Quick question for team trivia hosts: if you have a scripted intro explaining basic rules you read before your event(s), would you be willing to share it? Don’t need to know how to welcome people to my client’s venue, but a rundown of the basic rules of play would be super beneficial. I did a search from within the Crowdpurr’s user forum as well as the dedicated FB group but couldn’t find anything related…
I realize there isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” set of rules - but I can easily copy and paste those that apply to my particular format to develop my welcome script, so TIA if you have anything you’d be willing to share. Email is my username @gmail.com.
I’m happy to provide examples of various talking points you may choose to incorporate in your introduction script before a game begins.
Number of Questions or Categories: You can mention how many questions the game will have. If you’ll be hosting multiple games in one session, you can also include how many different rounds to expect and the various categories. (Of course, unless you prefer to keep the actual subject category hidden until the associated round begins.)
Question Types & Timer Duration: If your game will have a combination of different Question Types, you may want to give players a heads up on what to expect when answering a specific question. (i.e. How to answer a Drag and Drop Question, Numerical Answer, Text Answer) If you’ll be using the Question Timer for your game, you may also want to mention how long questions will have to answer. For instance, “20 seconds for multiple choice questions and 30 seconds for everything else.” You may also want to mention that once time has run out, players will not be able to submit an answer.
Answers Locked In Once Selected: For multiple choice questions, you may want to mention that once a player taps on an answer option, their answer is locked in so choose wisely.
Intermissions In Between Rounds: If you intend on hosting breaks in between different rounds, you may also want to mention this in the beginning to give players a heads-up and to plan their break activities accordingly.
I hope this helps you as you build out your script!
This is extremely helpful, Jemma - pretty much all I need now to formulate an opening script now! Thanks so much for all of your help today - especially during our Zoom session. Thank you!!!
We are about to get the trivia game ready. Please get your devices and we will be getting the countdown started soon.
Trivia will run for 4 rounds about 60 questions, the game will last no more then 2 hours. We will take a break between each round. For a few mins.
(Host - Let them know what the four rounds are)
How the trivia will work - I will read the question once the question is done, I will display the answers. The answers are all multiple choice the timer will start and you have 20 seconds to answer. The quicker you answer the more points you will get.
Lets get ready for the countdown to start
(Between each round promote specials and things happen at the place for that week )
Great question!
We put our rules in the notes on Question one.
When our hosts fire up their laptops and login to their game, they actually start the game and immediately, and show the “notes” for question one so those rules appear on players phones and any screens at the venue!
We put a timer of one hour on this “question” (it doesn’t matter if that timer elapses, which it won’t…but still…!!).
When our hosts are ready to statt they simply verbalize that the rules are in place of question one so the game officially begins on question 2.
The ability to show a static screen (Ross, ahem ahem) would be preferential…but this is a great workaround for us.
We used to have our hosts verbalize the rules but it became too long winded and wordy and players just weren’t paying attention.
This way, the rules are on their phone, before the game begins.
Hope this helps.
Thinking out loud (as I begin to program my next trivia event) and hoping @jemma will be able to answer this question: would it be feasible/possible to utilize one of the poll questions to create a simple, static rules screen? I haven’t had time to dive in to try and determine as much, but I figure if anyone knows it would be you! Thanks in advance for your insight…
I’m happy to report you can create a poll question within a Trivia Game by not setting any correct answers for the trivia question. This would then effectively turn the question into a poll question and would not reward participants with any points when they submit a response for this specific question. Currently, this workaround works best when using Multiple Choice Questions as the poll questions within a Trivia Game.
For instance, if you mark no correct answers for the first question in your game, you can potentially utilize the question text to display instructions. Please note, you must still have at least one answer option, which can be labeled with text like “I agree!” or “Let’s go!” for players to choose.
As @garry mentioned, you can also use the Question Notes feature to add the game rules. For this feature, you can add up to 1,000 characters of text so this provides a bit more text real-estate than the question text box as that field accepts up to 500 characters.
Thanks, Jemma - sounds like Question Notes is the way to go, unless and/or until you folks incorporate a static screen we can utilize for such purposes going forward (as @garry hinted to @rossmnewton - lol!). Much appreciate the team spirit!
Thanks in advance for your insight…