A Kahoot alternative made for quiz nights

What you get with JoltQuiz

• Eighteen mini games: Ten Seconds, Green Light, Hold Your Nerve, Pass the Bomb, Tug of War, Buzzers, Bullseye, Colour Clash, Quick Maths, Tap Frenzy, Higher or Lower, Word Scramble, Emoji Decode, Memory Match, Closest Wins, Rock Paper Scissors, Spot the Ball and Doodle Duel. Drop one between rounds when the energy dips, or run a games night with no quiz at all and let the leaderboard follow the whole night.
• Bingo on every phone: 90-ball or 75-ball for up to 1,000 players on Quiz Master. Every phone gets its own ticket, and line, two lines and full house are spotted for you, or players mark their own and press BINGO. How Bingo works.
• Prizes people can see: add a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize to a booked night. They show on your website card, on the big screen while people join, and beside the winners at the end.
• You, live, less than a second behind: go live on camera on every phone and on the big screen, so the room reacts with you, not after you. It runs on Cloudflare Realtime with your own free Cloudflare account and takes a few minutes to set up.
• Live on your own website: one line of code puts a card on your site that counts down to your next night and shows the join code when the doors open. Another puts your big screen on your own page, live as it happens, with a full screen button. It is not a video, so it costs nothing to watch. It works in WordPress, Wix, Squarespace and Shopify.
• Your look, down to the CSS: theme packs for the season, then your own colours, fonts and logo. Write your own CSS for your website card, and for your quiz themes on a paid plan. Every part of the card is named in the guide.
• Plugs into what you already run: API keys on Quiz Master let your own systems book nights, or a booked night can open its own doors and run itself on Auto host.
• Rounds worth playing: eight question types, including video clips, pictures and emoji, and more than 200 ready-made quizzes to start from.

Knowing beats tapping first

In a live Kahoot a right answer is worth up to 1,000 points, and the faster it comes the more it is worth. That suits a race in a classroom. At a quiz night it means the table that taps first beats the table that talked it through. Kahoot has an Accuracy mode that scores only being right.

JoltQuiz scores a point per right answer by default, whenever it lands before the timer. If you want speed to count, switch it on for the quiz or for one round: 5.0 for the fastest right answer down to 1.0, so being right always scores. Numbers questions can be closest-wins. JoltQuiz has four scoring modes in all.

Teams round a table

Kahoot's team mode comes with its paid plans, with a cap on how many teams can play in one game. On JoltQuiz, teams are on every plan. A team shares a four-letter code and everyone plays on their own phone. Choose whether the first answer from the table stands, or only the captain answers and can change it while the clock runs. Solo players and teams can play in the same quiz.

Made for a room, not a lesson

The big screen runs the night: round titles, the question, how many teams have answered, the answer spread when you reveal, and a leaderboard that builds up to the top three. Put a sponsor's message or a raffle on a slide of its own. Run it all from any device, and if that is your phone you can walk the room with the microphone.

Both products put a big screen in front of the room and take answers on phones with no account. What changes is everything around the questions.

Using Kahoot in a pub or at a paid event

Kahoot's own pricing page says that using Kahoot for customer-facing purposes needs its Kahoot! 360 Pro Ultra plan, and that you may not charge fees as part of using it unless Kahoot has authorised it. If you charge entry for a quiz night, read their terms first. JoltQuiz is made for pubs, clubs, venues and fundraisers.

When Kahoot is the better choice

For a classroom or staff training, Kahoot is hard to beat: it is made for learning, and its reports show who understood what. And for a single audience of thousands, Kahoot's biggest plans go past JoltQuiz's 1,000 players.

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