About Think Fast

A trivia night
without the host fee.

Self-run team trivia for offices and remote teams. One person sets it up in about five minutes, everyone plays on the phone already in their pocket, and the whole event costs one flat price instead of a fee per head.

Play a free round See event pricing Made by Rudiment LLC in San Francisco.
Refunds unconditional within 7 days.
Why it exists

There were two options, and both were bad

Hire a host
$500–1,500

Real emcees are good at their job and charge accordingly. You also have to schedule a stranger into a calendar that already could not agree on a meeting time.

Bend a classroom tool
Annual subscription

The big quiz platforms are built for teachers. They work, technically. But you are buying a year of software for one December party, and it reminds the room of a pop quiz.

The third option
$99 flat

The person who got voluntold runs it themselves, pays once, and it looks like a game show rather than a training module. That is the entire idea.

The decisions

Choices made on purpose

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Typing, not multiple choice

The one people question first. Multiple choice lets everybody guess, so someone who knows nothing lands 25% and the room learns nothing. Typing is harder, which is the point: getting it right feels like getting it right. Spelling is forgiven, so nobody loses on a typo.

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Per event, never per person

Per-person pricing punishes you for inviting people, which is a strange thing to do to a team event. A 40-person event costs the same as a 12-person one. No seat math before you buy, no invoice surprise if more people turn up.

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The free tier is real

Up to 8 players, no sign-up, no time limit, no card. It does not expire and it does not degrade. The paid passes add a bigger room, rounds about your own company, big-screen mode, and your logo on the screen.

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No trackers in the game

Marketing pages have analytics, because we need to know if the marketing works. The pages where people actually play do not. Nobody consented to being measured because their manager started a trivia game. It is written into our privacy policy.

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Facts that don't rot

Over 6,500 questions across 25 categories. Anything that goes stale on its own, such as populations, sports records, or who currently runs a company, was left out. A question that was true when written and wrong at your event is worse than no question.

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The host is the judge

Automated answer-matching is good, not perfect. So the host can overrule it mid-game: mark an answer correct, or nudge a score. Live trivia has always needed a referee, and pretending otherwise just makes the room argue with a computer.

Straight answers

What Think Fast is not

Is someone going to host it for us?
No. You run it. No emcee joins your call. If you want a professional host performing for your team, hire one, that is a real product and this is not it. What you get instead is that you can decide at 2pm and play at 4pm.
Am I signing up for a subscription?
Not unless you choose to. The $99 and $199 passes are one-time payments with a 72-hour window that starts when you first use the pass. Unlimited exists for teams that genuinely run trivia often, and you can cancel it online in about twenty seconds at playthinkfast.com/manage.
Do I get an account and a login?
Not yet. Your pass code is your credential. That keeps things simple and means there is no password to lose, but it also means you should keep the code. Accounts are on the list for when there are enough subscribers to warrant them.
Can I use it for a classroom?
You can, but there are better tools for teaching and we would rather say so. The questions are written for adults at work. We wrote an honest comparison of the alternatives that includes the cases where a competitor is the better choice.
Who's behind it

Small, independent, reachable

Think Fast is built and run independently. It is a product of Rudiment LLC, a company registered in California and based in San Francisco.

There is no venture funding and no sales team. Support email goes to the people who make the thing, which has one obvious downside: we are small. It also has an upside, which is that a bug reported on Tuesday tends to be fixed on Tuesday, and a question flagged as wrong gets corrected rather than filed.

Reach us at support@playthinkfast.com. Refunds are unconditional within 7 days, which is the shortest way we know to say we would rather give the money back than have you feel stuck with it.

Try it before you decide anything.