Questions on your TVs, guests playing from their phones in seconds, and a live leaderboard that keeps the room buzzing. 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.
Thursti’s trivia runs on the screens you already have. Your host keeps the mic and the personality; Thursti does the scoring. No host tonight? It runs the whole game automatically.
Pull rounds from Thursti’s growing, fact-checked question bank by category and difficulty, or write your own. Theme a night around the big game, the 90s, or your city.
No apps to download. Players scan a QR code on the TV, pick a team name, and answer from their phones. Joining takes about ten seconds.
Scores update on your screens after every question. Nothing sells another round like being two points out of first place.
Pick a start time, categories and difficulty in your Thursti dashboard — or start a game on the spot. Use our question bank, your own questions, or both.
A QR code appears on your TVs. Players scan it, enter a team name, and they’re in — no app downloads, no signups.
Questions, countdowns, answers and leaderboards play out on your TVs while answers roll in from phones. A host can pause, skip and see the answer key from their phone, or let it run on autopilot.
Trivia night is one of the most reliable slow-night fixes in the industry: it gives people a reason to come in on a Tuesday, keeps them seated for 90 minutes, and sells rounds between questions. The catch has always been the overhead — question packs, paper answer sheets, manual scoring between rounds, and for small venues, finding someone to run it every single week.
A trivia system for bars like Thursti takes care of the busywork. The questions are ready to go, the game plays out on TVs you already own, guests answer from their phones, and scoring is automatic. A great host gets to spend the whole night entertaining instead of tallying; a small venue without one can schedule automated trivia and still run a weekly game. Either way there’s no per-night fee — trivia is built into the same digital signage platform that runs your menus and promos. (Want the deep dive on hosted vs. automated trivia? Read Interactive Trivia, hosted or automated.)
Choose categories — sports, history, movies, music, science, geography and more — and a difficulty level, and Thursti builds the rounds from its fact-checked question bank, which grows every week. Hosts can add their own questions to keep signature rounds, and venues can write a round about the local team, the neighborhood or the tap list.
Players scan a QR code shown on your screens, type a team name, and start answering from their phone browsers. No app store, no accounts. That ten-second join flow matters: the easier it is to jump in, the more tables play — and the longer they stay.
The TVs show each question with a countdown, reveal the answer, and update the leaderboard. Choose Standard rounds, Speed rounds where faster answers score higher, or Wager rounds where teams bet on the category. Nobody — host or staff — touches a scoresheet.
Between games, the same screens run your digital tap list, food specials, event promos and live sports scores. Promote next week’s trivia night on the screens all week, then flip to game mode when it’s time — one platform, one login, every TV.
Thursti includes trivia in its Pro plan at $39/month flat, covering up to 5 screens, unlimited playlists and unlimited games — hosted, automated, or a mix. If you work with a trivia host, that’s a small add-on that makes every night smoother; if you don’t have one, it’s the most affordable way to run a weekly game. Every account starts with a free 30-day trial of everything, no credit card required — see pricing for details, or visit Get Thursti to start.
Free 30-day trial with trivia and every other feature unlocked. Your first game can be live tonight — with your host on the mic or fully automated. No credit card required.
Host Your First Trivia NightFree for 30 days · No credit card required · Works on any TV