Frequently Asked Questions

Scan the QR code on the host's screen, or go to the join URL shown (e.g. bitwit.app/join) and enter the 6-character code they're displaying. Then pick a display name and you're in.

No. Players join with just a display name — no sign-up, no password. An account is only needed if you want to host your own quizzes.

Absolutely. The attendee view is designed for mobile — just open your browser, go to the join URL, and you're in.

You can join mid-quiz, but you'll start from the current question. Any questions you missed won't be retroactively scored. The only thing that can stop you is the host's plan being at its player limit.

Names run through a profanity filter before you can join. Pick something else and try again.

You earn one point for every correct answer. Wrong answers don't deduct points, so always guess if you're unsure!

Ties are broken by total response time — the player with the lower total across the quiz finishes ahead. Don't overthink your answers.

It doesn't change your point total, but your total response time is recorded and used as a tiebreaker if two players finish on the same score.

Immediately after you lock in your answer, you'll see whether you got it right or wrong. The host then advances to the next question when ready.

No — once you tap an answer it's locked in. Choose carefully!

You've answered and are waiting for the quiz master to move everyone on to the next question. Sit tight — it'll advance automatically when they're ready.

Reload the page and you'll drop back into the current question. Every answer you've already submitted is stored on the server, so your final standing is safe — but the on-screen score counter starts again from zero after a reload, and you can't re-answer a question you already answered. Stay in the same browser: your player identity lives in that browser session, so a different device or an incognito window joins as a brand-new player.

Multiple choice (up to 4 options) and true/false. Depending on the host, they were either written by Bitwit's AI from material the host supplied, or written by the host themselves.

When the quiz ends, your personal score and leaderboard position appear on your screen. The host's display also shows the full podium — look up!

The top 3 finishers are shown on a podium on the host's results screen: 1st place centre and tallest, 2nd place left, 3rd place right. Everyone else is listed below under "Everyone else".

You see whether you were right immediately after each answer. The reasoning isn't shown on your screen — afterwards the host can pull up the full question list with the correct answers and notes in their dashboard, so ask them to walk through it.

Yes. Bitwit keeps a global all-time leaderboard from every quiz played, and the top players are shown on the Bitwit home page.

Sign in, go to your dashboard, and click "New Quiz". Give it a name, then pick how the questions get made: generate them from a link, generate them from content you upload or paste, or write them yourself in Bitwit's quiz format. Choose a snark level and you're done. For the two generated options you also choose how many questions you want, 5 to 20.

Bitwit fetches the page at the URL you provide and extracts the main body text. It also discovers links on that page and can crawl additional pages from the same site to build richer questions. How many pages it crawls depends on your plan: Free gets 1 page, Basic gets up to 10 pages, and Pro gets up to 20 pages. Scripts, navigation, and footers are stripped so only meaningful content is used.

Yes — pick "Generate from your content" on the New Quiz screen, then either upload a .md file or paste your text straight in. This is the way to build a quiz from material that isn't on a public page: internal docs, your talk notes, a README, release notes.

Yes — pick "Write the questions yourself". Upload or paste them in Bitwit's Markdown quiz format and they're used exactly as you wrote them: no AI, nothing rephrased. The format is shown right there on the screen, with an example you can copy or download as a starting file.

A "## " heading is the question, list items are the answers, and "- [x]" marks the correct one. An optional "> " blockquote adds a note about the answer, stored with the question for the host to refer to. Questions run in the order they appear, so there's no numbering to keep in sync. For example: "## What is the capital of Australia?" followed by "- Melbourne", "- [x] Canberra", "- Sydney". True/false questions are just two options reading True and False. Each question needs 2 to 4 options and exactly one correct answer, and a quiz can have up to 20 questions. If you start the file with a "# " heading, Bitwit uses it to name the quiz — you can still change the name before creating it.

Bitwit checks it as you type, or as soon as you upload it, and lists every problem with its line number — a question with no correct answer marked, two answers ticked, five options where the maximum is four. Fix them and you get a green tick with the question count. Nothing is created until the file is clean.

Yes. It can't change your questions or wrong answers — those are yours — but it sets how Bitwit reacts to players as they answer, and the message everyone gets at the end based on where they finished. Dry at level 1, chaos at level 5.

None in particular — it's reference material, not a question sheet. Write ordinary prose or Markdown about your topic (headings, paragraphs, bullets, code blocks are all fine) and the AI reads it and writes the questions. Two things worth knowing: you need at least 100 characters, and Bitwit reads roughly the first 15,000, so put the material you most want quizzed on near the top.

Dense, checkable facts — dates, names, numbers, versions, how something works. Opinion pieces and narrative give the AI less to work with. A section on common misconceptions is especially good: the things people get wrong turn into the most entertaining wrong answers.

Snark level controls the tone of the quiz. Level 1 is dry and factual, level 5 is maximum chaos — absurdist wrong answers and sarcastic feedback. It shapes both the generated questions and the messages players see, so pick the vibe that fits your crowd. If you supplied your own questions, snark never touches them — it only sets how Bitwit reacts to players.

On Basic and Pro, yes — you can edit question text, options, and which answer is correct from the quiz page. Editing is only possible while the quiz is still a draft, so make your changes before you start it. Free accounts get the AI questions as generated.

Free supports up to 10 players, Basic up to 20, and Pro up to 200. Once a quiz is full, further players are turned away, so pick the plan that matches your room.

Free allows 1 active quiz, Basic 5, and Pro 20. Only quizzes that haven't ended or been archived count towards the limit — finished quizzes stay in your history for free.

Archive it from your dashboard. It disappears from your quiz list, stops counting against your plan's limit, and keeps everything — questions, results, leaderboard scores. An "Archived" tab shows what you've put away, and Restore brings any of it back. Archiving a quiz you never ran returns it to draft; one that was played goes back to ended. You can't archive a quiz while it's live — end it first. There's no permanent delete: a played quiz is part of your players' all-time scores, so Bitwit keeps it rather than quietly rewriting history.

Yes — clone it. Hit "Clone" on the dashboard or "Run it again — clone this quiz" on the quiz's results screen, give the copy a name, and you get a fresh draft with the same questions, a new join code and QR, and no players or scores. It stays a draft until you start it. A clone counts as a new quiz against your plan's active-quiz limit.

Open the quiz and start it. Your live screen shows a full-screen join code and QR to project, a running count of who has answered, and a live scoreboard. You control the pace — move forward (the correct answer is revealed briefly first) or back to a previous question, and end the quiz when you're ready to show the podium.

On paid plans, yes. Basic includes 1 additional team member and Pro includes up to 5, with admin and editor roles so you can share a workspace. Free accounts are solo use.

Custom branding is a Pro feature. You can set a logo, background and font colours, answer and nav button colours, and pick from a set of fonts. Branding shows on both your live screen and the players' phones.