About the game
Meet Showtime.
Showtime! is free browser trivia for friends or solo play. Rooms support 2–8 players, with optional Easy, Medium and Hard bots. Solo practice needs no room or other players and finishes with your own stats. For a group game, one person creates a room, shares its four-letter code and chooses the questions.
The short version
The official game is here at trivia.madeathing.dev. Showtime is an independent browser trivia game. It is not the SHOWTIME television or streaming service.
| Players | 2–8 players per room, including the host and any bots |
|---|---|
| Solo options | Private solo practice, or multiplayer rooms with Easy, Medium and Hard bots |
| Price | Free to host and join; no account required |
| Devices | Modern browsers on phones, tablets and computers; internet and JavaScript required |
| Where to play | Around the same table, remotely over your own call, or in a hybrid group |
| Joining | Enter a player name and a four-letter room code; passwords are optional |
| Questions | 6,852 built-in multiple-choice questions across 19 packs |
| Settings | 5–50 questions, a 10–60 second answer timer and an Easy–Hard difficulty slider |
| Scoring | Classic Trivia or Fastest Finger First; optional fastest-answer tie-breaker |
| Limits | No public matchmaking, built-in voice/video, combined team scores or custom question uploads |
Play with a group or on your own
Solo practice has the same pack, difficulty, timer and question-count choices, with personal stats at the finish. In a room, add clearly labelled Easy, Medium or Hard bots for a competitive game while you wait for friends, or play against them on your own.
Play after dinner, keep a voice call open with distant friends, or fit a few questions into a team meeting. There is no question-writing job before you start: the host chooses packs and the game checks the answers.
For a classroom, a large event or questions written about your own group, look for a tool with quiz authoring and the player capacity you need. Showtime has individual scores rather than combined team scores.
Where the questions come from
Most questions are adapted from Open Trivia Database under CC BY-SA 4.0. Additional original prompts across the packs use linked science, museum, culture, history, sports and health references. Sources appear after the answer is revealed.
Community question banks can contain mistakes. We do not claim that every answer has been independently fact-checked. Read the question credits for attribution and licence details.
Names, rooms and privacy
Players use a name or nickname in a room; they do not create an account. A host can protect a lobby with a password. Essential storage supports the game and reconnecting, while analytics stays optional.
The privacy policy, cookie policy and terms explain the details.
Product facts checked 4 November 2026.