Trivia, but you can sabotage everyone else's answers.

Traps is a team trivia game where the room votes on the topic, then plays through it while freezing, scrambling and burying each other's answers. It runs in the browser with no app, takes about 20 minutes, and works best with a team of up to 15.

You think you know everything? Cool. Your opponents will freeze your screen, bury your answer in mud, or scramble it into alphabet soup.

Answer fast. Play dirty. Celebrate chaos.

The room picks what the quiz is about

Players vote on the topic, and the questions are generated from whatever wins. Nobody writes a quiz beforehand, and no two games are the same.

You set the language too, so it works for a team in any language.

Who it's for

Team leads and HR people who need something for a group that already knows each other. A Friday afternoon, an after work session, the last stretch of a team day.

It's built for a room of 10 to 15, not a hall.

How it plays

Players join by link and answer on their phones, around 20 seconds a question.

Between answers they can hit each other with one of three traps. Ice freezes a screen. Mud buries an answer. Mixed Letters scrambles it into nonsense. Points for being right, and points for being well timed.

A full game runs about 20 minutes. You can cut it shorter if the slot is tight.

What it does to a room

It gets loud. People who don't know the answer still have something to do, so nobody sits there quietly waiting for it to end, and the room ends up talking to each other rather than staring at their phones.

Nobody is eliminated either. Everyone plays every round to the last one, which is why it works better with a team who already know each other than with a room of strangers.

There is no host to book and nothing to prepare. You start it yourself and play along.

Traps is part of the Games for Crowds library, free and in testing. If you need something for a bigger room, there are games built for that.