Every PubTrivia feature: QR code joining with no app, a live leaderboard, team and individual scoring, five question packs, timers and a big-screen display.
The part of a quiz night that usually goes wrong is the first five minutes. Everything here exists to make those five minutes take one.
Players scan the code on their table and they are in the quiz.
Each table has its own permanent QR code. A player points their phone camera at it, types a name, and is in. There is nothing to download, no account to create, no email to confirm and no password to forget. That matters more than it sounds: every install and every sign-up between the poster on the table and the first question is a team that decides not to bother.
Print the codes once and reuse them every week.
Table codes are generated for your venue and stay the same, so you print them once, stand them on the tables, and they work for every quiz you run from then on. Download them individually or all at once as a set. A table that loses its card gets a replacement in a minute rather than a new code for everyone.
Any phone with a browser, on any connection.
The player view is a web page, so it works on an iPhone, an Android, a tablet and whatever a regular has been carrying since 2019. Nobody at a table needs the same device as anybody else, and a player who arrives halfway through the first round can still join their table.
You keep the pace. The software does not start the next question because a timer said so while the bar is three deep.
A laptop behind the bar, a tablet in your hand, or a phone.
The host view is a web page too. Run it on the venue laptop, on a tablet you walk around with, or on your own phone if that is what is to hand. Nothing is installed on a machine you then have to be standing next to.
The next question goes up when you say so.
You launch each question yourself, so the gap between them is as long as you want it to be, long enough to take an order, settle an argument or wait for a table to come back from the bar. Once a question is live it runs on its own clock and closes at the end of it; what you control is the rhythm of the night, which is the thing software built for a classroom gets wrong.
Each question carries its own answer window, from five to fifteen seconds.
The question appears for a three-second read before the clock starts, so nobody loses points to the time it takes to look up. After that the window runs for however long that question is set to, anywhere from five to fifteen seconds, counting down on every player's phone and on the host view at once. Answers close when it ends, with a second of grace for the player who tapped at the buzzer on a slow connection, which settles the argument about who answered before you said stop.
Put the host view on the TV or the projector.
The question, the countdown and the leaderboard are laid out to be read from the back of the room, so the screen the venue already has for the football does the job on quiz night. There is no second app for the display: it is the same host view.
Five packs come with it, and you can write your own. Most venues start with the packs and end up mixing both.
General Knowledge, Pop Culture & Entertainment, Music & Audio, Sports, and Food & Drink.
Every plan includes all five built-in packs. Pick one for the whole night or take a round from each. Choosing the number of questions per session is part of setting the quiz up, so the same pack stretches across several weeks without repeating itself.
Multiple choice and true or false, with your own points and timings.
The pack builder takes multiple-choice and true-or-false questions, and each one carries its own point value and its own answer window, anything from 10 to 1,000 points and 5 to 15 seconds. A 500-point tie-breaker really is worth five times a 100-point warm-up. Pro includes up to five custom packs; Ultimate is unlimited.
Read the pack through before the room does.
Any pack can be previewed in full, questions and answers, before you run it. Worth doing: it is how you catch the question that is out of date, or the three in a row about the same film.
Marking papers between rounds is the part of a quiz night nobody misses. Scores here are settled the moment a question closes.
Standings update as each question closes, not at the end of a round.
When a question closes the scores move, on the big screen and on every phone in the room. Nobody is marking sheets, nobody is waiting, and the table in second place can see exactly how far behind they are, which is what keeps them buying another round and staying for the last one.
Rank by table, or rank every player separately.
In team mode everyone at a table shares one score and the leaderboard ranks tables, which is the normal pub quiz. In individual mode every player is ranked on their own. You choose per session, so a quiet Tuesday and a full Friday can run differently.
Award a flat score, or more points for a faster correct answer.
Flat scoring gives every correct answer its full point value whenever it arrives. Time-weighted scoring decays it: on a fifteen-second question worth 100, answering immediately is worth 100, after three seconds 68, after eight 38, and at the buzzer 20. A slow correct answer still beats a wrong one, which is the point: the curve falls steeply early so speed is worth defending, then flattens so nobody is robbed by a second of latency. Both are a setting on the session rather than a different product.
The quiz ends and the results stay. This is the part that matters a week later, when somebody disputes a score or the owner asks whether quiz night is working.
Every quiz you have run, with its full leaderboard.
Each session is saved with its final standings and a question-by-question breakdown of what each team answered. When a regular insists they got question fourteen right, you can look, and because the breakdown records what was submitted rather than only whether it scored, the answer is not a matter of opinion.
Up to five host accounts on Ultimate.
Ultimate adds up to five accounts under one subscription, each able to host, and sessions can run simultaneously across them, for a venue with more than one room, or a group with more than one site. Pro is a single account.
The free session runs a real quiz night, every feature above, all five built-in packs, up to ten tables. Set up, print the codes and host one.
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