About Giga Quizzes

Most live-quiz tools route every player’s answers through a central server. Giga Quizzes does it differently: once a game starts, devices talk to each other directly using WebRTC DataChannels — the same peer-to-peer technology used by video-calling apps. A small signaling server is only used briefly, at the very beginning, to help the host and players find one another and open a connection. After that, the questions, answers, and scores flow straight between the host’s device and the players’ devices.

What that means for your privacy: gameplay never touches our servers. Every WebRTC connection is encrypted end-to-end, so what a player taps, what they type, and what they score is readable only by their own device and the host’s. If a strict firewall blocks a direct connection, the traffic is bounced through a relay to get through — but it stays encrypted the whole way, and the relay can only forward sealed packets it cannot read.

What we do keep: every time a game reaches a leaderboard, the host’s device builds a report — the standings and each player’s answers — and saves it to the host’s own library, so they can look at how the room did afterwards. That report is the one part of a game that reaches us. It is written by the host, not by the players; only the host can open it; and deleting it deletes the stored answers with it.

This peer-to-peer design keeps the platform lightweight and inexpensive to run, which is exactly why it can stay free. It also means the host keeps control of the game: the room belongs to whoever opened it, and it ends when they end it.

Because every connection runs through the host’s device, losing the host is the one thing that could end a game early. It does not. A host who refreshes, crashes, or closes the tab by accident has five minutes to come back. The room stays open the whole time and players stay where they are — their screen says the host has stepped away and to keep it open. Nobody is dropped and no score is lost.

When the host returns, they are recognised by the room’s own key rather than by their connection, so the game picks up exactly where it stopped: the server hands back the list of everyone still waiting and the host’s device re-opens a direct connection to each of them. The question on screen, the scores, and the running order all survive.

Two things to know. The game is never handed to another player — there is one host, and only they can run the room, which is why nobody else can take a game over. And if the host stops the game deliberately, it ends for everyone straight away; the five-minute window is for accidents, not for leaving.

• Multiple-choice and true/false questions
• Open-ended, numeric, and number-line answers
• Ordering, matching, cloze (fill-in-the-blank), and hotspot questions
• Polls for opinions with no “right” answer
• Image-based questions — pictures are automatically compressed so they travel smoothly between devices

• Teachers & students — quick classroom reviews, vocabulary drills, and end-of-unit quizzes.
• Teams & workplaces — icebreakers, training checks, and meeting energizers.
• Friends & families — trivia nights, party games, and game-night showdowns.

Because games run peer-to-peer, Giga Quizzes does not need expensive real-time servers to relay gameplay. That keeps running costs low and lets us offer the core experience for free. You can read how we handle your information in our Privacy Policy, and the rules of use in our Terms of Service.