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Run the night.
Any kind of night.

Pubs, sports bars, restaurants, weddings, corporate. One dashboard for all of it. Trivia, karaoke, pick'em, Brainpardy, whatever the room needs. Pick the night, run the night, get paid.

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The Brainflood host cockpit during a live game: question and answer key, 30-second timer, team standings, and per-player scoring
A player's phone at the same moment: correct answer revealed, plus ten points

The real host cockpit next to a real player's phone, captured mid-game. What you run is what they see.

13,000+

Ready-to-go questions

8

Game modes

$19

Starting Price / Month

15

Categories

Why Brainflood

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

No bloat. No extra features you'll never touch. Just the tools that stay out of the way so you can actually run the night.

13,000+ Ready-to-Go Questions

Thousands of questions across 15 categories and three difficulty levels. Every one is hand-reviewed. No scraped filler. You can also write, import, or generate your own.

Auto-Hosting

Let Auto Host run the whole game: read the clues, grade answers, manage the pace, and throw in commentary. Or run hybrid and stay in control while it helps.

Event Builder

Drop in a short brief and talk to the Event Builder. It asks a few clarifying questions, lays out the rounds, writes the question pack, and builds a slideshow from the photos you upload. Six starter presets. The project stays open so you can come back to it later.

Your Own Host Site

Every host gets a public page at app.brainflood.com/h/your-name. Add your schedule, venues, and photos. Regulars can follow you and get notified before each night. One link instead of posting in five different group chats.

Flyer Studio

Make a printable flyer in a couple of minutes. Every one includes a QR code that goes straight to your host site. Print a stack or post the image.

QR Code Player Joining

Players scan once and they're in. No app. No account required. Works on any phone with a browser.

8 Game Modes

Trivia. Brainpardy grids. Bluff/Balderdash. Bingo with four win patterns. Lightning buzzer rounds. Karaoke (Contest Mode + Trivia Hybrid). Sports Pick'em with live NFL/NBA/MLB data. Tournament brackets. Mix and match in a single night.

Live Scoring & Leaderboards

Enter scores as you go. Totals update right away. Put the leaderboard on the big screen or let teams check it on their phones.

Tournaments

Single elimination, double elimination, or round robin. Brackets update automatically and display publicly.

Question Generator

Describe a topic and get formatted questions back. Save them to your library or use them right away.

Print Pack (Pen & Paper)

Prefer paper? The Print Pack gives you everything: QR poster, answer sheets, scorecards, run-of-show, answer key, and bingo cards. Players write their answers. You keep scoring and the leaderboard on screen.

Karaoke / KJ Dashboard

Full KJ console with tabs for queue, display, voice, and settings. Four presets ready to go: Open Mic, Contest, Trivia Karaoke, Tip Jar Special. Trivia between songs earns skip-the-line passes. Tips, announcements, YouTube playback, and a waitlist that stays put.

Lightning Rounds

Turn phones into buzzers for high-speed bonus rounds. Real-time scoring with millisecond precision. The perfect finale to keep the energy sky-high.

Multi-Venue Management

One account for one venue or ten. Separate stats per room, shared question library. Built for people running multiple nights a week.

Slideshow Builder + Auto Slideshow Build

Drop photos into the Event Builder and it builds a base slideshow for you, including quotes pulled from the brief. Fine-tune it in the editor. What used to take hours in PowerPoint takes minutes here. Use it between rounds, at a wedding, or for a corporate intro.

Venue Tickers + Public Displays

Scrolling messages on the venue display for drink specials, sponsors, or upcoming nights. Set them once per venue and they stay up. Also handles leaderboards, brackets, and the karaoke queue. No second laptop needed.

Visual Game Designer

Build the game by looking at it. A timeline shows every round. Drag to reorder, click to edit, and watch a live preview. Quick-start templates give you a full game in one click. Your most-used ones show up first.

Unified Question Explorer

Cards instead of spreadsheets. Picture, audio, music, and text questions in one grid. Bad question? Hit rotate and get a matched replacement from the same category and difficulty. Filter by type, mark favorites, and bulk-rotate the ones that aren't working.

Game-show feel, no production crew

Timers that turn amber at 10 seconds and red at 3. Confetti on a streak. Buzzers that vibrate in people's hands. The leaderboard lights up when a team takes the lead. It feels like a show without a production crew.

Custom Question Builder
Player Stats & Achievements
Works on Any Device
Community Forums & Teams
Recurring Event Scheduling
White-Label Host Branding
Smart Question Rotation
Social Media Graphics
Soundboard (sound FX between rounds)
Polls between activities

A look inside

The newest tools, on real screens

Promote the night, run it on paper, keep players warm between gigs. These are live screenshots, not mockups.

app.brainflood.com/h/your-name
A host's public page: hero banner, about, this week's nights, a row of venue cards, a leaderboard, and a Follow button

Your own Host Site

One public page at app.brainflood.com/h/your-name for your schedule, your venues, and the regulars who follow you. Built from section blocks, no web skills needed.

app.brainflood.com/host/flyers
Flyer Studio showing saved flyers for Trivia Tuesday, Karaoke Thursday, and Sports Pick'em Sunday

Flyer Studio

Design a poster in a couple of minutes. Every flyer carries a QR code straight to your host site.

app.brainflood.com/host/print-pack
The Print Pack screen: download a ZIP or grab a QR join poster, per-round answer sheets, scorer worksheet, and bingo cards

Print Pack

Print the whole night on paper: QR poster, answer sheets, scorecards, run-of-show, and bingo cards.

app.brainflood.com/practice
The Daily Practice page: a shared Daily Challenge plus Classic Trivia and Lightning practice modes

Daily Practice

Your regulars keep a streak between nights with solo games and a shared Daily Challenge.

One night, many activities

Build the whole night.

A weekly trivia night is one Event. A wedding reception is one Event. So is a Sunday pick'em night with bingo at halftime. Brainflood treats them the same: one container that holds whatever activities you want, in whatever order.

Tuesday pub night
  • 🧠4-round trivia game (warmup, picture, audio, finals)
  • ⚡Lightning tiebreaker
  • 📊Daily-special ticker scrolling all night
Wedding reception
  • 🎬auto-built photo slideshow from the couple's brief
  • 🎯Brainpardy round with custom couple-themed clues
  • 🎤Open-mic karaoke after the speeches
Sunday football
  • 🏈Live Sports Pick'em through every game
  • 🎲Music-bingo at halftime
  • 📊Sponsorship ticker for the booze company that bought the venue's banner

Mix game modes, slideshows, tickers, and polls inside one Event. Schedule it once, save it as a template, run it again next week. Or chat with the Event Builder and have the whole thing scaffolded in fifteen minutes.

The Game Library

Eight ways to play

Each one fits a different room. Each one runs from the same dashboard. Pick the games that match your venue, then mix them across the week.

A live trivia question on a player phone: four tappable answer choices

Classic Trivia

The foundation. Multiple choice, true/false, short answer: build rounds your way with pen-and-paper or digital play.

The Brainpardy category board on the venue TV: five categories and dollar values

Brainpardy Grid

5×5 category board with Daily Doubles, Final Brainpardy, and buzzer-based wagering. A crowd favorite.

The Lightning buzzer: one giant BUZZ button on a player phone

Lightning Rounds

Phones become buzzers. Millisecond precision timing. Speed-based scoring. The crowd goes wild.

Bluff voting on a player phone: three convincing answers, one is real

Bluff / Balderdash

Teams submit fake answers, everyone votes. Points for fooling other teams. Hilarity guaranteed.

A bingo card on a player phone with daubed squares and the free star

Bingo

Standard number bingo or trivia bingo. Multiple win patterns: line, four corners, full card, X.

A populated tournament bracket on the venue TV with a live semifinal

Tournaments

Single elim, double elim, or round robin. 4–32 teams, automatic bracket generation, and live bracket displays. Run a championship night.

The KJ dashboard: up-next singer, song search, and a four-singer waitlist

Karaoke

Tabbed KJ Dashboard, four built-in presets (Open Mic, Contest Night, Trivia Karaoke, Tip Jar Special), Priority Pass skip-the-line via trivia between songs, YouTube playback, TTS announcements, and Venmo / CashApp / PayPal tip collection. Pop the venue display on the projector and you're running the show.

Sports Pick'em on a player phone: Cowboys at Chiefs with a pick locked in

Sports Pick'em

Real NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and soccer games. Players lock in predictions before kickoff. One Lock-of-the-Night per session: 2× points if you nail it, half if you don't. Auto-judges off live game finals.

Deep dive on every mode

One Subscription

Tuesdays are bingo. Fridays are karaoke.

Same dashboard. Different rooms, different crowds, different revenue. A packed week looks something like this.

Mon

Trivia

Quiet pub night. Regulars team up.

Tue

Bingo

Family restaurant. Mixed-age tables.

Wed

Bluff

Comedy night. Fake answers, real laughs.

Thu

Sports Pick'em

TNF. Sports bar packs in early.

Fri

Karaoke

Big crowd. Trivia between sets.

Sat

Tournament Final

Eight-team bracket, monthly closer.

Sun

Lightning

Sunday Funday. Phones become buzzers.

You don't have to fill every night. Pick three, pick five, pick all seven. The schedule is yours, the modes are all included, and your regulars stop asking "what's tonight?"

Pick Your Room

What kind of venue do you run?

Every venue type has a different rhythm. Here's the bundle that fits each one.

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Sports bars

NFL Sundays, March Madness, Game 7s

Sports Pick'em turns spectator nights into participation nights. Lock-of-the-Night creates real drama at the bar. Tournament brackets keep monthly leagues going.

Pick'em · Trivia · Lightning · Tournaments
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Pubs

Tuesday quiz that's not the same five categories

Trivia is the anchor. Bluff nights for the comedy crowd. Brainpardy themes (Movies, Music, Geography) keep regulars from getting bored. Lightning when the room needs energy.

Trivia · Bluff · Lightning · Brainpardy
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Restaurants

Slow weeknights, mixed-age tables

Bingo's low-stakes social vibe works for grandparents and grandkids at the same table. Themed Trivia (kid-friendly, food-themed) lets families team up.

Bingo · Trivia
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Karaoke bars

Singer queue, rotation, and filler music in one screen

Real-time queue management. Contest Mode (audience voting) for Saturday nights. Trivia Hybrid keeps the room engaged when one singer's bombing. Tip-jar links on the public display.

Karaoke · Trivia (between sets)
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Office parties & company events

$500–$2,000 per event, repeat business

Brainpardy with custom company-history clues lands every time. Event Builder generates a bespoke question pack from a brief in minutes. White-label branding on the Business tier.

Brainpardy · Trivia · Bluff (corporate filter)
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Weddings & events

One-off and personal, built from their story

Bluff with couple-themed fake answers. Bingo cards full of personal milestones (where they met, first dance song). Event Builder spins a custom round from the couple's brief.

Bluff · Bingo · Trivia
See all venue types

Stupid Simple

Three steps to a packed room

From zero to hosting your first game in minutes. No training manual required.

1

Build the night

Use the Visual Game Designer to lay out rounds on a neon timeline, browse the Question Explorer's card grid, and quick-rotate any dud in one tap. Or skip the manual build: chat with the Event Builder, give it a brief, and it scaffolds the whole night.

2

Host Like a Pro

Use our clean mobile interface, or let Auto Host handle it. See questions and answers at a glance, manage rounds, and enter scores as you go. Teams check in via QR.

3

Grow Your Night

Share instant leaderboard graphics on social media. Track player retention, popular categories, and attendance trends. Build a hosting business that compounds week over week.

Load-in 6:45. Doors at 7.

The whole rig fits in a tote bag.

If you can run a slideshow, you can run a show. This is the entire soundcheck.

The show-night rig: a laptop on the bar, one HDMI cable to the venue TV, one aux cable to a speaker, a QR table tent, and the room's phones joining the game. VENUE TV TRIVIA AT THE LOCAL TONIGHT'S JOIN CODE TAPRM 18 TEAMS IN HDMI AUX SIGN IN WI-FI HOST LAPTOP SCAN ME SPEAKER 1 2 3 4 5 6

  1. Set the laptop

    Any laptop with a browser.

  2. HDMI to the TV

    The big screen becomes the game board.

  3. Plug the speakers

    Music, timers, and the host voice.

  4. Sign in

    Your night is saved and waiting.

  5. Open your event

    One click. The join code goes up.

  6. Point at the QR

    Phones flood in. You're live.

Total setup: about four minutes. The pint is optional.

Built-In Community

Build a loyal following.
Fill seats every night.

The best game nights are really about the room. Brainflood gives your players a home base between visits, so one-time drop-ins turn into regulars who bring their friends.

Persistent Teams

Teams stick together across games and venues. Rosters, join codes, team stats, captains, and aggregate rankings. Your regulars build an identity they're proud of and keep coming back for.

Discussion Forums

Full-featured forums with categories, threads, reactions, search, and moderation. Players debate answers, share highlights, and trash-talk between games. Your community stays engaged even when nothing's on the calendar.

Private Team Forums

Every team gets a private space to strategize, share study material, and coordinate. Auto-created when teams form, with captain moderation. It's like a team group chat, but built right into the platform.

Host-to-Host Forums

Connect with other Brainflood hosts in private forums. Share tips on venues, swap question ideas, discuss what's working, and help each other grow. KJs, trivia hosts, sports jockeys, MCs, all in one place.

Player Profiles & Achievements

Every player gets a profile with skill tiers, category strengths, game history, and unlockable achievements. Auto-generated performance summaries show players how they're improving, giving them a reason to come back.

DMs & Leaderboards

Players message each other, talk trash, and form rivalries. Global leaderboards track rankings, win streaks, and points across all games. Competition breeds loyalty, and loyal players fill your venue every week.

Daily Practice & Challenge

Your regulars don't have to wait for Tuesday. Anyone can play solo Auto-hosted trivia any time, and a shared Daily Challenge gives the whole community one puzzle to chase and rank on the leaderboard. The streaks keep players warm between your nights.

Community is how you fill seats every single week.

When players have teams, rivalries, achievements, and forums, they don't just show up for the game. They show up for each other. That's the difference between a quiet Tuesday and a packed house with a waitlist.

Build Your Business

Host the night. Build a business.
Keep every dollar.

Brainflood is your tech stack, not your employer. You set your rates, choose your venues, and pocket 100% of what you earn. We've built a complete resource library to help you succeed.

$38-90+[1,2,6]

Effective hourly rate

100%

You keep what you earn

2-3x[7,8,11]

More than Uber/DoorDash

$500+[3,4]

Corporate event rates

Illustrative figures based on industry data - view sources & methodology.

The back office comes built in

Treating hosting like a business means paperwork. These tools live on your paid plan, so the bookkeeping and the contact list aren't a second app you forget to update.

Player CRM

Every player who joins a game lands in your contact book automatically, and followers from your host site flow in too. Add real names, emails, birthdays, and color tags, jot notes, and merge duplicates. Email-marketing consent is tracked per contact, so the regulars you turn into a mailing list are a list you actually own.

Host Books

Log every gig you get paid for and every expense you rack up, then watch lifetime totals, a month-by-month view, and a profit breakdown per venue build themselves. When tax season shows up, your numbers are already sorted instead of living in a shoebox of receipts.

Sub-Hosts & Agency

Booking more rooms than one person can cover? Spin up a sub-host group as an add-on, invite other hosts, and manage the whole roster from one dashboard. Hand a night off cleanly with ownership transfer. This is how a solo gig grows into an agency.

Why Hosting Beats the Gig Economy

Forget Uber and DoorDash. See the real numbers on why hosting pays 2-4x more per hour with zero vehicle costs, recurring income, and total schedule freedom.

Read the breakdown →

Earning Potential Deep Dive

Seven revenue streams, detailed income ladders, and real-world scenarios. From $800/mo side hustler to $8,000+/mo full-time pro.

See the numbers →

Corporate Events: $500-$2,000/Gig[3,4]

Companies pay 3-5x weekly-venue rates for parties and celebrations. Learn how to find corporate clients, price your services, and deliver nights they'll rebook.

See the corporate playbook →

Equipment Guide: $0 to Pro

Four tiers of gear from "use what you have" to premium $5,000 setups. Specific product recommendations and smart buying tips.

See the gear →

Hosting 101: Be Unforgettable

The craft of working a crowd. Preparation, pacing, energy management, handling hecklers, and the secrets that make great hosts.

Master the mic →

Scale: Side Hustle to Empire

Go from 1 gig to 10+. Systemize your business, hire other hosts, build an agency earning $6,000-$12,000+/month.

Scale your business →
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Why pay $49-$150+/month for tools you can get for $19?

Other platforms charge premium prices for features most hosts never use. We give you everything you need, with flexible add-ons only when you want them.

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Affordable tools that scale with your success.

No contracts. No hidden fees. Cancel anytime. Every plan includes our curated question database.

Free

Kick the tires

$0 / forever
  • 3 games per month · 1 venue
  • Up to 30 players per game
  • All core game modes & full question library
  • Brainflood watermark on display
  • No credit card required
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Starter

For weekly hosts

$19 / month

or $189/year (save 17%)

  • 12 games per month · 1 venue
  • Up to 75 players per game
  • Full question library (13,000+)
  • All 8 game modes incl. Sports Pick'em (Tournaments on Pro)
  • 5 question generations/mo · smaller watermark
  • Auto Host: try it on 2 games/mo
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Pro

For serious hosts

$39 / month

or $389/year (save 17%)

14-day free trial · no charge until day 14

  • Unlimited games · up to 5 venues
  • Up to 200 players per game
  • Full question library (13,000+)
  • All 8 game modes incl. Sports Pick'em & Tournaments (up to 2 tournaments/mo)
  • Auto Host unlimited + adaptive difficulty
  • 30 question generations/mo
  • No watermark · Custom question builder
  • Advanced analytics & retention reports
Choose Pro

Business

For multi-venue operators

$99 / month

or $989/year (save 17%)

14-day free trial · no charge until day 14

  • Everything in Pro
  • Up to 10 venues · unlimited players & teams per game
  • Unlimited question generation
  • Tournaments & Leagues (brackets plus recurring season standings)
  • Full white-label branding (your logo, your colors)
  • Priority support
  • 6-format data exports + ZIP bundle: CSV, JSON, XML, XLSX, ODS, PDF
  • Enhanced commentary engine & TTS voices
Choose Business
For franchises & multi-location operators
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Enterprise

Everything in Business, with no ceilings.

Unlimited venues, players, teams, and tournaments. Full white-label across every location, sub-host management included, and priority support with the fastest response queue.

$199 /month

or $1,990/year (save 17%)

14-day free trial

Get Enterprise →

Pro, Business, and Enterprise start with a 14-day free trial - no charge until day 14, cancel anytime. No contracts, no cancellation fees.

Included with every paid host plan
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Brainflood Plus

For players - the cosmetic + analytics tier.

Plus badge, custom profile color, vanity slug, animated avatar, achievement showcase, deep skill analytics, unlimited game history, weekly recap, written for you, study guide, lifted DM caps, and DM attachments.

$6.99 /month

or $69.99/year (save 17%)

Get Plus →

Flexible Add-Ons

Scale on your terms

Need a little extra for a big gig? Add-ons let you say "yes" to more opportunities without upgrading your plan.

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Extra Venues

Hosting a pop-up, festival, or filling in at a new venue? Add individual venues for just that month, no need to upgrade your whole plan. Perfect for grabbing extra gigs.

$8/venue/month

Brain Credits

Landing a big corporate event? Buy token credits for extra question generation or full autonomous hosting. Pay only for high-value moments; regular nights stay on your plan.

$5 / 500 · $20 / 5,000 · $75 / 25,000 credits

A generous monthly allowance is already included with every plan.

Event Boost

Running a tournament or multi-night corporate series? Temporarily unlock Business features for that event only. Say yes to bigger opportunities without changing your subscription.

$25 per event unlock

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Remove Watermark

On Free or Starter but want a clean projector? Drop the "Powered by Brainflood" mark from your player and display screens without jumping to Pro.

$4/month

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Priority Support

Included on Business and Enterprise. On Pro and want it too? Jump the queue with priority response times and a dedicated channel.

$12/month

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Sub-Host Management

Building a hosting crew? Invite sub-hosts, share your question libraries and venues, and run the whole roster from one dashboard. Included on Enterprise.

$9.99/month

Add-ons are completely optional and purchasable from your dashboard in one click. Most hosts never need them. A one-time $9 Data Export Pass also unlocks 30-day CSV / JSON / XML exports for Free hosts. They're here when you want to seize those income-boosting opportunities.

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FAQ

Got questions?

Nope! Brainflood is 100% web-based. Players scan a QR code or type a short game code on their phone browser. No downloads, no accounts, no friction. They're playing in seconds.

Three modes: Human (you run everything, the platform is your tool), Hybrid (it assists with reading, grading, and pacing while you stay in control), and Full Auto (runs the entire game autonomously). You choose the personality: Witty, Professional, Casual, or Snarky.

A chat-driven assistant that turns an event brief into a fully prepped show. Tell it about the event (a wedding, a corporate kickoff, your weekly pub night), upload photos, and it walks you through clarifying questions, builds the round structure, generates a custom question pack, and assembles a base slideshow you can fine-tune. Six starter presets ship out of the box: Wedding, Corporate, Birthday, Pub Trivia, Pub Karaoke, and Open Mic. Sessions are durable across reloads and tab handoffs. Pick up exactly where you left off, on any device. A per-session project page shows the to-do list, the photos synced from the media tab, the question pack, the auto-built slideshow, and the schedule, so a multi-day event stays organized.

Yes, and most successful hosts do. Brainflood treats a night as an Event: a container that holds activities like a game, a karaoke set, a slideshow break, a poll, a ticker, or a tournament round. Mix them in whatever order. Save the recipe as a template and run the same shape next week. Tuesday is trivia + lightning tiebreaker; Friday is karaoke with trivia between sets; Sunday is football pick'em with halftime music bingo. One dashboard, one calendar.

Hit Rotate. The Unified Question Explorer swaps it for a matched replacement in the same category and difficulty, never the same question twice. Spot the dud while you're building the game and you can bulk-rotate all the weak ones in the picker without losing your spot. No more rebuilding a round because two questions died.

Each plan includes a monthly Brain Credit wallet that covers question generation, auto-hosting, commentary, slideshow builds, and grading. Run out and you can top up with a credit pack (no auto-charge: you opt in). The Business tier ships with unlimited credits for the heaviest users. Soft caps prevent surprise overages. Every credit spend shows its cost in the chat or wizard before it runs, so you always see the price before you press the button.

Never. You pay a flat monthly subscription for the tools and keep 100% of what you earn. Hosting fees, tips, sponsorship deals, corporate event charges: all yours. No commissions, no revenue shares, no finder's fees.

Eight modes: Trivia, Brainpardy Grid (Jeopardy-style with Daily Doubles & Final Brainpardy), Lightning Rounds (speed-buzzer), Bluff/Balderdash, Bingo (4 win patterns + a trivia variant), Karaoke (full KJ system, Contest Mode, Trivia Hybrid), Sports Pick'em (live NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL prediction nights with Lock-of-the-Night), and Tournaments (single/double elim or round robin). Trivia rounds also support picture, audio, and music questions. Mix and match in a single night.

Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Cancel from your dashboard in two clicks. You keep access through the end of your billing period.

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