Who knows them best — the answer-key quiz

Most "how well do you know them" games have the same problem: somebody has to write the answers, and that somebody is you — so you're the one person in the room who can't play.

InviteBird solves it by asking the guest of honor directly. You send them a private link, they answer on their own phone, and their answers become the answer key. You never see what they wrote until you reveal it, which means you guess alongside everyone else.

It carries the guest of honor's name — Who knows Mia best, Who knows Sophie and James best — and each occasion has its own version:

• Baby shower — Who knows the parents best. Each parent gets their own link (one parent is fine too).
• Bridal or couples shower — Who knows the couple best. Each partner gets a link and answers the same questions separately — that separation is the game.
• Birthday — Who knows the birthday star best. At a milestone birthday it becomes Then & now.
• Graduation — Who knows the graduate best.
• Retirement — Career trivia, with a set of either-or picks about the years ahead.

Setting it up

Switch the quiz on in your occasion's suite. Its first block, Who answers, is where the private links live:

• Teens, adults and graduates answer for themselves.
• For a first birthday or little kids, and for a preschool or grade-school graduate, a parent answers.
• Big kids can answer themselves, or a parent can.
• At a milestone birthday, the birthday star answers, or someone in the family does.
• At a shower, there's one link per name on the suite's first card.

The questions come ready for your occasion and, at a birthday, the age band — keep them, switch individual ones off, or add your own. Most are pick-from-four, so the guest of honor taps and guests tap. If none of the four fits, the guest of honor can write their own answer under "Something else" — it's shown at the reveal but never scored, and guests always pick from the four. A few questions are open "reveal moments" — what are they proudest of this year? — that play at the reveal and score nobody. For little kids, every question is a tap.

Copy each link and send it however you like — text, WhatsApp, email. There's no login and no account to make. While they're answering you see progress and nothing else: "Sophie: 6 of 6 answered", "James: not started". You can revoke a link if you sent it to the wrong person, and issue a fresh one.

Bigger questions on the same link

At a birthday, the link can ask the birthday star a few bigger questions too: The birthday interview for kids and teens — their favorite food, what they want to be — or Their wisdom for adults and milestone birthdays: the best advice they ever got, what they'd tell their twenty-year-old self. Those answers aren't scored; they go into the keepsake with everyone's wishes.

They can record their answers

Beside every quiz question, the guest of honor can record a short clip as well as answering. When you reveal at the party, the big screen plays the clip as the answer — the room hears them say it in their own voice. Typed answers work perfectly on their own; the clip is a bonus.

What your guests do

Guests answer a handful of the questions inside their RSVP, on the same screen as your occasion's guessing game — it's not an extra screen. A question the guessing game already asks is never asked twice. Guests can play before the guest of honor has answered anything; nothing is scored until you reveal.

Revealing it

Reveal from the quiz with Reveal the answers, or from the games list on your Event Day screen. Revealing shows the answers, crowns the winner and closes the guest of honor's link for changes — and guests can no longer play. That's for good: hiding the answers again only clears the screens, it never reopens the game. If you'd rather play the answers first and crown the winner as a finale, turn on Hold the leaderboard back: the answers still play, and only the leaderboard waits until you turn it off.

On the big screen the reveal runs one question at a time, paced by you:

• The real answer goes up — with two people answering, both answers appear, each under its person's name.
• If there's a clip, it plays.
• Under each answer: how many guests called it.
• At the end, the leaderboard and whoever knows them best.

Every guest's phone shows the answers and the leaderboard too, and the thank-you page after the party can show who knew them best.

Only guests are scored

Nothing anywhere scores the guest of honor. They can't be wrong about their own life, and they never appear with a number beside their name. The only scoreboard is the guests'.

Common questions

Can I see their answers before the party? No. You see how many questions they've answered and when they last saved, never the answers themselves.

What if the guest of honor never fills it in? Guests can still play; their guesses just wait. A quick personal message usually does it — or reveal with whatever has been answered, since blank questions simply aren't scored.

Does this add a step to the RSVP? No. It rides on the screen your occasion's guessing game already uses.

Can it be played at a little kid's party? Yes. A parent answers, every question is a tap, and the grown-ups play. Pair it with Guess the jar and This or that for the kids themselves.

Can the guest of honor change an answer after the reveal? No. Revealing closes their link, so the answers the room saw are the answers that count. You can also close it earlier with Close for changes.

Do I need the kiosk to reveal it? The big-screen version needs the kiosk open, but you can reveal without one — guests then see the answers and the scoreboard on their own phones.

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