Poolside, lobby bar or activity room. A quiz that a duty manager can host with no rehearsal, and that you can repeat every week because the guests are new.
Guest activity programmes are hard for a simple reason: whatever you schedule, half the guests are not interested and the other half arrive tomorrow. Trivia survives that better than most things on the board. It needs no equipment, no skill level, no swimwear and no booking. Guests can join five minutes late, and a group of four strangers at a pool bar can play together.
The staffing side is where most software falls over. A resort does not employ professional quizmasters. It employs a duty manager, a bar lead and a seasonal activities assistant who started last week. Quizado is built so that the person hosting only has to tap through questions on a tablet. Scoring is automatic and there is nothing to add up at the end.
The best part of a hotel is that your audience rotates. A bar has to write a new quiz every week because the same teams come back. You do not. Build four solid games, run them on a rotation, and most guests will only ever see one.
Built for hosts and venues who need to look professional from day one.
The host screen shows one question at a time with a next button. No script to learn, no scoring to do, and a new starter can run it after one shadowed night.
Guests change over, so a saved game stays fresh. Build a small rotation once and stop writing questions every Tuesday afternoon.
Every question shows on the guest phone as well as on any screen, so an outdoor deck without a display still works as a venue.
A QR code on the activity board or the bar top is the whole onboarding. No app, no account, and no support desk queue at check-in.
You set the rounds and the timers, so the quiz lasts as long as the slot on the board says it will. Useful when dinner service follows.
The Hospitality Group plan covers up to three venues, so a small group can share one question library across sites.
Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group. Feud and Jeopardy are host-run: your host reads the question, guests answer out loud and the host awards points. Good for a weekly headline event.
The dead hour between lunch and the evening programme needs something with no setup.
Business guests eating alone will join a quiz they can play from the bar stool.
A daily programme needs filler that is genuinely good, not just something on the board.
Sell a hosted quiz as an evening add-on to a corporate booking.
A neighbourhood bar has to write fresh questions every single week, because the same eight teams walk in and they will spot a repeat instantly. A hotel almost never has that problem. Average stays are three to seven nights, so the room in front of you on Thursday is mostly new. Build four good games, label them A to D, and rotate.
That changes the job from weekly content production to a one-off build. Spend a quiet week making four games properly, with a picture round and a music round in each, and then hand them to the activities team as a fixed asset. Refresh them once a season rather than once a week.
Keep one general game that assumes nothing about nationality. International guests will not all recognise the same television programmes or sports figures. Geography, science, food and film travel well. Domestic politics and local celebrities do not, and a round that half your room cannot attempt is a round that empties the deck.
The single biggest reason hotel quizzes die is that they depend on one charismatic person who then leaves at the end of the season. Design the night so it does not. In Bar Trivia the software does the reading, the timing and the scoring, and the host mostly presses next and says a few words between rounds. That is a job description you can write down and hand over.
Write a one-page run sheet and keep it with the tablet: which game to load, where the display cable is, what to say at the start, how long each round lasts, and what the prize is. New seasonal staff can then run their first night from the sheet without a rehearsal.
Family Feud and Jeopardy are different, and both sit on the Hospitality Group plan. They are host-run, so the host reads the question aloud, guests answer out loud and the host awards points from the panel. They are more fun with a confident presenter, which makes them a good headline event once a week rather than the everyday default.
Guest phones and the host device both need internet, and there is no offline mode. In a resort that means checking coverage at the pool deck and the far end of the terrace, not just in the lobby. If your guest wifi requires a portal login, brief the host on how to walk someone through it, because that will be the only recurring support question.
Put the join QR code in three places: the activity board, the bar top and the table cards. Guests decide to join in the first two minutes or not at all, and hunting for a code is enough friction to lose them. A laminated card per table costs almost nothing and doubles participation.
Choose the prize before the first night and keep it consistent. A round of drinks, a dessert for the table or a small piece of resort merchandise all work. What matters is that the winner is announced on the screen in front of the room, because that is what makes the guests who watched sign up next time.
The self-serve quiz your activities team runs on the daily programme.
The host console a seasonal starter learns in one shadowed night.
Weigh a booked quizmaster against running the night with your own staff.
Which tier covers three venues, game-show formats and Music Bingo.
Install it on the activities tablet and build your first rotation.
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