Quiz Live

About Quiz Live

Quiz Live is a quiz for a group where everyone answers on their own phone. Eight questions, four options each, and a clock that matters: a correct answer is worth 500 points plus up to 500 more depending on how much time was left. A room that all knows the answer is still separated by who knew it first.

The reason this is worth playing online rather than passing one phone around is secrecy. In a single-screen quiz the correct answer sits in the page, one devtools panel away from anyone curious. Here the answer stays on the server until the question closes — there is nothing on the wire to look at.

Answers lock when you pick, so there is no changing your mind once the room starts reacting. If everybody answers early the question closes early rather than making the room wait out the clock.

How to play Quiz Live

Press quick play or create a private room and share the five-letter code. Rooms seat twelve, and a full room sends the next player to a fresh one. Bots take empty seats while the room fills — tagged AI, and they answer at a plausible rate rather than perfectly.

A question appears with four options and a draining bar. Tap your answer; it locks and you wait. When the question closes, the correct option turns green and you see what you scored. Scores are shown after every question, so the standings move in front of everyone.

How to play Quiz Live

1. Enter a name on the home screen. It is saved on your device and shared with the site's other live games, so you only type it once.
2. Choose ⚡ Quick play to be seated in any open room, or 🔑 Create a private room and pass the code round your group. Friends type it into the CODE box and press Join ▶.
3. The room screen shows the code and the players seated so far. The first question follows shortly, so there is no host button to press.
4. Each question shows a header such as "Question 3 of 8 · 4 answered", the question itself, four coloured options and a timer bar that drains as the seconds pass.
5. Tap an option. Your choice is highlighted and the message "locked in — waiting for the others" appears.
6. When the question closes, the right answer is marked and you see "correct!" with your points, "wrong" or "no answer". After a short pause of around four seconds the next question begins, and after the eighth a Final scores screen names the winner.

Quiz Live tips and strategy

• Watch the answered counter. The "answered" figure in the header updates as people lock in. If most of the room has already answered, the question may close at any moment, so commit to your best guess.
• A second of thought costs about 28 points. The speed bonus of up to 500 is spread across eighteen seconds. Taking two seconds to rule out a wrong option costs around 55 points, which is a good trade if it turns a coin-flip into a sure answer.
• A slow right answer still beats most of a fast one. Even an answer given as the bar empties is worth 500, more than half of a perfect score. If you half-know it, use the time rather than panic-tapping.
• Use the pause between questions. The seat list is sorted by score, and the four-second reveal is your chance to see who is just ahead and how big the gap is.
• Trust the bar, not your phone's clock. The timer bar is synced to the server's time, so everyone in the room sees the same countdown even if their phone clocks differ.
• Keep an eye on the connection badge. A red ping or "reconnecting…" means your network is struggling. Move somewhere with better signal before the next question rather than during it.

Quiz Live or Quiz Party?

The site has two quiz games that look alike but suit different evenings. Quiz Live is the one for people who are not in the same place, or who are but each want to answer privately on their own phone. Each game is short: eight questions at eighteen seconds each, from a built-in set, with up to twelve players in a room. It works well as a warm-up on a video call or a quick contest in a break, and if a group is larger than twelve, the overflow simply gets a second room running alongside.

Quiz Party is better when one person wants to host with their own questions on a shared screen, with teams buzzing in on the keyboard. A good rule of thumb is that if you want to write the questions, you want Quiz Party; if you want everyone playing within a minute with nothing to prepare, you want Quiz Live.