For bars, restaurants and venues
A party game for your TV that guests play from their phones.
Trivia needs a host, a mic and a Tuesday. This needs a TV and a table that's already talking. Guests scan a code, type words without seeing the story, and the finished thing lands on the big screen and gets read aloud to the room.
- No app
- No hardware
- No host
- Up to 12 per room
Setup
Ninety seconds, one time
Step 1
Open angrylips.com/tv on the screen
Any TV with a browser, a stick, or a laptop on HDMI. It shows a big join code and a QR.
Step 2
Guests scan and type a name
Their phone becomes their controller. No download, no sign-up, nothing to remember later.
Step 3
Start a round, let the TV do the rest
Blanks are dealt out, everyone types at once, the story reveals on the screen and the narrator reads it.
Why it works in a room full of strangers
Nobody has to be good at it
Trivia rewards the one table that knows the capital of Mongolia. Karaoke rewards the one person who wanted the mic. Here, the funniest word in the story is usually “lasagna” typed by someone who wasn't trying. A round takes about two minutes, the reveal is the payoff, and the read-aloud is the moment the next table looks over.
- Guests keep their phonesWhich they were going to be on anyway. Now they're on the same thing.
- Screen time you controlNothing plays until someone taps. Between rounds the TV shows your join code, not ads.
- Light on the networkA few words per phone and a short page for the TV. No streaming, no downloads.
- A narrator that fills the roomMovie trailer, nature documentary, sports final. Each room gets a daily narration budget, free.
Where people run it
Anywhere with a screen and a table that's already talking
Bars and taprooms
A slow Wednesday, the hour before trivia, or the table that just ordered a third round.
Restaurants
The private room for a rehearsal dinner or a birthday. The wait at the bar when a party of ten is late.
Breweries and wineries
Tasting rooms where the group already has a table and forty minutes to kill.
Event spaces
Team happy hours, welcome receptions, the awkward first twenty minutes of anything.
Want the longer version? Read how to run a game night at your bar without a trivia host or what makes a TV game work in a restaurant.
What venues ask
- What do we need to run it?
- A TV or projector with a browser (a smart TV, a Fire Stick, a laptop on HDMI, a Chromecast with a phone casting a tab). Open angrylips.com/tv on it and type the room code. Guests use their own phones on your wifi or their data. Nothing to install on either end.
- How many people can play at once?
- A room holds 12 players today, which suits a table, a booth or a small bar top. A larger room can run several rooms at once, one per table or group, each with its own code. Bigger single rooms for whole-venue play are coming; if you want one, email us and tell us about your space.
- Does someone have to host it?
- Not really. Whoever starts the room taps Start round and Next story; that's the whole job. A bartender can do it from behind the bar, or you hand it to the table. There's no script, no question bank to manage and no scoring to argue about.
- Is the content safe for a public room?
- Every one of the 209 library stories is rated 7+ or 13+ and written by us. The words guests type are theirs, though, so a story is only as clean as the table that filled it. That's usually the point.
- What does it cost?
- Playing is free, including party rooms and the TV screen. The AI narrator reads a set number of stories aloud per room per day at no charge. We're working out what a venue plan looks like; if you'd like to be part of that conversation, get in touch.
- Can it run on a bad connection?
- It's a web page, not a video stream. Phones send a few words and the TV pulls a short story. If your wifi can load a menu QR code, it can run a round.
Bigger rooms are coming
Running a venue? Tell us about your room.
We're building whole-venue rooms and working out what a venue plan should look like. The places that email us first get a say in both.