1. Create a room using the button at the top of the page (below the big white textbox).
2. Click the "Settings" tab, then:
   1. Ensure "Lockout Buzzer" mode is selected
   2. Set your buzzer button label to something like "Buzz" (or leave the textbox empty)
   3. Adjust the settings under the "Timing" heading to your liking
   4. Ensure scoring is enabled
   5. Enter your point increments as desired ("100, 200, 300, 400, 500" is traditional in Jeopardy)
3. Click the "Host" tab (your settings are saved automatically).
4. Under the "Info" button is a URL. Send or show this URL to your players.
5. Each player should visit the URL in a web browser on their own device.
6. Click the "Info" button to hide the URL (you can also click it again to show it).
7. As your players join, you can see them in the players table.
8. Buzzers are unlocked by default. Inevitably, a player will buzz before it's appropriate. Don't worry. You will reset the buzzers in the next step.
9. When everyone has joined, and you're ready to start your game, read or display your question (that's your job, Buzzonk is just a buzzer system not a quiz app) and click the "Reset" button. This will start the timer (if enabled), unlock everyone's buzzer (and reset everything that needs resetting).
10. A player can buzz. When that happens, all other players are locked out.
11. The player is immediately "called on" (their screen lights up and the after-buzz timer starts, if enabled).
12. Judge their answer, and then use the + or - buttons (in the appropriate row in the players table) to allocate points. You can also manually update their score (it's a text field).
13. If the player answered incorrectly, and you want to give other players a chance to answer, click the "Resume" button and repeat until the question has been answered or everyone has given up, or time has expired.
14. For the next question, read/display the question, and reset the buzzers. Repeat.
15. By default, a player who buzzes in during a question-answer cycle (i.e. between resets) cannot buzz in again. If you want them to have another chance, you can check the checkbox next to their name, and unbuzz them.

1. Create a room using the button at the top of the page (below the big white textbox).
2. Click the "Settings" tab, then:
   1. Ensure "Regular Buzzer" mode is selected
   2. Set your buzzer button labels to be your answer choices (like A, B, C, D, or the full text of each possible answer) – one per line
   3. Adjust the settings under the "Timing" heading to your liking
   4. If you want to score responses, ensure scoring is enabled and enter your point increments as desired
3. Click the "Host" tab (your settings are saved automatically).
4. Under the "Info" button is a URL. Send or show this URL to your players.
5. Each player should visit the URL in a web browser on their own device.
6. Click the "Info" button to hide the URL (you can also click it again to show it).
7. Click the "Pause" button. This will prevent players from buzzing in prematurely.
8. As your players join, you can see them in the players table.
9. When everyone has joined, and you're ready to start your quiz, read or display your question to your players (that's your job, Buzzonk is just a buzzer system not a quiz app) and click the "Reset" button. This will start the timer (if enabled), unlock everyone's buzzer (and reset everything that needs resetting).
10. Players can buzz in their response and it will appear in the players table.
11. The results table will display how many people have selected each answer choice.
12. When everyone has responded or time is up, you can use the ± button in the results table to allocate points to everyone who selected a particular response.
13. Read/show your next question, reset the buzzers, and repeat.
14. (If your answer choices are different, you can click the "Settings" tab to update the buzzer labels.)

It's the same as quizzing (see the previous item) – just do not enable scoring.

1. Create a room using the button at the top of the page (below the big white textbox).
2. Click the "Settings" tab, then:
   1. Ensure "Regular Buzzer" mode is selected
   2. Make sure the buzzer button label textbox is empty
   3. Ensure timers are disabled
   4. Ensure scoring is disabled
3. Click the "Host" tab (your settings are saved automatically).
4. Under the "Info" button is a URL. Send or show this URL to your people.
5. Each person should visit the URL in a web browser on their own device.
6. Click the "Info" button to hide the URL (you can also click it again to show it).
7. Click the "Pause" button. This will prevent players from buzzing in prematurely.
8. As people join, you can see them in the players table.
9. When everyone has joined, and you're ready to start the queue, click the "Reset" button. This will unlock everyone's buzzer (and reset everything that needs resetting).
10. Players can buzz in to enter the queue.
11. You will see who has buzzed in, and their queue order in the players table.
12. If you want to "call on" someone, click the lightbulb button (in the appropriate row of the players table) to light up their screen.
13. Click the "Reset" button to clear the queue and start again.
14. If you need to dequeue someone, check the checkbox next to their name, and click "Uncall" from the players table footer menu.

Pausing stops the countdown timer (if enabled), and locks the buzzers so no one can press them. Resuming resumes the timer, and unlocks the buzzers for anyone who has yet to buzz in.

In lock-out mode, when the first person buzzes in, the game is paused automatically. You can then unlock if you want to allow other people to buzz in (for example, if the player got the question wrong), or reset.

Use the Reset button when you're asking players a new question. Resetting the buzzers will:

1. unlock the buzzers for all players
2. if you're playing with multiple buzzer buttons:
   1. clear the results table
   2. clear the "Response" column of the players table
3. clear the "Buzzed" column of the players table
4. start the countdown timer (if enabled)

The lightbulb button "calls" on the player. That just makes their screen light up in yellow (hence the lightbulb icon), and makes a sound on their device (if enabled). If there is a post-buzz timer enabled, it will also start counting down. In a pre-Buzzonk world this is similar to a student raising their hand, you saying their name, and starting a stopwatch.

The lightbulb button in the "Buzzed" column of the players table, allows you to call on one person at a time. If you need to call on multiple people at the same time, check the checkbox next to their name, and click "Call" at the bottom of the screen.

The number indicates the order in which the person buzzed in. 1 is the first person to buzz in, 2 is the second, etc.

If the number has a superscript like this: 1³, the superscript indicates if this is the second, third, fourth, etc time the person has buzzed since the last reset. A player can buzz in again if you manually "unbuzz" them (check the checkbox next to their name, and click "Unbuzz"). The superscript is useful if you only want to give people a certain number of chances to answer a particular question.

The "buzz-in" timer (displayed on the Pause/Resume button) starts counting down when you reset the buzzers. Buzzers are automatically locked when the timer hits 0. In lockout mode, the timer pauses when someone buzzes in.

The "after-buzz" timer (displayed in the player list, next to the player's name) is used to ensure the player responds within a certain amount of time after being called on. In lockout mode, this timer starts counting down immediately after someone buzzes in. In other modes, this timer starts when you click on the lightbulb button to call on the player.

If a player presses a button before it is active, the buttons shake for 500 milliseconds. If the player buzzes prematurely again within a 3 second window, the penalty duration increases expoentially, up to 1500 milliseconds.

While the penalty animation is playing, the player cannot buzz in (even if you activate the buzzers). This is done to prevent buzzer spamming.

Buzzonk does not impose a limit. But your device may start to lag after a few hundred people have joined.

Buzzonk has servers in San Francisco, New York City, and Frankfurt. Latency for North Americans and Europeans should be fine. But your room is setup in the best region for the host, so if the host is in San Francisco, any players in Europe will have high latency. Regions will be added based on demand (email me if you use Buzzonk and have poor latency).

Buzz order is based on the order in which network packets arrive from the players. Buzzonk does not use timestamps from player devices because player clocks are not trustworthy. If players are all on the same network, this works well enough. If players are in multiple locations, people with better routing will have an edge. But that is a property of all networked buzzer systems.

30 days. Buzzonk sets a cookie in the host's web browser to authenticate them. If you clear your cookies, that will effectively delete the room.

Blocking a player kicks them out of your room. They cannot buzz in, and you will not see them in your players table. Blocking a player can be useful if someone is spamming your room with buzzes. If you need to unblock a player, you can go to the settings tab, and under the Security heading, click "Unblock". A tech savvy individual can work around a block, so it's not useful for a motivated buzz spammer (lock the room to fix that).

You can lock the room in the "Security" section of the Settings tab. Locking a room prevents anyone from joining the room. You might want to lock the room after everyone has joined to prevent buzz spammers from getting in.

Yes. There are no ads, and no registration is required to use it as a player or host.