Heat Trivia is the all-in-one trivia hosting platform built for bars, restaurants, and event venues. Pre-built game packs, live scoring, TV display, player phones, printable answer sheets, and an admin dashboard — everything runs in your browser, nothing to download or install.
Every Heat Trivia game comes as a complete, ready-to-present slide deck. Open it in your browser, connect your laptop to a projector or TV, and advance slides with your keyboard. Each game includes themed rounds, questions, images, answer reveals, and built-in timers for photo rounds.
No PowerPoint. No question writing. No formatting. We build the entire presentation for you — professionally designed, difficulty-balanced, and vetted for accuracy. You just press the arrow key and read the question out loud.
Browser-based slide engine designed for bar projectors and TVs
Heat Trivia keeps the social energy alive with paper-and-pen gameplay. After each round, teams swap answer sheets and grade each other as the host reveals the correct answers on screen. The host collects scores and enters them into the admin dashboard — and the live leaderboard updates instantly on every connected phone and TV in the venue.
This hybrid approach gives you the best of both worlds: the fun, tactile, social experience of old-school bar trivia with the instant gratification of a real-time digital scoreboard. No one is staring at their phone tapping answers in silence.
Scores update in real-time via Firebase — zero delay
Heat Trivia includes two separate display modes designed for your venue screens. The Presentation view is the game slide deck your audience watches — questions, answer reveals, images, and timers projected on the big screen. The TV Scoreboard view is a dedicated 1080p leaderboard designed to run on a second TV showing live rankings, round scores, wager status, and break countdowns.
Both views are optimized for bar TVs and projectors — fixed-height layouts that fill the screen without scrolling, overflow, or touch interaction needed. Just open the URL and leave it running.
Projector for questions, TV for live scoreboard
Players interact with Heat Trivia through a lightweight mobile web experience — no app download required. One team captain scans the QR code to register their team: they enter a team name, captain name, pick a bonus round for double points, and create a 4-digit PIN. Once registered, anyone in the venue can scan the same QR to watch the live scoreboard and break countdowns.
During the wager round, captains use their PIN to reconnect and submit their team's two wagers (0-10 points each). The phone is intentionally limited to registration, score watching, and wagers — the actual trivia gameplay happens on paper, keeping the social energy alive.
QR code powers team registration and live score watching
Run a full 5-round demo game with live scoring, TV display, and player phones. No credit card required.
Try the Free DemoEvery game pack includes printable answer sheets formatted and ready to go. Print one per team, hand them out, and you are set. Teams write their answers by hand, swap sheets to grade after each round, and the host collects the scores. It is the classic bar trivia experience powered by professionally designed print materials.
You also get a captain handout for each team — a single sheet with the QR code, game instructions, and a reminder of the rules. Hand it to the team captain at sign-up so they know how to register, when to submit wagers, and how the bonus round works.
Answer sheets and captain handouts included with every game
The admin dashboard is your command center on game night. Create a game session, configure branding, generate your QR code, manage teams, enter scores, broadcast announcements, and control break timers — all from one screen on your laptop or tablet.
Between game nights, use the dashboard to browse your game library, review past sessions, and manage your account. Everything is designed to be fast and intuitive so you spend less time on logistics and more time engaging your crowd.
Manage every aspect of game night from one screen
Take your trivia night to the next level with name-that-tune audio rounds. Heat Trivia integrates with Spotify to let you play song clips directly through the game engine. Teams hear a clip and write down the song title and artist on their answer sheets — same paper-and-pen format, now with a musical twist.
Audio rounds are built into select game packs and can be mixed in alongside standard trivia rounds. The host controls playback from the admin dashboard, and the slide engine displays the audio player on screen. All you need is a Spotify account and speakers at your venue.
Spotify-powered audio rounds for musical trivia
You will never write a trivia question again. Every week, our content team delivers two complete, professionally written game packs — each with themed rounds, questions, images, answer keys, and printable answer sheets. Games are vetted for accuracy, balanced for difficulty, and designed for variety so your regulars never get bored.
We release two distinct packs each week so nearby venues can run different games. No team walks into the same trivia twice in a week. Monthly subscribers get rolling access to the last ten weeks of content, giving you a deep library to pull from if you want to run a makeup night or a second event in the same week.
Professional content so you never have to write a question