How it works
One box.
Six screens.
Everything in the room is a window onto a single machine that holds the whole show. That is what makes it quick to set up, hard to break, and completely independent of your internet.
What's in the room
The kit,
end to end
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The box
Runs everything
A small computer that lives in the venue and does all the thinking. It holds the games, the questions and the score, and every other screen in the room is just a window onto it.
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The big screen
The game board
Questions, boards, reveals and the celebrations. This is the screen the room is watching, and it carries the audio.
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The scoreboard
Always-on scores
A second screen showing the running score, whose turn it is and the shot clock — so nobody has to ask where things stand.
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The host tablet
One person drives
Every control in one place, and only ever the controls that make sense right now. Scores, strikes, timers and reveals all come from here.
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Team podiums
Two tablets
One in front of each team. Teams pick their name and colour here at the start, and buzz in, roll and lock in from here during play.
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Guest phones
Bring your own
A QR code puts every guest in the game for the rounds that use phones. No app to install and no account to make.
Two jobs, two screens
The room watches one.
The host drives the other.
Separating the show from the controls is what lets a host run a room of a hundred people without ever exposing a menu, a mistake or a loading screen to the audience.
The host tablet is deliberately dull: big targets, one screen, and nothing on it that would not make sense in the next ten seconds. Every point on the board gets there because somebody chose to put it there.
The shape of a night
Ninety minutes,
doors to trophy
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Before doors
Wake the screens and pick a preset. That is the whole setup — the box has been ready since the last show.
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Teams arrive
Teams name themselves and pick a colour on their podium. Guests scan to join from their phones.
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The show
Games run in the order the preset set. After each one, a scoring summary, a bonus, and on to the next.
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The finale
Every chip banked all night gets dropped on the Plinko board, and the standings very often change.
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The trophy
A champion screen built for photographs. Then the box quietly tidies up and waits for the next one.
The part that matters at 9pm on a Friday
It does not need
your internet
Everything in the room talks to the box directly, over your own network. The internet is for pulling new games and new questions overnight — not for playing. If your connection drops mid-show, nothing in the room notices.