A calm, unhurried quiz for tasting rooms. Wine rounds, picture rounds and phone answers, with no buzzer boxes and no shouting across the barrel room.
Guests come to a winery to slow down. They sit at a table for two hours, they taste through a flight, and they talk. A bar quiz that fires questions at them for ninety loud minutes is the wrong shape for that room. What works is a lighter game that runs alongside the tasting: a round between pours, a picture round while the cheese board comes out, a wine round that flatters people for paying attention.
Quizado handles that pace well because you control the clock. Start a round, let it run, then pause while your team pours the next flight. Guests answer on their own phones after scanning a QR code, so there is nothing to hand out and nothing to collect. Scores appear on a screen or a projector, and the leaderboard redraws itself between rounds.
It also suits an older crowd better than most quiz apps. There is no app to install, no account to create and no small print to accept. A guest scans the code on the table, types a team name and plays. That single detail decides whether half the room joins in or gives up before the first question.
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Give the AI generator a topic such as Burgundy, old-vine zinfandel or harvest vocabulary and get a round back. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro, and you can edit anything that does not match your house style.
Media questions with images are included from Trivia Pro. Labels, grape varieties, bottle shapes and vineyard photos all make good visual questions.
Guests scan a QR code and play in their phone browser. No download, no login, no help needed from your tasting room staff.
Pause between rounds while the next flight is poured. The game waits, the scores hold, and nobody has to rush a tasting note.
Because every question is also on the guest phone, a daytime event on the terrace works even when a projector would be washed out by the sun.
Trivia Pro puts your winery logo on the display and the player screens. Custom fonts, colours and white-label are on Hospitality Group.
Everyone Answers and Everyone Scores keep things gentle. Wager and Knockout are there when a club crowd wants an edge. Music Bingo makes a sixth on Hospitality Group.
Turn the education part of a tasting into a game instead of a lecture.
Most winery traffic is in daylight, and the quiz has to work outdoors.
Members already know your wines, so give them a game that rewards it.
A tour group of thirty needs structure, and a quiz gives them one.
The trap in a winery is writing questions only a sommelier could answer. If four people at a table of six cannot attempt a single question, they stop playing and start talking, and your quiz is over. Aim for questions a curious drinker can reason towards: which country a grape comes from, what a term on a label means, which of these four wines is the sweetest.
Then include one hard question per round for the people who do know. They will enjoy being the person at the table who gets it, and everyone else will enjoy watching them. That balance is the whole craft of a good wine round, and it is easier to hit with multiple choice than with open answers.
Only one round in a six-round quiz needs to be about wine. The rest can be geography, music, film or a picture round. Guests came for the wine but they did not come for an exam, and the mixed quiz is the one that gets rebooked.
Images work better in a tasting room than any other question type. They are quiet, they are readable at a table without hearing the host, and wine is a visual subject. Label design, grape bunches, regional maps, bottle silhouettes and famous chateaux all make questions that guests want to lean in and study rather than rush.
Media questions with image, audio or video are included from the Trivia Pro plan upwards, and they appear both on the big screen and on the guest phones. That second part matters outdoors, where a projector fights the sun and a phone does not.
Use your own photography where you can. A round built from your vineyard, your barrel room and your labels turns a generic quiz into a tour of the place people are sitting in, and it costs you an afternoon with a camera once.
You need a host device and internet. Quizado runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and in a browser, so a tablet by the pouring station is usually the neatest option. A screen is optional in a small room, because every guest can read the question on their own phone, but the leaderboard is more fun when the whole room can see it.
Check phone signal and wifi in the part of the property where you will actually hold the event. Barrel rooms have thick walls and terraces are often at the far end of the coverage. Both the host device and the guest phones need a connection, and there is no offline mode.
Print the join code on the table card that already carries your tasting notes. It looks intentional, it saves your staff explaining the same thing thirty times, and guests who arrive late can join without interrupting a pour.
The quiz format behind the tasting game, explained round type by round type.
How your tasting room lead runs the game from one tablet between pours.
The same quiet-room approach applied to table service and turn times.
See which plan adds picture rounds, your logo and a bigger player cap.
Install it on the tablet at your pouring station and try one tasting.
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