A quiz is a poll with a right answer and a clock. That sounds like a small difference and it is not: the moment a wrong answer is possible, the room leans in.
Put one question with its options on your overlay, let viewers answer in a tap, and score them on being right and being quick. In Kloot a quiz is one of the five poll types: the server times each answer, the correct option stays hidden until you reveal it, and the leaderboard shows the top ten.
You set it up here
It lands here — the real overlay
What do we play next?
What you’ll build
A question on your overlay, viewers answering from their phones, points weighted by speed, and a leaderboard you can read out.
The whole format collapses if chat can argue that two options are both right, so avoid anything that turns on a definition. "Which of these shipped first" is good; "which of these is the best" is a poll, not a quiz. And keep it in your world — a question about the game you are playing or a running joke on the channel beats a general-knowledge question nobody has an angle on.
Have the source ready. Someone will dispute the answer, and being able to show why takes ten seconds instead of two minutes.
Four options is the shape people expect from a quiz, and it is what the free plan allows on a poll; Creator gives six and Pro eight, which is more room than a quiz usually wants. Wrong answers should be plausible — three obviously silly options make a question everyone gets right, which produces a leaderboard sorted purely by reaction time.
A correct answer is worth its points, and answering early is worth up to half again on top — the faster you are inside the window, the bigger the multiplier. That means the length of the timer IS the difficulty setting. Twenty seconds on a question people know rewards reflexes; sixty seconds on a hard one rewards thinking, because almost everybody who is going to get it will get it well inside the window.
You can run a quiz with no countdown at all. Then a correct answer is simply worth its points, with no speed bonus, which is the right setting when you want the question to be the challenge rather than the reaction time.
The server does, from the moment the question opens to the moment each answer lands. It is worth knowing because the alternative — trusting each viewer’s device to report when they answered — would hand the scoring to the people being scored, and a leaderboard that can be topped by anyone who wants to is worse than no leaderboard, because it gets read out on stream. The honest cost is that a viewer on a slow connection loses their latency, which is tens of milliseconds against a window measured in seconds.
Scan the code, tap your answer, faster is worth more. Say it before you open the question rather than during, because anyone reading instructions is not answering. The options and the code are on the overlay, so nobody has to be in chat to play — which is the difference between a quiz your regulars play and a quiz your whole audience plays.
The correct option is withheld from everything a viewer can see until you reveal it — it is the answer key, and it is served over a public endpoint, so it is deliberately not sitting in the page waiting to be found. You can have it revealed automatically when the question closes, or hold it and reveal manually: read the split out, let the room commit, then show the tick. The second one is better television and costs you one button.
The top ten appear with their points. Names come from the device — someone who has entered a Kloot giveaway before carries the name they chose, and anyone else shows as a numbered player, because demanding a sign-up to appear on a leaderboard produces a leaderboard nobody is on. Reading three names out loud is the part that makes people play the next one.
Once it’s built, running a poll is two presses — open and close. Here’s the whole loop, and what each side sees.
Press the key when you want the room to weigh in. The question, the options, and a QR + join code appear on your overlay — voting is open.
They scan the QR or enter the code at kloot.gg/join and tap a choice — Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok, or an IRL room. No chat command, no bot, no extension.
The bars or pie fill live with counts and percentages, and the leader highlights the instant the room swings. Read it out on mic to pull people in.
Press again to clear the poll off screen, announce the result, and move on. Save it as a preset and the same question fires again next stream with one press.
A poll turns a passive room into the audience deciding what happens next. Good moments to fire one:
When: Between games, maps, or rounds.
Why it works: Hands the wheel to the room and instantly lifts engagement — people stay to see if their pick wins.
When: Chat has gone quiet and you want energy.
Why it works: A spicy binary makes everyone pick a side and floods chat with reactions.
When: Rewarding your community or members.
Why it works: A tier vote gives members real ownership of the stream — a reason to stay subscribed.
When: A meetup, class, panel, or projector.
Why it works: A QR on screen turns any physical room into live voting — no app to install for anyone.
Bars, this-or-that, or a pie — every preview below is the real poll renderer with votes ticking live, in your colors.
What do we play next?
The default read: a horse race the room can follow mid-game.
“What do we play next?” with four games on the board. Bars fill live with counts and percentages, and the leader highlights the instant the room swings — easy to read from any screen size.
One key opens it, one closes itPineapple on pizza?
Two options, one fight — the fastest way to wake up a quiet chat.
Drop a spicy binary and make everyone pick a side. Two big bars, a visible tug-of-war, and a flood of reactions in chat while the lead flips back and forth.
Save it as a preset — refires in one pressThis month’s sub perk?
One glance says how the room divides — best for 3+ real choices.
Let subs pick this month’s perk. The pie makes the share of the room obvious even when the counts are close, and it reads as a “decision”, not a race.
Same poll, one toggle to switch layoutThe poll card sits in a corner, out of the action — or takes center screen when the vote is the moment itself.
What do we play next?
A correct answer scores its points, and answering early inside the window adds up to half again on top. The server measures the time from the question opening to the answer arriving, so the multiplier cannot be set by the person being scored.
Yes. With no countdown there is no speed bonus and a correct answer is simply worth its points, which is the setting to use when the question itself is the challenge rather than how fast someone can tap.
No. The correct option is withheld from every public read until you reveal it, so it is not in the page for anyone to find. You can reveal it automatically when the question closes or hold it and reveal it yourself.
The one on the viewer’s device from a previous Kloot entry, or a numbered player if there is none. Nobody has to make an account to be scored, because a leaderboard behind a sign-up is a leaderboard nobody appears on.
One question at a time. A saved multi-question pack with a leaderboard carried across the round is not built, so a longer quiz means launching each question yourself and keeping the running total on your own scoreboard.
Creator and above. The free plan runs 2 single-choice polls a month with up to four options; Creator adds the other four poll types, including the quiz.
One overlay URL, one deck, every tool — set it up in minutes and run it from any device.
Free forever · Creator $99/yr or $15/mo · Pro $149/yr or $25/mo · Event Pass $9 for 3 days