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A pub quiz where shouting doesn't help
On a video call the loudest person wins every quiz. So in ours, everyone types their answer where nobody else can see it.
I tried running a quiz on a video call once. The question went out, and within half a second one friend yelled the answer. Everybody else just nodded. We did that for ten questions and he "won".
When people asked for a quiz on Let's Hang, that evening was the thing I wanted to avoid.
Answers stay hidden
In our Pub Quiz everyone types their answer privately. You can see who has answered, a small tick next to each name, but not what they wrote. When the last person locks in, all the answers flip over at once.
That changes the whole mood. The quiet friend who knew that Canberra is the capital of Australia finally gets the point. And the reveal is the fun part: seeing that someone confidently typed "Sydney" is better than any scoreboard.
The answers are hidden in the data the browser receives, not only on the screen. I checked, because it would be very tempting to open the dev tools.
Typos forgiven
People type fast when there's a timer. If you write "frnace" we count it as France. Two swapped letters, a missing accent or a stray "the" at the front won't cost you the point. Numbers have to be exact, though. 1988 is not 1989.
Nobody waits forever
Each question has 45 seconds. If someone wandered off to make tea, anyone can turn the answers over when time is up.
There are ten questions a round, drawn from about a hundred: geography, science, food, film, music, sport. You can try a round against two bots at letshang.io/demo. The bots know about half the answers, which feels about right.
Try it with your people
Set a table, send one link. It only happens if enough of them can make it.