Guests scan a QR code on your TV and play on their phone — no app, no login. Give your trivia host automatic scoring and a console in their pocket, or schedule a fully automated game on the nights you can't staff.
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The revenue case for trivia night is real and it's been reported on for years. A great host is what makes the night — the jokes, the banter, the rivalries. What wears everybody down is everything around the game.
Answer sheets, hand-scoring between rounds, the argument over whose handwriting says "Chicago." Every minute a host spends tallying is a minute they're not entertaining — and scoring stalls kill the room's energy.
A small taproom with one person on shift, a Tuesday lunch crowd, a brand-new venue testing the waters — plenty of places would love a trivia night but can't book a host for it. So they don't run one at all.
Trivia platforms that need a download or an account lose a chunk of the room at the door. Someone's on 4% battery, someone doesn't want another app, someone's phone is full. They watch instead of play.
Thursti Interactive Trivia runs on the TVs you already own and the phones your guests already have. Nothing to install on either end.
Not a mockup — the live Thursti trivia display your TV shows between pours. Question, countdown, join code. Everything else happens on your guests' phones.
One scoring rule is why the same team wins every week and newcomers stop showing up. Thursti gives you three.
Every correct answer is worth 100 points. Clean, familiar, fair. The right opener for first-timers and for league nights where standings need to feel earned.
The faster you answer, the more points you earn. Turns a quiet room loud fast. Phones come out, heads come up, the bar gets noisy in a good way.
Players see the category before the question and bet up to 25% of their points. Breaks ties. Gives trailing teams a way back. Creates the groan-or-cheer moment that gets the whole bar looking at the screen.
A night that works: two Standard rounds, one Speed round, close with Wager. About 60–90 minutes, 30–40 questions.
Thursti isn't a replacement for a great trivia host — it's the best assistant they've ever had. And on the nights you can't book one, it runs the game itself.
What the venues in CNBC's reporting had in common — 30% to nearly double a normal weeknight — was that the night happened every single week. That consistency is the whole game. Thursti makes it easier to keep: your host gets a smoother, more fun night to run, and when the host is off, sick or booked elsewhere, an automated game keeps the streak alive instead of cancelling.
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Pick rounds from Thursti's question bank, add your own questions if you like, choose Standard, Speed or Wager per round, and set it to hosted or automated.
Open the Thursti player on any Google TV, a browser, or a $30 Android/Fire stick. Pair it. The QR code appears and your guests do the rest.
Thursti Pro is $39 a month — run it with your host on the big night and automated on every other night, on every screen.
forever, after your 30-day Pro trial
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No. They scan a QR code on your TV with their phone camera and the game opens in their browser. No app, no account, no login.
No — but if you have one, Thursti makes their night easier. With a host, Thursti handles joining, timing, scoring and the leaderboard while the host runs the room from a console on their phone. Without one, it runs fully automated: questions, timer, scoring and leaderboard with nobody touching it.
Yes, and we'd love that. You keep the mic and the personality; Thursti does the grunt work. Guests answer on their phones, scoring is instant and dispute-free, and your Host Console lets you pause, skip, see who has answered and check the answer key. Load your own questions to keep your signature rounds, and use Speed and Wager rounds to change up the energy.
Yes. Use Thursti's growing trivia database, your own custom questions, or mix both — a local-history round, a round about your menu, a sponsor's product, a theme night.
Any TV with a browser: a built-in Google TV, a computer plugged into a screen, or a $30 Android/Fire stick. No proprietary boxes.
Up to 60 teams per game — individuals or groups. Everyone in the room plays from their own phone; the TV shows the question, the countdown and the live leaderboard.
Standard: 100 points per correct answer. Speed: faster answers earn more points. Wager: players see the category and bet up to 25% of their points before the question. You can set the mode per round and mix them in one game.
It's included in your 30-day trial. After that it's part of Pro at $39/month. The free plan keeps menus, sports, scheduling and on-screen trivia facts, with occasional ads.
Set up Thursti on one screen this week and run your first game — with your host on the mic, or fully automated. If the room doesn't fill up, turn it off. It's free.
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