How long does a 15 question, 3 round trivia game last?

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Hello all!

I’m trying to figure out how many questions per round my game should have, if it has 3 rounds. I would like the game to last 30 minutes tops. It will be host controlled, so the questions will not advance on their own. Any idea, roughly how long a 3 round game would last with 15 questions per round? 10 minutes? 15?

Thanks!

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Hi Carly,

Thanks for reaching out!

While we don’t have a concrete guideline for how long a trivia game will take based on the number of questions, I’d be happy to provide an approximate duration as an example for a trivia game set under the Fully Automatic Mode with the following Automatic Viewer Settings toggled:

  • Show Live Answer Results Automatically: 4 seconds
  • Show Correct Answer: 4 seconds
  • Show Question Notes: 6 seconds
  • Show Rankings Leaderboard: 7 seconds

For instance, for three Fully Automatic trivia session with 45 questions and a Question Timer of 20 seconds with the previous Automatic Viewer Settings toggled to show automatically, this game would run for approximately 31 minutes at 42 seconds a question, considering no live host is discussing supplemental information.

Please note, these are just approximations so your actual game length would still vary as you mentioned this will be a Host Controlled Mode game. We suggest running practice games to calculate the running time in order to get a more accurate representation of how long your specific Experience(s) would be based on the number of questions included.

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Hi,
We run 10 questions per round, 30 seconds timer per question. Host controlled.
Between the question time, showing the live answer results, then the correct answer, then a couple of seconds before moving to the next question, it’s roughly one minute per question.
Then obvioulsy there are gaps between rounds…

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Thank you for this great question and thank you for choosing Crowdpurr.

I’m going to second what Garry said and say that, on average, it takes about a minute per question in a standard, host-controlled game. So it might be a bit of a whirlwind to get through three fifteen-question games with a host in thirty minutes. Allowing for a small grace period between rounds (approx. five minutes) is also a good rule of thumb; it lets players and hosts reset. As Jemma said, running those three games without a host puts you over the thirty minute mark. Not by much, obviously, but introducing a human element (the host) will certainly add play time to the game.

Best bet, I’d plan on at least twenty minutes per round in a fifteen-question game, so for three games plan on at least an hour.

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