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Browse your questions, import your own, see how your teams did, and swap a weak one in a click.
Four tools help you fill a game with good questions. The Question Explorer is where you browse, write, import, and favorite questions. The Auto Question Generator writes new questions from a topic. The Cellar holds ready-made packs. And while you build a round, Rotate swaps a weak question for a fresh one.
You can use more than what you write. Your library includes the Brainflood question bank, questions other hosts made public, and your own written and generated questions.
Open Question Bank in the Library menu, or go to /host/questions. The page is called Question Explorer. Questions show as cards in a grid or as rows in a table. Use the Grid and Table buttons to switch; the page remembers your choice.
The format tabs jump straight to All Formats, Text, Picture, Audio, or YouTube questions. Below them you can filter by category and difficulty or search the text. Custom Only hides the Brainflood bank and shows just your own questions. Picture cards open the image larger, audio cards play in place, and YouTube cards open the clip.
Press the star on a card to add it to a favorites group. Keep several named groups, like Easy openers or Sports night. Manage them from the More menu.
Looking for a ready-made round? The Browse The Cellar link under the title opens the pack library at /host/packs.
Press Add Question to write one by hand, including picture and audio questions with your own uploads. You can edit, duplicate, or delete the questions you wrote or generated. Bank and public questions are read only, but you can still favorite them and use them in games.
Already keep your questions in a spreadsheet or a Doc? Open More and choose Import questions. Paste cells straight from Google Sheets or Excel, header row included, or upload a CSV, TSV, or Excel (.xlsx) file. A plain list from a Doc works too: Q: and A: lines, or numbered lines like 1. question - answer.
With columns, you need a question column and an answer column. The import also reads incorrect_1 to incorrect_3, category, difficulty, type, notes, source (a link), evergreen (yes or no), and author. A row with wrong answers becomes multiple choice and a row without them becomes short answer, unless the type column says otherwise.
Nothing is saved until you have seen a preview. It shows which columns it read, the first few questions, and any rows it will skip and why. Then press Import.
Every question you own has a Your notes and sources box in its editor. Notes are for you only: a dud, a word that sounded odd out loud, a better wording. Other hosts, players, and the TV never see them.
Source link is where you checked the fact. Author credits whoever wrote it. Will this go out of date? marks a question Evergreen (a fact that will not change) or Dated (a current champion, a record) so you know to check it before asking it again. The library card shows Evergreen, Dated, and a Source link when they are set.
Once you have asked a question, its card shows Your teams: the share of your teams that got it right, how many times you asked it, and when you last did, with the venue when the game came from an event at one. It counts paper rounds you scored by question and phone rounds alike.
Your regulars remember your questions too. In the round picker, a warning tells you when a question you picked was asked in the last 8 weeks. It is a warning, never a block. And when a round fills itself, it prefers questions you have not asked in your last 10 games, then tops up from the rest of the library if that runs short.
Curated questions are checked, but facts change and mistakes slip through. Press Report on a library card, in the Question Explorer or the round picker, or Report a problem next to the answer in the live console when a table tells you the answer is wrong.
Pick what is wrong (the answer, more than one answer fits, out of date, hard to understand, a typo, not OK to ask, or something else), add a note and a source if you have one, and send it. The Brainflood team reviews every report and fixes the library. Your own questions have no Report button: you can edit those yourself.
For an audio or music question with an uploaded file, the question editor shows Clip to play: the song's waveform with two handles. Drag them to set where the clip starts and ends, or click a handle and use the arrow keys to move it a tenth of a second at a time (hold Shift for a full second). The quick buttons set a 10, 15, 20, or 30 second clip from the start point. Play clip plays exactly what the room will hear.
Fade in and Fade out soften the edges. Fades play in the preview and in downloads, not on the TV. On the night, the TV starts the clip at your start point and stops it at the end.
Building a Name That Tune round? Each audio-file song in the setlist has its own Edit clip button. See the Name That Tune rules.
Open Auto-Generate in the Library menu, or go to /host/ai-generate. Type a topic, pick one or more categories and difficulties, choose the question type, and set how many you want, up to 20 per batch. Press Generate Questions and wait for the batch to finish.
Review the results. Press Regenerate on any single question to replace just that one. Tick the keepers and press the Save button to add them to your library. You can file them under a custom category as you save.
Generation uses Brain Credits. The strip at the top shows your balance and how many generations you have left this month. Brainflood checks that you can cover the batch before it starts, so you see the upgrade options instead of a failed job. Regenerating one question also uses Brain Credits.
You can also generate while building a round. In the round's Questions tab, pick Auto-Generate new questions.
Rotate lives in the round designer, not on the Question Explorer. In a round's Questions tab, choose Hand-pick specific questions. Each card has a Rotate button. It swaps that question for a fresh one with the same category, difficulty, type, and media. It prefers questions that have been used least, and it never hands back a question already on your screen.
If nothing matches exactly, Rotate widens the search step by step until it finds a suitable question. Rotate Bad Ones in the selected-questions panel swaps every question you selected at once.
Filling the round from a pack instead? Press Redraw on a card to swap one question, or Draw a different set to redraw the whole round.
Have the round written already? Paste questions in the Hand-pick view opens the same import, with a preview. The questions go into your library and straight into this round, as long as they fit the round's question types.
Your plan sets how many custom questions you can keep and how many generations you can run each month. Some plans do not include generation.
Only you can edit or delete a question you created. Bank and public questions are read only.
The More menu also links to Exports, where you can download your questions.
