How to make a quiz board
- Pick a board. Start from a ready board (general trivia, Christmas, or a classroom review of math and science) or choose New blank board. Set how many categories and rows you want, the points of the first row and the step between rows.
- Write the squares. Type the category names along the top, then tap a square to write its question and answer. Next and Previous walk through the board in reading order, so you can fill it without the mouse. Tick wager square on one or two squares, and add a final round if you want one.
- Keep it. Save to my boards stores it in this browser. Share board link copies a link with the whole board inside, for a co-teacher or the friend hosting next week. Download file gives you a copy to open on another computer.
Set up teams and buzzers
Open Teams & buzzers and name up to eight teams. Each team gets its own key (A, L, Z, M and so on); press Key to change it to any key you like. To use game controllers as buzzers, connect them, press 🎮 Pair next to a team and press any button on that team's controller. Press each buzzer once before the game: its team's row lights up and you hear its own tone.
Under Rules, choose whether the buzzers open as soon as a question shows or only when you open them (so nobody buzzes before you finish reading), whether a wrong answer costs points, and whether a team gets a few seconds to answer after it buzzes. If you'd rather run a separate countdown for each round, the online timer goes full screen with a big pie display.
Host the game
On the Play screen, the board shows the point values under each category. Click a square: the question fills the screen and the buzzers open. The first team to press its buzzer is shown in its colour and the others are locked out. Press Correct to add the points, or Wrong to take them away and open the buzzers again for the teams that haven't tried. Reveal answer shows the answer to everyone; Back to the board returns to the grid with that square played.
No buzzers? Use the team buttons on the host bar to say who answers, by raised hands or by turns. Made a mistake? Undo last score takes back the most recent change. When every square is played, start the final round or end the game; the final scores appear on the board, and Share result gives you a link to the scoreboard.
Use a TV, projector or smartboard
Full screen makes the board fill the screen, with the host buttons along the bottom. Text is sized to the screen, so the board stays readable from the back of a classroom. For a two-screen setup, press Presenter window: a second window opens with only the board, the questions and the scores. Move it to the TV or projector and make it full screen there, and keep the first window on your laptop for the answers and the host buttons. Both windows must be in the same browser on the same computer; keys and controllers work in whichever window has focus.
Tips for a good game
- Make the points match the difficulty: the top row should be something most players know, the bottom row something only one or two will.
- Write questions you can read aloud in one breath, and answers the host can judge quickly. If you'll accept more than one answer, write both ("Cacti or cactuses").
- Keep a board to 25 or 30 squares for a 45-minute class or party round; six categories of five is the classic size.
- Wired controllers usually answer faster than wireless ones, so give every team the same kind, or use keys on one keyboard. Check controllers first with the controller tester if one doesn't respond.
- For a different kind of team game, run a survey showdown with the same buzzers, or pick the starting team with the wheel spinner.
Where the starter answers come from
We wrote the starter questions and checked their answers in October 2026. General trivia: South Africa, rivers of South America, Vatican City, human skeleton, speed of light, Marie Curie, Mansa Musa, Great Pyramid of Giza, languages by native speakers, cactus, Olympic symbols and snooker. Classroom board: NASA's planets overview; its arithmetic answers can be checked by hand. The Christmas board lists its own sources on its page.
Privacy
Everything runs in your browser. Boards you save stay in this browser's storage, and a shared board travels inside the link itself, after the #, which is never sent to our server. We count how the tool is used (for example how many teams played and whether a controller was connected), never your questions, answers or team names.