Quiz night, and nobody holding a microphone

A quiz fills a room on a quiet Wednesday. What comes with it is the work: someone writes the questions, reads them out, marks the answers and keeps the score.

Usually that someone is the publican. Which means the publican spends the night not pulling pints, and that is precisely what the night was meant to earn.

With us every table plays on their own phones. Questions appear on their screens, marking happens as they answer, and the standings sit on a screen above the bar.

Nothing to read out and nothing to add up. What you do instead is serve, which is the point of filling the room.

• Questions and scoring run without anyone stepping away from the bar.
• Standings on a screen the whole room can see.
• A table of two competes on the same footing as a table of eight.
• Can be started on the night itself, with nothing set up in advance.

On the night

1. You start the quiz from your own screen, one action.
2. Guests scan the card on their table and join under a name they pick themselves.
3. After the last question the result is up, and the night is done.

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