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Trivia nights your regulars plan their week around.

Build a themed night in ten minutes, run it from a tablet on your own screens under your own name, and let guests play on the phones in their pockets. Fresh questions arrive every week, checked before they reach the room.

One licence per location, billed monthly or yearly. No charge per player, per question, or per host.

Big screen · Round 3 of 5

Question 4 · Music · 20 pts

Which studio album spent 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200?

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  • 1Table Six420
  • 2Quizteama Aguilera395
  • 3The Wi-Fi Wizards380
Player · phone

Table Six

  • Nevermind
  • The Dark Side of the Moon
  • Rumours
  • Thriller

Answer locked · 0:18 left

One licence

Per location, on a monthly or yearly subscription

Fresh weekly

New questions in your categories, checked before your reviewer sees them

Free training

At install, and again for every update and new module we ship

Your brand

Your logo and colours on the screens, the phones, and the print-outs

Theme nights

Name the night, pick the categories, and Trivio builds the rounds.

Your Thursday crowd came for horror films, so give them horror films. Type a name, add the categories you want, set how hard each round should be, and save the whole thing as a template you can run again next October.

A bar owner at a table with a tablet, setting up categories for a horror film theme night, with a chalkboard sign reading B-Rated Horror and props including VHS tapes and a monster mask.
Theme · B-Rated Horror Trivia

Categories in this theme

  • Creature Features 12 questions
  • Practical Effects 8 questions
  • Taglines That Lied 10 questions
  • Straight to Video 8 questions
  • Remakes and Reboots

5 rounds · 46 questions · two easy, three medium, one hard per round

  • Write your own categories. They behave like the built-in ones from then on.
  • Save a night as a template. Rerun it next season with fresh questions in the same shape.
  • Set the difficulty curve per round. Newcomers stay in it until the last question.
  • Add picture and audio rounds, house scoring rules, and a wager finale.
  • Print the night. Table tents with your join code, host script, answer sheets.

Fresh content

New questions every week, and they hold up in front of a crowd.

Ask for forty questions on 1980s creature features and they land in your reviewer’s queue by morning, each one carrying the sources it came from. A second model, from a different vendor, answers each question cold and weighs the evidence, so no model grades its own work. Your reviewer has the last word, and nothing reaches a screen without it.

  1. You brief it Topic, era, difficulty mix, tone, and anything you want kept off the board.
  2. Drafted with sources Each question arrives with cited evidence and quoted snippets, or it gets dropped.
  3. Checked by another model A second vendor’s model re-answers it, grades the sources, and flags anything shaky.
  4. Your reviewer approves Twenty seconds an item for the clean ones. Edit, reject, or send it back.

Your host wins the argument

A regular pulls out a phone and says the answer is wrong. Your host taps the question and reads the source and the date it was checked. The table goes back to their drinks and the night keeps moving.

No repeats, no stale facts

Trivio tracks what your room has already been asked and holds it back for six months by default. Questions that go out of date, like a record or a champion, get re-checked before they appear on a night.

Open with a full library

Your licence includes more than a thousand approved, source-backed questions across fourteen categories, plus a dozen ready-made themes. Host your first night on day one without generating anything.

Bring your own back catalogue

Import the questions you have been using for years as a spreadsheet. They go through the same check as everything else, which tends to turn up a few surprises in a list people trusted.

Scheduling

Plan a whole quarter in one afternoon.

Set your Tuesday night to repeat, drop in the holiday specials, and book the theme nights you want to advertise. Trivio tells you which dates still need a theme, a host, or more approved questions, so you find out in September rather than at seven o’clock on the night.

Venue calendar · October
29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Trivia 8 9Bingo 10 11 12 13 14Trivia 15 16Bingo 17 18 19 20 21Trivia 22 23 24 25 26 27 28Trivia 29 30Horror 31Horror 1 2
  • Weekly trivia
  • Music bingo
  • Theme night
A bar manager at the end of a quiet bar with a laptop showing a month calendar of booked nights, a diary open beside her.
  • Repeat a night with blackout dates and holidays handled for you.
  • Book up to a year out and advertise the theme nights early.
  • Lock an event and its questions freeze, so a late edit cannot change tonight.
  • Run several rooms off one calendar, or give each venue its own.
  • Publish the schedule to a player page your regulars can check.

Show time

One host, one tablet, and a room that keeps its own score.

A table of friends cheering as they win a bar trivia night, with the host holding a microphone and the winners on the big screen behind them.

The host

Works the room, not a spreadsheet

Reveal the question, run the clock, close answers, show the result. Swap out a question you do not like and drop in a spare. Adjust a score and record why. Judge a close free-text answer with one tap. Your host can pick up a different tablet mid-round and carry on from the same question.

The room

A screen people look up at

Questions, pictures, the countdown, the join code, round transitions, standings, and your sponsors, in 1080p or 4K. The screen holds no answers before the reveal, so the TV in the corner cannot spoil anything. If it loses signal it shows a holding card and reconnects.

The guests

Playing in under fifteen seconds

Scan the table tent, type a name, start answering. Three taps, no app store, no sign-up. Teams form with a code on the big screen, and team names get filtered before the room reads them out loud.

The Wi-Fi drops

Answers wait on the phone and send themselves when the signal returns, then the app catches up to where the room is.

A tablet dies

Pick up another one, take over the host session, and resume on the question the room is sitting on.

The internet goes down

Print the host script and the answer sheets, run the night on paper, and type the scores in afterwards.

Scores, stats, and loyalty

Give your regulars a reason to book next Tuesday too.

A single night gets you a crowd. A season gets you the same crowd back week after week. Trivio keeps standings across events, tracks how each player is doing, and gives you the numbers to reward the people who keep showing up.

Two bar regulars comparing their trivia stats on their phones while a screen behind the bar shows the season leaderboard.
  • Season standings that run across weeks, with the table on your big screen.
  • Player profiles holding nights played, best finish, and a current streak.
  • Attendance reports showing returning players against new faces, week by week.
  • Guests keep their history if they turn a one-off into a free account.
  • Export the results for a prize draw, a tab on the house, or a social post.
Player · Dana R.
  • Nights played34
  • Best finish1st
  • Current streak6 weeks
  • Season standing3rd of 118
  • Strongest categoryFilm & TV
  • Regular
  • Six-week streak
  • Season podium
  • Horror night winner

Reward loyalty with something real

Pull the season top ten, the longest streaks, or the players who came to every theme night, and put a name on a trophy behind the bar. Your staff can see who is on their twentieth visit before they get to the till.

White label

Every screen carries your name.

Load your logo, set your colours, and pick your fonts. Guests see your venue on their phones, on the projector, in the emails, and on the printed table tents. The theme editor checks colour contrast as you pick and blocks combinations your guests would struggle to read.

Running six bars for six clients? Set the branding once for your company and override it per venue, so each room looks like itself and your host console stays the same.

Built for operators

One account, all your rooms

Each venue gets its own calendar, staff, local questions, and look. Share a question library across the whole company or keep a round for one bar. Compare venues side by side in reports.

Seven staff roles cover an owner who wants everything and a hired host who should run tonight and change nothing. An analyst can read the reports without seeing a single player’s name.

Pricing

One licence per location, and nothing else to count.

Licensing by player, by question, or by host punishes you for a good night. Trivio charges per location on a monthly or yearly subscription, and that covers the venue no matter how many people walk in or how many questions you generate.

Included in the licence

  • Unlimited events, players, hosts, and staff logins at that location
  • The starter library, plus your own categories, themes, and imports
  • AI generation and checking for the questions you ask for
  • Host console, big-screen display, player app, scheduling, and reports
  • White-label branding and your own domain
  • Updates, new features, and new game modules as they ship

Paid once, or not at all

  • Installation: a one-time fee to stand up your instance and configure your venue
  • Training: free, for as many of your staff as you like
  • Training on updates: also free, for as long as you are a customer
  • New modules: training on them is free too, whenever they land
  • Per-player fees: none
  • Revenue share on your door or bar: none

Tell us how many rooms and we will quote it.

Pricing depends on the number of locations and whether you want us to host it or run it in your own cloud account. Send us the number of rooms and the nights you run, and we will come back with a figure and an install date.

Questions owners ask

The things that come up on the first call.

Do guests need to download an app?

No. They scan the code on the table, type a name, and play in a web page. Regulars who want their stats and streaks tracked can sign in with a link sent to their email or with Google, and that stays free for them.

What hardware do we need?

A tablet or laptop for your host, a TV or projector you probably already own, and a reasonable Wi-Fi signal for your guests’ phones. We provide no boxes and rent you no equipment.

Can we use our own questions?

Yes. Write them in the app or import a spreadsheet of the ones you have been running for years. They go through the same source check and the same approval by your team, so your back catalogue gets an audit on the way in.

Who writes the questions each week?

Trivio drafts them from your brief and checks them with a second model, then someone on your staff approves the ones that make the cut. Reviewing a clean question takes about twenty seconds, and a whole night’s worth is a coffee break. If you would rather we ran that queue for you, ask.

We run six venues. Is that six licences?

Yes, one per location, and they sit under a single account. You get one calendar across all of them, shared question libraries, per-venue branding, and reports that compare the rooms.

How long does setup take?

We stand up your instance, load your branding, and walk your staff through a practice night. Plan on one session with us, and on running your first real trivia night that week.

Can we remove your branding?

Yes. Your licence covers a custom domain and lets you drop the “powered by” line, so guests see your venue and nothing of ours.

Trivio status today

In build, and open to a first group of venues.

Trivio is in active development. The foundations are built and tested, covering the data model, the security architecture, the multi-venue tenancy, the job system, and the AWS installer. The content policy described on this page is specified in full and is what we are implementing. The screens your guests will touch are the work in progress.

We are talking to bars, breweries, and DJ companies in this window because it is the useful time to talk. The nights you run, the arguments you have had, and the things that have failed on you can still change what ships.