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Taps & Trivia is a self-contained web-based trivia application. You can see it in action at Small Batch Brewing Company at the corner of Fifth and Cherry Streets in downtown Winston-Salem.

Why use Taps & Trivia at your establishment? Several reasons:

  • The application is 100% original and written for the playing audience.
  • ALL QUESTIONS are custom-crafted for your audience by LOCAL hosts meaning that questions are not obscure, confusing nor generated by a faceless corporation.
  • Each game is 100% original and written for the playing audience.
  • All answers are manually scored by hosts so funny answers can get partial points.
  • All scoring and calculations are done automatically eliminating errors, "exchanging papers" with other teams or attempting to read chicken scratch handwriting.
  • The application features an external monitor which can show the game's progress so others can follow along.
  • The application is written utilizing open-source technologies.
  • The application is web-based so there are no apps to download.
  • ALL QUESTIONS are custom-crafted for your audience.
  • Since it is web-based, questions can contain multiple choice, sound, images and video!

Who benefits from the app?

Hosts

  • Freedom to create questions targeted to the audience.
  • Automatic scoring so the game moves faster.
  • Can assign partial points for answers
  • Options for text, audio, visual or choice questions
  • Freedom to configure number of rounds and number of questions per round.
  • Various types of questions! Audio, Choice, Text and Visual.

Players

  • Play directly on their phones so there is no app to download.
  • Google and Facebook/tracking/spyware-free!
  • No registration required.
  • Can listen to sounds on their devices if the venue is too loud.
  • Paste is disabled on answer fields to deter cheating.
  • The system uses live push-to-client technology so per-second polling doesn't overheat/drain devices.

Venues

  • No crappy app to download.
  • Keep patrons engaged longer and build a trivia following!
  • The game monitor can be fed from any internet-connected device.
  • Games can be crafted to reflect the clientele.
  • No long-term contracts or agreements.
  • Venues have the freedom to promote special trivia events.
  • Host can't make it? It's all web-based so anyone can configure and host it!

How to play

Each round consists of at least 3 questions. There are 8 rounds. Rounds 1-4 are easier whereas the later rounds are of increasing difficulty.

Points are accrued based on correct answers. Some questions have related bonus questions for 1 (one) additional point.

At the end of the last round players are given a single category where they can bet none, some or all of their accrued points.

The player with the fewest points at the end of the last regular round gets to choose the trivia topic next week!

A sample of an 8+1 round game:

  1. Warm-Up (3 fairly easy questions - 2 points each)
  2. Various - 3 points each. Usually:
    • Sound Round
    • Guess the [movie/song/thing/TV show] by the emoji
    • Image Round
    • Something obscure or fun like "Is it a Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode or Christian Metal Band?" or "Art or Child's Painting?"
  3. General Knowledge - 4 points each
  4. Lightning Round - At least 5 questions valued at 2 points each. Teams have 90 seconds to submit their answers.
  5. Pop Culture or Current Events or Plants & Animals or Food & Drink or custom - 5 points each
  6. Pop Culture or Current Events or Plants & Animals or Food & Drink or custom - 6 points each
  7. On This Day - Historical events, births or deaths in history that occurred on that day.
  8. The featured category! - 8 points each.
  9. Players bet their winnings on the final question.

Questions and Answers

  • Q: Where did you get this app?
    A: It was 100% built from scratch.
  • Q: Can I use this to host trivia?
    A: Probably. You need to be trained to use it.
  • Q: Can I see the source code?
    A: No.
  • Q: What is it written in? Where is it hosted? What powers it?
    A: Symfony, Twig, Bootstrap. On my own servers. Beer, magic & hookers.
  • Q: What will you do with my email address?
    A: At some point email you about trivia events. Your email address will NEVER be sold. We're not evil like Google.
  • Q: Are you not afraid that people will cheat if on a phone?
    A: Kinda. However, while it isn't fair to other players if someone wants to cheat the cheaters have to sleep with that knowledge. Here's the deal: catch someone cheating and the cheating team will lose 10 points (if in the first round) or 25 points (second round) which will go to the team who called out the cheaters. We will disqualify anyone who openly cheats.
  • Q: Can it be dark/light?
    A: Click the sun/moon at the top to toggle the color.

Get in touch

Want to host? Want to take it for a spin? Let us know!

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