Custom Trivia

Custom trivia: how the pieces fit together

Questions, packs, themes, music, voice and the Community Marketplace: a map of everything you can use to run your own trivia.

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Choose how to build: Quick Trivia, Automated or Host Controlled

There are three ways to build trivia on Gig Game. Compare them and pick the one that suits tonight's game.

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Question types: Standard, Player Bluff, Majority Vote and Survey Says

Four ways a question can be answered and scored, and when to use each.

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Play a ready-to-run pack

Gig Game's own packs are ready to play: no building. Learn the three kinds and how to start one.

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Quick Trivia, start to finish

Go from a blank workspace to a playable trivia game in a few minutes, on two screens.

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Add questions in Quick Trivia: by hand, from your catalog, or by import

Four ways to fill your Quick Trivia workspace, and what happens to the questions you add.

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Your Question Catalog: browse, filter, search and sort

The catalog is your permanent bank of questions. Learn to find questions fast as it grows.

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How to write and edit a question

Every field in the question editor: photo, category, tags, difficulty, answers A to H, the correct answer and the explanation.

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How to write Majority Vote and Survey Says questions

These types have no single correct answer. Learn how to set them up in the editor and in a pack.

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Categories, difficulty and tags

Organize your questions with categories you manage, four fixed difficulty levels, and free tags.

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Bulk actions: work on many questions at once

Tick several questions to move, tag, translate, illustrate, export or delete them together.

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How to import questions from a CSV or Excel file

A four-step wizard turns a spreadsheet into catalog questions, exactly as written, with a preview before anything is saved.

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How to import finished questions from a document or pasted text

Mark where each question starts in your text, preview the result, and import it word for word.

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How to generate questions with AI

Have AI write many questions at once from a topic, a web page or a document, as a background job that you can leave running.

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AI Assist: one question or one picture at a time

Let AI write a single question with its answers, or create a picture for it, while you wait.

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The Community Marketplace: find trivia packs from other hosts

Browse, search and sort trivia packs shared by Gig Game and other hosts, and read each one's details before you subscribe.

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Subscribe to a shared pack, and what Auto Subscribed means

Subscribe to add a pack to your playable library, play it, and unsubscribe when you are done.

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Import questions from Gig Game and other hosts' shared packs

Copy questions from shared sets into your own Question Catalog, choosing the set and category first. A paid plan is required.

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Rate and review a shared pack

After you subscribe to a pack, give it stars and an optional comment to help other hosts.

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My Trivia Packs: Draft, Published and what you can do

Where your packs live, what Draft and Published mean, and the buttons on each pack's card.

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How to create a pack from your questions

Choose questions in your catalog, name the pack, and say how you will host it. The builder opens ready for you.

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The Game Show Publisher: the Game Info tab

Name your pack and give it a logo, language, description, theme and music. Also, a tour of the three builder steps.

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Rounds: names, difficulty, format, points and point decay

Shape the show into rounds, each with its own difficulty, question format and point value.

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Categories and category backgrounds

See the categories in your pack, describe them, and give each one its own background picture or video.

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Question order and format inside a pack

Set the order questions are asked in, and choose each question's format.

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Visual themes and custom screens

Pick a ready-made look for your show, or set your own picture or video for each of its nine screens.

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How to choose background music

Browse the music library, preview a track, and choose one for your pack, or none.

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Host, voice and dialog: giving your pack an AI host

Choose an AI narrator, set the tone, and optionally hand-edit what the host says. All of this is optional.

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Build and publish: as-is, dialog only, or dialog and voice

Publish your pack for free as it is, or have AI write the host's script, with or without spoken audio.

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Unpublish, edit and delete a pack

A published pack is locked. Unpublish it to change it, then publish again, or delete a pack you no longer need.

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How to play a pack: Automated Play or Manual Play

Choose whether the AI host runs the show or you do, every time you launch a pack.

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Share your pack in the Community Marketplace

Publish your pack to the Marketplace so other hosts can find, subscribe to and play it, and choose whether they can copy its questions.

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Trivia questions and answers

Quick answers to what hosts ask most about the trivia builder, packs, imports, sharing and AI.

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