Never done this before? Nothing here is assumed. Five steps and you are in.
Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Discord — whichever your group already uses. The game does not run the call; it runs alongside it. The host reads the clues aloud, so everyone needs to hear each other.
One person presses Host a match on the front page. They get a four-letter room code — they read it out on the call, or paste the join link into the chat.
Go to the front page, press Play, type the code, pick a name. Your phone or laptop is now your buzzer. Leave that page open — it is your buzzer for the whole match.
Two ways, pick either:
If the host shares their screen on the call, everyone watches the board there and just uses their phone to buzz.
If nobody is sharing a screen, each player presses Show the board here on their buzzer and gets the board alongside it. That needs a laptop or desktop — the board does not fit on a phone.
The host reads a clue, then arms the buzzers. Five lights count down. Fastest thumb takes it — answer out loud on the call and the host rules yes or no.
Get it right and every other player pays you the clue's value. Get it wrong and you lose it, and they can steal it. Drop below zero and you are out. Last one standing wins.
If the computer is hosting — which is brand new, so expect rough edges — the voice comes out of your buzzer window, not the call: Mike reads the clues, Gene calls the ring. Turn your sound on and click the page once so it can play. When it is your board, click a clue on it to call the next one.
The computer host also listens. When it is your board, say the clue you want — “presidents for four hundred” — and it puts it up; clicking still works if you would rather. When you win a buzz, say the answer out loud and it rules on what it heard. You do not have to phrase it as a question. If you name only part of the answer, it says “be more specific” and gives you the rest of your time rather than ruling you wrong.
Your browser does the listening: Chrome and Edge send what you say to their own speech service to turn it into text, the same way they do for dictation anywhere else on the web. We never receive or store your audio — only the words that come back. It will ask once for the microphone — say yes. If you say no, or your browser cannot do it, nothing breaks: click your clues and answer on the call, and a player with a console can rule.
If it gets one wrong, press O. Anybody can object — in the ring, waiting your turn, or already out — from the moment a ruling is made until the next one. Your own objection to a ruling against you counts. Enough of you and it is reversed: a majority of everybody in the match, or two thirds of the players in the ring. The game carries on while objections come in, so nothing stops to wait.
If it is not obvious who should have had the clue, every buzzer gets a short vote — who answered, what the host heard them say, and fifteen seconds to pick one or throw the clue out. Most votes wins, a tie throws it out, and a thrown-out clue costs nobody anything and does not count toward the next player entering.
This catches people out. If you have clicked over to the video call, or to another tab, your space bar goes to that window instead and your buzz never happens. Click once on the buzzer page to bring it back, and you are armed again.
Safest habit: tap the big circle rather than using the space bar. It cannot be stolen by another window, and it is exactly as fast.