Games

Trivia

Trivia is a quick quiz game for your server. Each question has a timer, 10 seconds by default. A right answer scores 50 points, up to 100 the faster it was. A wrong answer, or no answer, scores 0. Points add up on the server's trivia leaderboard.

Getting started

Open Games, then Trivia, on the dashboard. From there you can start a live round, schedule rounds, put Trivia on a Games panel for solo games, and choose who can play. The questions come from the same question bank as quizzes in Polls: Sparrow's 600+ questions, and your server's own.

Poll staff run live rounds: Poll Managers, Poll Support, and server admins. Anyone who can play can start a solo game. See Access & Permissions for how Sparrow's roles work.

Live rounds

A live round is one message in a channel that changes question by question. Everyone answers the same question at the same time. After each one, the right answer shows for a few seconds, then the next question comes up. When the round ends, Sparrow posts the results with the top players.

Start one on the dashboard, or with /trivia start in Discord. You can pick:

• Questions: how many questions the round has.
• Seconds: how long each question stays open.
• Category: one category, any category, or your own questions.
• Channel: where the round is played.
• Answers: Buttons, Type the letter, Buttons or type the letter, or Type the answer. See Typed answers.
• Ping: a role to ping when the round starts. On the dashboard you can pick up to 5.

With buttons, each member's first answer counts. /trivia stop stops the round in that channel, and nobody's score changes. If Sparrow restarts in the middle of a round, the round stops the same way.

Typed answers

Set Answers to Type the letter and members type the letter of their answer (A or a) in the channel instead of pressing a button. Only their first letter counts. Any other message is left alone, so the chat can carry on during the round. Pick Buttons or type the letter to show the buttons too: whichever a member does first is their answer.

Pick Type the answer for a harder round. The choices are hidden, and members type the answer itself. Small typos are fine, but numbers must be exact. They can keep guessing until they get it, so every message counts as a guess while a question is up. Sparrow reacts ✅ to a right answer and ❌ to a wrong one in every typed round.

Turn on Delete typed answers and Sparrow deletes each guess a moment later, so nobody can copy the right answer. This needs the Manage Messages permission in that channel.

Scheduled rounds

A scheduled round starts by itself, so a trivia night runs without anyone there to press start. Pick a date and time, and whether it happens once, every day or every week. It uses the same options as a live round.

Add a heads-up message to let members know it's coming, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes before it starts. It pings the round's roles too. When game XP is on, it also shows the prizes.

Write your own heads-up message on the Messages tab, as an embed or with Components, with placeholders like {time}, {questions}, {category} and {prizes}. Reset to default brings Sparrow's message back.

Without Premium a server can have 2 scheduled rounds, and a repeating one runs 3 times. Premium allows 10, and repeats keep going.

Solo games

In a solo game, a member plays on their own. Only they see the questions and their score. Put Trivia on aGames panel from Games Panels on the dashboard, and members press its Trivia button to start a game. You choose what they pick first: the category, how they answer, and how many questions. They pick on a private message and press Start. Turn them all off and Play starts a game right away. Members can also use /trivia play and pick a category and how they answer, or leave them blank for the server's defaults.

Solo games have the same four ways to answer as live rounds: Buttons, Type the letter, Buttons or type the letter, or Type the answer with the choices hidden (type it in the chat, or in a private box from the Answer button). A typed answer is deleted right away, so nobody else sees it. Small typos are fine, but numbers must be exact.

Members can also play in Sparrow's DMs with /trivia play. DM games use Sparrow's own questions and give no XP or leaderboard points. Cat Chase and Tic-tac-toe against Sparrow work in DMs too.

If a member closes their game by mistake, pressing Play again offers Show my game to bring it back, or End this game to finish it (the points so far still count). Set Wait between solo games to choose how often a member can start a new one, from no wait up to a day.

Categories and your own questions

Sparrow has over 600 questions in 10 categories. A game can use:

Add your server's own questions under Poll System, then Quiz Questions, on the dashboard. Each one has a category, the right answer and up to 5 wrong ones. A question can also have a picture, like a flag for "name this flag". Pictures show in Trivia and in quizzes.

You can also make your own categories, like "Server Lore" or "Minecraft", and put your questions in them. They show up everywhere a category can be picked: live rounds, the Games panel, /trivia and /poll quiz. Free servers can make 3, Premium 25. Deleting one moves its questions to Other.

Who can play

• Required roles: members need one of them, or all of them.
• Blocked roles and blocked members can't play.

This counts for live rounds and solo games. Without Premium: 2 required roles, 2 blocked roles and 5 blocked members. Premium allows up to 50 roles and 100 blocked members.

Leaderboard and role rewards

Every member's points add up. /trivia leaderboard shows the top players, and /trivia rank shows a member's rank, points, right answers and games. On /rank, the Trivia rank button shows the same. Choose whether solo games count toward the leaderboard. Admins can reset it.

• Role rewards (Premium): give a role when a member reaches a number of right answers, like 100 right answers gets @Trivia Master. Up to 10 rewards.
• Auto-updating leaderboard (Premium): a leaderboard post in a channel that Sparrow keeps up to date.

Leveling XP

Trivia and quiz polls can give Leveling XP. Turn on Leveling XP on the Trivia page, or Games under Earning XP on the Leveling page. Both show the same setup.

• Live rounds: pick who gets XP. Everyone, by points shares XP by score (set 100 XP and half the points gives 50), plus extra for the winner. Or the winner only, the top 3 (an amount for 1st, 2nd and 3rd), or everyone the same amount plus extra for the winner. Places need 2 or more players, and the round's start message shows the prizes.
• Solo games: their own amount, shared out the same way. Keep it low, since solo games can be played again and again.
• Quiz polls: XP for a right answer when the quiz ends. Anonymous quizzes give none.
• Game XP limit: once a member earns this much from games in an hour, day, week or month, games stop giving them XP until the next one.

Boosters and double XP events count too, unless you turn that off. Members on Leveling's no-XP roles or in its no-XP channels get none. It's free.

Free and Premium

Live rounds, solo games, the leaderboard, typed answers and pings are free. Without Premium a game has up to 10 questions, with 10, 15, 20 or 30 seconds each, and a server can have 2 scheduled rounds.

Premium allows up to 50 questions a game, any timer from 5 to 120 seconds, 10 scheduled rounds with repeats that keep going, role rewards, the auto-updating leaderboard, and bigger Who can play lists. See Premium.

Commands

Want an overview instead? See the Trivia module page → · See every command →