Music round
The round every pub quiz is supposed to have. A clip plays, the room goes quiet, and teams write in the artist and the song title. Each half scores on its own, so the table that knows the song but blanks on the band still gets on the board.
Why two answers
Most music rounds are all or nothing, and that is what kills them. Here the title and the artist are marked separately. Name one and you score. Name both and you score double. A table that half-knows a song stays in the round instead of giving up on it, which is the difference between a music round that lands and one that empties the room.
Captured from a live game
Setlist to scoreboard
One card per song: the title, the artist, and a clip. Paste any YouTube link, a share link, or a bare video id. Bring your own audio file instead if you would rather run your own library.
Pick where it starts and how long it runs. Open on the intro for an easy one, or drop into an instrumental break to make a song everyone knows suddenly hard to place.
Only the sound reaches the room. The venue screen shows an equalizer, never the video, so nobody can read the answer off the display. The clock runs while the clip plays.
Two boxes on the phone, one for the artist and one for the title. Fill in whichever you know. Submitting with only one filled is fine, and it still scores.
Each half is marked on its own and spelling is judged loosely, so close counts and a stray "the" costs nothing. The answer comes up as the artist and title together, and the scores follow.
What makes it shine
A music round is the one everybody has an opinion about. Built right, it is the loudest ten minutes of the night.
Title and artist are marked separately, so one correct half always banks points. Nobody sits out a song because they only got part of it.
The clip plays through the venue screen with the video hidden behind an equalizer. No sneaky reading the title off the projector.
Set the start point and the length per song. Three seconds of an intro for the pros, twenty from the chorus for a friendlier room. Difficulty is a dial you control.
If anyone at the table names the artist, the team banks the artist. Same for the title. It rewards the crew that splits the work instead of shouting over each other.
Grading forgives typos, capitals, punctuation, and a missing "the". Getting the answer right is the test, not spelling it under a clock.
Run the music round early to warm the room up, then hand over the mic. The crowd that just spent ten minutes shouting song titles is the crowd that signs up to sing.
It is a round, not a separate event. Slot it between a classic round and a Lightning round, or theme a whole night around a decade. It counts toward the league table like anything else.
Where it works
Music is the one category nobody claims to be bad at. It pulls in the table that thinks trivia is not for them.
Theme it to the room: 90s night, one-hit wonders, songs off the jukebox. The argument at the table is half the entertainment.
Spread the setlist across decades and everybody knows something. Partial credit keeps the casual table scoring next to the trivia diehards.
Plan availability
It is a round type in the game designer, so it comes with the free plan and every paid plan above it. Higher plans lift the per-game player and team caps for bigger rooms: $99/mo Business unlocks unlimited players and teams, 10 venues, and white-label branding, and Enterprise ($199/mo) adds unlimited venues and sub-host management.
Build a setlist, trim the clips, and let the grading do the arguing. Sign up free and run your first Name That Tune round.