Mix your own quiz rounds with ready-made ones

During a night you pick them one by one, and if you want the order fixed up front you put them together in one quiz. Building your own rounds is part of the Ultimate plan; the catalog is open on every plan, though your plan decides which questions play.

Two ways to mix them

Mixing is not a separate feature you enable. Your own rounds and ours sit side by side, and you pick from both. There are two moments to do that:

• During the night, round by round. You start a game and pick the next round after each one. Nothing to build in advance.
• Up front, locked into a quiz. You put the rounds in the order you want, with a cutscene in between if you like, and play the whole thing as one continuous quiz.

Own round missing from the list? Jump straight to Round missing from the list? for the three things that cause it.

Way 1: during the night, round by round

The fastest route, and the reason a mixed night needs no preparation at all. Under New game you pick a first quiz or standalone round, your players join with the code or QR code, and then you start.

That picker has two tabs: Quizzes and Standalone rounds. Under both, your own work leads the tile list, under the heading Your rounds or Your quizzes, with From Kwishetwel below it. A featured tile can sit above all of that; that is a recommendation, preferably from our catalog. Once the list holds items from both sides, the filter bar has a Source filter with Yours and From Kwishetwel (on a phone it sits under the Filters button).

After every standalone round you see Round done with the standings, and To the library takes you back to all quizzes and rounds for the next one. So you can alternate as often as you like: one of your own rounds about the group, then a music round from us, then something of yours again. The standings simply carry across every round of the night.

Way 2: lock the order into a quiz

If you would rather not be picking halfway through the night, or you want to play the same quiz more than once, put the rounds together in one quiz:

1. In the sidebar, click Quizzes under Create.
2. Click New quiz.
3. Fill in a Title and pick a Theme on the Settings tab. Without a theme you can't publish; you'll see the message Choose a theme.
4. Go to the Rounds tab and click Add round.
5. In the dialog that opens, your own rounds come first under Your rounds, with From Kwishetwel below. Click the plus button next to every round you want. An added round gets a check mark. Feel free to search by title; the search box covers both sections at once.
6. Drag the handle on the left of a round to change the order. Use Add cutscene to slot in a break or announcement screen.
7. Click Publish when the quiz is done, or Save draft if you want to continue later.

Above the list it says, in short: Pick a published round; it goes to the bottom of your quiz. If you have both your own rounds and catalog rounds, three buttons appear at the top as well: All, Yours and From Kwishetwel. With no rounds of your own they are not there, because there would be nothing to filter.

A published quiz then shows up in your game picker under Quizzes, in Your quizzes.

Round missing from the list?

It is almost always one of these three.

The round is still a draft

By far the most common one. In a quiz's Add round dialog your own round does not disappear, but sits there greyed out with the reason Not published yet and a button to open it. In the picker during a game a draft round drops out entirely, with no explanation; there too this is usually the cause.

The fix is the same either way: go to Rounds in the sidebar, open the round and click Publish. After that it can be picked. On a round that is already published, those same buttons read To draft and Save changes; if you see those, you are done.

The language is set differently

A quiz is single-language: every round in it must share that language. If the language under the Settings tab is set to Dutch, English catalog rounds drop out of the list entirely, and your own round shows the reason next to it. Set the quiz language to the language of your rounds.

The same goes for the picker during a game: it only shows content in the language you use the app in. If you have published rounds or quizzes of your own in the other language, a line under the list says how many. Switch the app to that language, or build the round in the language you play in.

You have no rounds of your own yet

If there is no Your rounds heading and no source buttons at all, you have nothing of your own ready. Click Create a new round at the top of the dialog: your quiz is saved first, and once the round is published, Add to puts it straight into your quiz.

Two more things that matter: the same round can only appear once in the same quiz, and a draft round that does sit in a saved quiz will not play. You will see that in your quiz list as a warning that some of the rounds are not published, with a Publish all rounds action that fixes it in one go after a confirmation. Rounds that are not yours are skipped.

Good to know

• On Ultimate everything plays. In the catalogue every question has a plan attached, but Ultimate unlocks them all, so a mixed quiz plays in full for you.
• Publishing is not the same as sharing. It only means the round is ready to play and to pick. Your own rounds and quizzes stay yours; they do not end up in other customers' catalogs.
• Media is uploaded. An image, audio clip or cover goes in as a file; a link to an external URL is refused.
• If Ultimate lapses, your own rounds and quizzes stay put. They are not playable until you activate Ultimate again.

Why mixing works well

Writing a whole night yourself takes a couple of hours; playing a night entirely from the catalog misses the one thing your particular group will laugh at. The combination solves that: one or two of your own rounds about the friend group, the club or the team, wrapped in ready-made rounds that hold the level and the pace. You end up writing ten questions instead of fifty.

Building your own rounds and quizzes is part of the Ultimate plan. If you are putting a quiz night together from scratch, running a quiz night from start to finish covers the format, the questions and the rules. Your own questions for a class or a training session? See making a quiz for your class.