brainflood
Real games. Real venues.
Real Tuesday nights.
The live-games community at bars, restaurants, and event venues across the US. Trivia, karaoke, bingo, sports pick'em, and four more. Out in the world, with people, on a Tuesday.
Two ways in
The game is the excuse.
The friends are the point.
Brainflood works on both sides of the mic. Show up to a room and find your people, or run the room and turn it into a real gig.
Find a real game night near you. Build a crew that follows you across every venue you walk into. Free, optional account, no app to install.
- Scan a QR code at the venue, type your name, you're in
- Form a persistent team with a 6-letter join code
- Glory Points + skill tier track you across every mode
- Forums, DMs, and a private board per team
Real venues pay real money for game nights. Run trivia, karaoke, bingo, pick'em, slideshows, and tournaments from one dashboard. $19/month, no commission, you keep what you earn.
- $38–$90+ effective hourly rate, 2–3 hour gigs
- 8 modes you can mix in one event = more nights at one venue
- AI Event Builder chats your gig into a finished show in minutes
- Library teaches you everything from first pitch to scaling up
Not sure which one yet? Take the 60-second quiz
Eight modes, one Event
Pick a night, mix the modes
Same dashboard, same crowd-tested mechanics. Trivia Tuesdays, Karaoke Thursdays, Pick'em Sundays. Or all three of them in one night, because Brainflood treats a night as an Event that holds whatever activities you want.
12,000+ questions across 15 categories. MC, T/F, short answer, plus picture, audio, and music rounds.
Tabbed KJ Dashboard, four presets, Priority Pass skip-the-line via trivia between songs, tip jar. Karaoke that doesn't feel like 1996.
5×5 grid, Daily Doubles, Final Brainpardy with team wagers. The mode that owns corporate trivia night.
Live NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer prediction night. Lock-of-the-night doubles your points if you're right.
Speed-buzzer trivia. Phones become buzzers. Sub-three-second answers. The crowd goes wild.
Multi-night brackets and seasons. Recurring teams, persistent rivalries, season-long stakes.
Balderdash energy with a Quiplash budget. Teams write fakes, everyone votes, hilarity guaranteed.
5×5 cards, four win patterns. A trivia variant where the question is the call.
For players · the full community
A community that follows you across every venue you walk into
Brainflood is the third place, back. A QR code, your name, and the regulars who'll learn it by week three.
Public venue directory. Search by city or venue, see what's coming up, RSVP to save your spot. No login required.
Form a permanent team with a 6-letter join code. Roster, rivalries, season stats. Your crew, every Tuesday.
Earn Glory in trivia, karaoke, sports picks, tournaments. All unified, all auditable, all on the same leaderboard.
After a few games, the AI shows you what categories you crush and where to grow. Tier yourself: beginner to expert.
Public boards, team-only boards (auto-created), reactions, mentions, threaded replies. 1-to-1 and group DMs with mute controls.
Badges for milestones, global Glory leaderboard with paginated standings, post-game recaps with AI commentary.
Weekly trivia, biweekly karaoke, monthly tournaments. RSVP with party size, get notified of changes, never miss your spot.
Permissions by role, soft-delete with reasons, board-scoped or global bans, AI-flagged content review. Safety isn't an afterthought.
For hosts · the full gig
Real venues. Real money. Real hosting business.
Brainflood pays for itself with one good gig. The rest is yours.
Base pay + crowd tips + venue bonus + tournaments + corporate gigs + sponsors + recurring team subs. Side hustler ($800/mo) to full-time pro ($8,000+/mo).
Describe your gig in chat. Wedding, brewery night, corporate offsite. Brainflood assembles rounds, custom question packs, an AI-built slideshow from photos you upload, and a run-of-show. Six presets, durable sessions, a per-event project page with a to-do list that ticks itself off as work lands.
Run weekly nights at three different venues without juggling three logins. Per-venue branding, slideshows, tickers, and skins.
Player retention, popular categories, attendance trends. Track what works at each venue, repeat the wins.
Build rounds on a neon timeline with live previews. The Question Explorer's card grid lets you quick-rotate any dud in one tap (matched same-category replacement, never repeats). Save a great Tuesday as a template, reuse it weekly.
Autonomous, hybrid, or full-human. Let the AI handle reads, prompts, and grading. Or take the mic yourself when the room calls for it. Four personalities: Witty, Professional, Casual, Snarky.
12 deep articles: hosting craft, equipment, finding venues, marketing, taxes & LLC, scaling to multi-host. Free, no email gate.
Legacy hosting platforms charge $49–$150+/mo and take a cut of your gig. Brainflood charges $19/mo, takes nothing else, period.
Pricing
One good gig pays for a year of Brainflood
Three tiers. Pay monthly or save 17% annually. Cancel anytime.
- All 8 game modes (12 games/month total)
- 12,000+ trivia questions
- QR-join, no app for players
- 1 venue, basic branding
- Player community access
- All 8 game modes · unlimited games (Tournaments included on Business)
- Modular events: mix games, karaoke, slideshows, tickers in one night
- Multi-venue from one dashboard
- Custom branding + skins per venue
- AI Event Builder + AI Host engine + AI Slideshow build
- Visual Game Designer + Unified Question Explorer
- Advanced analytics + retention reports
- Priority support
- Everything in Pro
- Tournament brackets unlocked
- Multi-host rosters + sub-accounts
- Aggregate reporting across hosts
- White-label + custom domain
- Corporate / agency tools
- Dedicated onboarding
All tiers: no commission, no contracts, 30-day money back.
Brainflood Plus — for players
Plus badge, profile customization, deep stats, lifted DM caps, weekly AI recap. Auto-included with every paid host plan above.
Where Brainflood lives
Built for the rooms that already exist
Pubs filling Tuesdays, sports bars on Sundays, restaurants killing the slow shift, weddings that need a host.
Pub quiz software that's not the same five categories every week.
Live NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/soccer pick'em. Game-day energy on Sundays.
Turn a slow Wednesday into a full one. 30-day money-back, no contracts.
KJ workflow + queue display. Karaoke hosting that doesn't feel like 1996.
$500–$2,000+ per gig. Companies pay 3–5× weekly-venue rates.
Receptions, parties, milestones. Turnkey nights, no rehearsal needed.
Free, no signup
Try it before you sign up for anything
Three free tools to figure out if Brainflood is your night.
Move sliders for nights/week, base pay, tip rate, venue mix. See your monthly + annual income.
Run the numbers12 questions, 8 archetypes. Find out what kind of trivia person you are. Shareable.
Take the quiz16 questions, 16 types. How you actually behave at parties, gatherings, and Tuesday nights out.
Find your typeFree library, no email gate
Everything you need to go from zero to gig
12 in-depth articles. Hosting craft, equipment, finding venues, marketing, taxes, scaling. Read them all without signing up for anything.
Craft, pacing, energy, heckler handling, persona-building. The first night is the hardest.
EarnPitch strategy, free trial close, rate negotiation. From walking in cold to recurring slot.
Grow1 → 10 gigs, hire other hosts, agency building. $6k–$12k+/mo targets and how to get there.
Pick your Tuesday.
Show up to one. Run one. Or just see what's out there. Brainflood is built for all three.