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QuizXpress 8.6 user manual

This is the user manual for QuizXpress 8.6, a professional software suite for creating branded, great-looking quizzes that are played live with (large) groups of people using wireless keypads, buzzers, or mobile devices. The software can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

  • Company parties and corporate events

  • Pub quizzes

  • Quiz Rooms

  • Personal events like weddings, home parties, Christmas quiz bowls, etc.

  • Meetings

  • Education and training

  • Tradeshows

  • Fund raising events

  • Marketing

  • Classroom quizzes

  • Virtual meetings

As you will see in this manual, the software is easy to use, has an intuitive user interface, and a rich set of features that allow you to run any kind of game show format. While there are many quiz and game-show software packages on the market, QuizXpress stands out in many ways thanks to unique features such as:

  • A user-friendly, full-featured, graphical quiz design environment. No other software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, is required.

  • High-quality graphics output: most quiz games are built as standard Windows applications. Although they can provide some nice graphics, they cannot benefit from advanced graphical effects that are only available for GPU-accelerated DirectX applications like QuizXpress. QuizXpress supports many different resolutions and screen ratios, so you can present your quizzes professionally on every beamer, TV screen, or monitor available.

  • Highly customizable: when running a professional quiz show to advertise your product or service, you want your graphics to look uniform with your company’s house style. QuizXpress allows you to customize almost every aspect of its presentation through a concept called ‘skinning’.

  • Advanced gameplay: QuizXpress supports many different modes for your questions, such as fastest finger, last-man-standing, open questions, audience response questions, wager questions, majority rules questions, etc. QuizXpress also supports the option to split your audience live into competing demographic groups, making it even more interesting for your audience.

  • Support for a wide range of wireless hardware devices, such as different types of keypads and buzzers, mobile devices, scoreboards, and RGB LED devices (for example, wearable wristbands that give feedback during the quiz).

  • A unique set of minigames/modules that you can mix with your quiz content to build an entertaining game-show night for your audience.

  • Support for Trivia, Number, and Emoji Bingo (available as an optional module) using the QuizXpress Smart Buzzer mobile app or browser app.

  • Free mobile apps for iOS and Android devices, allowing more advanced question types with numeric, first-letter, or full-text answers, plus a web-based mobile keypad for when installing an app isn’t possible or desired.

  • The QuizXpress web buzzer app available on www.buzzerpad.com and www.buzzerpad.eu.

The software consists of the following parts:

  • QuizXpress Studio, the software that helps you design your quizzes in an intuitive user interface

  • QuizXpress Live, the software that runs the ‘live’ game show and connects to the buzzers/keypads

  • QuizXpress Setup, the software that is used to configure various options for the game show

  • QuizXpress Director (part of QuizXpress Live and a mobile app), which is used to control the running quiz show.

  • QuizXpress Solo, the software used to run a standalone quiz show at a trade show booth.

  • QuizXpress Analyzer, the software used to analyze and visualize the useful data collected during a quiz show.

  • Smart Buzzer, the mobile keypad, available as an app for Android and iOS or by running it from the buzzerpad website.

  • Minigame Launcher, the app that allows you to run any of the supported minigames stand-alone.

Before we dive into the details, we’d like to point you to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a variety of instructional videos covering different topics. Subscribe now at https://www.youtube.com/@GameShowCrew