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Trivia game maker
Make your own multiple choice quiz
Write your questions and put the quiz on the TV. Everyone answers on their phone and the scores add up themselves.
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No sign-up needed to try it. Saving your game is free.
How a game works
Write the questions
Each question gets two to four answer options, one or more of them correct, and a time limit. Add an image to any question, or with Plus an audio clip or a YouTube video.
Everyone joins from their phone
Put the game on a TV, laptop or projector. Players open pardytime.app on their phones and type the PIN. No app to install and no account for players.
Play round by round
The question shows on the screen, players tap their answer, and the reveal shows who got it and how the room split. A leaderboard keeps it tense between questions.
What you get
Speed scoring
On a timed question a fast right answer scores full points, sliding down to half at the buzzer. Untimed questions score a flat amount.
See how the room answered
After each question the screen shows how many people picked each option, which is half the fun of a wrong answer.
Picture and music rounds
Put an image on any question, or with Plus an audio clip or a YouTube video. Blur or pixelate part of an image to make it harder.
No marking, no sums
Answers are scored as they come in, so a room of teams never waits on you to add up a sheet.
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Where it works best
Pub and bar trivia
Run a six-round night from one laptop, with picture rounds and a live leaderboard on the bar's screens.
How many rounds a pub quiz needsOffice parties and all-hands
Everyone in the room and on the call answers on their own phone, so remote people are playing, not watching.
Office Christmas quiz questionsClassrooms
A quick multiple-choice check at the end of a lesson, with no student accounts to set up.
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Questions people ask
- How do I make a trivia game?
- Choose Trivia and add your questions with answer options and a time limit. Save it, press Host, put the screen on a TV, and players join with the PIN on their phones.
- How is the score worked out?
- On timed questions a correct answer is worth full points if it comes in straight away, falling to half points at the end of the timer. Untimed questions score a flat amount for any correct answer.
- Do players need to download an app or sign up?
- No. Players join in the phone's browser with the game PIN and pick a name. Only the host needs an account.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Playing is free, and you can make, save and host up to 2 games of your own for up to 10 players, including you. Plus adds more games, more images, audio and YouTube clips, private games and rooms of 50 players: a 7-Day Pass for $4.99, or $6.99 a month.
- Is it like Kahoot?
- It plays the same way: questions on a shared screen, answers on phones. PardyTime is built for parties and quiz nights as well as classrooms, and the same account also makes Jeopardy boards, picture quizzes and party card decks.
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