Lightning mode
Lightning.
Speed trivia on every phone in the room. Everyone answers at once, the clock is the only buzzer, and the fastest right answers score the most. The crowd goes wild.
Captured from a live game
Lightning mode
Speed trivia on every phone in the room. Everyone answers at once, the clock is the only buzzer, and the fastest right answers score the most. The crowd goes wild.
Captured from a live game
Short windows, fast taps. The round is over before someone orders another round.
True/false and multiple choice only, so every answer can be scored the moment it lands. Short, definitive stuff with no debate: geography, history dates, sports records. A Cellar pack can fill the round in one pick.
Question on the projector and every phone at the same moment. You set the answer window (15 seconds by default). The race starts at "go."
Tap an answer before the window closes. There is no buzzer order to wait on: the server times every answer from the moment the question went up.
A right answer scores 100 if it lands fast, sliding to 50 as the window runs out. Right always beats fast. A wrong answer scores nothing, or docks points if you set a penalty. Three right in a row starts a streak multiplier.
Players already joined via QR. When the question lands, their screen fills with big answer buttons that buzz in their hand on the tap and again on the verdict. Press feels like a press. Win feels like a win. Zero app, zero friction.
The clock runs on the server, not in the browser. Every answer is timed from the moment the question went up, so a slow phone cannot fudge it. No "I tapped first!" arguments.
A right answer inside the first second scores 100. After that the points slide evenly to 50 at the end of the window, so the curve fits a 10-second round or a 30-second one. Every right answer is worth at least half. Reflex matters.
From the third right answer in a row, every right answer pays 1.5x until you miss. The streak ends, the multiplier resets. Hot tables stay hot.
Players race on their own Lightning totals. When the round ends, the teams of the top three players bank bonus points (50, 25 and 10 by default, and you can change them) on the game scoreboard.
The last question of the round pays double. Comebacks become possible at literally the last second.
Neutral while you've got time. Amber pulse as the window runs down. Red pulse, faster, in the last 5 seconds. Every screen in the room is on the same clock. The urgency is felt, not counted.
Loud rooms. Sports rooms. Halftime slots.
Pubs
Drop a Lightning round between Trivia rounds when energy's flagging. The whole bar leans into their phones, then leans back out. Pacing tool, basically.
Sports bars
15 minutes of NFL halftime. The bar is full and antsy. Run a sports-themed Lightning round. Suddenly the slow part of the night is the loud part.
Lightning is on every plan, including Free (3 games a month, up to 30 players). The scoring works the same on every tier.
$19/mo. 12 games a month, speed scoring, streak bonuses. Up to 75 players.
$39/mo. Up to 200 players in a single Lightning round. Worth it once your Tuesday crowd hits 80.
$99/mo. Unlimited players. For the big sports-bar rivalry game and the corporate retreat that brought 200.
Pro and up start with a 14-day free trial.
Drop a Lightning round into any night and the room goes loud. The math is on the server. The drama is on the floor.
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