Any room · any Tuesday · doors at 7
Real games. Real rooms.
Real nights out.
The live-events community for any room with people in it: bars, breweries, backyards, banquet halls, firehouses, and the family reunion. Trivia, karaoke, bingo, sports pick'em, and four more. Out in the world, with people.
Free to start · no card · cancel anytime · see pricing
For bars, breweries and restaurants
Need someone to run the night?
Find a local host, free.
A dead Tuesday that needs a trivia night. A Friday that needs a karaoke host. Post your night on the Gig Board and Brainflood suggests local hosts who fit your nights and your budget, and tells you why. Always free for venues, and your phone and email stay private until you say yes.
Round 1 · straight from a live game
Their phone. Your screen.
The whole room playing.
These are real screenshots from a live game. Players scan a QR code and play from their phone browser. The venue TV shows the question, the reveal, and a leaderboard with everyone's name on it.
In their hand · trivia: tap, lock, talk trash
On the big screen · every team, every round, live
And 30 seconds of it moving · more cuts
Round 2 · two ways in
The game is the excuse.
The friends are the point.
Brainflood works on both sides of the mic. Show up to a room and find your people, or run the room and turn it into a real gig.
Find a real game night near you. Build a crew that follows you across every venue you walk into. Free, optional account, no app to install.
- Scan a QR code at the venue, type your name, you're in
- Form a persistent team with a 6-letter join code
- Glory Points + skill tier track you across every mode
- Forums, DMs, and a private board per team
Real venues pay real money for game nights. Run trivia, karaoke, bingo, pick'em, slideshows, and tournaments from one dashboard. $19/month, no commission, you keep what you earn.
- $100 to $200 for a typical weekly night, plus tips
- 8 modes you can mix in one event = more nights at one venue
- Event Builder chats your gig into a finished show in minutes
- A free library on running, writing and booking your nights
Not sure which one yet? Take the 60-second quiz
Round 3 · the part nobody else has
Tell it what the night is.
It builds the show.
Most platforms hand you a question bank and wish you luck. Brainflood hands you a finished night: the Event Builder assembles it from a plain-text brief, and Auto Assist helps you run it while you work the room.
Event Builder
Tell it what the night is. Wedding, brewery trivia, office party. It builds the rounds, writes the questions, makes a slideshow from the photos you drop in, and hands you a run-of-show. The project sticks around so you can pick it back up later.
Auto Assist
You run the room. Auto Assist pre-grades typed answers for you to confirm, reads questions and scores aloud on the TV, and tells you what the room is waiting on. You keep the mic.
The output is one Event on one tape. The host taps next. The room never sees the seams. Tap a beat to see it up close.
Swap in bingo, pick'em, or a bracket. The tape is yours.
Round 4 · new this season
Less clicking.
More hosting.
Four things that shipped since summer, all aimed at the same twenty minutes: the ones before doors, when a host is still building the night instead of working the room.
The Cellar
117 smart question packs on 13 shelves: Halloween, the 80s, pub classics, whole four-round nights. A pack is a rule, not a list, so new questions join it on their own, and a round drawn from one never repeats an answer. Search "1980s" or "80s", both work.
One front door
Games, karaoke, Pick'em, tournaments, polls, slideshows, tickers: one Create screen builds all seven kinds of night. The default action stands alone. Presets and your saved templates wait behind a drawer until you want them. "Create and start now" goes from blank to a live lobby in one click.
The TV is your co-star
Names pop on the big screen as people join. The question screen counts the room in, "5 of 8 answered", live. Read-aloud plays through the TV, not forty phones at once. And the join page is one job: name, team, Join.
Print Center
Everything printable, one hub: certificates, results posters, picture rounds, event posters with an RSVP QR, business-card QR hand-outs, tip signage for the bar, and the full paper game pack. Names, dates and codes fill themselves in.
For quizmasters who run it on paper
Keep your paper night.
Brainflood does the math.
Teams still write on answer sheets and you still mark them. Brainflood adds up the scores by question, shows which questions got 20% and which got 95%, settles tiebreaks, puts the standings on the TV and prints the pack. Your own questions come in from a spreadsheet and go out to PowerPoint any time. All on the Free plan.
Round 5 · the whole menu
Pick a night, mix the modes
Same dashboard, same crowd-tested mechanics. Trivia Tuesdays, Karaoke Thursdays, Pick'em Sundays. Or all three of them in one night, because Brainflood treats a night as an Event that holds whatever activities you want.
13,000+ questions across 14 categories, from straight MC to picture and music rounds.
Full KJ dashboard, tip jar built in, and a fair-rotation queue.
A clip plays, teams name the artist and the song. Half-right still scores.
5×5 grid, Daily Doubles, Final wagers. The corporate-night favorite.
Live NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and soccer. Lock one pick for double points.
Everyone answers at once. The faster you answer, the more it scores. The room gets loud.
Bracketed championship nights. Real rivalries, one trophy on the line.
One standings table teams climb all season, live on a public page.
Teams write fakes, everyone votes. Balderdash energy without the $40 box.
5×5 cards, four ways to win. Sometimes the question is the call.
Round 6 · for hosts, the full gig
Real venues. Real money.
A year of Starter costs about what one or two weekly nights pay. Everything else you earn is yours.
Weekly venue fees, tips, private parties and corporate events. Most hosts do this part-time. The pay guide shows what each one pays, with sources.
Run weekly nights at three different venues without juggling three logins. Per-venue branding, slideshows, tickers, and skins.
Run a recurring season on top of your normal nights. Points accrue on their own when a night ends, and a public standings page keeps regulars coming back.
See which categories hit, which nights grow, and which venues actually keep people coming back. Then do more of what works.
Drag rounds around on a timeline and watch a live preview. Fill a round from a Cellar pack or browse 13,000+ questions as cards. Hate one? Hit rotate and get a matched replacement from the same category. Save a night that worked and run the same shape next week.
Your own public page at app.brainflood.com/h/yourname with a Follow button for regulars, plus a Print Center for flyers with an auto-QR, tip signage, certificates, and the full paper game pack.
14 free guides: running the room, writing questions, scoring and fair play, finding venues, filling the room, pay, taxes and insurance. No email gate.
Venue trivia and karaoke software commonly lists $49 to $209 a month (sources). Brainflood is free to start, $19 a month for Starter, and never takes a share of what you earn.
Round 7 · pricing
One good night covers a year of Starter
Start on Free with no card. Pay monthly or save 17% annually. Pro and up start with a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Tonight's Specials
- Every game mode except Tournaments and Leagues (3 games/month)
- 13,000+ trivia questions, plus 50 of your own
- QR-join, no app for players
- 1 venue, 8 teams, up to 30 players
- Auto Assist on every game
- Watermarked display
- Upgrade any time, no card until then
- Every game mode except Tournaments and Leagues (12 games/month total)
- 13,000+ trivia questions, plus 500 of your own
- 1 venue, 20 teams, up to 75 players
- 500 Brain Credits a month
- Auto Assist on every game
- Small watermark
- All 8 game modes · unlimited games, up to 2 tournaments/month
- Modular events: mix games, karaoke, slideshows, tickers in one night
- Up to 5 venues, 50 teams, 200 players
- Your logo, no watermark, skins per venue
- Event Builder + Auto Assist, 2,000 Brain Credits a month
- The Cellar (117 smart question packs) + Question Explorer
- Advanced analytics + retention reports
- Flyer Studio (5 flyers)
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited players, teams & tournaments
- Up to 10 venues
- Unlimited Brain Credits + question generations
- Full white-label branding
- Sub-host management tools (add-on)
No commission, no contracts. Free never asks for a card. Pro and up start with a 14-day free trial.
Running a franchise or many locations? Enterprise ($199/mo) adds unlimited venues, full white-label across locations, and bundled sub-host management.
Round 8 · for players, the full community
A community that follows you across every venue you walk into
Everyone needs a third place. This is one: a QR code, your name, and regulars who know it by week three.
Public venue directory. See what's coming up, RSVP with your party size, get notified of changes. No login required.
Make a permanent team with a 6-letter code. Roster, rivalries, and a public standings page your crew climbs week to week.
Earn Glory in every mode. One global leaderboard, badges for milestones, post-game recaps with a short write-up.
After a few games your profile shows which categories you crush and which ones need work. Beginner through expert.
Public boards, team-only boards (auto-created), reactions, mentions, threaded replies. 1-to-1 and group DMs with mute controls.
Permissions by role, soft-delete with reasons, board-scoped or global bans, automated content screening. Safety isn't an afterthought.
The regulars
Brainy brought friends.
Every bar has its regulars. Ours are a stomach who goes with his gut, a heart who cries at every ballad, a book who reads the rules twice and a barrel who owns the place. Meet the whole family.
One platform. Every room.
If people show up, it's an event.
Pubs on Tuesdays. Sports bars on Sundays. Restaurants killing a slow shift. Weddings that need a host. Fundraisers that need a draw. Backyards that need a referee. Same platform every time.
Pubs & breweries Sports bars Restaurants Karaoke bars Corporate Weddings & events All venue types
Round 9 · free, no signup
Try it before you sign up for anything
Four free tools and a 12-article host library. No account, no email gate.
Five questions. Get your BS archetype and find out what kind of player you are.
Get my BSMove the sliders. Nights per week, base pay, tips, venue mix. See the monthly and yearly numbers.
Run the numbers12 questions, 8 archetypes. Find out what kind of trivia person you are. Shareable.
Take the quiz16 questions, 16 types. How you actually behave at parties, gatherings, and Tuesday nights out.
Find your typeReady to turn it into a gig? Start with the library
Setup, the first ten minutes, pacing, reveals, and the nights that go sideways.
EarnWhere to look, how to pitch, what to charge, and the six weeks it takes a new night to find its crowd.
GrowMore venues, training other hosts, and deciding whether to go full time.
Last call
Pick your Tuesday.
Show up to one. Run one. Or just see what's out there. Brainflood is built for all three.
Free to start · no card · no commission, ever