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Trivia on the big screen, mixed with real physical challenges on the floor. Smarts, physical ability and strategy, so every kid in the room has a way to win. Play it kid against kid, red side against blue side, or all in at once.

Four kids on red, blue, green and yellow buzzers in front of a big screen showing a live game show leaderboard, with a host on the mic and a gym full of kids cheering.

Smarts · Body · Strategy

It is not a quiz. It is a game show.

A trivia app tests one thing, so the same kid wins every round. This runs on three: questions up on the screen, physical challenges down on the floor, and rounds where the smart play beats both.

  • Smarts.

    Trivia on the big screen, written for their age and their school. Buzzer races, multiple choice, picture rounds.

  • Physical ability.

    Off the chairs and onto the floor. Real challenges with real props, scored like any question, so the kid who is no good at trivia carries the team.

  • Strategy.

    Picking your category, choosing who plays next, knowing when to risk points. A team that is behind can still take the whole thing.

The physical rounds come out of the same game library everything else here runs on, so you can pick the ones you want in your show by number.

Nobody sits and watches

Three ways to play it

Pick the one that suits your room. It is the first thing we settle on the planning call, and it changes the whole shape of the show.

Way one

Kid versus kid

Contestants go head to head on the buzzers with the whole room watching. They volunteer on the day, or sign up ahead of time through a link you send out with your newsletter.

This is the one that makes stars out of kids. A gym chanting a name is a thing that kid remembers.

Way two

Red side versus blue side

The room splits down the middle and everybody plays at once. Every kid is on a side and every point goes up under their colour.

This is the one for a big gym. Four hundred kids, two colours, one scoreboard.

Way three

All play

No sides, no contestants. Every kid plays every round at once, scoring for themselves. Nobody waits a turn.

This is the one where the quiet kid nobody picked ends up on top, because there was no picking.

Where it works

  • Birthday parties.

    A living room, a party room or a backyard. The buzzers come to you and your kid is the host's co-star for the whole show.

  • School assemblies and PAC nights.

    A whole gym split into teams with the scores up on the big screen. Grade against grade, class against class, or the staff against the students.

  • Community centres, camps and team parties.

    Day camps, sports windups, scouts, after school programs. Anywhere a room full of kids needs to be pointed in one direction for an hour.

The screen is the show

Everything happens on the big screen

The questions, the categories, the team names, the scores, the wheel. All of it goes up where the whole room can see it.

Televisions or a big projection screen, whichever suits the room. If your school already has something mounted on the wall I will run straight off that instead of bringing my own.

Built from scratch, every time

Custom made to your crowd

There is no stock show. Every one gets built for the room it is going to be played in, and that is the whole reason it lands.

  • Custom to the school.

    Your teachers, your principal, your grades. A round about the people in the room gets a reaction nothing off a shelf will.

  • Custom to the kid.

    The whole show bends around the birthday kid. Their favourite everything, their friends' names, the categories they would pick.

  • Custom to the theme.

    Halloween, winter, sports day, year end. The questions, the graphics and the wheel all get dressed to match.

The Wheel

Live on the big screen

The wheel becomes whatever your party needs

The wheel spins live on the big screen and gets built fresh for every event. Give me a theme and I will make a wheel for it.

It is the most reliable thing I own. Nobody has ever looked away from a wheel slowing down.

  • Prize wheels
  • Dare wheels
  • Trivia categories
  • Team names
  • Class versus class
  • Birthday kid specials
  • Halloween and holiday rounds
  • Mystery rounds

The round everybody remembers

Parents and teachers are in the show

Every show has a round built for the grown ups, and at a school it is staff against students. The moment a teacher steps up to a buzzer the gym stops being a gym. Four hundred kids pick a side and lose their minds.

At a birthday it is the parents against the kids, and the parents lose more often than they expect to, which is the whole point. Nobody in the room gets to be a spectator for the full show.

That is what the whole year is built around now. Families in it together, not kids playing while the adults hold the coats.

A student celebrating with his mouth wide open after winning a game in a school gym, with the crowd behind him.

Proof

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Simple to book

  1. 1

    Send the date, the ages and the room.

    Fill out the form and you get availability and a quote you can forward.

  2. 2

    Tell me about your crowd.

    The school, the teachers, the birthday kid's favourite everything. It all ends up in the rounds.

  3. 3

    A short planning call.

    Run time, prizes, anything you need me to avoid, and who is getting crowned.

  4. 4

    I show up early and run the whole thing.

    Fully self contained. All I need is power and space.

Questions about game shows

What ages does a game show work for?

Six and up for a full show. Below that the rounds get shorter, more physical and a lot less about knowing things, because a five year old wants to press the buzzer, not answer the question.

The format bends a long way. A school gym holding grades 1 to 7 runs differently from a 10th birthday with twelve kids in it. Tell me the ages and the show gets built to them.

Do the kids need to know trivia to play?

No, and this is the part most people get wrong about game shows. A kid who knows nothing can still win the whole thing. The show is built on three things: smarts, physical ability and strategy. Trivia is one of the three, so the kid who is hopeless at questions can take a physical round and put their team right back in front. Nobody sits there feeling stupid in front of their friends.

What do you need from the room?

Power and space. Everything else comes with me, including sound, lights, buzzers, the screen and every prop. A gym, a party room, a classroom or a backyard all work. If the room already has a projector or a screen I will use it, and if it does not, I bring one.

Can the parents and teachers play?

Yes, and they should. There is a round built for the grown ups in every show. Staff against students is the single loudest thing that happens at a school assembly, because the whole room has to pick a side. Read more about where that comes from on the school events page.

Who supplies the prizes?

You do, and it does not have to be much. The prizes are the excuse, not the point. A table of small things works every bit as well as anything expensive, because what the kids are actually playing for is getting their name called. Tell me what you have and the rounds get built around it.

How long does a show run?

Most run about two hours. A school assembly is usually shorter and tighter because the bell decides when it ends. Send your run time on the form and the show gets built to fit it rather than cut off halfway.

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