A buzzer round, on every phone
No buzzer hardware, no arguing over who hit it first. Every player’s phone becomes a big red buzzer, the big screen shows who got there, and the first press answers alone while the room watches the clock.
How it works
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Write the question
Add a Buzzer question in the builder: the question and two to four options, one of them right. Mix it into any quiz, next to every other type.
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Everyone races to buzz
The options stay hidden. Players see one big red button; the first press to arrive takes the turn, and that phone’s lamp lights up.
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Answer, or lose it
The player on the turn gets the options and six seconds. Right ends the round; wrong strikes that option out and the next in line steals it.
Why a buzzer changes the room
In an ordinary quiz round everyone answers at once and waits. A buzzer round is a race and then a spotlight: one person answers while everyone else watches, and the ones who pressed second and third are hoping they get it wrong. It is the most television-shaped moment you can put in a quiz, and it works best with questions people half-know — the kind where you buzz before you are sure.
Because the options only appear to the player on the turn, buzzing is a bet. Press early and you might not know it; wait and someone else takes it. A miss is not the end of the question either: the wrong option is struck out for the next player, who now has one fewer to choose from.
How the scoring works
Only one player scores on a buzzer question — whoever answers it right. The first turn is worth the most, each turn after it a quarter less (never below half), and within the turn the faster answer scores more. A wrong answer scores nothing but never costs points.
Players who never got a turn are not marked wrong: their phones say they were too slow this time, and their answer streak carries on untouched.
What the room sees and hears
The big screen shows the same red buzzer every phone holds, then whoever reached it first with their clock running, the line waiting behind them, and how many options have already been tried. A bell rings when someone takes the turn and a buzzer sounds on a wrong answer. At the reveal the right answer goes up for everyone, with the options that were tried.
Players join from a phone browser with a five-digit PIN or the QR code on the screen — no app and no account.
What you get
No hardware
The phones are the buzzers. Up to 300 players in one game, free during beta.
One answers, the room watches
The options reach only the player on the turn, with a six-second clock the whole room can see.
Misses get stolen
A wrong answer is struck out and the turn passes to the next player who pressed.
Mix it into any quiz
A buzzer question sits next to multiple choice, polls, puzzles and the rest — one question or a whole round.
Questions people ask
Do I need buzzer hardware?
No. Every player uses their own phone as the buzzer, through the browser — there is no app to install.
Who counts as first?
The first press to reach the game server takes the turn. Phones on the same Wi-Fi race on equal terms; a player on a slow mobile connection is at a small disadvantage, the same as any online buzzer.
What happens if the player on the turn does not answer?
Their six seconds run out, nothing is struck, and the turn passes to the next player in line.
Can the AI write buzzer questions?
Not yet — you add buzzer questions yourself in the builder. You can still generate the rest of the quiz with AI and drop buzzer questions in between.
Is it free?
Yes. Everything is unlocked during the public beta, including buzzer questions and up to 300 players.
Keep reading
Put a buzzer round in your next quiz
Make a quiz, add a Buzzer question, and host it — the phones do the rest.
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