host guide
Turn the idea into a game that fits the group.
Use these practical recommendations while you customize the board and prepare the room.
1. Build the board
Open the creator and choose Standard: five categories with five clues each. For example use category Everyday calculations, 300-point clue ‘A train leaves at 14:20 and arrives at 15:05 on the same day. This is the journey time.’ Accepted answer: 45 minutes. Explanation: forty minutes to 15:00, then five more. Enter and check all twenty-five clues, save the board, preview it and choose the live-room setup. The adult board library supplies a complete manual-copy board; the link does not import its clues.
2. Choose teams
Use individuals for a very small group and teams for larger events. Decide who may answer and rotate the spokesperson.
3. Explain the rules
Tell players how to pick tiles, how long they have, how buzzers work, whether incorrect answers lose points, and whether another team may steal.
4. Test one clue
Open the player display, run a practice clue, confirm scoring, and make sure the host controls are not visible to players.
5. End clearly
Use a final challenge or tie-breaker, announce the winner, and finish with one useful recap or memorable answer.
Private host controls and a real in-game response
Keep the host panel and answer key private. Open the player display on the shared TV, projector or screen share. Select a clue and let players use the in-game buzzer. Spoken Classic mode requires that buzz before the captain answers aloud. In typed mode, the first buzzer submits a typed response. Wait for that response before revealing and judging. Meeting chat or a shouted answer alone does not register an in-game response.
A worked 300-point host-dashboard score
Announce the scoring before play. In the current host dashboard, Team A begins on 500 points, buzzes, responds ‘45 minutes’ to the train clue and is marked Correct after reveal: it gains 300 and reaches 800. Team B begins on 500, gives a wrong response to a later 200-point clue and is marked Incorrect: it gains zero and stays on 500. The current dashboard does not automatically deduct that 200. Other play paths or manual house adjustments may differ, so test the exact host controls you will use and explain any house rule separately.
End a tied board consistently
Announce shared winners or use an unused numerical tie-break question. Give tied teams equal time and private simultaneous guesses; compare distances from the exact target outside Quiz Champ. If distances match, use the next unused question. Normal tile scoring does not calculate numerical closeness. Keep an optional house timer yourself rather than promising an automatic countdown.