Buzzwire

You're the host. Your friends are the contestants.
Buzzwire turns game night into a quiz show. You run the board, read the clues and judge the answers. Your friends race to buzz in from a phone or computer, while the board, scores and countdowns play out on screen for everyone to watch.

Contestants don't need to own Buzzwire or install anything. They open a link, type the room code, and their phone becomes a buzzer.Made for Discord and streaming
A board built for sharing. Open the board in its own window for a Discord screen share, or add it to OBS as a browser source, sound effects included.

Room codes, no setup. Players anywhere join with a 6-letter code. No port forwarding, no accounts.

Fairer buzzers over the internet. Buzzwire measures each player's connection and subtracts the lag, so reactions count for more than distance.

A console just for you. Answers, scores and every control stay on your screen, never on the board. Answers stay covered until you tap them, so you never read one out by accident.

Host from a tablet or a controller. Set up on your PC, then scan a code with a tablet on the same Wi-Fi or pick up a gamepad, and run the live show from the couch.

Your room, your rules. Lock the room once the show starts, change the code if it leaks, remove anyone who wandered in, or pause for a quick break.
Couch mode: one TV, four controllers
Playing in the same room? Put the board on the TV and hand out controllers. Up to four players grab a pad, press a button to take a seat, and pick their arcade initials on screen. Then they buzz in with any face button, and whoever has control steers the board with the D-pad. For the Final, players scan a code to wager and answer on their phone, or write it down and tell the host.Everyone gets a say
Category veto. Don't know a category? Contestants can veto up to two before the round. When two contestants veto the same one, a spare takes its place.

Retire a category. Vote from your phone or controller to drop a category that isn't landing.

Reactions. Send an emote to the board while someone else sweats over an answer.

Share a phone. Several players can join from one device.
Run it your way
Every rule is a setting:
Number of rounds, and what each clue is worth

Jackpots hidden on the board, and how much players can bet on them

A Final round where everyone wagers on one last clue

Unlock buzzers yourself after reading, or as soon as the clue appears

What happens when someone buzzes too early: a short lockout, or let them answer while the clue disappears

Second chances, answer timers, penalties for wrong answers, and whether scores can go negative

Party rules, like giving last place the pick after an unsolved clue
Plans change mid-show, too. Swap a clue from the same tier, replace a category, or change the rules as you go.

Feeling devious? Mischief tools let you secretly tilt who wins the buzz or slip in a fake answer. They only do anything if you, the host, use them.Over 9,800 clues, a fresh board every show
Buzzwire comes with 18 original starter packs and more than 700 categories. Every show deals a new set at random, and each dollar value has several possible clues, so the same pack plays differently each time:
General Knowledge, History & Geography, Science & Nature, Food & Drink, Words & Wordplay, Books & Art, Mythology & Legends

Movies & TV, Music, Sports, Video Games, Internet & Tech, Anime & Animation, Kids & Family

Fan favorites: Superhero Cinema, Capes & Comics, Sci-Fi Sagas, Fantasy Epics
Classic wordplay categories are mixed in throughout: answers that end in Y, rhyme, or hide an animal, before & afters, and actors who've shared the screen with a famous star.

The questions are original fan trivia; Buzzwire isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of the films, shows, books, comics or games they're about.

Mix packs for a themed night or pick All for everything at once. Choose categories yourself or let Buzzwire deal them, and leave out the hard ones if you like. Boards are balanced so a round doesn't pile up the hardest categories.Write your own questions
Build packs in the editor, which is laid out like the game board. Prefer a spreadsheet? Save it as a CSV in your packs folder and it shows up in your library. Add more categories than fit on one board and each show deals a different set.

Share your packs on the Steam Workshop, and play the ones other hosts have written. Packs you subscribe to show up in your library, ready to play.Stats for the commercial break
Buzzwire tracks who's quickest on the buzzer, the closest races, the longest streaks, the biggest comebacks, and more. Put the stats on the board between rounds, with talking points ready for you to read out.Never lose a show
Your show is saved as it goes. If your PC crashes or you close the window, pick up from your last saved point. Contestants reconnect on their own while the room is still open. Your packs and saves follow you between PCs with Steam Cloud.

Music by Ovani Sound.