Make your own trivia

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To make your own trivia, write each question below with every answer you would accept, and the builder checks those answers against the game's real matching as you type. Play the first three free to test them, then run the whole round live with your team on their phones. Your own questions, your own inside jokes, and no right answer marked wrong on the night, because nothing ruins a quiz faster.

Writing your quiz is free. Playing it live with the whole team, on their phones, needs an Event Pass from $99.

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The one rule worth knowing

Write the fullest version of the answer. The game accepts the last word of a multi-word answer on its own, so "Jane Smith" also accepts "Smith". It does not work the other way round: an answer of just "Jane" will reject a player who types "Jane Smith".

Already handled for you, so do not waste rows on them: capital letters, punctuation, accents, ampersands, a leading "the" or "a", and ordinary misspellings. Numbers are the exception and must be exact, so 1969 never accepts 1968.

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How it works

Make your own trivia in three steps

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1. Write your questions

Anything you like: the company's first product, who sat on the cake, the year the office flooded. Add every spelling that should count as right.

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2. We check them as you go

The builder runs the game's real matching over your answers while you type, so an answer that could never be matched gets flagged before anyone plays it, not during.

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3. Play it live

Everyone joins on their phone with a four-letter code, types answers against the clock, and the fastest right answers score most. Ends on a podium.

A few habits separate a homemade quiz people talk about from one they sit through:

  • Write about the room, not the encyclopedia. The reason to make your own trivia is the questions nobody else can ask: the company's first product, the year the office flooded, whose playlist caused the incident. Add a few general knowledge questions too, so the newest person in the room can score.
  • List every answer that should count. If a question has several right answers (name any Beatle), add each one as an accepted answer, up to 8. Nicknames and common abbreviations belong there as well.
  • Be careful with numbers. Numeric answers must match exactly, so ask for a year only when people would really know it, and never ask for an estimate.
  • Save the best for last. Questions play in the order you write them, and if the wager finale is switched on, your last question is the one everyone bets on.
  • Test it on someone who did not write it. Hand a colleague your phone for the three-question sample. Anything reasonable they type that gets marked wrong is an answer you forgot to add.

For choosing a theme, setting the difficulty, and hosting on the day, the full guide on how to make your own trivia game goes step by step. Short on time? The 200 office trivia questions are ready to read out, answers included.

FAQ

Reasonable questions

What is the easiest way to make your own trivia?
Write the questions and every answer you would accept in a builder that checks those answers for you, then play it where everyone types on their own phone. On this page that is three steps: write 3 to 20 questions, add up to 8 accepted answers to each, and play the first three free to test them. Running the full quiz live for your team needs an Event Pass.
Do players need an app to play my trivia?
No. Players join from their phone's browser with a four-letter code or by scanning a QR code, so there is nothing to install.
Is the quiz builder free?
Writing your questions and playing a three question sample are both free, with no sign-up. Running your finished quiz as a live game for the whole team needs an Event Pass, which starts at $99 one-time for up to 50 players.
Where is my quiz stored?
In your own browser, and nowhere else. We never send it to our servers or keep a copy, and it only reaches us when you actually start a game with it. That does mean it will not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser data clears it.
How many questions can I write?
Between 3 and 20. Each question can run to 200 characters and each accepted answer to 30, with up to 8 accepted answers per question.
How exact do players have to be?
Not very, on purpose. Capital letters, punctuation, accents and a leading "the" are all ignored, and ordinary misspellings are forgiven. For a multi-word answer the last word counts on its own, so "Albert Einstein" accepts "Einstein". Numbers are the exception: they must be exact, so a year off by one is wrong.
Can I mix my questions with your ready-made ones?
Not yet. A round is either your questions or one of the 25 stock categories. If you want both, run two rounds back to back in the same room.
What if a player disputes an answer during the game?
The host can override any ruling on the reveal screen: mark an answer correct, or nudge someone's score. Live trivia needs a judge and the host is it.

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