WeSolve+ is best when the questions have to come from something specific, a book, a subject or a house style, rather than a generic pack. The tool below turns your written questions into a set you can read out with the answers hidden.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Questions to a round
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI. It keeps each question with its options, reads an "Answer:" line as the answer, and hides every answer until it is opened, which is what a quizmaster needs on a phone. It does not check whether a fact is true, so verify anything you did not write yourself. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
The shape of a round that works
Ten questions, and the first one is answerable by everybody in the room. That is not a wasted question, it is the one that gets people writing and talking to each other, and a round that opens with something obscure loses half the tables before it starts. Rise from there, put the hardest question at eight rather than ten, and finish on something mid difficulty so the round ends with people feeling capable. Somewhere in the middle put one question that is guessable by reasoning rather than knowledge, since that is the one that produces argument at the table, and argument is what people actually came for. Pub quiz convention exists because it works, and it is worth borrowing before departing from it.
Categories that spoil a night, and why
Three reliably do it. Anything requiring an exact figure, since being close counts for nothing and everybody feels cheated. Anything from a single narrow fandom, because it rewards one table and bores the rest. And anything from the last fortnight's news, which splits the room by who happened to read a particular story rather than by general knowledge. The fix for the first is to accept a range or take the nearest answer. The fix for the second and third is spread: no two consecutive questions from the same domain, and no more than two from any domain in a ten question round. Mixing also stops tables working out your pattern, which they will by round three.
Writing a question that has exactly one answer
Most disputes at a quiz night come from a question that is accidentally ambiguous rather than from a wrong answer. Name a famous bridge has hundreds of answers. Which London bridge opens to let ships through has one. Two habits catch nearly all of it: read each question as though you are trying to win an argument with the quizmaster, and write the answer first, then write the question that could only produce it. Dates need a specified precision, decade or year, and superlatives need a boundary, since most confirmed moons and largest by area both change depending on when and how you count. Where you use options, keep them plausible for the same reason a test does, and where three of four are obviously silly the question is decoration rather than a question.
Scoring, tiebreaks and the joker
One point per question keeps the arithmetic invisible, which is the main thing scoring has to do. If you want variance, a joker that a table plays once per night to double a round of their choice adds a decision without adding admin, and the decision itself is entertaining. Tiebreaks should be a numeric estimate settled by nearest answer, since anything else risks a second tie. Avoid scoring on speed, because it turns a social evening into a reaction test and pushes tables to shout rather than confer. That is the same reason live quiz products with points per second produce a different game from the one people think they are playing, an effect familiar from game show formats built for television rather than for a room.
Hosting it, and the two minutes nobody plans
Read each question twice, the second time slowly, and say nothing between the readings. Give a fixed answering window and announce when it is half gone. Collect papers before revealing anything, since reading the answers with sheets still on the table guarantees an argument. And plan the marking, because the two minutes while somebody adds up scores is where a quiz night loses its energy; swapping sheets between tables solves it for free and makes the marking part of the game. Groups behave better with a visible structure, which is the same finding that makes turn order matter in a study group, described in the research on social facilitation and its counterpart in larger groups.
Making a round from a specific source
House quizzes about a book, a course or a company are more fun than general knowledge and much harder to source, because no pack exists. Upload the PDF, photograph the pages or take a camera shot and WeSolve+ writes questions from that material with the reasoning attached, which is what lets you check a question before you read it out. You can duel a friend on the same set or share it. At wesolveapp.com in any browser and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free to begin. Figures on pricing.
Sources used on this page
- Trivia
- Pub quiz
- General knowledge
- Game show
- Social facilitation
- Social loafing
- Group dynamics
- Collaborative learning
- Testing effect
- Active recall
- Recall (memory)
- Recognition memory
- Tip of the tongue
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Spaced repetition
- MDN, the details element
- MDN, the textarea element
- MDN, the Clipboard API
- W3C, the disclosure pattern
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
- Party game
- Riddle
- Crossword
- Jeopardy!
- Cepeda et al., spacing and the optimal retention interval (2008)
| Position | Difficulty | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everybody gets it | Gets people writing and talking |
| 2 and 3 | Easy to moderate | Sets the pace, spreads the domains |
| 4 | Guessable by reasoning | Produces the argument at the table |
| 5 and 6 | Moderate | The body of the round |
| 7 | Hard | Separates the top tables |
| 8 | Hardest | One table gets it |
| 9 and 10 | Moderate | Ends with people feeling capable |
How many questions should a round have?
Ten is the convention and it works. Long enough for a difficulty curve, short enough that marking does not stall the evening.
Where should the hardest question go?
At eight, not at ten. Ending on the hardest question finishes the round on a low, and people carry that into the next one.
Does the tool check whether my answers are correct?
No. It arranges what you give it and hides the answers until you open them. Verifying a fact you did not write yourself is your job.
Should I score on speed?
Not in a room. It turns conferring into shouting and rewards the fastest reader at each table rather than the group.
How do I stop arguments about wording?
Write the answer first, then write the question that could only produce it. Then read your own question as though you were trying to win an argument with the quizmaster.
Is anything I paste uploaded?
No. It runs in the page in front of you and sends nothing anywhere, which also means nothing is saved when you close the tab.
Last updated: 2026-08-15