A SpeedQuizzing alternative with nothing to install

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.

How each one works

SpeedQuizzing: teams download the free SpeedQuizzing app, and one device per team is enough. The host runs SpeedQuizzing on a Windows or Mac computer. In a venue, SpeedQuizzing Pro connects the phones through a SpeedQuizzing Hub and needs no internet; it takes 64 players, within about 25 to 50 metres of the Hub. For online quizzes, SpeedQuizzing Web works over the internet for up to 200, depending on the connections. Hosts buy credits and book an activation for each date, which comes with a quizpack of questions.

JoltQuiz: players scan the QR code on the big screen, tap a link or type a six-character code, and they are in, in their phone's browser. You run the quiz from any device: phone, tablet or laptop. The big screen is a web page: open it on whatever drives your TV or projector.

Everyone on their own phone

On JoltQuiz a team shares a four-letter code, so every member plays on their own phone and sees the question in their hand. 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.

Scoring

A point per right answer is JoltQuiz's default, whenever it lands before the timer. Switch on speed scoring for the quiz or for one round and the fastest right answer takes 5.0, down to 1.0, so being right always scores. JoltQuiz has four scoring modes, and double points for a round.

When SpeedQuizzing is the better choice

If your venue has no reliable wifi and no phone signal, SpeedQuizzing Pro with its Hub runs a quiz with no internet at all. JoltQuiz needs a connection: the venue's wifi or the phones' own mobile data. SpeedQuizzing Pro also has a long list of quiz formats - buzzer rounds, audio questions, picture questions with a slow reveal - and free Bingo. And it has a long record in pubs: it says it runs well over 2,000 events a week.

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