Jackbox Alternative — Free Browser Party Quiz

What people actually want from Jackbox Party Pack

The format is genuinely good and worth naming precisely: one screen everybody watches, and everybody else answering privately on the phone already in their hand. No extra controllers, no accounts for the guests, no explaining. What people want from an alternative is that same everyone-plays-at-once shape, without one person having had to buy it first and without the whole group being tied to whichever room the console is in.

What Trivia Tavern does instead

Trivia Tavern keeps the part where everybody answers at once on their own screen and drops the part where one machine has to host it. There is no shared screen at all — each player sees the question on their own device, which means the group does not have to be in one room. Over seven thousand questions across 37 topics are already written, the host picks which come up, and a three-round game takes about fifteen minutes. Two to eight players, free, guests join with a five-character code and a name.

What it is not

This is one quiz game, not a pack of them, and that is the honest gap. There is no drawing game here, no writing or prompt game, nothing where the joke is what somebody typed, and no shared big screen for a room to watch together. If what you actually want is the variety — a different silly game every twenty minutes for a group on a sofa — this does not replace that, and buying the real thing is the better answer. What it replaces is the quiz.

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How Trivia Tavern plays

Trivia Tavern is a live quiz for two to eight players, run from one room code with everybody answering on their own phone. The bank holds over seven thousand authored questions across 37 topics — football, capitals, flags, sitcoms, hip-hop, retro games, the ancient world and a couple of dozen more — and the host picks which subjects come up before the first question. It exists because most quiz nights fail the same way: one person knows everything about one subject and is bored for the rest of the evening. Choosing the topics in advance is what stops that.

Full Trivia Tavern rules, setup and common questions →

Common questions

Is there a free Jackbox alternative that works in a browser?

Trivia Tavern runs entirely in a browser tab on any device, with nothing to install and nothing to buy. Guests join with a five-character code and a name. The trade is that it is one quiz game rather than a pack containing several different kinds.

Does anybody need to own it or host it on a console?

No. There is no host machine and no shared screen — every player sees the question on their own device. That also means the group does not have to be in the same room, which is the one thing a console-hosted party game cannot do.

Are there drawing or writing games here too?

No, and that is the honest limitation. There is no drawing game, no prompt-writing game, and nothing where the humour comes from what somebody typed. If the variety is what you are after rather than the quiz specifically, this is not a replacement for it.

How big a group does it take?

Two to eight players, and a three-round match runs about fifteen minutes. Everyone answers simultaneously against a clock, so nobody waits a turn and a bigger table does not make the game longer.

Can people join from different houses?

Yes, and it is built for exactly that. One person opens a table and sends the five-character code however the group already talks; everybody else types it in. There is no screen to share and nothing for anyone to install first.