Quiz night at a members club

Members' clubs, sports clubs and legions run quizzes perfectly happily on paper, and the reason most of them have never moved off it is that the alternatives ask the room to download something.

For a crowd where a decent share of the members are not going to install an app or create an account for a Thursday night, that is not friction, it is a wall. There is nothing to install here and no account to create: a phone camera pointed at the card on the table opens the quiz, and typing a name is the only step.

This is the detail that decides whether it works in a club. In team mode the whole table shares one score, so a table of six needs exactly one working phone and one person willing to hold it.

Nobody is excluded for not having a smartphone, and nobody has to be talked through anything. The rest of the table does what it has always done, which is lean in and argue.

Fairly. It is a monthly subscription for the club rather than a charge per member or per night, so a club running one quiz a week and one at Christmas pays the same as a club running one a week.

Pro is one host account, which suits a club where the same person runs it. If the quiz is shared between committee members who would each rather have their own login, that is what Ultimate's five accounts are for.

The mistake is to treat new software as permission to change the format. A club quiz that has run the same six rounds since 1998 should keep running them. What changes is that nobody is marking sheets at the bar and the standings are on the screen between rounds.

Flat scoring is usually the right choice here rather than time-weighted. A club crowd sharing one phone will always be slower than a table of four with a phone each, and there is no reason for the format to punish them for it.