A Trivia Game the Whole Family Can Play Together
Big trivia apps give you everything. We made the opposite: one screen, the whole table, ten minutes, and a "no way!" in every answer.
Most trivia apps are built for one person against strangers. Endless categories, timers, leaderboards, thousands of questions anyone can submit.
Coroplay Trivia is built for the people in the room. One screen, everyone around it, and questions that a seven-year-old and a grandparent can both get excited about.
How it plays
- Spin the wheel. It lands on a category.
- Read the question out loud and talk it over as a table.
- Tap your answer. Wrong? A clue appears and you get one more try.
- Read the reveal. Every answer comes with a fact worth saying out loud.
- Light up every category to finish the round, in about 10 to 15 minutes.
What makes it different
- You play together, not against each other. The whole table is one team, so a kid's guess and a parent's hunch both count.
- Questions for kids and grown-ups, in the same round. A clue and a second try mean nobody sits out a hard one.
- The reveal is the point. "Dolphins sleep with half their brain at a time." "Ketchup was once sold as medicine." That is the moment a family remembers.
- Puzzles, not just quizzes. Put the planets in order from the Sun, drag a frog's life from egg to frog, or watch the Moon change shape through a month.
- Small on purpose. Every question is written by us, not submitted by strangers. No endless menus, just a good round.
- Short rounds. One round fits before dinner. Want more? Play another.
- Private by design. Your best rounds and your times stay on your device and are never sent anywhere.
- Works offline once the page has been opened, so it comes along on a road trip.
The categories
Animals and Nature, Space and Science, Places, Then and Now, Sports, Movies and Characters, and Food and Everyday Life, plus a wild card now and then. Want to stick to one topic? Themed rounds, starting with movies and characters, keep the whole round on it.
Three trivia questions to try at the table
How does a dolphin sleep without drowning? Half its brain sleeps at a time. The awake half keeps it breathing, then the two halves swap.
Which is bigger in area, Canada or the USA? Canada, but only by a little. It is the second-largest country in the world, after Russia.
In the 1830s, tomato ketchup was sold in the US as what? A medicine. It didn't work, and the craze was over within about 20 years.
Good for
- Family game night, with kids and adults on the same team
- Road trips, with one person reading the questions out loud and the whole car answering
- Classrooms, as a ten-minute warm-up on the big screen
- Grandparents' visits, where "Then and Now" questions start the best stories
Ready? Spin the wheel.
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