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Run the night.
Any kind of night.

Boom or bust, people always show up for a good time. Brainflood gives hosts and venues one dashboard for trivia, karaoke, bingo, sports pick'em, brainpardy, lightning, bluff, and tournaments. Pubs, sports bars, restaurants, weddings, corporate. Pick the night, run the night, get paid.

Others charge $49-$150+/mo Brainflood starts at $19/mo
app.brainflood.com/host/games/live
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.

12,000+

Ready-to-go questions

8

Game modes

$19

Starting Price / Month

15

Categories

Why Brainflood

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

We built the platform we wished existed when we started hosting. No bloat, no BS. Just the tools that get out of your way so you can run the night.

12,000+ Ready-to-Go Questions

Hit the ground running with thousands of curated, verified questions across 15 categories and 3 difficulty levels. Every question is hand-reviewed before it ships - no auto-scraped filler - and you can write, import, or generate your own on top.

Auto-Hosting

Let Auto Host run your entire game: read clues, grade answers, manage pacing, and generate commentary. Or use hybrid mode where the engine assists while you stay in control.

Event Builder

Drop in an event brief and chat with the Event Builder. It asks the right clarifying questions, lays out the rounds, writes the question pack, and builds a base slideshow from photos you upload. Six starter presets: Wedding, Corporate, Birthday, Pub Night, Pub Trivia, Pub Karaoke. Sessions persist across reloads and tab handoffs, so an event you start Monday is still there Thursday with the to-do list ticked off.

Your Own Host Site

Every host gets a public page at app.brainflood.com/h/your-name. Build it from section blocks: your weekly schedule, your venues, photos, and a Follow button so regulars get the heads-up before each night. Share one link instead of re-posting to five group chats.

Flyer Studio

Design a printable flyer for your night in a couple of minutes. Every flyer drops in a QR code that points at your host site, so the poster on the bar wall handles the sign-ups for you. Print a stack, or post the image to socials.

QR Code Player Joining

Players scan once, they're in. No app downloads, no account creation. Just point their phone camera and go. Works on any device 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 round by round. Totals update instantly. Show the leaderboard on a big screen or let teams check standings from their phone. Drama guaranteed.

Tournaments

Run single elimination, double elimination, or round robin tournaments with automatic bracket management and public bracket displays.

Question Generator

Describe a topic, get perfectly formatted questions instantly. Save to your library or use on the fly. Never run out of fresh material.

Print Pack (Pen & Paper)

Prefer old-school? The Print Pack prints everything you need to run a night on paper: a QR join poster, team answer sheets, a scorer worksheet, scorecards, a run-of-show, an answer key, and themed bingo cards. Players write their answers; you keep the questions, scoring, and leaderboard on screen. No clipboard, no fuss.

Karaoke / KJ Dashboard

Tabbed KJ console: Queue & Stage, Display, Voice, Settings. Four built-in presets so you don't rebuild every Friday: Open Mic Night, Contest Night, Trivia Karaoke, Tip Jar Special. Trivia between songs earns Priority Passes for skip-the-line. Tip collection (Venmo / CashApp / PayPal), TTS announcements, YouTube playback, and a sticky waitlist that never disappears between tabs.

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

Host at one venue or ten. One account, separate stats, shared question library. Built for hosts who run multiple rooms across the week.

Slideshow Builder + Auto Slideshow Build

Upload event photos in the Event Builder and a base slideshow assembles itself: image slides plus quote slides extracted from the brief. Fine-tune in the visual editor. Three hours in PowerPoint becomes fifteen minutes in chat. Run it as the between-round screen, the wedding reception backdrop, or the corporate kickoff intro.

Venue Tickers + Public Displays

Scrolling messages at the bottom of the venue display: drink specials, sponsorships, upcoming nights, "Trivia every Tuesday at 7." Set them once per venue and they run across every event. Plus public projector / TV displays for game state, leaderboards, tournament brackets, and the karaoke queue. No second laptop.

Visual Game Designer

Build a game by looking at it. A neon timeline shows every round in order; drag to reorder, click to edit, watch a live preview as you go. Quick-Start templates seed a full game in one click (Themed Pub Night, Brainpardy Special, Lightning Tiebreaker, more). Your most-used templates auto-surface under "From your library."

Unified Question Explorer

Cards, not spreadsheets. Picture, audio, music, and text questions all in one neon grid. Got a dud? Hit Rotate, get a matched replacement that fits the round (same category, same difficulty, never repeats). Bulk-rotate the bad ones in the picker without losing your spot. Favorites, media-type filters, format tabs.

Game-show feel, no production crew

Neon timers that pulse amber at 10 seconds, red at 3. Confetti when a team clinches a streak. Haptic buzzers that vibrate in players' hands. Spotlights when their team flashes on the leaderboard. The venue feels like a show because every micro-interaction is built like one. No second monitor, no production switcher, no light board.

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 football pick'em with halftime bingo. Brainflood treats them the same: a container that holds whatever activities you want, in whatever order, on whatever screen.

Tuesday pub night
  • ๐Ÿง 4-round trivia game (warmup, picture, audio, finals)
  • โšกLightning tiebreaker
  • ๐Ÿ“ŠDaily-special ticker scrolling all night
Wedding reception
  • ๐ŸŽฌauto-built photo slideshow from the couple's brief
  • ๐ŸŽฏBrainpardy round with custom couple-themed clues
  • ๐ŸŽคOpen-mic karaoke after the speeches
Sunday football
  • ๐ŸˆLive Sports Pick'em through every game
  • ๐ŸŽฒMusic-bingo at halftime
  • ๐Ÿ“ŠSponsorship 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.

Science · Easy

"What planet is known as the Red Planet?"

A. Venus
B. Jupiter
C. Mars
D. Saturn

Classic Trivia

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

History
Science
Music
Sports
Movies
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Brainpardy Grid

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

Speed Round
BUZZ
1st: 0.847s 2nd: 1.203s 3rd: 1.891s

Lightning Rounds

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

Which answer is real?

A. "A type of medieval dance" 3 votes
B. "A brass instrument" Real!
C. "An ancient Roman coin" 2 votes

Bluff / Balderdash

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

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Bingo

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

Semifinals Final
Brainiacs18
Quiz Kids12
Lucky Ducks9
Trivia Titans15
Brainiacs -
Trivia Titans -
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Tournaments

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

Now Performing

Sarah M.

"Don't Stop Believin'"

Jake R. On Deck
Lisa T. #3

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.

Sun ยท NFL Week 9 Live
BAL @ CIN O 47.5
Ravens win ยท 14 picks +1.0
KC @ BUF ๐Ÿ”’LOCK
Chiefs win 2.0ร— / 0.5ร—

Live sports data ยท auto-judged on final

Sports Pick'em

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

One Subscription

Tuesdays are bingo. Fridays are karaoke.

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

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 ยท Trivia ยท Lightning ยท 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 ยท Bluff ยท Lightning ยท 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 ยท 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 ยท Trivia (between sets)

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Office parties & company events

$500โ€“$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 ยท Trivia ยท 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 ยท Bingo ยท Trivia

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.

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.

Browse the Full Host Resource Library

12 in-depth guides covering everything from finding venues to business setup, taxes, and more.

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.

Industry Average

$49–$150+/mo

Brainflood

from $19/mo

Pricing

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 (12,000+)
  • 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
Choose Starter

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 (single/double elim & round-robin)
  • 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 โ†’

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 โ†’

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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