One Game Night a week is free forever — which is exactly one family night a week.

Family trivia night,
nine to ninety.

The hard part of a family night is not the questions. It is finding a game where a nine-year-old is not bored and a grandparent is not lost. Put them on the same team, pick the categories yourself, and let everyone answer on the phone already in the room.

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No card required — set up in about five minutes

How the night runs

One person on a laptop, one screen, and everyone else on a phone.

1

Pick the categories

You choose what the night draws from — All Ages, Kids Movies, Disney & Pixar and Cartoons are all in the library — and you set the difficulty round by round. Nothing shows up that you did not put on the list.

2

Everyone scans one code

A QR code goes up on the screen. Players join with a nickname — no app to download, no email address, no account for anybody to create, which matters more when some of the players are eight.

3

Scores settle themselves

Nobody marks anything. Teams watch their standing move between rounds, and the argument about who won is settled by the screen instead of by the loudest person at the table.

Built for a room with a big age gap in it

You choose the categories, not a rating. A Game Night draws only from the categories you pick, and the library has All Ages, All Ages: Animal Kingdom, Kids Movies, Disney & Pixar, Animation and Cartoons in it. That choice is the real control over what a family night asks — there is no children’s rating doing it for you, and we would rather say so than let you assume one.
Workplace-Safe mode, described honestly. It narrows the pool to a hand-vetted allowlist of categories — about 67,000 questions across 485 of them — and it fails closed, so anything unreviewed sits out. Two things it is not: it was vetted for the office rather than rated for children, and it works at the level of whole categories rather than reading question text. Useful here, but it is not a substitute for picking your own list.
Mixed-age teams. Run 2 to 12 teams and put the eight-year-old with the grandparent who knows the sixties round. Team scores ride alongside individual ones, so nobody is carried without also being counted.
Let them pick the next round. A voting round puts the next category to the room and everyone votes on their phone. It is the cheapest way to stop a kid disappearing into their phone for a different reason.
Easy rounds are a setting, not a hope. You set difficulty per round when you build the night, so an easy opener and a harder closer is a decision you make in advance rather than something you find out about at question three.
Nobody needs an account. Players join with a nickname and nothing else. No email address, no signup, and nothing collected from a child in order to play a game in your living room or your church hall.

Real questions, not a sample pack

Three straight from the built-in library — the same ones your players would see.

All Ages: Animal Kingdom

What is a baby kangaroo called?

  • Kit
  • Correct answer: Joey
  • Cub
  • Pup
All Ages

In the fairy tale, what did Hansel and Gretel find in the forest?

  • Correct answer: A gingerbread house
  • A magical tree
  • A castle
  • A hidden village
Disney & Pixar

In Up, how does Carl's house fly?

  • A tornado
  • Correct answer: Balloons
  • Magic
  • Rockets

What it costs

A weekly family night is the one case where the free plan is not a trial — it is the whole thing.

Starter — free forever. One Game Night per week, the full built-in question library, Workplace-Safe mode, up to 100 players, and your own permanent room code. A family night every Sunday is one Game Night a week, so it fits inside the free plan indefinitely. Screens carry a small “Powered by Trivia Fun” line.
Pro — $149/mo, cancel any time. Worth it for a venue or a community center running more than one night a week, or one that wants its own logo on the screen instead of ours. It renews every month until you cancel, and there is no contract.
Event Pass — $299 once, nothing to cancel. For a one-off — a reunion, a school fun night, a holiday weekend — where you want your own branding and no subscription afterwards. Everything Pro gives you, for a seven-day window you start whenever the event is. It costs more than a month of Pro on purpose: what you are buying is not having a subscription to remember to cancel.
Players never pay. No per-player fees, and no upsells pointed at anybody’s children. The free plan is free because one night a week is genuinely free, not because it runs out.

Questions

Is there a kids’ mode that filters the questions?

Not as a rating, and we would rather be straight about it than let you find out on the night. What you get is control of the source: a Game Night draws only from the categories you choose, and the library includes All Ages, All Ages: Animal Kingdom, Kids Movies, Disney & Pixar, Animation and Cartoons. Workplace-Safe mode narrows the pool further to a hand-vetted allowlist of categories that fails closed, but it was vetted for the office rather than rated for children, and it works at the level of whole categories rather than reading question text. Pick your categories and you know what the night asks.

Do the kids need their own phones or accounts?

A phone each is the simplest way, and joining takes a nickname and nothing else — no email address, no signup. If a younger player does not have a phone, put them on a team with somebody who does; team scores are tracked alongside individual ones, so they are still playing rather than watching.

How do we stop it being too hard for the youngest player?

Two levers, both set before you start. You choose the difficulty of each round when you build the night, and you choose which categories it draws from. A voting round also lets the room pick what comes next, which tends to sort out the age range on its own.

Can a nine-year-old and a grandparent be on the same team?

Yes, and it is the best way to run this. Two to twelve teams, players pick their table as they join, or the host balances the teams automatically. The team score and the individual score both count.

Can we stop the kids picking rude team names?

Yes, and the worst of it is not optional. Slurs and explicit names are rejected at every venue on every plan, whatever else you have set — the name goes on the big screen, so that one is not a choice. On top of that a venue can switch on Family-Friendly mode, which rejects ordinary swearing as well, and it comes on automatically if you are running Workplace-Safe. That covers the nickname and the team name a player types. What the questions ask is a separate thing, controlled by the categories you pick.

How many people can play?

Up to 100 in one room, tested at the cap — more than enough for a living room and enough for most church halls and community centers. If you are expecting a bigger crowd, email hello@trivia-fun.com before the date and we will help you split it into multiple rooms.

Can we write our own round about our family?

Yes, on Pro, and it is the round people remember. An Emcee round lets the host read questions aloud and judge the answers by hand, which is how you do a round about your own family, your school or your congregation. Or import a written set as JSON and let the app run it.

Do we have to pay for a weekly family night?

No. One Game Night per week is exactly what the free plan covers, and it does not expire — the trade is a small “Powered by Trivia Fun” line on the screen. You would only pay to run more than one night a week or to put your own logo up instead.

Can we try it before everyone is standing around waiting?

Yes. Practice runs a round against bot players so you can see what the screen does first. Scores are not saved, and it is on every plan.

Set up your family night

Starter is free forever, and one night a week fits inside it. About five minutes now, and Sunday runs itself.

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Pricing

Starter is free forever. Pro is $149/mo and you can cancel after your event.

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