Advanced properties grid¶

The properties pane is the place where you can quickly set all the detailed properties of the selected element(s). Each element (such as question, answer, slide, video, and picture) has individual properties. It is not absolutely needed to use it as the most important settings can be accessed through the ribbon but for advanced users this may be a quicker way to get things done. (some more advanced/obscure properties can only be accessed from the properties pane). In the following chapters you will find an explanation of the most important properties. You can show the properties pane by going to the VIEW menu and putting a checkmark before ‘Properties’ (in the ‘Views’ section).

QuizXpress shows those properties in the properties panel, which you get by default, and still offers the classic property grid that earlier versions used. Both show exactly the same properties and you can switch between them whenever you like, so the chapters further down apply to either one.

The properties panel¶

Instead of one long alphabetical list, the panel groups the properties of the selected element into pages and sections, and gives each property a control that fits it: a switch for a yes/no setting, a slider for a transparency, a colour swatch for a colour, and so on. Everything you change is applied to the slide straight away.

What is selected

The top of the panel tells you what you are editing: an icon, the type of the element, and a second line with its content (the text of an answer, the file name of a picture). When you select several elements at once — for example all four answers of a question — the title reads ‘4 objects selected’ and the panel shows the properties they have in common. Properties whose values differ between the selected elements are shown empty or as ‘Mixed’; as soon as you set one, all selected elements get the new value.

Pages

Under the search box is a row of pages: Gameplay, Scoring, Design, Text, Media and Advanced. Only the pages that actually have properties for the current selection are shown, and the page that matters most for the selected element comes first — the Text page for a text element, Gameplay for a quiz slide. The Advanced page (the {} tab) collects the technical properties: metadata, mobile device settings and scripting. Click a tab to switch pages; the panel remembers your choice per type of element.

Sections and more options

Each page is divided into sections such as ‘Timing’, ‘Answering’ or ‘Border’. Click a section title to fold it away, and use Expand all sections / Collapse all sections in the options menu to do all of them at once. Sections that also contain rarely used properties show a More options link at the bottom; click it to reveal them and Fewer options to hide them again. The panel remembers which sections you collapsed and which ones show their extra options.

Finding a property

If you don’t know where a property lives, type a word in the search box at the top (or press Ctrl+F). The panel then shows every matching property from every page at once, with the matching part of the name highlighted. The search also looks in the descriptions, so a word that only appears in the explanation of a property still finds it. Click the ✕ in the search box to go back to the normal view.

Changing values¶

Most properties speak for themselves: type in a box, flip a switch, pick from a drop-down list. A few are worth pointing out.

Numbers can be typed, stepped with the small arrows at the right of the box, or — often quicker — changed by dragging the name of the property left and right. Hold Shift while dragging for bigger steps and Alt for finer ones. Properties that have a sensible minimum and maximum, such as a transparency, get a slider with a number box next to it; both stay in step with each other.

Fonts are set with a drop-down that previews every installed font, a size box, and buttons for bold, italic and underline.

Grouped properties such as a gradient or a size show a summary on one line. Click the name of the property to fold the individual settings (for a gradient: From, To and Type) open underneath it.

Colours¶

A colour property shows a swatch with its hex value. Click it and you get:

No color, for properties that may be left empty (a transparent background, for example).
A palette of shades on top and a row of Standard colors below it.
Recent colors — the colours you used earlier, so repeating a colour across several elements takes one click. These are remembered for as long as QuizXpress Studio is running.
Custom color, which folds open a saturation/brightness square, a hue bar, an opacity bar and a box where you can type or paste a hex value such as #1E4A6B.

The small pipette at the right of the ‘Custom color’ title picks a colour from anywhere on your screen — also from outside QuizXpress. Click it and the screen freezes; a magnifier follows your mouse and shows the individual pixels with the colour under the cursor. Click to take that colour, use the arrow keys to move one pixel at a time (hold Shift for ten), or press Esc to cancel. Because the screen has no transparency, the opacity of the colour you had is kept.

Gradients¶

A gradient property shows a preview of the gradient. Next to it is a palette button that opens a set of ready-made gradient presets — one click gives a slide background or a text box a finished look. To keep a gradient you made yourself, right-click the gradient property and choose Add to my gradients; it then appears under My gradients in the picker (up to five). Right-click one of your own gradients in the picker to remove it again. Your gradients are kept between sessions.

Reset, copy and paste¶

Right-click any property for:

Reset to default — puts the property back to the value it has in a new slide.
Copy value and Paste value — handy for moving a colour, a font or a gradient from one element to another. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do the same for the property you are working in, so you can copy a colour here and paste it straight into another program as #1E4A6B, or the other way round.

Descriptions¶

Hovering over the name of a property shows a tooltip explaining what it does. If you would rather have that explanation permanently in view, switch on Show descriptions in the options menu: a bar then appears at the bottom of the panel with the name and the explanation of the property your mouse is on.

Options¶

The … button in the top right corner of the panel holds the settings for the panel itself: expanding and collapsing all sections, showing descriptions, the dark theme, and switching to the classic property grid.

Dark theme¶

Dark theme in the options menu gives the panel a dark colour scheme, which is easier on the eyes when you are designing light slides or working in a dimly lit room. The choice is remembered the next time you start QuizXpress Studio, and only affects the properties panel.

The classic property grid¶

The grid that earlier versions of QuizXpress used is still there. It lists all properties of the selected element in alphabetical groups and is the quickest way to see everything at once. Choose Classic property grid from the … menu of the properties panel to switch to it, and the Switch to the new properties panel button at the right of the grid’s own toolbar to come back. QuizXpress remembers which of the two you prefer.

Quiz slide properties¶

These properties are shown by clicking on the background of a question. The properties are split in different groups:

Appearance, defining how the question is rendered.
Behavior, defining the behavior of the question during the game show.
General, general properties.
Metadata, metadata for this slide (Id and Class)
Points, points assignment section.

Property	Description
Answer time	The duration of the countdown in seconds. Specify a value of 0 for a question without time. You can then end the question by pressing the spacebar. Countdown can be paused by pressing ‘P’ in QuizXpress Live.
Auto judge	This setting is valid for a question that is fastest finger (Voting = no) and that is multiple choice. In this case, the ‘Auto judge’ setting indicates whether a question will be automatically judged by QuizXpress Live when a multiple-choice button is pressed on a buzzer/keypad (for non-multiple choice buzzers auto-judge is always automatically set to ‘No’).
Auto advance when media ends	Advance to the next slide automatically when a video or sound on a billboard ends. This helps creating self-running quizzes. This property is available when there is a media element on the slide and when the slide Type is billboard.
Background image	The background picture of the quiz slide.
Background stretch mode	Indicates how the background picture is stretched on the slide. This can either be ‘Fill’ to simply fill the entire slide with the picture (aspect ratio is not maintained) or ‘Zoom’ to keep the correct aspect ratio and possibly loose some parts of the picture
Bonus points	The bonus points for the 1, 2^nd and 3^rd fastest player to answer correctly.
Class	A user definable text to classify the type of slide. This data will be exported in the Analyzer score file and will be send to MessageBroker so it can be used to trigger a particular behavior
Category	The category for this quiz slide. By selecting a category, you define the graphical formatting. Note: you can define your own categories! For an explanation of categories please refer to section 3.3
Continue after correct answer	When a correct answer is given for a fastest finger question (of type ‘default’, the answer is given verbally and judged as correct) countdown continues and other players can press (often used for games during an event happening outside of a quiz).
Correct answer	The correct answer for this slide. Applicable only when the input mode (see below) is ‘numeric’, ‘letter’ or ‘text’.
Custom HTML Screen	A custom HTML page to be shown on mobile devices when this slide is loaded (advanced usage)
Delay before answer	Time in seconds that will lapse before the answers are shown. This gives a quizmaster the possibility to read the question aloud before answers are shown.
Delay between answers^*	In case both ‘Delay before answer’ and ‘hide and show one by one’ have been set, this property appears. It defines a timeframe that will lapse between each answer that will appear.
Demographic group^*	This property can be set when the Type of the slide is set to ‘Demographic’. It defines a demographic group. When the quiz is run, people pressing their buzzer when a demographic quiz slide is shown will belong to the group indicated by this property. Please also refer to section 5.4.5.5 for more information about demographic groups.
End of round action^*	This property can be set when the Type of the slide is set to ‘End of round’. It’s possible values are ‘Disable one loser’, in which case the participant with the least amount of points is dismissed, and ‘Quizmaster selects losers’, in which case the quizmaster can select the participants that will be dismissed, one by one.
Evaluation mode	Indicates whether the evaluation of a numeric answer is ‘exact match’ (answer given needs to match the correct answer of the question exactly’ or ‘nearest wins’ (the player who is closest to the answer wins the indicated points).
Gradient	The gradient fill for the background of the slide. This property only applies if you have no image in the background. A gradient ‘from’ color and a gradient ‘to’ color can be selected as well as a gradient type.
Id	A unique ID to identify this slide (for example for static slide routing with the Next slide property)
Input type	For an open question you can choose between ‘default’ (fastest finger question) or for a ‘number’, ‘letter’ or ‘text’ answer. The latter three modes apply only when using mobile phones (as keypads and buzzers do not offer numeric or textual input).
Language	The current (editing) display language of the slide for bilingual quizzes.
Lock-out on wrong answer	Sets the lockout mode for a fastest finger question. Either the player is locked out on a wrong answer, or the player can retry.
Multiple correct answers	Indicates if this question has more than one correct answer and if multiple correct answers are in a specific order
Mute countdown sound	Mute the countdown sound for this question
Next slide	The ID of the slide to show after this slide (static slide routing)
Notes	A text (hints) for the quizmaster that will be included in the PDF export
Ordered answer mode	For ordered answers, you can indicate if you want responses to exactly match the order (Exact match) or if a partial correct response also results in points (a percentage of the points, depending on how many of the answers are at the right spot).
Penalty points end	Number of points that are subtracted when a participant answers incorrectly at the end of the countdown (interpolates between start – end)
Penalty points start	Number of points that are subtracted when a participant answers incorrectly at the start of the countdown
Points at end	Number of points that are added when a participant answers correctly at the end of the countdown. Must be smaller than or equal to ‘points at start time’. Points are interpolated between the counter’s start and end. So when points at end time are smaller than points at start time, the number of points to gain decreases while the countdown is running. When the two values are equal, the points that can be gained stay the same throughout the countdown.
Points at start	Number of points that are added when a participant answers correctly at the start of countdown.
Points to lose on no answer	The points that are subtracted when no answer is given (only applicable for voting questions)
Steal Points	When the steal points option is active for a fastest finger (buzzer) question, a player giving an incorrect answer does not lose points. Instead, the penalty points as configured for the slide are awarded to all the other players and the question immediately ends.
Response limit	The maximum number of teams for which the system will take responses. For example, if you play with 100 teams, you can set this value to 25 so only the first 25 teams get to answer the question.
Response mode	Indicates if this question accepts only one answer per player or multiple (used in combination with ‘Multiple correct answers’). When setting this option to ‘multiple responses, exact match’, the multiple-answer response needs to exactly match the correct answers in order to win points.
Revise answer	Here you can override the global option to allow players to revise their answer (globally set in Quiz Setup for all slides).
Safety net^*	Used for trivia ladder questions. When in a trivia ladder round and a player answers incorrectly, he or she falls back to the nearest safety net on the trivia ladder.
Script	Custom slide behavior coded in JavaScript (advanced usage)
Show answers action^*	When ‘Delay before answer’ has been set, this property appears. By setting it to ‘hide and show at once’, the answers are shown in one go after the delay time has lapsed. By setting it to ‘hide and show one by one’, the answers are shown one by one after the delay time has lapsed.
Show correct answer	Mode for showing the correct answer on this slide. Either follow the global setting as indicated in Quiz Setup, never show the correct answer, or always show the correct answer.
Shuffle mode	Determines what happens when the quiz is shuffled
Start timer	Indicates whether the countdown timer should start automatically when the question appears or by a manual action.
Steal points	Applicable for fastest finger questions. When enabled, all other players steal the points from the player buzzing in when the provided answer is wrong.
Style	The render style for the question. You can find more about styles in the chapter “Styles”.
Text evaluation	Indicates whether the evaluation of a text answer is ‘exact match’ (the given answer must match the correct answer exactly) or ‘fuzzy match’ (an algorithm allows a certain percentage of difference between the given answer and the correct answer, so players can make small spelling mistakes).
Tolerance	Allowed variation between the correct answer and given answers. Applies to questions with input type ‘text’ with ‘text evaluation’ set to ‘fuzzy match’.
Topic^*	The topic of the question. This is used to automatically generate a preceding Trivia Board.
Transition	The specific transition animation when moving to the next slide (by default, a random transition is selected by the system)
Type	Display only field showing the type of the slide: Question: slide is a normal quiz question. Billboard: slide is display only. End of round: slide indicates the end of a quiz round. Intermediate scores are shown, and the quizmaster has the option to dismiss teams. Also see the property: ‘End of Round’. Test question: slide used to demonstrate the system to the participants. No points are added/subtracted. Demographic: this slide serves to partition all participants into competing groups. Also see property ‘Demographic group’. Last Man Standing: slide is a quiz question. Participants answering the question incorrectly are dismissed from the quiz. Audience Response: slide to simply collect a response from the audience without changing any quiz scores. The response data can be displayed in a chart. Wager: allows the audience to bet a percentage of their scores on the following question. Majority Rules: a slide where the correct answer depends on what is chosen most by the audience Minigame: a slide that launches the selected minigame Trivia Board: a slide that starts a round where questions are organized per Topic/Points and presented as a grid Trivia Ladder: starts a Trivia Ladder round where players move up the ladder for each correct question Speed Round: starts a round where a player must answer as many questions as possible in a fixed amount of time. Trivia Bingo: starts a Bingo round, either built from subsequent quiz slides or as a traditional number-Bingo game. Trivia Feud: a slide where players answer a survey-type question.
Voting	Indicates whether all participants can answer or if only the participant which is first to buzz can answer.

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Question properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on the question box on a slide

Property	Description
Alignment	The text alignment of the question text
Drop shadow	Indicates whether a shadow is imposed under the question text
Gradient	The gradient fill for the background of the question.
Shadow color	Indicates the color of the shadow
Text	The text of the question
Text Color	The color of the question text
Text font	The font used for the question text
Text reveal animation	How is the text revealed. Show (default: shows directly), Show letter by letter or Show word by word
Text reveal delay (sec)	The delay after which the text is shown
Text reveal speed	Speed of the text reveal
Transparency	Transparency of the background of the question

Answer properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on an answer box on a slide

Property	Description
Alignment		The text alignment of the answer text
Correct answer		Indicates whether the selected answer is the correct answer. Set to ‘true’ if the selected answer is the correct answer.
Correctness		Applicable for questions with multiple correct answers, this value sets the correctness (as a percentage of the total question points) of the answer.
Drop shadow		Indicates whether a shadow is imposed under the question text
Gradient		The gradient fill for the background of the question. Whether this property is applicable depends on the style used.
Shadow color		The color of the drop shadow
Text		The text of the answer
Text reveal animation		How is the text revealed. Show (default: shows directly), Show letter by letter or Show word by word
Text reveal delay (sec)		The delay after which the text is shown
Text reveal speed		Speed of the text reveal
Text color		The color of the answer text
Text font		The font of the answer text
Transparency		Transparency of the background of the answer panel

Picture properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a picture box on a slide

Property	Description
Border	Indicates whether a border is drawn around the picture
Border color	The color of the border, when enabled
Border thickness	Thickness in pixels of the border (when enabled)
Corner radius	Corner radius for the border line to create a rounded border
Correct answer	Indicates whether the picture contains the correct answer. This can only be set for pictures when the slide contains only pictures and is a multiple-choice slide.
Drop shadow	Indicates whether a shadow is imposed under the picture
Effect	Sets an effect on the picture. See Cropping for a more detailed explanation about effects.
Hidden	Hide the picture during the quiz
Hidden on mobile	Indicates if a picture shown on a quiz slide should be hidden on the mobile phone. One scenario for using this is when you want to show a different picture on the mobile phone than on the big screen for the audience. For example, you might want the mobile picture to have a different aspect ratio. In that case, you don’t want the picture shown on the big screen to also appear on the mobile phone.
Image	A thumbnail of the image. Click the browse (…) button of this property to browse for a picture.
Inflate	Determines if the picture should fill the entire area by zooming in
Label	A textual description for the picture (used when the picture cannot be shown)
Mobile device image	An alternative version of the image to be used on mobile devices
Stretch	Stretch the image in both directions to fill the area (may distort the image)

Sound properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a sound item on a slide

Property	Description
Duration	The duration of the sound. Initially the full duration is shown.
Intro pause	The time to wait before the sound starts. This gives the quizmaster the possibility to first read the question.
Keep playing	By default, the music you put on a slide stops when the countdown timer ends. With this flag, you can let the music play until you move to the next slide.
Pitch	The pitch at the start of the countdown
Remove vocals	Effect to remove vocals (may yield mixed results)
Repeat	Indicates whether the sound should repeat itself.
Replay	Replays the sound after the correct answer has been revealed in the question.
Replay delay	Shown when replay is enabled. Shows the number of seconds after which the repeat begins
Replay start	Sets the time where the sound fragment will start playing
Replay end	Sets the time where the sound fragment will stop playing
Reverse audio	Play the sound fragment reversed
Sound Storage Type	Indicates if the sound data is stored embedded in the quiz file or on the local disk (linked)
Speed percentage	The speed of the sound when it starts playing.
Start at	The position in the sound file from which the sound will be started.
Stop at	The time to stop the sound
Target Pitch	The pitch at the end of the countdown (pitch will interpolate from start to end)
Target speed percentage	The speed of the sound when it ends playing. Note: by playing with the ‘speed percentage’ and ‘target speed percentage’ it is possible to play sounds ‘from slow to normal’ or ‘from fast to normal’. Setting both percentages to 100% just plays the sound fragment from start to end at normal speed.
Volume	The volume at which to play the music
Volume fade	Fade in/out when starting/stopping the music

Mini game properties¶

Property	Description
Minigame title	By default the mobile buzzer shows the name of the minigame on screen. You can override this and provide your own text. So instead of seeing “Horse race”, you can now show something more exciting.

Video properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a video on a slide

Property	Description
Aspect Ratio	(read-only) aspect ratio
Codec	(read-only) video decoder being used
Duration	(read-only) length of the video
Effect	Optional effect on the video
End	Time to end the video
Intro Pause	Delay between showing the slide and starting the video
Linked File	Filename of the external video file if linked
Loop	Repeat the video after it stopped
Replay	Replays the video after the correct answer has been revealed in the question.
Replay delay	The number of seconds after which the repeat begins
Replay start	Sets the playback time where the video will start
Replay end	Sets the playback time where the video will end
Silent	Suppress the sound in the video
Start	Time to start the video
Video Height	(read-only) height of the video
Video storage type	Indicates whether the video fragment is embedded or linked. Embedding a video fragment into a quiz means the video fragment is incorporated into the quiz file. Linking a video fragment means a reference is made from the quiz file to a video on the file system. In general, linking videos is recommended. Note: when linking videos, be sure not to remove the video files from your file system. When moving the quiz to a different computer, the videos must be copied into the same folder as the quiz file.
(read-only) width of the video	(read only) width of the video

Shape properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a picture shape or text shape on a slide.

Property	Description
Alignment	The text alignment of the text shape
Background transparency	Applicable for text shapes. Sets the transparency of the color used for the background (the Gradient property).
Border color	The border color of a text shape
Border width	The width of the border of a text shape
Corner radius	The radius of the border of a text shape. Allows you to make rounded corners.
Drop shadow	Indicates whether to use a drop shadow for a text shape
Gradient	The gradient fill for the background of a text shape. A gradient ‘from’ color and a gradient ‘to’ color can be selected as well as a gradient type.
Picture	Applicable for picture shapes. A thumbnail of the image. Click the browse (…) button to browse for a picture.
Rotation Angle	The rotation angle of the picture or text
Shadow color	Shadow color of the drop shadow for a text shape
Stretch	Applicable for picture shapes. Stretches the picture to cover the full area of the surrounding selection box
Text	The text of the text shape
Text color	The color of the text of a text shape
Text font	The font used for the text shape
Transparency	Set the transparency of the picture or text
Visibility	Indicates whether a shape (being either a picture or text) is always visible, becomes visible when an answer is revealed, is hidden when an answer is revealed, or is timed (appears at a certain point in time during the countdown).

Speech properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a speech item on a slide.

Property	Description
PreRoll	Indicates the number of seconds to wait before the speech starts
Rate	The speed at which the text of the speech item is read
Text	The text to be read
Voice	The voice to use (choose one from the installed voices in Windows)
Volume	The volume of the spoken text

Chart properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a chart on a slide

Property	Description
Alignment	Alignment of the title of the chart
Area background	Set the background color of the chart data area
Axis color	The color used for the axis
Axis label autosize	Automatically set the size of the labels on the axis. If not set, you can explicitly choose a font and size for the labels
Axis label color	The color used for the labels on the axis
Chart background	Set the background color of the area outside of the chart data
Chart type	The type of chart. Choose between Bar, Column, Doughnut, or Pie.
Corner radius	Radius of the corners of the chart element
Dropshadow offset	Show a drop shadow for the chart data area
Grid color	The color used for the grid in the chart data area
Label color	Color of the labels shown for each element in the chart
Label display mode	For the labels, show absolute values, percentages or both
Label font	Font of the labels
Label style	Indicates where to position the labels
Mode	Indicates the type of data that is shown in the chart: response (percentage of each answer given) or right/wrong (percentage of players that were right/wrong)
Show 3D	Show a 3D representation of the chart
Show legend	Show a legend for the chart data (percentage of responses for each answer)
Title	Title of the chart
Title color	Color of the title of the chart
Title font	Font of the title of the chart
Visibility	Indicates whether the chart is always visible (with live updates during countdown) or only after the question closes

Word game properties¶

These properties are shown when clicking on a word game on a slide

Property	Description
Alignment	Alignment of the text
Background fill	The gradient fill for the background of the word game. A gradient ‘from’ color and a gradient ‘to’ color can be selected as well as a gradient type.
Center index	For a word wheel game, indicates the letter which appears in the center
Drop shadow	Indicates whether to use a drop shadow for the letters in the word game
End reveal at	Percentage of the countdown time when the reveal ends
Font	The font used for the text
Interval	For unscramble and reveal word games, control the time between the steps in the game: linear, slowing down, or slowing down a lot.
Layout	For reveal or unscramble word games: dynamic letter grid or fixed letter grid with 52 cells.
Letter background fill	The gradient fill for the background of the letter boxes in the word game. A gradient ‘from’ color and a gradient ‘to’ color can be selected as well as a gradient type.
Letter corner radius	Radius for the corners of the word game
Letter spacing	Space between the letters in the word game
Manual control	Indicates if letters are revealed automatically or if they are manually revealed by the quiz master from QuizXpress Director
Padding	Padding around the letters of the grid
Reverse	For a word wheel game, reverse the direction of the letters
Shadow color	Color of the drop shadow for the letters
Spin	Spin the letters in the word wheel around for an extra challenge
Start angle	For a word wheel game, the start angle where the first letter of the word appears
Start reveal at	Percentage of the countdown time when the reveal starts
Text	The text of the word game
Text color	The text color of the text
Text transparency	The text transparency of the text

Trivia Board properties¶

These properties are shown when a trivia board is selected.

Property	Description
Auto select	Automatically select a random tile when the board is selected with an animation
Animation duration (sec)	Duration in seconds of the random selection animation
Animation interval (sec)	Interval between changing the selection during the random selection animation
Background color (Topic Tiles)	Set the background color of the topic tiles
Background color (Question Tiles)	Set the background color of the question tiles
Button margin	Set the margin between the buttons
Circular tiles (Topic tiles)	Make the tiles circular (default is rectangular)
Font (Topic Tiles)	Set the font of the topic tiles
Font (Question Tiles)	Set the font of the question tiles
Hide buttons	Hide button if no questions are left for the topic or points
Max. questions to play	The maximum number of questions to play or 0 for all questions
Randomize questions	If multiple questions are linked to a tile, one will be selected at random. However, if the ‘Randomize questions’ option is not enabled, the questions behind the tile will be presented in the order they appear in the quiz.
Text color (Question Tiles)	Set the text color of the question tiles
Text color (Topic Tiles)	Set the text color of the topic tiles
Topics only	Only show topics on the board

Trivia Ladder properties¶

These properties are shown when a Trivia Ladder slide is selected.

Property	Description
Background color	Set the background color of the trivia ladder
Background image	Set the background image of the ladder
Background stretch mode	Stretch mode of the background image
Border color	Set the color of the trivia ladder border
Display mode	Where to show the ladder on the screen: slide in from the right of the screen, slide into the center of the screen, show full screen, or always show it (on the right-hand side of the screen).
Keypads color	Set the color of the keypads
Safety net color	Set the color of the safety net steps
Separator color	Set the color of the separators
Show border	Show the border of the trivia ladder
Step color	Set the color of the steps
Wrong answer action	Indicates what to do when a player answers incorrectly: go one step down, stay on the same step, restart on the ladder, or fall back to the nearest safety net.

Bingo properties¶

When configuring your Bingo game, the following properties are available:

Property	Description
Auto advance after claim	When a claim is handled on screen and that option is enabled, the game will continue automatically after the claim. If not, the game waits for the host to press Next.
Blanks per row	The number of blank cells per row on the bingo card. This can be used to speed up the game
Center Image	The center (bonus) image to appear on the mobile Bingo card
Claims mode	Indicates if only the first player to claim bingo is handled or all players
Countdown time (sec)	The countdown time when handling a bingo claim onscreen.
Enable Virtual Caller	Enable the Windows voice synthesizer to call out the balls/colors for a regular Bingo game
False Bingo handling	How false bingos are handled (in front of the audience, or silently)
False Bingo limit	How many times can a player claim a bingo before they are excluded
False Bingo mode	What happens when a player claims a false Bingo
First Pattern…Fifth Pattern	The patterns to play for (up to 5 patterns can be played in one round)
Game Type	Trivia Bingo, Number (traditional) Bingo, or Emoji Bingo.
Pattern penalty points	The points to lose for a false bingo (per pattern)
Pattern Points	The points to win for a valid bingo (per pattern)
Randomize questions	When playing Trivia Bingo, this flag indicates that the questions are played in random order
Say Colors	Say the column colors with the numbers (for example ‘Blue 4’)

Trivia Feud properties¶

When configuring a Trivia Feud slide, the following properties are available:

Property	Description
Auto scale text	Scale the text of the answers so they fit in the boxes (results in different font sizes for the answers)
Drop shadow	Add a drop shadow to the answer texts
Leading zeros	Show leading zeros for the survey scores
Question font	Font of the survey question
Question text color	Color of the survey question
Show light grid	Show the light grid on the background
Survey	Edit the survey answers
Survey question	Edit the survey questions
Survey text alignment	Alignment of the survey text
Survey text color	Color of the survey answers
Game mode	Manual, Fastest Finger, Multiplayer
Hide survey question	Hide the survey question (quizmaster prefers to read it out)
Max correct answers	The maximum number of correct answers a player can give (fastest finger only).
Max incorrect answers	The maximum number of incorrect answers that a player may give before countdown resumes (fastest finger mode) The maximum number of incorrect answers before the turn goes to the other team (manual mode)
Penalty points	The number of penalty points when a given answer is incorrect (fastest finger mode)
Points multiplier	Apply a multiplier of 2 or 3 to the survey answers so a player can win 2 or 3 times as many points
Reveal order	The order in which the remaining panels are revealed (‘first to last’ or ‘last to first’)
Reveal delay (ms)	The delay in milliseconds between revealing each survey answer. Enables the host to read out the answers one by one while they are shown.
Wrong answer mode	When a player answered a number of incorrect answers as defined in ‘max incorrect answers’, indicate with this mode whether a player is excluded for this question or may buzz in (continue) again (fastest finger mode)