What we learned building a music game and watching hundreds of rounds go well or go flat. No theory — only the things that actually change an evening.
Music quiz nights succeed or fail for reasons that are almost always mundane: the wrong volume, the wrong teams, or twenty minutes too many. Here is what matters, in order.
Read · 7 min readThe base rules fit in three lines. The rest are ways to change the pace once the room settles in, because the same format for two hours tires anyone out.
Read · 6 min readSome songs get guessed by half the room before the first bar is over, and some enormously famous ones leave everybody silent. The difference is not popularity — it is how the opening is built.
Read · 6 min readThere is no decade that always works. There is the right decade for the people in your house tonight, and you find it with a subtraction.
Read · 5 min readTen songs in your browser, nothing to install and no sign-up. If you like it, the printed 250-card deck is in the shop.
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