The answers on the board came from the people looking at it.

You ask the room a question and everyone types an answer on their phone. A minute later the board is built out of what they actually said, ranked by how many of them said it.

Then teams compete to guess what is on it. Which is to say, to guess what everybody else in the room was thinking.

Forty people typing the same thing forty ways

That is the problem with collecting live answers, and it is handled. Spelling is corrected, near-identical answers are grouped, and "coffee", "Coffee", "cofee" and "the coffee machine" arrive as one line with a number next to it.

Without that you have a mess on a screen. With it you have a board.

Six teams, everybody playing

Up to six teams, and the whole room answers the question whether or not they are on a team, so nobody is sitting out the part that matters.

Or bring answers you already have

You can load a survey you have already run. Your engagement survey, your customer research, the questionnaire two hundred people filled in last month.

Putting those results on a board and letting the room guess the top five is a better way to present a survey than a slide full of bar charts, and people remember the answers because they had to work for them.

The host runs it from their phone

No operator, no laptop at the back. You control the board from your own phone while standing in front of the room.

Where it works

Company all-hands and team days, especially with your own survey in it. Parties and evening programmes. Family events and school groups, where the question just needs to be lighter.

What it is not

Quick. Collecting answers from a room takes a minute or two before each round, which is time well spent when the answers are the point, and time wasted if you only wanted a quick quiz round.