreboard into a ranked leaderboard. - Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. - 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. - A ranked leaderboard past eight - Chosen per quiz, when you create it ### Describe a theme. Get a whole quiz. Type a theme like “90s pop, football and the Olympics”, pick a difficulty from Gentle to Brutal, and it writes every round in the language of your quiz. Each round saves as it is written, so you can close the tab and pick up where it stopped. Nothing it writes is final. Every question lands in the editor, where you can change it or delete it, and on a board you can swap any clue for one of three alternatives. ### Your players read their own language - Screens in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. - Write questions yourself or use the AI, in any of 93 languages. - Numbers and scores formatted the way your room writes them. ### Made for every kind of get-together The same app, run six different ways. - [House parties & birthdays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party): A birthday or house-party quiz: buzzers, music clues and dares in the living room. - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Corporate meetings](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings): Start a team-building or corporate session with a quick warm-up quiz. - [School sessions](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/school-sessions): A quick classroom warm-up or lesson recap for teachers. - [Family & holidays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays): A family or Christmas quiz: grandparents against grandchildren, on the TV. - [Fundraisers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser): Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. ### The Party Quiz at a glance - What it is: A web app with free and paid plans for hosting quiz and trivia events on a TV, while players join from their own phones - Formats: Gameshow with phone buzzers, a pub quiz with printable answer sheets, or Quickfire multiple choice. Combine their rounds in one quiz if you like - Players: 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; pub quiz is team-only. - Players need: A phone with a web browser, or just a pen for a pub quiz on paper. No app, no account - The host needs: A free account, a screen everyone can see, and a phone or laptop to run the game from - Languages: The TV, phone and host screens in 7 languages; questions in any of 93 - Price: Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. - AI generator: 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. Monthly allowances still reset each month: 250 on Quiz Starter, 1,000 on Quiz Host, and 2,000 on Quizmaster including its first host. Each extra Quizmaster seat adds 250 to the account’s shared monthly pool. - Player data: A first name, a team, buzzes and answers, deleted 7 days after the party - Not included: A library of ready-made quizzes or image uploads - Made by: EXPX B.V., Rotterdam, the Netherlands (KVK 70364338) ### How it compares on a free plan What you get without paying anything, on the tools people usually try first. | | The Party Quiz | Kahoot! | Factile | |---|---|---|---| | Price to host | Free plan; subscriptions from €2/month or €19.20/year | Free plan; paid from $3/month | Free plan; paid from $4/month | | Players per game on the free plan | 10 phones in up to 4 teams, or 10 solo players | Up to 10 | Up to 5 teams | | Phone buzzers | Yes | No, everyone answers each question | Not on the free plan | | Jeopardy-style board | Yes | No | Yes | | Pub-quiz format with marking | Yes | No | No | Source: Checked against each product's own website on 26 September 2026: kahoot.com/home and playfactile.com/plans. Plans change; check theirs before you decide. ### Before you start **What is The Party Quiz?** The Party Quiz (thepartyquiz.com) is a web app with free and paid plans for hosting quizzes on a television, made by EXPX B.V. in Rotterdam. Build a Jeopardy-style board, a written pub quiz or a quickfire quiz, then put it on the TV. Players join from their phones with a room code. Their phone becomes a buzzer or an answer pad, and the scores keep themselves. **Do my players need to install anything?** No. They scan the QR code on the TV or enter the room code on a web page. Then they enter a first name and pick a team, or just enter their name in a solo game. It works on any phone with a browser, and there's no account to create. **What do I need to host a quiz on my TV?** A screen everyone can see and a phone or laptop for you. The TV can be a smart-TV browser, a laptop plugged into a television, or a projector. You run the game from your phone, so you're not stuck standing at the screen. **Is The Party Quiz free?** Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. **How many people can play?** 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; pub quiz is team-only. **Can people play on their own, without teams?** Yes. Solo mode (“Everyone for themselves”) works in gameshow and quickfire. Every player who joins gets their own name, colour and row on the TV scoreboard, and every point they win is theirs. The pub quiz is played in teams. **Can I use my own questions?** That's the point. Every category, question and answer is yours to write, in an editor that mirrors the board. The AI is there when you want a head start, not instead of you. **Can I play without phones?** Yes. Skip the buzzers, use shouts or hands, and award the points yourself. A pub quiz can also be run entirely on paper, with sheets you print from the host screen. **What languages does The Party Quiz come in?** The TV and player screens come in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and follow the language of the quiz. You can write the questions in any of 93 languages, and the AI writes in that language too. --- ## Quiz Formats: Gameshow, Pub Quiz & Quickfire https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats **Three quiz formats for TV and phones** Gameshow, Pub quiz and Quickfire each play differently on the same TV and phones. Choose one, or combine their rounds in a single quiz. ### Which format should I pick? Pick gameshow for categories, climbing values, buzzers and a bit of chaos. Pick the pub quiz if you want rounds read out, answers written down and a proper marking break. Pick quickfire if you want everyone answering at once, on their own phone, with a result in seconds. Choose one format when you create your quiz, or choose Combination quiz to mix gameshow, Pub quiz and Quickfire rounds. Everyone stays in the same room and keeps their score across rounds. 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; pub quiz is team-only. ### The three formats - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. ### The formats side by side | | Gameshow | Pub quiz | Quickfire | |---|---|---|---| | Feels like | A TV game show | A pub quiz | A live multiple-choice quiz | | How people answer | Out loud, after buzzing in | Written down, on paper or phones | Tapping an option, four to start, up to six | | Who marks it | You award or dock points | You mark ✓, ½ or ✗ per team | It marks itself | | Size | 1–4 rounds with a 5 × 5 board each, plus a tie-breaker | 1–10 rounds of 5–15 questions | 1–6 rounds of 5–25 questions | | Typical length | 45–60 minutes | 90–120 minutes | 10–20 minutes | | 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; pub quiz is team-only. | Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. | 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; pub quiz is team-only. | | Phones needed? | Optional, buzzers | Optional, paper works | Yes, it's answered on phones | Source: Round and question counts are what the new-quiz wizard offers; the editor lets a pub-quiz round grow to 40 questions. ### Questions about formats **Can I mix formats in one quiz?** Yes. Choose Combination quiz when you create it, then choose how many gameshow, Pub quiz and Quickfire rounds to include. Players use one room code throughout. **Which format works best without phones?** The pub quiz. Print the answer sheets from the host screen and it runs entirely on paper, with you marking each team's answers. Gameshow also works without phones if you let people shout or raise hands. **Which format is best for a big group?** Quickfire and the pub quiz. In quickfire everyone answers at once and a team's score is its players' average, so team sizes don't matter. Gameshow is at its best with two to four teams racing for the buzzer. **Can people play on their own instead of in teams?** 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; pub quiz is team-only. **Do all formats work in every language?** Yes. All three show your questions in the language you wrote them in, and the TV and phones follow the quiz's language in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. --- ## Free Jeopardy-Style Game Maker with Buzzers | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow **Your own TV Gameshow with phone buzzers** Five categories, five clues each, values that climb from 100 to 500. You open a tile, the TV shows the clue, and every phone in the room becomes a buzzer. Whoever presses first answers, out loud, like on television. Play it in teams, or every player for themselves. ### What is a Jeopardy-style game board? A Jeopardy-style board is a grid of categories and point values. Players pick a category and a value, the clue is revealed, and the first person to buzz in gets to answer. Harder clues are worth more, and a wrong answer lets someone else steal. The Party Quiz puts that board on your TV and turns your players' phones into buzzers. Every phone and the TV see the same order of presses, so the argument about who was first is over before it starts. ### Gameshow at a glance - Grid: 5 categories × 5 clues per board - Rounds: 1 to 4 rounds (one board each), with values rising: 100–500, 200–1000 (the double round), 300–1500 and 400–2000 - Tie-breaker: One closest-guess question to settle a draw, no points wagered - Players: 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; pub quiz is team-only. - Clue types: Questions, music clues, video clues and action squares - Answer clock: Starts on the first buzz; 15 seconds by default, adjustable or off - Length: About 45–60 minutes for two boards ### The fastest thumb wins, not the loudest voice When you open a tile, every phone in the room wakes up with one big red button. The first press wins, and every phone shows who got there first, and by how much. Get it wrong and the buzzers re-arm, so another team can steal. Pressed the wrong button yourself? There's an undo. - One shared order, so no disputes - Wrong answers re-arm the buzzers for a steal - Undo the last award - Works without phones too, shouts and hands are fine ### Not every tile is a question A tile can hold a normal clue, a music clue that plays with the picture hidden, a video clip everyone watches, or an action square, a dare nobody sees coming until someone picks that 400. The AI generator puts at least two action squares and two music clues on every board it writes, so a round never feels like a form. ### Values that belong to the square Row three is worth 300 whatever sits there, so you can move a clue to another tile to make it harder or easier without retyping anything. The double round doubles every value. Scores are shown big on the TV, with every team's colour and emoji, and you can nudge any score up or down by hand when the room demands justice. ### Every player for themselves, if you like A game show doesn't need teams. Choose “Everyone for themselves” when you create the board and there's nothing to set up: each player who joins gets their own row on the scoreboard, in their own colour and shape, in the order they arrived. Buzzes are credited to the person who pressed, not to a team. Past eight players the scoreboard turns into a ranked leaderboard, so a room of twenty can still find their name. - 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. - Buzzes and points credited to the person - A ranked leaderboard past eight players - Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. ### How a board round plays 1. A team picks a tile: “Film & TV for 300.” You tap it on your phone or laptop and the clue opens on the TV. 2. Everyone buzzes: The phones wake up. The first press wins, and the answer clock starts counting down on the TV. 3. They answer out loud: Right: award the points and reveal. Wrong: dock them, and the buzzers re-arm for a steal. 4. The tile goes dark: Used tiles grey out on the board, and the next team picks. The tie-breaker settles a draw at the end. ### Questions about Gameshow **How do I make my own Jeopardy-style game with phone buzzers?** Sign in for free, press New quiz and choose gameshow. Pick one to four boards, and the grid, the point values and a tie-breaker are laid out for you. Type a category above each column and a clue and answer on each tile, or describe a theme and let the AI draft the board. Then open it on the TV: players scan the QR code or type the room code, and every phone becomes a buzzer, with no app to install. **Is there a free Jeopardy template?** Every new board starts as one: five categories of five tiles, values from 100 to 500 (200 to 1000 on the double round) and a tie-breaker, ready to fill in. Unlike a slideshow template, it keeps the score, greys out used tiles and gives every player a buzzer. There's no library of other people's boards; the gameshow demo shows a finished one. **Is this the official Jeopardy! game?** No. The Party Quiz is an independent quiz app with a board format inspired by TV quiz shows. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Jeopardy Productions, and you write your own categories and clues. **Do clues have to be phrased as answers, like on TV?** No. Write them however your group likes. The AI generator writes English clues in the classic “This painter…” style with answers phrased as questions, and you can switch off the “What is…?” answers. **Can I play without buzzers?** Yes. Open the tiles, let people shout or raise hands, and use the + and − buttons to score. The buzzers are there when you want them, not required. **How many teams can play on one board?** Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. **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. **Can I make a board in another language?** Yes, write it in any of 93 languages, or let the AI write it in yours. The TV and phones show their buttons and labels in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian to match. ### Also worth a look - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. --- ## Free Pub Quiz App & Software for Your TV | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz **A pub quiz without the clipboard** Rounds of questions on the TV, teams writing their answers on paper or typing them on a phone, and you marking each one with a tap. The half points, the running total and the leaderboard are done before you've finished your drink. ### What is pub quiz software? Pub quiz software runs the admin of a quiz: it shows the questions, collects the answers or prints the answer sheets, and keeps the scores. The quizmaster still reads the questions and makes the calls. In The Party Quiz each round appears on the TV one question at a time. Teams answer on a printed sheet or on their phones, and at the end of the round you mark every team's answer as right, half right or wrong. The totals follow on their own. ### The pub quiz at a glance - Rounds: 1 to 10 rounds, of 5 to 15 questions each (a round can grow to 40 in the editor) - Teams: Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. - Answers: On printed answer sheets, or typed on phones, number questions get a number keypad - Marking: ✓, ½ or ✗ per team, per question; points in halves - Round rules: Per question, all-or-nothing, or closest guess wins - Question types: Text, picture, music clip, video clip, multiple choice - Length: About 90–120 minutes for six rounds ### Keep the answer sheets, lose the admin Plenty of quizzes ban phones, and that's fine: print the answer sheets straight from the host screen, one per team, with the questions numbered and a line for each answer. The sheets never show the answers. Prefer phones? Each team types its answer and sends it. Either way, you mark from one screen. - Printable sheets with a Team line and numbered answers - Or answers typed and sent from phones - A paper-only setting that keeps every phone quiet ### Tap, tap, tap. The totals are done. At the end of a question, or a whole round, every team's answer is listed next to the right one. Tap ✓, ½ or ✗. That's the marking. Scores are worked out from your marks, so correcting a mistake is just changing the mark. Marks sync between your host screens, so a co-host on a phone can mark while you run the questions from the laptop. ### Picture rounds, music rounds, closest-guess rounds Add a picture to any question by pasting its web address. Play a music or video clip from YouTube on the TV. Set a round to closest-guess-wins for estimation questions, or all-or-nothing when one slip should cost the lot. A connections round works too: the last question asks what links the answers, and it's worth more than the rest. ### How a pub-quiz round runs 1. Read the question: It appears on the TV, with its picture or clip, and you read it out, the way a quizmaster does. 2. Teams answer: On their answer sheet, or on a phone. Phones show the question as well, for anyone at the back. 3. Close and mark: Close the question, see each team's answer, tap ✓, ½ or ✗. On paper, collect the sheets and mark from those. 4. Reveal the standings: Reveal the answers on the TV. The totals update, and the room finds out who's ahead. ### Questions about the pub quiz **Can I run a pub quiz with no phones at all?** Yes. Choose paper answers when you create the pub quiz, print one answer sheet per team from the host screen, and mark from the sheets. The TV still shows the questions, and the scoreboard still adds itself up. **Does it mark answers automatically?** No, and that's deliberate. Free-text answers need a person to judge them, “Leonardo” for “Leonardo da Vinci” is your call, not a spellchecker's. Number questions are the exception: in a closest-guess round answered on phones, the nearest guess wins by itself. **How do half points work?** Every mark is right, half or wrong, so a question worth one point can score 1, ½ or 0, and a question worth three can score 3 or 1½. Totals stay exact. **Can I have a picture round?** Yes. Paste the web address of an image into a question and it appears on the TV. Uploading images from your computer isn't supported. **Can people play on their own instead of in teams?** 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; pub quiz is team-only. **Is there a timer on written questions?** No countdown, you decide when to close a question, because you're the one reading it out. Phones can send an answer for up to five minutes after a question opens. The countdown is for board clues and quickfire questions. ### Also worth a look - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Fundraisers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser): Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. --- ## Live Multiple-Choice Quiz on Every Phone | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/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. ### 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; 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 ### 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. ### 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. ### 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 ### How a quickfire question plays 1. Open the question: It appears on the TV and on every phone, and the clock starts straight away. 2. Everyone taps: One tap per player. The TV counts the answers coming in. 3. Reveal: The right option turns green and the answer distribution appears. 4. 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. ### Also worth a look - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [Corporate meetings](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings): Start a team-building or corporate session with a quick warm-up quiz. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. --- ## Features: Buzzers, AI Generator, Music Rounds | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features **Quiz features for TV and phones** Start free for friends and family, host regularly, or run commercial quiz nights. Every plan includes all quiz types, with phone buzzers and no player accounts. ### Pick a feature - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [The TV screen](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen): Put the quiz on any TV, a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Languages](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/languages): Screens in seven languages; questions in any of 93. The AI writes in yours. ### And the small things The details you only notice when they're missing. - One code per quiz: The same five-character code opens the TV screen, the host screen and the buzzer room. Codes are never reused. - A lobby before kick-off: See that the TV is connected and who has joined, and move anyone who picked the wrong team. - Undo: Awarded the points to the wrong team? One tap puts it back. - Half points: Mark an answer half right and it scores half. Every total stays exact. - Autosave: The editor saves as you type, and warns you if the same quiz was changed in another tab. - Export & import: Download a quiz as a file for a co-host to import into their own, or keep it as a backup. - Duplicate: Copy last year's Christmas quiz and change the questions, keeping the teams and settings. - Answers stay hidden: The TV page never receives an answer's text until you reveal it, not even hidden in the page. - Delete means delete: Delete a quiz or your account and the players' first names recorded against it go too. --- ## Online Quiz Buzzer for Every Phone: No App | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers **A quiz buzzer on every phone** Players scan the QR code on the TV or type a five-character room code, pick a team, and their phone becomes a buzzer. No app to install, no account to make, and no argument about who pressed first. ### How do phone buzzers work? The Party Quiz's buzzers are a web page, not an app: players scan the QR code on the TV or open thepartyquiz.com/buzz, type the room code and a first name, and their phone becomes a buzzer. When you open a question, every phone that has joined wakes up with one big button, and every phone sees the same order of presses, who was first, and how far behind everyone else was. The first name is all a player gives. It's shown on the TV so the room knows who's playing, and deleted automatically seven days after the party. ### Scan, type a name, pick a team Before the first question the TV shows a QR code, the address thepartyquiz.com/buzz and the room code in huge letters. Players scan or type, enter a first name and tap their team's colour. Their name appears under the team on the TV a moment later. The QR code also carries the quiz's language, so a Dutch quiz opens a Dutch buzzer. ### Asleep until it matters The button only wakes up when a question is open, so nobody can buzz early by accident. The first press wins and shows as a gold card on that phone; everyone else sees who got there first and their own time behind. If the answer's wrong, the buzzers re-arm for a steal. You can also reset them by hand. - Ordered as the presses arrive - Everyone sees the same order - Re-arms for steals - The answer clock starts on the first buzz ### The same phone answers the other formats In a pub-quiz round the phone becomes an answer pad, a text box, or a number keypad for number questions. In quickfire it shows the options as big coloured bands. Same room code, same join, nothing new to learn. ### Buzzers at a glance - Players need: A phone with a web browser. No app, no account, no email - Joining: QR code on the TV, or thepartyquiz.com/buzz plus a five-character room code - Stored: A first name, the team, the buzzes and any typed answers, deleted seven days after the party - Order: By arrival, the same on every screen - Screen: Kept awake while the buzzer is open, on browsers that allow it - Languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, following the quiz ### Questions about buzzers **Do players need to download an app?** No. The buzzer is a web page, so any phone with a browser works, iPhone or Android, no install and no sign-up. **Is it fair if some phones are on slower connections?** Buzzes are ordered by when they reach the buzzer room. A very slow connection can still cost a fraction of a second, the same way it would with any online buzzer. **Can two people share a phone?** Yes. A phone joins under one name, so a couple on the sofa can share one, they just buzz as one player. **What if a phone loses its connection?** The buzzer page remembers the name and the room code, so rejoining is two taps: continue, then the team. The phone keeps its place on the roster rather than appearing twice. **Can I run the quiz without buzzers?** Yes. The buzzers are optional; shouting and hands still work, and you score with the + and − buttons. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [The TV screen](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen): Put the quiz on any TV, a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. - [How it works](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/how-it-works): How to host a quiz on your TV, from an empty quiz to a room full of buzzers. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. --- ## Play a Quiz on Your TV: Smart TV, HDMI or Cast | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen **Any television becomes the game show screen** Open one link on the TV and it shows the board, the questions, the countdown and the scores, following every tap you make on your phone or laptop. A smart-TV browser, a laptop on HDMI, a cast tab or a projector all work. ### How do I put a quiz on my TV? Open your quiz's TV link, thepartyquiz.com/p/ followed by your room code, in a browser on the television, or on a laptop plugged into it. That screen is now the room's screen. You run the quiz from a second device, usually your phone, and the TV follows along live. Press the full-screen button on the TV screen, tap once to allow sound for the music rounds, and you're ready. ### What works as the screen - Smart TV: Its built-in web browser - Laptop + HDMI: Plug it in, open the TV link, press full screen - Casting: Cast a browser tab showing the TV link - Projector: Any projector connected to a laptop - Video call: Share the TV link's window on the call, for players at home ### The TV does the welcoming Until you start, the TV shows the quiz's name, a QR code and the room code in letters big enough to read from the sofa. As people join, their names appear under their team. ### Big, readable, and never a spoiler Questions are set in huge type for the back of the room, with the countdown and the scoreboard underneath. The TV page only receives an answer's text at the moment you reveal it, there is nothing hidden in the page to peek at. If the TV loses Wi-Fi for a moment, it picks up where the game is when it reconnects. ### Questions about the TV screen **Do I need a smart TV?** No. Any screen that a laptop can plug into works, and so does a projector. A smart TV's own browser is simply the option with the fewest cables. **Why do I have to tap the TV once?** Browsers don't let a page play sound until someone interacts with it. One tap on the TV switches on the sound for music and video clues for the rest of the quiz. **Can the host's laptop be the TV screen?** The TV link is meant for a screen everyone can see, and your controls are meant for you, so the usual set-up is the TV link on the television and the host screen on your phone or laptop. That keeps the answers off the big screen. **Can people play from home?** Yes, if they can see the TV screen: share the TV link's window on a video call, and remote players join the buzzer room with the code like everyone else. ### Also worth a look - [How it works](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/how-it-works): How to host a quiz on your TV, from an empty quiz to a room full of buzzers. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. - [Corporate meetings](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings): Start a team-building or corporate session with a quick warm-up quiz. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. --- ## Free AI Quiz Generator for Trivia Games | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator **Describe the quiz. The AI writes the quiz.** Type a theme, pick a difficulty from Gentle to Brutal, and the generator writes every round, boards, pub-quiz rounds or quickfire, in the language of your quiz. Then you edit it like you wrote it yourself. ### What does the AI quiz generator do? The Party Quiz's AI generator drafts quiz questions from a description. When you create a quiz it can write the whole thing, round by round; inside the editor it can write a full board round from a theme, or suggest three alternatives for any single clue you don't like. It writes in any of the 93 languages a quiz can be in, pitches the questions at the difficulty you chose, and is told which answers the quiz already uses, so it doesn't repeat them. ### From a sentence to six rounds In the new-quiz wizard, describe the evening, “90s pop, football and the Olympics”, add up to five subjects if you want them spread across the rounds, and choose “Write it for me”. The rounds are written one at a time and each is saved the moment it's done, so you can close the tab and pick up later, even on another device. A pub quiz of four rounds or more gets a mix around its general-knowledge rounds: a music round, a connections round to finish, and from five rounds an estimation round too. ### Stuck on a category? Ask for one. On a board, the generate tab writes a complete 5 × 5 round from a theme, with difficulty rising row by row, and at least two action squares and two music clues in every grid. Don't like a clue? Select it and ask for three alternatives at the same difficulty. It works for dares too. - Difficulty follows the point value - Told the board's other answers, so it avoids repeats - Action squares that work in a living room, no mess, no equipment ### The generator at a glance - Writes: Whole quizzes, board rounds, and alternatives for a single clue or dare - Formats: Gameshow, pub quiz (general, music, estimation, connections) and quickfire - Difficulty: Five levels: Gentle, Easy, Mixed, Hard, Brutal - Languages: Any of 93 quiz languages - Limit: 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. Monthly allowances still reset each month: 250 on Quiz Starter, 1,000 on Quiz Host, and 2,000 on Quizmaster including its first host. Each extra Quizmaster seat adds 250 to the account’s shared monthly pool. - Cost: Free plan; subscriptions from €2/month or €19.20/year ### Questions about the AI **Are AI-written questions accurate?** Usually, but not always, which is why every question lands in the editor for you to read before the party. Treat it as a very fast first draft, and check anything you'd be embarrassed to get wrong. **Does it add the music clips?** It writes the music clue and names the song, and the editor gives you a one-click YouTube search for it. You paste the link yourself: a generated link could point to a video that doesn't exist or won't play. **Can it write in my language?** Yes. Set the quiz's language, any of 93, and the questions and answers come back in it. **Can I use it without writing anything myself?** You can. The quiz is better when you swap in a few questions about the people in the room. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [Languages](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/languages): Screens in seven languages; questions in any of 93. The AI writes in yours. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [How it works](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/how-it-works): How to host a quiz on your TV, from an empty quiz to a room full of buzzers. --- ## Music Quiz Maker: Guess the Song on Your TV | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video **Music rounds: drop the needle, name the track.** Paste a YouTube link on a board clue or a pub-quiz question and choose how it plays: audio only with the picture hidden, for guess-the-song, or as a clip everyone watches. The sound comes out of the TV. ### How do music rounds work? A music clue plays a YouTube clip through the TV with the video hidden, so the room hears the song but can't see the title. You choose where the clip starts and ends, so you can drop in at the chorus or stop before the giveaway line. A video clue plays the clip on screen, the film scene, the goal, the advert, and the question asks about it. ### Start at the chorus, stop before the title Set a start and end time for each clip. During the quiz, press play from your phone and the TV plays exactly that slice, as many times as you want. ### A picture round, the pub-quiz classic In pub-quiz and quickfire questions you can add a picture by pasting its web address. It appears large on the TV: the flag, the logo, the celebrity as a baby. ### Questions about music and video **Where does the sound come from?** From the TV. Tap the TV screen once at the start of the quiz to allow sound, browsers require that, and every clip after that plays through the television. **Can I upload my own music or pictures?** No. Clips come from YouTube links, and pictures from a web address you paste. **What if a video won't play?** Some YouTube videos can't be embedded on other sites. Check each clip in the editor before the party, and pick another upload of the same song if one refuses. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [House parties & birthdays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party): A birthday or house-party quiz: buzzers, music clues and dares in the living room. --- ## Action Squares: Dares Hidden in the Quiz Board | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares **Some tiles aren't questions** An action square is a dare hidden in the board. Pick the 200 in Food & Drink and instead of a clue, the TV flashes and someone is whistling after a dry cracker. It's what turns a quiz into a party. ### What is an action square? An action square is a tile on a quiz board that holds a physical challenge instead of a question. It looks like every other tile until someone picks it; then the TV flashes an alert, shows the dare, and you award the points to whoever wins it. The gameshow demo has several, a stroopwafel you have to eat without hands, a blind taste test, soundtrack charades. ### A title, an instruction, and a winner Each action square has a short title and an instruction that appears on the TV. Keep it doable in a living room, fair to every team and quick to judge. Stuck for ideas? The generator suggests dares that need no equipment and make no mess, and can give you three alternatives for any square. - Hum a TV theme tune, your team has 20 seconds - Name five things in the room that start with a letter - Act out a film without a word - Whistle after eating a dry cracker ### Questions about action squares **How many action squares should a board have?** Two or three per board is plenty, enough that any tile might be one, not so many that the quiz becomes a game of charades. The generator puts at least two on every board it writes. **How are action squares scored?** You decide, usually the tile's value, and use the + and − buttons to award the points to whoever wins the challenge. **Can I have action squares in a pub quiz?** They're a board feature. A pub-quiz round is read out and written down, so a dare doesn't fit the flow. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. - [House parties & birthdays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party): A birthday or house-party quiz: buzzers, music clues and dares in the living room. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. --- ## Printable Pub Quiz Answer Sheets | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets **Answer sheets, printed from the host screen** Keep the paper your teams expect. The host screen prints a clean answer sheet for every written round, a line for the team name, each question with a numbered answer line, the points where a question is worth more than one, and never the answers. ### What's on a printed answer sheet? Each written round prints as its own block: the round's title, then every question with a numbered answer line beneath it, and the points where a question is worth more than one. Multiple-choice questions list their options with the same symbols the TV uses, so teams can circle one. A round is kept on one page wherever it fits. Print one copy per team, hand them out with pens, and mark from the sheets at the end of each round, or have teams type on their phones instead, and skip the paper. ### A setting for phone-free quizzes Choose paper answers when you create a pub quiz and the phones stay quiet for its written rounds: nobody is asked to type anything, and the TV doesn't wait for answers that will never come. You mark by hand from the sheets, and the scoreboard still does the maths. ### Questions about answer sheets **Do the sheets include the answers?** No. The sheet is for the teams: it has the questions, a numbered line for each answer and the options for multiple-choice questions, never an answer. It does show the questions, though, so hand it out when the quiz starts if you don't want teams reading them early. **Can I print a board round?** No: a board is answered out loud off the screen, so there's nothing to write down. Answer sheets are for pub-quiz rounds. **What paper size?** The sheet is a normal web page printed from your browser, so it fits whatever your printer uses, A4 or US Letter. ### Also worth a look - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Fundraisers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser): Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. --- ## Quiz Scoreboard, Teams & Scoring on Your TV | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring **The score keeps itself. You keep the peace.** 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; pub quiz is team-only. ### How does scoring work? It depends on the format. On a board you award or dock a tile's value with a tap, and a wrong answer lets another team steal. In a pub quiz you mark each team's answer right, half or wrong, and the totals follow from the marks. In quickfire it scores itself: correct answers earn more for speed, and a team scores its players' average. Every score is shown on the TV in its team's colour, next to the team's emoji, or a shape, if it has none, because roughly one man in twelve can't tell some colours apart. ### Teams and scoring at a glance - Teams: Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. - Solo play: 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. - Gameshow: Tile values, steals on a wrong answer, undo, manual ± adjustments - Pub quiz: ✓, ½ or ✗ per answer; per question, all-or-nothing, or closest guess wins - Quickfire: 50–100% by speed plus a fastest-correct bonus; a team scores its players' average - Tie-breaker: One closest-guess question to settle a draw on a board quiz ### A big team doesn't win by being big In quickfire, a team's score is the average of its players. Six people answering beats two people answering only if the six are actually better, and an empty team scores zero rather than disappearing from the board. ### Everyone for themselves 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. ### Sort the teams before the first question The host's lobby lists who has joined each team. Tap a name to move someone who picked the wrong colour, and start when everyone's in. ### Questions about teams and scoring **Do teams need the same number of players?** No. On a board it doesn't matter who buzzes; in quickfire a team scores its players' average, so team sizes even out. **Can I change a score by hand?** Yes. Every team has + and − buttons with a step size you choose, for bonus points, penalties and the inevitable appeals. **Where are the scores kept?** Board scores are kept in the host's browser, so a reload doesn't lose them. Pub-quiz marks are saved with the quiz, so two host screens see the same marks. **Can individuals play instead of teams?** 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; pub quiz is team-only. ### Also worth a look - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. --- ## Quiz Without Teams: Solo Mode for Up to 24 | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play **No teams? Everyone plays for themselves.** 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. ### What is solo mode? Solo mode, “Everyone for themselves” in the new-quiz wizard, plays a board or quickfire quiz with no teams. Each player joins from their own phone, types a first name and becomes a player on the scoreboard. Nobody picks a team, and nobody's points are shared. It's the right call when the group is small, when everyone came to win, or when picking teams would take longer than the first round. For a big crowd, teams still work best, and a pub quiz is always played in teams, on the board and in quickfire, the choice is yours. ### Solo mode at a glance - Formats: Gameshow and quickfire. The pub quiz is played in teams - Players: 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. - Set-up: None, whoever joins is in, in the order they arrive - Names: The first name each player types on their phone - In Gameshow: The first to buzz answers for themselves; you award or dock their points - In quickfire: Each player's speed-weighted points are their own, no averaging - Scoreboard: A row each up to eight players, then a ranked leaderboard in two columns - When to choose it: When you create the quiz, like the format ### How a solo game runs 1. Create the quiz: Pick gameshow or quickfire, then “Everyone for themselves” under “Who is competing?” There are no team names to think up. 2. Players join: They scan the QR code on the TV or type the room code, then a first name. Your lobby shows each one as they arrive. 3. Everyone plays: On the board, the first to buzz answers. In quickfire, everyone taps an option. Every point goes to the person who earned it. 4. The leaderboard: The TV ranks the room, and every player keeps the colour and shape they were given, so their row is easy to find. ### A row for every player, and a ranking past eight Up to eight players get a row each, with their name, their colour and a shape. From nine, the TV switches to a ranked leaderboard in two columns, top of the room first. Someone who puts their phone down after round one keeps their row and their points. Once a player has joined, they stay on the scoreboard until the game is over. ### Made for playing alone, together - No team to pick: Players go straight from typing their name to playing. - Your own colour and shape: Every player gets a colour and a shape, so nobody is told apart by colour alone. - Your buzz, your points: Buzzes are credited to the phone that pressed. Two players both called Sam are still two players. - A real leaderboard: Past eight players the TV ranks everyone, numbered, in two columns. - Nobody drops off: Put your phone down after round one and you keep your row and your score. - A clear limit: 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. ### Teams or solo? Free plan; subscriptions from €2/month or €19.20/year | | Teams | Everyone for themselves | |---|---|---| | Best for | Big groups, pub quizzes, a bit of rivalry | Small groups, families, anyone who came to win | | Players | Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. | 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. | | Formats | Gameshow, pub quiz and quickfire | Gameshow and quickfire | | Set-up | Name the teams; players pick one | Nothing, whoever joins is in | | Quickfire scoring | A team scores its players' average | Every player scores for themselves | | Without phones | Yes, score by hand | No, each player is a phone | Source: How The Party Quiz works as of September 2026. The mode is chosen in the new-quiz wizard and stays with the quiz. ### Questions about solo play **Which formats can be played solo?** The board and quickfire. The pub quiz is played in teams, because its marking gives every team a column, twenty people marked one by one on ten questions is two hundred taps. **How many people can play 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; pub quiz is team-only. **Can I switch a quiz from teams to solo later?** No. Like the format, it's chosen when you create the quiz, because the scoreboard, the phones and the lobby are all set up around it. Create a new quiz in solo mode for the next game. **Does solo mode work without phones?** No, in solo mode each player is a phone, and the scoreboard is built from the phones that join. Without phones, play in teams and award the points by hand. **What if two players have the same name?** They're still two players: points go to the phone that earned them. An initial helps the room tell them apart, “Sam B.” **Is solo mode like Kahoot?** Solo quickfire is the closest thing here to a Kahoot round: a question on the TV, options on every phone, faster answers scoring more. The difference is the rest of the evening, the same room can play a game show board or a pub quiz next. ### Also worth a look - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [Family & holidays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays): A family or Christmas quiz: grandparents against grandchildren, on the TV. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. --- ## A Quiz in Your Language: 93 Languages | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/languages **Your quiz, in your room's language** Write the questions in any of 93 languages, or let the AI write them. The TV and every phone switch to the quiz's language too: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. ### Which languages does The Party Quiz support? Questions can be in any of 93 languages, and the screens come in seven. The questions, written by you or by the AI, can be in anything from Afrikaans to Zulu. The screens, the TV, the buzzers, the host controls, come in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Set the quiz's language once and the party's screens follow it. A quiz in a language outside the seven shows its questions in that language with English buttons around them. ### One quiz, seven languages on the phones - The QR code on the TV carries the language to every phone. - Scores and numbers are formatted the local way, 1.000 in German, 1,000 in English. - The host screen follows the quiz's language as well. ### Questions about languages **Can the AI write questions in my language?** Yes, in any of the 93 languages a quiz can be written in. It writes natively in that language rather than translating an English quiz. **Can I host a quiz in a language that isn't mine?** Yes. The party screens follow the quiz, not you: a Dutch host can run an English quiz for English friends and the TV and phones are in English. **Are the questions translated when I switch languages?** No, a quiz's questions are in the language you wrote them in. To run the same quiz in two languages, duplicate it and translate the copy. ### Also worth a look - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Family & holidays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays): A family or Christmas quiz: grandparents against grandchildren, on the TV. - [How it works](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/how-it-works): How to host a quiz on your TV, from an empty quiz to a room full of buzzers. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [School sessions](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/school-sessions): A quick classroom warm-up or lesson recap for teachers. --- ## Quiz Ideas for Every Occasion | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases **One quiz app, six very different occasions** A birthday on the sofa and a classroom warm-up need different quizzes. Here's how each one can work. ### Which quiz suits the occasion? Match the format to the room. A small, loud group on a sofa wants gameshow: buzzers, music clues and a dare or two. A room full of tables wants a pub quiz, with rounds read out, answers written down and a marking break. A crowd that doesn't know each other yet wants quickfire, where everyone answers at once on their own phone. Then make one round about the people in the room, the birthday person, the company, the family. It's the category everyone remembers, and the one no question book can write for you. ### Pick your occasion - [House parties & birthdays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party): A birthday or house-party quiz: buzzers, music clues and dares in the living room. - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Corporate meetings](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings): Start a team-building or corporate session with a quick warm-up quiz. - [School sessions](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/school-sessions): A quick classroom warm-up or lesson recap for teachers. - [Family & holidays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays): A family or Christmas quiz: grandparents against grandchildren, on the TV. - [Fundraisers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser): Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. ### What usually works where | | Best format | Teams or solo | Phones | |---|---|---|---| | House party or birthday | Gameshow | 2–4 teams, or solo for a small group | Buzzers | | Pub quiz | Pub quiz | 2–4 teams | Paper or phones | | Corporate meeting | Quickfire, then gameshow | Solo warm-up, then teams by department | Answers and buzzers | | School session | Quickfire or gameshow | Solo review or classroom teams | Optional for gameshow | | Family & holidays | Gameshow | Generations against each other, or everyone for themselves | Optional | | Fundraiser | Pub quiz | Up to 4 tables on Quiz Starter | Paper | Source: Suggestions from how the formats play, not rules, every format works for every occasion. --- ## Birthday & House Party Quiz Game on Your TV | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party **The birthday quiz everyone talks about after** Put a game show board on the TV, hand everyone a buzzer they already own, and hide a few dares in the grid. Categories about the birthday person are optional, and highly recommended. ### How do you run a quiz at a house party? Keep it short, loud and a little physical. A single board of 25 clues takes about half an hour; two boards and a tie-breaker fill an hour. Put the TV where everyone can see it, split the room into two to four teams, and run the game from your phone so you can stay on the sofa. The best party boards mix general knowledge with one category about the person being celebrated, a music category, and two or three action squares. ### A running order for the quiz 1. Before the party: Build a board, or describe the theme and let the AI draft it, and add a category about the birthday person. 2. As people arrive: The TV shows the QR code. Players join and pick a team while the drinks are poured. 3. Round one: The main board. Buzzers, music clues, a dare or two. Around 30 minutes. 4. The double round: Everything worth twice as much, and the tie-breaker if it's close. ### A category nobody else can write “Things Sam has said at 3 a.m.” is a better category than anything a quiz book offers. Write one personal category and let the generator fill the other four. ### Hide a few dares in the board Action squares turn a 400 into a challenge: hum a TV theme, eat a stroopwafel without hands, act out a film. They're the moments people film. ### Party quiz questions **How long should a party quiz be?** Thirty to sixty minutes. One board is about half an hour; two boards and a tie-breaker is about an hour, which is as long as a party wants a quiz to be. **How many teams for a party?** Two to four works best on a board, enough rivalry, and everyone gets a turn to pick. For a big crowd, try a quickfire round where everyone answers at once. **Can we play without 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. **What if some players don't have phones?** Put them on a team with someone who does, or play without buzzers and let people shout. It works either way. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. - [Family & holidays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays): A family or Christmas quiz: grandparents against grandchildren, on the TV. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. --- ## How to Run a Pub Quiz: A Host's Guide | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz **Run the pub quiz. Skip the calculator.** Questions on the pub's TV, answer sheets printed from the host screen, or answers on phones, and marking that takes a tap per team. The leaderboard is up before the next round starts. ### How do you run a pub quiz? Write six rounds of ten questions, put them on a screen the room can see, and give every team a way to answer, an answer sheet or a phone. Read each question out, mark the answers at the end of each round and announce the standings. That's the shape of a pub quiz, and six rounds take about 90 to 120 minutes. The Party Quiz does the admin: it shows each question on the TV, prints the answer sheets (or takes answers on phones), and adds up the marks as you give them. You still read the questions, crack the jokes and rule on “near enough”. That's the job people come for. ### A pub quiz, start to finish 1. Set up: Six rounds of ten questions, general knowledge, a picture round, music, estimation, connections. Write them, or let the AI draft the rounds and add the pictures yourself. 2. Doors open: Open the TV link on the pub's screen and print one answer sheet per team. 3. Each round: Read the questions as they appear on the TV. Teams write their answers down. 4. Marking: Collect the sheets, or read the answers from the phones, and tap ✓, ½ or ✗ for each team. The leaderboard updates. ### Your regulars keep their pens Plenty of pub quizzes ban phones, and The Party Quiz doesn't argue: choose paper answers when you create the quiz and the phones stay out of it. The sheets print from the host screen, and the scoring still happens on screen. ### Half points, closest guess, all or nothing Every answer can score full, half or nothing. Set a round to closest-guess-wins for estimation, or all-or-nothing for a round where one slip costs the lot. Finish with a connections round worth extra. ### Pub quiz questions **How many rounds should a pub quiz have?** Six rounds of ten questions is the classic shape, and takes about 90 to 120 minutes with the marking. The wizard sets up anything from one to ten rounds of 5 to 15 questions, and a round can grow to 40 in the editor. **How many teams can a pub quiz have?** Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. **Can I reuse a quiz next week?** Duplicate it and change the questions, teams, rounds and settings come along. Every quiz keeps its own room code. **Does it cost anything for a venue?** For a company or commercial event, Quiz Night costs €9 once and includes 100 bonus Quiz Coins. For ongoing commercial hosting, Quizmaster is €9/month or €86.40/year including the first host. Players never pay to join. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. **Can two people run it?** Yes. Open the host screen on two devices, say, a laptop by the TV and a phone in the quizmaster's hand. Run the questions from one; marks made on either appear on both. ### Also worth a look - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. - [Fundraisers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser): Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. --- ## Corporate Meeting Quiz Warm-Up | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings **Start your meeting with a quick quiz** Open a corporate meeting or team-building session with a short warm-up quiz. Everyone answers on their phone, then teams can take on the game show board together. ### How do you warm up a corporate meeting? Start with something everyone can join at once, a quickfire round of ten questions answered on phones. For a longer team-building session, move to a board where teams take turns and buzz. Mix general knowledge with a category about the company. Nobody has to install anything or create an account, which is usually what stops a work quiz before it starts. ### An hour that works 1. Warm up with quickfire: Ten multiple-choice questions on everyone's phone, every colleague for themselves. Ten minutes, and a leaderboard nobody had to organise. 2. Form the teams: Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. 3. Play the board: Five categories, including one about the company. Buzzers settle who answers. 4. Crown a winner: The tie-breaker settles a draw. Prizes are your problem. ### The biggest department doesn't automatically win In quickfire a team scores the average of its players, so a department of twelve doesn't beat a department of three by headcount. ### Colleagues at home can play too Share the TV screen on the video call and remote colleagues join the buzzer room with the same code as everyone in the office. Their phones buzz and answer like anyone else's. ### Office quiz questions **Do colleagues need an account?** No. They open a web page, type the room code and a first name, and play. Only the host has an account. **What personal data is stored?** For players, only the first name they type and their buzzes and answers, deleted seven days after the quiz. Deleting the quiz removes them straight away. **Which plan covers a company quiz?** For a company or commercial event, Quiz Night costs €9 once and includes 100 bonus Quiz Coins. For ongoing commercial hosting, Quizmaster is €9/month or €86.40/year including the first host. Players never pay to join. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. **Can remote colleagues join over Zoom or Microsoft Teams?** Yes. Share the TV link's window on the call, and remote colleagues join the buzzer room on their own phones with the same room code as the office. The questions appear on their phones too, so nobody has to squint at a shared screen. ### Also worth a look - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [The TV screen](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen): Put the quiz on any TV, a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. --- ## Quick Classroom Quiz for Teachers | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/school-sessions **A quick classroom quiz for every lesson** Start a lesson with ten quick questions, or finish by checking what stuck. Put the quiz on the classroom screen and let students join from their phones, with no student accounts. ### How can a teacher run a quick classroom quiz? 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; pub quiz is team-only. Students join with a room code and a first name. If phones are not part of the lesson, use the board on the classroom screen and award points yourself as students answer aloud. ### A ten-minute classroom session 1. Choose the topic: Write a few questions yourself or edit an AI draft to match the lesson. 2. Put it on the screen: Open the quiz on a projector or classroom TV so everyone can follow along. 3. Play and review: Use quickfire for an instant check, or pause at each board question to discuss the answer. ### Explore classroom-friendly formats - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [The TV screen](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen): Put the quiz on any TV, a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Languages](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/languages): Screens in seven languages; questions in any of 93. The AI writes in yours. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. --- ## Family Quiz Game for Christmas & Holidays | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/family-and-holidays **Grandparents against grandchildren** The Christmas quiz, the reunion quiz, the rainy-holiday quiz. Put it on the living-room TV, split the family into teams, and let the phones be buzzers for once, or leave them out and shout. ### How do you make a quiz the whole family enjoys? For a Christmas or family quiz, mix the categories so every generation has one they own: one for the kids, one for the grandparents, one about the family itself. Keep the difficulty gentle, keep the teams mixed, and make the prize something everyone wants. Or leave the teams out. In everyone-for-themselves mode each person with a phone gets their own row on the TV, and a ten-year-old seeing their name at the top of the leaderboard is a sight worth the whole evening. A quiz in your family's own language matters more here than anywhere: write it in any of 93 languages, and the TV and phones follow in seven. ### A family quiz in four moves 1. Pick the categories: One per generation, one about the family, one wildcard. Set the difficulty to Gentle or Easy. 2. Mix the teams: Old and young on every team, so nobody is outnumbered on their own subject. 3. Play it on the TV: Buzzers for whoever has a phone; shouting for everyone else. 4. End with a tie-breaker: One closest-guess question, how many sprouts were eaten last year? ### Phones optional The kids will want to buzz, Grandpa will want to shout. Both work, you can run the board with buzzers, with hands, or both at once, and score with a tap either way. ### Family quiz questions **Is it suitable for children?** The quiz is whatever you write, so yes, set the difficulty to Gentle and pick subjects the kids know. Children don't need an account to play, just a first name. **Can we play in our own language?** Yes. Write the quiz in any of 93 languages. The TV and the buzzers come in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. **Can everyone play for themselves instead of in teams?** Yes, on a board or a quickfire quiz: choose “Everyone for themselves” when you create it. Each player needs their own phone, though, without one, a mixed team is the way to include them. **What about relatives who aren't in the room?** Share the TV screen on a video call and they can join the buzzer room with the code from wherever they are. ### Also worth a look - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Languages](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/languages): Screens in seven languages; questions in any of 93. The AI writes in yours. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [House parties & birthdays](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/house-party): A birthday or house-party quiz: buzzers, music clues and dares in the living room. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. --- ## Charity Quiz Fundraiser | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/fundraiser **A quiz for a good cause** Run a charity quiz with answer sheets and a live scoreboard. Free for events without paid admission; ticketed fundraisers need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. ### How do you run a charity quiz? Sell entry by the table, run a pub-quiz format with printed answer sheets, and keep the marking fast so the evening keeps its energy. Leave room between rounds for the raffle and the auction, the leaderboard gives the MC something to announce. Quiz Starter and Quiz Host cover private events and charity quizzes without paid admission. Company events, ticketed quizzes and paid hosting need a Quiz Night pass for one event or a Quizmaster subscription for ongoing commercial use. Buying a Quiz Coin pack does not change these rights. ### The quiz, in order 1. Set the tables: Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. 2. Print the sheets: One answer sheet per table, printed from the host screen. 3. Rounds and raffles: Six rounds, with the raffle between rounds three and four while you mark. 4. The final standings: Reveal the leaderboard on the big screen and hand over the prizes. ### Two volunteers, two phones, one leaderboard Open the host screen on two devices: one runs the questions, and both can mark, so two volunteers can split the tables. Marks made on either appear on both, and the scores add up as they go. ### Fundraiser quiz questions **How many tables can play?** Up to 4 teams on Quiz Starter; 20 on Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. Connected phones: 10 on Quiz Starter, 100 with those paid offers. **Do we need a projector?** You need a screen the room can see: a projector, a large TV or a venue's display, connected to a laptop. **Is there any cost?** Quiz Starter and Quiz Host cover private events and charity quizzes without paid admission. Company events, ticketed quizzes and paid hosting need a Quiz Night pass for one event or a Quizmaster subscription for ongoing commercial use. Buying a Quiz Coin pack does not change these rights. ### Also worth a look - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. --- ## Try a Quiz Demo: Gameshow, Pub Quiz & Quickfire | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demos **Play before you build** Three ready-made quizzes, one per format, running on the real game screen, and gameshow and quickfire again with every player for themselves. Open one on your laptop, or on the TV, and play the host's side. ### Pick a demo Each one fills the browser window, and your progress stays in this browser. Gameshow and quickfire come in a solo version too. - [Gameshow demo](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demo): Two boards with music clues and action squares, and a tie-breaker. - [Solo Gameshow demo](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demo/solo): The same board, with five players each scoring for themselves. - [Pub-quiz demo](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demo/pub-quiz): General knowledge, closest guess wins, and a connections round. - [Quickfire demo](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demo/quickfire): Ten multiple-choice questions against the clock. - [Solo quickfire demo](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demo/quickfire/solo): Ten multiple-choice questions, every player for themselves. ### What the demos can and can't do The demos run without a room code, so no phones are connected. On the board you open tiles, reveal answers and award points yourself. In the pub quiz you open questions and mark answers by hand. Quickfire shows every question and its reveal, but with no phones answering, nobody scores. The two solo demos seat five made-up players, so you can see the everyone-for-themselves scoreboard with a row per person. In a real game those rows are your players: each one appears as their phone joins. To play with phones, create a free quiz: it gets its own room code, and the buzzers work straight away. ### Questions about the demos **Do I need an account to play a demo?** No. The demos are open to everyone, in all seven languages. **Can players join a demo with their phones?** No, a demo has no room code. Create a free quiz for that; it takes a minute and gets its own code. **Can I put a demo on my TV?** Yes. Open it in the TV's browser or on a laptop plugged into the TV, and switch the browser to full screen. **What's the difference between the team and solo demos?** The questions are the same; who scores is not. The team demos have two named teams. The solo demos have five players who each score for themselves, the “Everyone for themselves” mode you can choose for any board or quickfire quiz. --- ## How to Host a Quiz or Trivia Game on TV | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/how-it-works **How to host a quiz on your TV** Build a quiz, open its TV link on the television, let your players join on their phones with the room code, and run the game from your own phone or laptop. You need a screen everyone can see and about ten minutes to set up. Here's the whole thing, start to finish. ### What you need - A screen: A smart TV with a browser, a laptop plugged into a TV, or a projector - Your controls: A phone, tablet or laptop, any device with a browser - Your players: Their own phones, if you want buzzers or phone answers. Paper works too - An account: Only for you, the host. Free; sign in with email or Google - Set-up time: About ten minutes for a first quiz; a minute once it's built ### Six steps from nothing to a game 1. Create a quiz: Sign in, press New quiz and choose gameshow, Pub quiz, Quickfire or Combination quiz. Set the rounds, player mode, language and difficulty. 2. Fill it in: Type your questions into an editor that mirrors the screen, or describe a theme and let the AI draft every round. Add music clips, pictures and dares. 3. Open the TV screen: Press Host, then “Get TV link”, and open that link on the television. Press full screen, and tap once to allow sound. 4. Let everyone join: The TV shows a QR code and a five-character room code. Players scan the QR code or type the room code at thepartyquiz.com/buzz, enter a first name and pick a team. In a solo game there's no team to pick: the name is their place on the scoreboard. 5. Start the game: Your lobby shows the TV is connected and who has joined. Move anyone on the wrong team, then press Start game. 6. Run the room: Open questions, watch the buzzes or answers arrive, award the points and reveal. The TV and every phone follow you. ### What each screen does - THE TV: Shows the game: Questions, clips, the countdown and the scores. Never the answer before you reveal it. - YOUR DEVICE: Runs the game: Every control: open, reveal, score, undo, next round. The answers are on your screen only. - THEIR PHONES: Play the game: A buzzer on the board, an answer pad in the pub quiz, four big options in quickfire. ### Hosting questions **Can I host from my phone?** Yes. The host screen works on a phone, so you can walk around the room with it. A laptop works just as well. You can open the host screen on both, but run the questions from one of them. **What if the Wi-Fi drops?** Phones and the TV reconnect when the network comes back, and the TV catches up with wherever the game is. Board scores are kept on the host's device, so a reload doesn't lose them. **Can I test it before the party?** Yes, open the TV link on your laptop and join the buzzer room on your own phone. Or play a demo first. **Do players see my answers?** No. Answers are only on the host screen. The TV receives an answer at the moment you reveal it, and the phones never do. ### Also worth a look - [Formats](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats): Gameshow, a pub quiz, or quickfire on every phone. - [The TV screen](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/tv-screen): Put the quiz on any TV, a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI or a projector. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [Demos](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demos): Play all three formats in your browser, in teams or solo. No sign-up. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Corporate meetings](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/corporate-meetings): Start a team-building or corporate session with a quick warm-up quiz. --- ## Plans & Pricing | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing **Quiz plans and pricing** Start with a free account for quizzes with friends and family. If you host more often or run quizzes for work, compare the plans below. ### Compare plans Every plan includes all quiz types. Players join from their phones for free, without an account. **Quiz Starter**: €0/ month or €0/ year. For an occasional quiz with friends. Private & charity use. - 5 saved quizzes - 250 Quiz Coins per month - Up to 10 connected phones in 4 teams, or as 10 solo players - For non-commercial purposes only **Quiz Host**: €2/ month or €19.20/ year. For regular private and charity quizzes. Private & charity use. - Unlimited saved quizzes - 1,000 Quiz Coins per month - Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players - For non-commercial purposes only **Quizmaster**: €9/ month or €86.40/ year. For companies and professional quiz hosts. Commercial use included. - Unlimited saved quizzes - 2,000 Quiz Coins per month - Up to 100 connected phones in 20 teams, or as 24 solo players - For company, ticketed or otherwise commercial events 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. A 60-question quiz costs 60 Quiz Coins. Regenerating one question costs 1 Quiz Coin. Phone, team and solo limits apply together, not on top of one another. A host seat is for someone who creates and hosts quizzes; players do not need seats. ### Add-ons Add hosts to Quizmaster, or buy a one-off event pass or Quiz Coins. **Quizmaster extra host**: €2/ month or €19.20/ year. This extra host seat also adds 250 monthly Quiz Coins shared by the account.. Add someone who can create and host quizzes on your Quizmaster account. You pay for them monthly or yearly with your subscription. **Quiz Night**: €9 once. Host one company event or paid quiz, with 100 bonus Quiz Coins. For that event: up to 100 phones in 20 teams, or 24 solo players. Available on Quiz Starter and Quiz Host. Your plan’s saved-quiz limit and monthly Quiz Coins stay the same. Unused bonus Quiz Coins stay in your account after the event. Quizmaster already covers commercial events. **500 Quiz Coins**: €3 once. Extra Quiz Coins to generate more quizzes and questions. These extra Quiz Coins do not expire. Your plan’s quiz and player limits stay the same. Commercial use still needs Quizmaster or a Quiz Night pass. ### Questions about plans and Quiz Coins **What does one Quiz Coin buy?** 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. A pub quiz with 6 rounds of 10 questions costs 60 Quiz Coins. A typical gameshow with two 25-question rounds and a tie-breaker has 51 questions, so it costs 51 Quiz Coins. Regenerating a question you don’t like costs 1 Quiz Coin, including the set of three alternatives to choose from. The same rate applies to action, music and video prompts. You see the cost before generating. Writing or editing questions yourself uses no Quiz Coins. Failed generation is refunded. Music and video questions still need a clip link. **When do monthly Quiz Coins reset?** On your account’s monthly anniversary, including with a yearly subscription. Unused monthly Quiz Coins do not roll over. Purchased Quiz Coin packs and Quiz Night bonus Quiz Coins do not expire. **Which plan covers my event?** Quiz Starter and Quiz Host cover private events and charity quizzes without paid admission. Company events, ticketed quizzes and paid hosting need a Quiz Night pass for one event or a Quizmaster subscription for ongoing commercial use. Buying a Quiz Coin pack does not change these rights. **I already have more than five free quizzes. What happens?** Your existing quizzes are kept. You can view, edit, play and delete them. To create another quiz, reduce your saved total to fewer than five or upgrade to a plan with unlimited saved quizzes. **Are annual Quiz Coins given all at once?** No. Monthly allowances still reset each month: 250 on Quiz Starter, 1,000 on Quiz Host, and 2,000 on Quizmaster including its first host. Each extra Quizmaster seat adds 250 to the account’s shared monthly pool. --- ## FAQ: Questions About Hosting a Quiz | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/faq **Questions, answered** Everything people ask before their first quiz, and a few things they ask after. ### Getting started **What is The Party Quiz?** The Party Quiz (thepartyquiz.com) is a web app with free and paid plans for hosting quizzes on a TV, made by EXPX B.V. in Rotterdam. You build a quiz, a Jeopardy-style board, a pub quiz or a quickfire round, open it on the television, and players play from their own phones with a room code. There's nothing to install and no account for players. **How is The Party Quiz different from Kahoot!, JeopardyLabs and Factile?** The Party Quiz combines gameshow boards with phone buzzers, written pub quiz rounds and Quickfire on phones. Quiz Starter includes 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month. Paid plans increase allowances and capacity; Quizmaster and Quiz Night cover commercial events. Players need no account and pay no joining fee. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. **What do I need to host a quiz?** A screen everyone can see (a smart TV, a laptop on a TV, or a projector), a phone or laptop for yourself, and, if you want buzzers, your players' phones. **Do I or my players need an account?** You do, as the host: sign in with an email link or Google. Your players never need one. **How long does it take to make a quiz?** About ten minutes for a short one you write yourself, less if the AI drafts it. The wizard sets up the rounds and teams for you. ### Playing **How do players join?** They scan the QR code on the TV, or go to thepartyquiz.com/buzz and type the five-character room code. Then a first name, and a team, unless it's a solo game, and they're in. **Do players need to install an app?** No. Everything runs in the phone's browser. **How many people can play?** 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; pub quiz is team-only. **Can people play on their own instead of in teams?** Yes. Choose “Everyone for themselves” when you create a gameshow or quickfire quiz: there are no teams to set up, every player who joins gets their own row on the scoreboard, and every point is their own. The pub quiz is played in teams. **Can we play without phones?** Yes. Run the board with shouts and hands, or a pub quiz on printed answer sheets. You score everything from the host screen. **Can people play remotely, over a video call?** Yes, if they can see the TV screen, share it on a video call, and join the buzzer room with the code. ### Formats and features **What kinds of quiz can I make with The Party Quiz?** Three: a Jeopardy-style board answered out loud with phone buzzers, a written pub quiz with printable answer sheets that you mark, and quickfire multiple choice answered on phones and scored automatically, faster answers scoring more. **Can I make a Jeopardy-style game with buzzers on phones?** Yes, that's the gameshow format. Five categories of five clues go on the TV, worth 100 to 500 (200 to 1000 on the double round), and every player's phone becomes a buzzer: the first press answers out loud, and a wrong answer re-arms the buzzers so someone else can steal. Players join with the room code, there's no app to install, and it's free. **Can I mix formats in one quiz?** Yes. Choose Combination quiz when you create it, then choose how many gameshow, Pub quiz and Quickfire rounds to include. Players use one room code throughout. **Can I add music and video?** Yes: paste a YouTube link on a board clue or a pub-quiz question and play it audio-only or as a video. **What are action squares?** Tiles on a board that hold a dare instead of a question, hidden, so nobody knows which tile it is until someone picks it. **Does the AI write the whole quiz?** It can: describe a theme, choose a difficulty and it drafts every round in your quiz's language. You then edit anything you like. **Is there a library of ready-made quizzes?** No. Every quiz is written by its host, by hand, or drafted by the AI from a theme, and there's no public collection to browse. The demos are the ready-made ones: play them in your browser without signing up. **Can I add pictures to questions?** Yes, on pub-quiz and quickfire questions: paste the web address of an image and it appears large on the TV. Uploading pictures from your computer isn't supported. ### Languages **Which languages does The Party Quiz support?** The TV, the buzzers and the host screen come in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Questions can be written, by you or the AI, in any of 93 languages. **Does the TV switch language automatically?** Yes. It follows the language of the quiz, and so do the phones that join. ### Pricing and privacy **Is The Party Quiz free to use?** Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. **What does one Quiz Coin buy?** 1 Quiz Coin = 1 generated question. A pub quiz with 6 rounds of 10 questions costs 60 Quiz Coins. A typical gameshow with two 25-question rounds and a tie-breaker has 51 questions, so it costs 51 Quiz Coins. Regenerating a question you don’t like costs 1 Quiz Coin, including the set of three alternatives to choose from. The same rate applies to action, music and video prompts. You see the cost before generating. Writing or editing questions yourself uses no Quiz Coins. Failed generation is refunded. Music and video questions still need a clip link. **What does The Party Quiz store about my players?** The first name they type, the team they pick and their buzzes and answers, deleted automatically seven days after the party, or straight away when you delete the quiz. **Who makes The Party Quiz?** EXPX B.V. builds and runs The Party Quiz. It's an innovation studio at Schiedamse Vest 154, 3011 BH Rotterdam, the Netherlands, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under KVK 70364338. **Can I delete my account?** Yes, from your dashboard. It removes your email, your quizzes and the player names recorded against them. --- ## The Party Quiz vs Kahoot, JeopardyLabs & Factile https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare **How The Party Quiz compares** The tools people usually try first are good at what they were built for, mostly classrooms and offices. The Party Quiz was built for a room with a TV and a party in it. Here's what that changes. ### Which one should I use for a quiz? For a party or quiz around one TV, The Party Quiz: of the four, it's the one built for that. It has a Jeopardy-style board with phone buzzers, a pub quiz with printable answer sheets and host marking, and quickfire multiple choice on every phone. Players join free from their own phones, with no account and no per-player fee. For lessons, training and big audiences, the others have what a party doesn't need. Kahoot! has a huge library of ready-made quizzes, reports and plans for hundreds of players. Factile has several game modes, a very large library and plans for schools and businesses. JeopardyLabs is the quickest way to put a simple board on one screen, with no registration and a large public collection of games. ### Pick a comparison - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [vs JeopardyLabs](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/jeopardylabs-alternative): A JeopardyLabs alternative: the same kind of board, plus buzzers and music clues. - [vs Factile](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/factile-alternative): Free buzzers and teams for parties and classroom warm-ups, plus a pub quiz. - [vs Quizado](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/quizado-alternative): The same browser-and-phones set-up, with commercial nights from €9. ### At a glance | | The Party Quiz | Kahoot! | JeopardyLabs | Factile | |---|---|---|---|---| | Built for | Parties, meetings and classroom warm-ups | Classrooms and workplaces | Classrooms | Classrooms and trainers | | Jeopardy-style board | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | | Phone buzzers | Yes, free | No | Separate app | On paid plans | | Pub-quiz format with marking | Yes | No | No | No | | Multiple choice on phones | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | Free plan limit | 5 saved quizzes · 250 Quiz Coins/month | 10 players per game | Free to use | 3 games, 5 teams | | Paid plans | Quiz Host: €2/month or €19.20/year. Quizmaster: €9/month or €86.40/year, including the first host. | Kahoot!+ Gold: $14.99 per host/month, or $180 a year | $20 one-off membership | From $4/month | Source: From each product's own website, checked on 2 November 2026, kahoot.com/home, playfactile.com/plans, jeopardylabs.com/about. Plans and features change; check theirs before you decide. --- ## Free Kahoot Alternative for Parties & Quizzes https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative **A Kahoot alternative for the living room** Kahoot! made the live multiple-choice quiz famous. The Party Quiz has one too, plus a gameshow board with buzzers and a written pub quiz. Players join free: the host's plan sets the limits, not a fee per player. ### The short answer Choose Kahoot! for lessons, training and large events: it has a huge library of ready-made quizzes, reports, many question types and plans for up to hundreds of players. Choose The Party Quiz for a party or quiz around one TV: a gameshow board with phone buzzers, a pub quiz with answer sheets, and a quickfire round much like Kahoot's, played solo, like Kahoot, or in teams scored fairly. Players join free and need no account; Quiz Starter covers private and charity evenings, and Quiz Night or Quizmaster covers commercial ones. ### The Party Quiz vs Kahoot! | | The Party Quiz | Kahoot! | |---|---|---| | Players on the free plan | 10 phones in up to 4 teams, or 10 solo players | Up to 10 per game | | Paid plans | Quiz Host: €2/month or €19.20/year. Quizmaster: €9/month or €86.40/year, including the first host. | Kahoot!+ Gold: $14.99 per host/month, or $180 a year | | Formats | Gameshow, pub quiz, quickfire | Quizzes with many question types | | Buzz-in to answer out loud | Yes | No, every player answers on their device | | Pub-quiz rounds with printable sheets | Yes | No | | Players join with | A room code or QR code, no app | A game PIN, no app needed | | Ready-made quiz library | No, you write it, or the AI drafts it | Yes, very large | Source: From Kahoot!'s own website, checked on 2 November 2026, kahoot.com/home. Plans and features change; check theirs before you decide. ### Where Kahoot! is the better choice If you teach, train or run large events, Kahoot! has years of features built for that: a large library of ready-made quizzes, reports on how each player did, integrations and plans that scale to big audiences. If you want to pick an existing quiz and play it in five minutes, its library is hard to beat. ### Where The Party Quiz is the better choice If the evening is a party, a pub quiz or a family gathering around one TV, The Party Quiz fits it better: buzzers that make people shout, action squares that get them off the sofa, a pub quiz that keeps the answer sheets, and scoring where a big team has no head start. Players join free with no per-player fee, and the TV and phones speak seven languages. ### Kahoot comparison questions **Is The Party Quiz a free alternative to Kahoot?** Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. **Can I import my Kahoot quizzes?** Not directly. The Party Quiz imports its own quiz files; a Kahoot quiz would need its questions copied across, or the AI can draft a new one on the same theme. **Does The Party Quiz have a Kahoot-style app?** No app at all, for the host or the players. Everything runs in the browser, on the TV and on the phones. ### Also worth a look - [Quickfire](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/quickfire): A live multiple-choice round everyone answers at once, on their own phone. It marks itself. - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [vs Factile](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/factile-alternative): Free buzzers and teams for parties and classroom warm-ups, plus a pub quiz. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Teams & scoring](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/teams-and-scoring): Quiz Starter: 10 phones, 4 teams or 10 solo players. Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event: 100 phones, 20 teams or 24 solo players. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. --- ## JeopardyLabs Alternative with Phone Buzzers | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/jeopardylabs-alternative **A JeopardyLabs alternative with buzzers built in** JeopardyLabs is the quickest way to put a Jeopardy-style board on a screen. The Party Quiz builds the same kind of board and adds the parts that make it a party: phone buzzers, music clues, dares and a scoreboard on the TV. ### The short answer Choose JeopardyLabs for a fast, simple board on one screen, especially in a classroom: you can make one without registering and browse a large collection of other people's games. Choose The Party Quiz when the board is for a room of people with phones: buzzers that settle who was first, music and video clues, hidden action squares, a countdown and a live scoreboard on the TV, plus a pub quiz and quickfire format when you want a change. ### The Party Quiz vs JeopardyLabs | | The Party Quiz | JeopardyLabs | |---|---|---| | Price | Free plan; subscriptions from €2/month or €19.20/year | Free; $20 one-off membership | | Account to create a board | Yes, free | Not required | | Phone buzzers | Built in | A separate free app by the same creator | | Action squares | Yes | No | | Other formats | Pub quiz, quickfire | Board only | | Ready-made games | No public library | A large public collection | Source: From JeopardyLabs' own website, checked on 2 November 2026, jeopardylabs.com/about. Plans and features change; check theirs before you decide. ### Where JeopardyLabs is the better choice It's hard to beat for speed: no registration, a plain board, and thousands of games other people have already made that you can play straight away. For a quick classroom review, that simplicity is the point. ### Where The Party Quiz is the better choice When the board is the centre of a party, the extras are what people remember: the phone in everyone's hand, the song playing with the picture hidden, the tile that turns out to be a dare, the scoreboard growing on the TV. That's what The Party Quiz is built around. ### JeopardyLabs comparison questions **Can players compete on their own, not 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. **Can I copy a JeopardyLabs board into The Party Quiz?** There's no direct import, but the board is the same shape, five categories of five, so copying the questions across is quick. Or describe the theme and let the AI draft a new board. **Does The Party Quiz need an account?** The host needs a free account; players never do. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Phone buzzers](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/phone-buzzers): Every phone becomes a quiz buzzer. No app, no account, one shared order. - [vs Factile](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/factile-alternative): Free buzzers and teams for parties and classroom warm-ups, plus a pub quiz. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Action squares](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/action-squares): Dares hidden in the board. Nobody knows which 400 is a challenge. - [Music & video](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/music-and-video): Music rounds, guess-the-song clips, film scenes and picture questions, on the TV. --- ## Free Factile Alternative for Group Quizzes | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/factile-alternative **A free Factile alternative for group quizzes** Factile is a polished Jeopardy-style game maker for classrooms and trainers. The Party Quiz is built for parties: its buzzers and up to four teams are free, and it adds a pub quiz with answer sheets. ### The short answer Choose Factile for teaching and training: it offers several game modes, a very large library of ready-made games, and plans built for schools and businesses. Choose The Party Quiz for a party or quiz: phone buzzers and up to four teams without paying, music clues and action squares on the board, a pub quiz with printable sheets, and a quickfire round scored by team average. ### The Party Quiz vs Factile | | The Party Quiz | Factile | |---|---|---| | Free plan | 5 saved quizzes · 250 Quiz Coins/month | 3 games, up to 5 teams | | Phone buzzers | Free | Not on the free plan | | Paid plans | Quiz Host: €2/month or €19.20/year. Quizmaster: €9/month or €86.40/year, including the first host. | From $4/month ($48/year) | | Formats | Gameshow, pub quiz, quickfire | Six game modes | | Pub-quiz format with marking | Yes | No | | Ready-made games | No public library | A very large library | | Languages | Screens in 7, questions in 93 | Several languages supported | Source: From Factile's own website, checked on 2 November 2026, playfactile.com/plans. Plans and features change; check theirs before you decide. ### Where Factile is the better choice For a teacher or trainer who wants a ready-made game on any subject, Factile's library and extra modes, memory, flashcards, self-paced, are a real advantage, and its plans are designed for schools and companies. ### Where The Party Quiz is the better choice For a party, the free plan is the difference: buzzers and up to four teams without a subscription, plus the party parts, action squares, music clues with the picture hidden, and a pub-quiz format with sheets for a phone-free event. ### Factile comparison questions **Is The Party Quiz free like Factile's free plan?** Quiz Starter is free: 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins per month for private and charity events without paid admission. No card needed. Paid plans add quiz storage, Quiz Coins and capacity; commercial events need Quiz Night or Quizmaster. **Does The Party Quiz have as many game modes?** No. The Party Quiz has three formats: gameshow, pub quiz and Quickfire. Gameshow and Quickfire support teams or solo players; pub quiz is team-only. You can combine rounds from different formats in one quiz. ### Also worth a look - [Gameshow](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/gameshow): A Jeopardy-style gameshow on your TV: five categories, rising point values, and phone buzzers. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Solo play](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/solo-play): Play gameshow or Quickfire solo: 10 players with Quiz Starter; 24 with Quiz Host, Quizmaster or a Quiz Night event. No player account needed. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. --- ## Quizado Alternative for Parties and Pub Quizzes | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/quizado-alternative **A Quizado alternative for parties and pub quizzes** Quizado is bar-trivia software for venues. The Party Quiz runs the same evening on the same kit, and sells to venues too: commercial rights are €9 a month, or €9 once for a single paid night. ### The short answer Choose Quizado for scale and for not writing anything: its paid plans allow unlimited players, it manages more than one venue, it supplies the questions, and it adds game shows a bar audience knows, Music Bingo and a Family Feud-style round among them. Choose The Party Quiz for everything up to about a hundred phones, which is most rooms. Commercial and ticketed events are covered by Quizmaster at €9 a month including the first host, or by a €9 Quiz Night pass with no subscription at all, against €49 a month for Quizado's cheapest paid plan. The AI writes a fresh quiz in any of 93 languages, which is the weekly job a library solves differently. ### The Party Quiz vs Quizado | | The Party Quiz | Quizado | |---|---|---| | Built for | Parties, pub quizzes and company events | Bars and venues running trivia nights | | Free plan | 10 phones in up to 4 teams, 5 saved quizzes, 250 Quiz Coins/month | Up to 4 player phones, 2 games a day, 1 venue | | Paid plans | Quiz Host: €2/month or €19.20/year. Quizmaster: €9/month or €86.40/year, including the first host. | Starter €49/month, Pro €89/month, Business €199/month, excluding VAT | | Cheapest way to run a paid or ticketed night | €9 once with a Quiz Night pass, no subscription. Or Quizmaster at €9/month, including the first host. | A paid plan, from €49/month excluding VAT | | Players on paid plans | Up to 100 phones | Unlimited | | Point-value board | Yes, gameshow | Yes, QuizoParty | | Pub-quiz rounds with printable sheets | Yes | No | | Who writes the questions | You, or the AI in any of 93 languages | A supplied question library | | Player screens | 7 languages | 8 languages | Source: From Quizado's own website, checked on 2 November 2026, quizado.com/pricing. Plans and features change; check theirs before you decide. ### Where Quizado is the better choice Three things are genuinely theirs. Paid plans allow unlimited players, where we stop at 100 connected phones, so a hall of two hundred is their room and not ours. The product manages more than one venue, which matters the moment you run quizzes in two pubs. And the question library means nobody on your staff writes anything, which is a different trade from generating a quiz each week. If any of those three is your situation, buy theirs. ### Where The Party Quiz is the better choice For one room of up to a hundred phones, we run the same evening for a fraction of the money: €9 a month with commercial rights, or €9 for a single paid night with nothing ongoing, against €49 a month to start with them. The quiz is yours rather than picked from a shelf, written by the AI to your theme in any of 93 languages, which is what a weekly quiz actually consumes. And a pub quiz here is a real pub quiz, with printable answer sheets and the host marking ✓, ½ or ✗, not only a board. ### Quizado comparison questions **Do both work the same way for players?** Yes. Both put the quiz on a screen everyone can see and let players join from their own phone with a code, with nothing to install and no player account. The difference is who the host is: a venue paying a subscription, or somebody hosting an evening. **Does The Party Quiz supply the questions?** Not as a library. You write them, or you describe the theme and the AI drafts the rounds for you to edit, in any of 93 languages. Quizado supplies a question library instead, which is the right trade for a venue running a quiz every week. **Can I run a paid quiz night with The Party Quiz?** Yes. Quizmaster includes commercial rights at €9 a month with the first host, and takes extra host seats for a team. For a one-off there is a €9 Quiz Night pass that needs no subscription and covers 100 phones for that event. Quiz Starter and Quiz Host cover private and charity events without paid admission. ### Also worth a look - [Pub quizzes](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/use-cases/pub-quiz): How to run a pub quiz: rounds on the TV, sheets or phones, fast marking. - [Pub quiz](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/formats/pub-quiz): A pub quiz: rounds read out, answers on paper or phones, the totals done for you. - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [AI quiz generator](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/ai-quiz-generator): Describe a theme, pick a difficulty, get every round written in your language. - [Answer sheets](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/features/answer-sheets): Printable pub-quiz answer sheets, one per team, numbered, never with the answers. --- ## 6 Best Kahoot Alternatives for Parties (2026) | The Party Quiz https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/best-kahoot-alternatives **6 best Kahoot alternatives for parties** Kahoot is built for a classroom, and a living room is a different room. These six all put a quiz on a shared screen and let players answer from their phones, and each one is better than the others at something. Every price and limit here comes from the vendor's own page, checked on the date below. ### The short answer For a house party, a pub night or a company quiz, pick The Party Quiz, Quizado or Factile: all three put a point-value board on a television and hand the buzzers to phones. Between the first two it is mostly scale and price: Quizado allows unlimited players and manages several venues, while we cover commercial events from €9 a month and a single paid night for €9. For a meeting or a webinar, AhaSlides is the one built for an audience rather than a room. For the cheapest possible Jeopardy board with nothing to learn, JeopardyLabs. We make one of these, and it is first on the list, which is the normal shape of a page like this and worth saying out loud. The table is the part to trust: it quotes each vendor's own page and carries the date. ### 1. The Party Quiz – best for a party, a pub night or a company event Ours. A gameshow board with phone buzzers, a written pub quiz with printable answer sheets and host marking, and a Quickfire round scored on every phone, and you can mix their rounds in one quiz. Describe a theme and the AI drafts the questions in any of 93 languages; the player screens come in seven. Quiz Starter is free and hosts 10 phones in up to 4 teams, with 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Paid plans start at €2 a month. Players need no account and nothing to install. It is priced for professional hosting too, which is the part people miss. Quizmaster is €9 a month including the first host, covers company and ticketed events, carries 100 connected phones and 2,000 Quiz Coins a month, and takes extra host seats for a team. For a single paid night there is a €9 Quiz Night pass and no subscription at all. A venue running a quiz every week needs new material every week, which is the job the AI generator is for. Worse than Kahoot at: a ready-made library. There is no public catalogue of quizzes here, so somebody has to write it or ask the AI to. ### 2. Quizado – best for a big room, several venues, or questions you do not write The closest thing to the same product: a browser on a screen, phones as buzzers, a point-value board called QuizoParty, plus Music Bingo and a Family Feud-style round that a bar crowd recognises. Three things here are genuinely theirs. Paid plans allow unlimited players, where we stop at 100 connected phones. The product manages more than one venue. And a question library means nobody on your staff writes anything. What it costs is the other half. The free plan is up to 4 player phones, 2 games a day and 1 venue; paid plans start at €49 a month excluding VAT. Our commercial tier is €9 a month, and a single paid night is a €9 pass, so for one pub with a room of under a hundred we are the cheaper way to run the same evening by a wide margin. Worse than Kahoot at: cost for a one-off. There is no pass for a single night here, so one birthday means a venue subscription. ### 3. Factile – best ready-made Jeopardy library A polished Jeopardy-style game maker with six ways to play, aimed at teachers and trainers, and a very large library of games other people have already built. If you want a board on a subject tonight and do not want to write it, this is the shortest path. The free plan allows 3 custom games and up to 5 teams, and says plainly that Buzzer Mode is not included. Paid plans start at $4 a month, or $48 billed yearly. Worse than Kahoot at: nothing much, for a classroom. For a party, the buzzers being paid is the catch. ### 4. JeopardyLabs – best for the cheapest possible board The oldest and plainest of these. It makes a Jeopardy template without PowerPoint, with a scoreboard attached, and thousands of games are built on it daily; public games can be cloned by anyone. A membership is $20 for life, and the site is ad-free for everyone. It is a board and a scoreboard, by design. Players buzz by shouting or raising a hand, or through the chat on a video call; a separate free buzzer app exists but is not part of it. Worse than Kahoot at: phones. Nobody answers on a device here. ### 5. AhaSlides – best for a meeting or a webinar Interactive presentation software rather than a quiz app: live polls, quizzes and word clouds inside a deck. If the quiz is five minutes in the middle of a presentation, this is the tool shaped for that, and its free plan engages up to 50 participants live with unlimited presentations a month. Worse than Kahoot at: being a game. It is a slide deck with questions in it, which is right for a webinar and flat in a living room. ### 6. Kahoot itself – still the right answer for a classroom Worth saying on a page like this: if you are teaching, Kahoot is probably still it. The ready-made library is enormous, the reporting is built for a teacher, and everyone in the room has already played it. For a party the catch is the free plan, which is up to 10 players per game. Kahoot!+ Gold is $14.99 per host per month, or $180 a year. ### Free plans and prices, side by side | | Free plan | Paid from | Point-value board | Phone buzzers | |---|---|---|---|---| | The Party Quiz | 10 phones, 4 teams, 5 saved quizzes | €2/month, or €9/month with commercial rights | Yes | Yes, free | | Quizado | 4 player phones, 2 games a day | €49/month, excl. VAT | Yes | Yes | | Factile | 3 games, 5 teams | $4/month | Yes | Not on the free plan | | JeopardyLabs | Free to use | $20 for life | Yes | No | | AhaSlides | 50 participants live | Not listed on their pricing page | No | No | | Kahoot! | 10 players per game | $14.99 per host/month | No | No | Source: Every claim below is from each product's own website, checked on 2 November 2026: kahoot.com/home, ahaslides.com/pricing, quizado.com/pricing, playfactile.com/plans, jeopardylabs.com/about. Prices and limits change, and a figure we could not find on the vendor's own page is left out rather than guessed. The Party Quiz is ours, which is why it is first to say so. ### Choosing between them **What is the best free Kahoot alternative?** For a party, The Party Quiz: Quiz Starter is free, hosts 10 phones in up to 4 teams, and the buzzers are not a paid feature. For a classroom board with a ready-made library, Factile's free plan allows 3 games and 5 teams, though its Buzzer Mode is paid. JeopardyLabs is free to use if you only need a board and a scoreboard. **Which of these works on a TV?** The Party Quiz, Quizado, Factile and JeopardyLabs all run in a browser, so any screen with a browser will do: a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI, a cast tab or a projector. AhaSlides and Kahoot are usually shown from a presenter's screen instead. **Do players need an app or an account?** Not for The Party Quiz: players open a link or scan a QR code, type a first name, and that is the whole joining process. Most of the others also join by code without an account; check each one, because it is the thing most likely to change. **Why is The Party Quiz on its own list?** Because leaving it off would be stranger than including it, and every vendor ranking for this search does the same. What we can do instead is show our working: every number in the table is from the other product's own website, with the date it was checked, and anything we could not find there is left blank rather than guessed. ### The one-to-one comparisons - [vs Kahoot!](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/kahoot-alternative): A free Kahoot alternative for group quizzes on a shared screen. - [vs Quizado](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/quizado-alternative): The same browser-and-phones set-up, with commercial nights from €9. - [vs Factile](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/factile-alternative): Free buzzers and teams for parties and classroom warm-ups, plus a pub quiz. - [vs JeopardyLabs](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/compare/jeopardylabs-alternative): A JeopardyLabs alternative: the same kind of board, plus buzzers and music clues. - [Pricing](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/pricing): Start free with 5 quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Compare Quiz Host, Quizmaster, extra host seats and one-off add-ons for private and commercial events. - [Demos](https://www.thepartyquiz.com/demos): Play all three formats in your browser, in teams or solo. No sign-up. --- ## About The Party Quiz: Made in Rotterdam by EXPX https://www.thepartyquiz.com/about **Made for the host, by people who host** The Party Quiz is made by EXPX B.V., an innovation studio in Rotterdam. It started as a single board for one Dutch party, Team Dutch against Team Not-Dutch, and grew into the quiz we wanted every time we hosted one. ### Why it exists Most quizzes are run from a phone and a piece of paper. The questions are fun; everything around them is admin. Who buzzed first? What's the score? Can everyone at the back hear? We wanted a quiz where the TV did the showing, the phones did the buzzing and the host got to be the host. That's the whole idea, and everything in the product serves it. ### What we believe A few principles show up everywhere in the product: - The room comes first. Big type, clear colours, and an emoji or a shape beside every colour for colour-blind players. - Players owe us nothing. No app, no account, no email, and their names are deleted a week after the party. - The host makes the calls. The AI drafts, the software counts, but a person judges the answers. - Your language, not just English. The screens come in seven and the questions in 93. - No tricks. No ads, no fake urgency, no trial that runs out. ### Who we are The Party Quiz is made by EXPX B.V., an innovation studio in Rotterdam run by (ex-)founders who build and launch new products. EXPX is registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 70364338. Every comparison with another product on this site is checked against that product's own website and dated, so you can check it too. Other games and apps share the name "Party Quiz". The Party Quiz is the browser-based quiz app at www.thepartyquiz.com. It is not the game of that name on Steam, not a mobile app from an app store, and not any other product with a similar name. ### Company details - Product: The Party Quiz (thepartyquiz.com), a web app with free and paid plans for hosting quizzes on a TV - Company: EXPX B.V. (expx.nl), the innovation studio that builds and runs The Party Quiz - Address: Schiedamse Vest 154, 3011 BH Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Chamber of Commerce: KVK 70364338 --- ## Contact The Party Quiz: Help, Feedback & Privacy https://www.thepartyquiz.com/contact **Get in touch** Found a bug, want a feature, need a player's name removed sooner than seven days? We read everything. ### How to reach us - Email: quiz@thepartyquiz.com - Post: EXPX B.V., Schiedamse Vest 154, 3011 BH Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Chamber of Commerce: KVK 70364338 - Privacy requests: Delete your account from your dashboard at any time. For anything else, a player's name removed sooner, a copy of what we hold, write to us with the form below. ### Before you write **A player's phone says “No game found”.** The room only exists once the host has opened the quiz on the host screen. Check the code on the TV, codes use no 0, O, 1, I or L, so there's less to mistype. **The music isn't playing on the TV.** Tap the TV screen once: browsers need one tap before a page may play sound. If a single clip still refuses, that YouTube video probably can't be embedded, pick another upload. **How do I remove a player's name?** Names are deleted automatically seven days after the party. Deleting the quiz removes them straight away, or contact us to have one removed sooner. ### Send us a message It goes straight to our inbox. We usually answer within a day or two. Write to quiz@thepartyquiz.com, or use the form at https://www.thepartyquiz.com/contact.