A browser quiz and party platform for groups of any kind
One shared screen, everyone on their own phone, nothing installed — and a catalog built for birthdays and offsites as well as classrooms.
If your group has played Kahoot, the format here needs no explaining: a question goes up on a screen everyone can see, and each player answers from the phone already in their pocket. Game The Party is a website, so the host opens it in a browser and players scan a QR code — there is nothing to install on either side, and no player accounts to create.
Games like Kahoot, for the party rather than the classroom
Everything here is built for a room that came to enjoy itself rather than to be assessed. The games are grouped by occasion — a birthday room, an office room, a baby shower room — and every one of them plays online in the browser, in person or over a video call, with no accounts for the players.
What is different about it
The catalog is organised by occasion rather than by subject. There is a birthday room, an office room, a graduation room, a Christmas room — you pick the moment and get games that fit it. That makes it a natural fit for the gatherings a classroom-first quiz tool was never really aimed at: a party, an anniversary dinner, a team offsite, a family Thanksgiving.
The games are also built for real rooms rather than for a lesson. Rounds run on timers so the game keeps moving, a dropped phone rejoins its own seat with its score intact, and the session survives the host closing their laptop. Every game has a short how-to video one tap from the room, so a first-time group can start without anyone reading rules aloud.
Where it fits in a classroom or a training session
The trivia games work as an end-of-term reward, a brain break, or an icebreaker at the start of a session, and they need no downloads and no student sign-ups — see classroom party games and office and team games. If you need a full curriculum-assessment tool with reports and rosters, that is not what this is; this is built for the part of the day where a room plays something together.
How a room starts
- Pick a game from the catalog — every occasion has its own room.
- Put the game's board screen where everyone can see it: a TV, a laptop, or a shared screen on a video call.
- Players scan the QR code (or type the room code) in their phone's browser. No app, no account.
- Play — everyone answers, votes, and scores from their own phone.
It works in person, with the board on a TV or laptop, and over video calls — see games to play on Zoom, classroom games, and office and team games.
Common questions
- Is Game The Party free?
- Hosting is free for small groups. Larger rooms, and hosting without the watermark, need a Pro plan or a one-off day, weekend or event pass. Players never pay and never sign up.
- Do players need an account?
- No. Players scan a QR code and type a screen name. There are no player accounts to create, manage or delete — which is the part that matters if the players are students or guests.
- Can I write my own questions?
- Yes. A signed-in host can author a question set ahead of time, save it, and run it later for their group. Personal content stays private to your account.
- Does it work over Zoom, Meet or Teams?
- Yes. Share the board screen on the call and everyone still plays from their own phone, wherever they are.
- What are some games like Kahoot for a party rather than a classroom?
- Game The Party runs the same shared-screen, phones-as-buzzers format, with a catalog written for birthdays, showers, holidays and office socials. It plays online in the browser, so a remote group joins the same room over a video call.
- What happens if a player's phone drops out?
- They rejoin the same seat with their score intact. Every round runs on a timer, so one missing player never stalls the game.
Kahoot is a trademark of Kahoot! ASA. Game The Party is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kahoot! ASA.