Trivia & Karaoke Hosting Software for Venues

13,000+

Ready-to-go questions

8

Game modes

$19

Starting Price / Month

14

Categories, plus your own

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+ Questions, 117 Smart Packs

Fact-checked questions across 14 categories and three difficulty levels, shelved into 117 smart packs in the Cellar: Halloween, the 80s, pub classics, whole four-round nights. A pack is a rule, not a list, so new questions join on their own. Write, import, or generate your own too.

Auto Assist

You run the room, Auto Assist helps: it pre-grades typed answers for you to confirm, reads questions and scores aloud, and tells you what the room is waiting on.

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. Seven 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 Center

Everything printable, one hub. Before the night: event posters with an RSVP QR and business-card QR hand-outs. During: picture rounds and the full paper game pack (QR poster, answer sheets, scorecards, answer key, bingo cards). After: certificates and results posters. Plus tip signage for the bar. Names, dates and codes fill themselves in.

Paper Night Kit

Keep the pencils. Mark paper rounds by question and see which ones got 20% and which got 95%. A once-a-night Joker, list questions, closest-number tiebreaks, teams checking in from a phone, and standings on the TV with a last-to-first reveal. All on the Free plan. See the kit →

Karaoke / KJ Dashboard

A KJ dashboard you can run a show from: the stage, the song search and the queue, with Pause, End, Quick Trivia and Open TV in the header and everything else folded away. Four presets (Open Mic, Contest, Trivia Karaoke, Tip Jar Special), fairness mode so nobody sings twice before everyone sings once, Priority Passes from trivia between songs, and a quiet "Tip the KJ" button on every singer's phone.

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. Drag slide tabs to reorder, and pull slides from any of your other decks with live thumbnails, so a venue's title, sponsor and tip-the-host slides become reusable.

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.

One Create Screen

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. Rounds sit on a timeline with a live preview, and a "?" beside every option opens the exact rule. "Create and start now" goes from blank to a live lobby in one click.

A Question Library That Remembers

Cards instead of spreadsheets. Picture, audio, music, and text questions in one grid. Bring your own: paste rows from a spreadsheet or upload .xlsx or CSV, with a preview first. Each card remembers when and where you last asked it, and how many of your teams got it. Any game exports to PowerPoint.

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

Stock the night from the Cellar, promote it, run it on paper, keep players warm between gigs. These are live screenshots, not mockups.

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.

The Cellar: a grid of question pack cards on warm gradients, shelved by theme, with a Tonight rail of seasonal picks and one-row filters — The Cellar

117 smart question packs on 13 shelves. A Tonight rail surfaces what is in season, search understands "80s" and "1980s" alike, and a Full Night bundle runs a whole evening. Pick a pack while building a round and it fills itself, never repeating an answer. One dud? Redraw just that tile from the same pack.

Flyer Studio showing saved flyers for Trivia Tuesday, Karaoke Thursday and Saturday Bingo Brunch — Flyer Studio

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

The Print Center hub: certificates, results posters, picture rounds, event posters, QR hand-out cards, tip signage and paper game packs — Print Center

Certificates, results posters, picture rounds, event posters, QR hand-outs, tip signage, and the full paper game pack, from one hub.

The host dashboard: a show board with the next scheduled night, a start rail, one-click templates on tap, and the plan and usage ledger — The show board

One screen that answers "what is happening now": the live game, the next scheduled night, your templates on tap, and where the month stands.

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 and Final Brainpardy. Any Cellar pack can be a column with your own label. A crowd favorite.

A Lightning question on a player phone: four answer buttons while the clock runs

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.

Bingo

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

An eight-team 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: who has the mic, the song search, and a six-singer queue

Karaoke

A KJ dashboard you can run a show from, four built-in presets (Open Mic, Contest Night, Trivia Karaoke, Tip Jar Special), fairness mode, Priority Pass skip-the-line via trivia between songs, Tip the KJ on every singer's phone, 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

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, and the pick's points come off if you miss. 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.

🏈

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

🍺

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

🍽️

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

🎤

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)

🏢

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)

💍

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

Open Create, pick the kind of night (game, karaoke, Pick'em, tournament, poll, slideshow, ticker), and fill each round from a Cellar pack or the Question Explorer's card grid, rotating any dud in one tap. Or skip the manual build: describe the night to the Event Builder and it scaffolds the whole thing.

2

Host Like a Pro

Use our clean mobile interface, with Auto Assist at your side. 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 leaderboard graphics on social media. On Pro, track players per game, ratings and weekly attendance trends, and see which round types you run most.

One question, start to finish

You press one button. The room gets the rest.

The TV and every phone get what they need, and nobody sees the answer until you reveal it.

Gold lines are you. Grading suggestions come from Auto Assist on every plan, and nothing counts until you confirm the scores.

Paper or phones? See which rounds run on each.

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.

Set the laptop

Any laptop with a browser.
HDMI to the TV

The big screen becomes the game board.
Plug the speakers

Music, timers, and read-aloud.
Sign in

Your night is saved and waiting.
Open your event

One click. The join code goes up.
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 practice trivia against bots 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.

$100-$200[12]

Typical weekly night, plus tips

$15-$38[12]

An hour, once prep is counted

100%

Of your fee and tips. No commission

$350+[3,12]

Corporate events, often up to $1,000

Ranges from published sources and what working hosts report. Your market and your prep time move every number. Not a promise of income. See the sources or read what hosting actually pays.

app.brainflood.com/host/tip-signage

Tip signage in the Print Center: a foldable table tent with a scannable QR code per payment app, ready to print

A player's phone at game over with the Tip your host sheet open: Venmo, Cash App and PayPal rows that open each app

Tips go straight to you

Enter your Venmo, Cash App, PayPal or Zelle handle once. Put a tip screen on the venue TV between rounds, stand a table tent on the bar, and the room tips you through your own apps.

"Tip your host" on every player phone at the end of the night, plus a tip screen and QR on the venue display
Printable table tents, posters and cut-out cards
Brainflood never touches the money. No cut, no holding period, ever.

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? The Sub-Host Management add-on gives you a team roster: invite other hosts by email and give each one a role. Each host runs their nights on their own plan.

Writing a trivia night people come back for

Night structure, difficulty for a mixed room, clean questions, round formats that work, and keeping a library of what you have asked where.

Write a better night →

What hosting actually pays

Weekly rates, tips, private and corporate pricing, costs, and what prep time does to your real hourly rate. Honest ranges, with sources.

See the numbers →

Corporate and private events

Office parties, birthdays, fundraisers and weddings: who books them, how to price and propose, and how to run a room that did not choose to be there.

Book private work →

Scoring, prizes and fair play

Marking a paper night fast, settling disputes, finals that are not a coin flip, phone cheating, and prizes nobody tanks for.

Keep it fair →

Hosting 101: running the room

Arriving, the first ten minutes, pacing, reveals, quiet tables and loud ones, and what to do when the tech fails.

Read Hosting 101 →

Growing past one night

More venues, training hosts you trust, running a small company, and deciding whether to go full time.

Grow carefully →

Browse the Host Library

14 free guides on running, writing and booking game nights, plus pay, taxes and insurance.

Venue host tools often cost $49 to $200 a month.

Trivia software licensed to venues lists €49 to €199 a month, and karaoke software for bars $49.99 to $209.99 a month on a one-year commitment.[13-15] Brainflood is free for three games a month, and $19 a month for Starter, with no commitment.

Other venue tools

$49-$209/mo

Brainflood

$0, then $19/mo

The Gig Board

Find gigs near you

Bars, restaurants and breweries post the nights they want hosted. List your city, how far you travel, your nights, what you run and your rate, and get an email when a gig near you goes up. Answer it with your record: nights run on Brainflood, player ratings, and reviews from venues you have worked.

The Free plan answers 3 gigs a month. Paid plans answer unlimited gigs and get a Featured listing.

List yourself free How the Gig Board works

Pricing

Affordable tools that scale with your success.

Start on Free and upgrade when a night outgrows it. No contracts, no hidden fees, cancel anytime. Every plan includes the full question library.

Free

Run real nights, no card

$0 / forever

3 games a month at 1 venue
8 teams, up to 30 players a game
Every game mode except Tournaments and Leagues, the full 13,000+ question library
50 questions of your own, 3 packs, 3 saved templates
QR join, no app, watermarked TV display
Auto Assist on every game
No credit card, ever. Upgrade when a night outgrows it

Start hosting free

Starter

For weekly hosts

$19 / month

or $189/year (save 17%)

12 games per month · 1 venue
Up to 75 players and 20 teams per game
Full question library (13,000+)
Every game mode incl. Sports Pick'em (Tournaments and Leagues on Pro)
5 question generations/mo · 500 Brain Credits/mo · smaller watermark
Host Books, a 250-contact list, CSV/JSON/XML exports
Auto Assist on every game

Choose Starter

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 and 50 teams per game
Unlimited questions of your own, plus the 13,000+ library
Every game mode, incl. Tournaments & Leagues (up to 2 of each a month)
No watermark · your logo on the TV, prints and flyers
30 question generations/mo · 2,000 Brain Credits/mo
Analytics: players per game, ratings, weekly trends
Flyer Studio · exports incl. Excel, OpenDocument and PDF

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 Tournaments & Leagues (brackets plus season standings)
Full white-label: your colors, and Brainflood branding hidden
Unlimited question generation and Brain Credits

Choose Business

For franchises & multi-location operators

💎

Enterprise

Everything in Business, with no ceilings.

Unlimited venues, players, teams, and tournaments. Full white-label across every location, and Sub-Host Management included.

$199 /month

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

14-day free trial

Get Enterprise →

The Free plan never asks for a card. 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

✨

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.

📍

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 Auto Assist grading. Pay only for high-value moments; regular nights stay on your plan.

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

A monthly allowance is already included with every paid plan.

🧼

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

👥

Sub-Host Management

Building a hosting crew? Invite your hosts by email and give each one a role on a single team roster. Each host runs their nights on their own plan. Included on Enterprise.

$9.99/month

Add-ons are completely optional and purchasable from your dashboard in one click. Most hosts never need them.

FAQ

Got questions?

Is the Free plan really free? +

Yes. Sign up, press Start hosting free, and you are on the host dashboard with a setup wizard. No card, no trial clock. Free covers 3 games a month at one venue, 8 teams and 30 players a game, every game mode except Tournaments and Leagues, Auto Assist, the full question library plus 50 questions of your own, and a watermark on the TV. When a night outgrows it, upgrade from the plan page. Cancel a paid plan and you go back to Free, not to zero.

Do I need a password? +

Not if you would rather not. The login page has an Email me a sign-in link option: we send a one-time link that works for 15 minutes and signs you in on whatever device you open it on. It also verifies your address, so a brand-new account never has to hunt for the verification mail first. Google sign-in works too.

Do players need to download an app? +

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.

How does Auto Assist work? +

You run the room and Auto Assist helps with three things: grading suggestions (typed answers are pre-graded as they arrive, you can flip any grade, and team points wait until you confirm), read-aloud (questions, choices, answers and scores on the TV), and pacing hints (one line on what the room is waiting on).

Can I turn the AI features off? +

Yes. Settings has a No AI switch, under Gameplay. Turn it on and every AI feature leaves your screens: grading suggestions, read-aloud voices, question generation, the Event Builder chat and Brain Credits. Brainflood also stops running AI work for your account. Everything else stays, including your questions, the library, paper scoring, the print pack and the TV.

What is the Event Builder? +

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. Seven starter presets ship out of the box: Wedding, Corporate, Birthday, Pub Night, Pub Trivia, Paper Trivia Night, and Pub Karaoke. You approve everything it drafts. 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.

Can I run trivia AND karaoke in the same night? +

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.

What if a question looks like a dud? +

Hit Rotate while you build the round. The question picker swaps it for a matched replacement in the same category and difficulty, never one already on screen, and you can bulk-rotate all the weak ones at once without losing your spot. Filled the round from a Cellar pack? Redraw just that one question. No more rebuilding a round because two questions died.

How do Brain Credits get billed? +

Starter and up include a monthly Brain Credit wallet that covers question generation, Event Builder chats, game recaps, and Auto Assist grading of unclear answers (exact and close matches are free, and with no credits those answers simply wait for you). Run out and you can top up with a credit pack (no auto-charge: you opt in). Business and Enterprise ship with unlimited credits for the heaviest users. A soft cap warns you before you run low, and the wallet never goes below zero, so there are no surprise overages. The Event Builder chat shows about what a reply costs before you send it.

Does Brainflood take a cut of my hosting income? +

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.

What game modes are available? +

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.

Can I cancel anytime? +

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

49+ more answers in the Host Library FAQ

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Run the night. Any kind of night.

Everything you need.Nothing you don't.

13,000+ Questions, 117 Smart Packs

Auto Assist

Event Builder

Your Own Host Site

Flyer Studio

QR Code Player Joining

8 Game Modes

Live Scoring & Leaderboards

Tournaments

Question Generator

Print Center

Paper Night Kit

Karaoke / KJ Dashboard

Lightning Rounds

Multi-Venue Management

Slideshow Builder + Auto Slideshow Build

Venue Tickers + Public Displays

One Create Screen

A Question Library That Remembers

Game-show feel, no production crew

The newest tools, on real screens

Your own Host Site

The Cellar

Flyer Studio

Print Center

The show board

Daily Practice

Build the whole night.

Eight ways to play

Classic Trivia

Brainpardy Grid

Lightning Rounds

Bluff / Balderdash

Bingo

Tournaments

Karaoke

Sports Pick'em

Tuesdays are bingo. Fridays are karaoke.

What kind of venue do you run?

Sports bars

Pubs

Restaurants

Karaoke bars

Office parties & company events

Weddings & events

Three steps to a packed room

Build the night

Host Like a Pro

Grow Your Night

You press one button. The room gets the rest.

The whole rig fits in a tote bag.

Set the laptop

HDMI to the TV

Plug the speakers

Sign in

Open your event

Point at the QR

Build a loyal following.Fill seats every night.

Persistent Teams

Discussion Forums

Private Team Forums

Host-to-Host Forums

Player Profiles & Achievements

DMs & Leaderboards

Daily Practice & Challenge

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

Tips go straight to you

The back office comes built in

Player CRM

Host Books

Sub-Hosts & Agency

Writing a trivia night people come back for

What hosting actually pays

Corporate and private events

Scoring, prizes and fair play

Hosting 101: running the room

Growing past one night

Venue host tools often cost $49 to $200 a month.

Run the night.
Any kind of night.

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Build a loyal following.
Fill seats every night.

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