Hosting help

Open Check a network on that network a few days before: on the laptop for the host deck, the TV’s browser and a phone. It takes about ten seconds. If the network blocks live games, it gives you a report for your IT team, and Crowdboard on a company network lists what they need to allow.

A laptop or computer for the host deck, a TV or projector for the board, and players’ phones. Nothing to install, and players need no account. The host signs in, free, so the deck can open a room for phones.

Up to 6 phones on Free, 20 on Pro, 40 on Team and 200 on Enterprise. Everyone else can watch the TV and shout answers, and a family can share one phone.

The demo plays a face-off with the deck, the TV, two phones and the remote side by side, with no sign-in. To rehearse your own game, open the host deck with the TV board in a second window and join from your own phone.

On the host deck, open the TV board and drag its window onto the TV, then press F or double-click for full screen. A TV with its own browser can open the board’s address instead: the deck shows it, with the room code.

The TV shows a QR code for each family. Players scan their family’s code, or go to crowdboard.app/play and type the room code, then type their name.

Once the game starts, new phones ask to join, and you let them in or turn them away under Phones on the deck. “New phones can join” there changes it to any time, or to no new phones.

The second one is asked to add an initial or a nickname, so everyone can tell them apart.

The deck says so under Phones. Forget a phone that left, or take a player out, to free a place. On Free, the deck also shows how to get more phones for the day.

Press Undo at the top of the deck, or Ctrl+Z. It steps back one action at a time: reveals, strikes, awards and overrides. Overrides, beside it, can also set scores and strikes by hand.

Yes. Under Phones on the deck, press Show remote code and scan it. Your phone gets the deck’s controls and the answers, so you can read the questions, reveal answers and mark strikes while you walk the room. Keep that code off the TV.

Reloading the page puts it back in its place. If a player has gone for good, forget their phone or take them out under Phones.

Share the TV board’s window in your video call, and remote players join from their phones with the room code. Team building for remote teams has more.

Turn off a VPN, or connect the deck’s computer to another Wi-Fi or a phone’s hotspot. Players can switch to mobile data. Until then, run the game from the deck without phones: families call out answers and you reveal them.

Open crowdboard.app/host again in the same browser. The game picks up where it was, the room keeps its code, and the TV and phones follow.

The code is in the board’s address. Check it under Phones on the host deck, where the deck also shows the full address to open on the TV. Codes are four letters.

Write to support@crowdboard.app. Say what you see, on which device, and what you tried.