★ Keep count out loud ★
Trackers and meters
Teams, points, positions and prizes, big enough to read across a room.
All 13 tools
Lives tracker
Hearts for every player or one shared pool, big enough to read across a room, out at zero.
OpenHealth bar tracker
Hit points with a bar that changes colour and says its band in words. Damage, heal, and a boss bar.
OpenEnergy meter
A meter per player that you top up, spend, or let drain on its own while the round is running.
OpenProgress track
A winding path of five to fifty spaces, a piece for every player, and a built-in die to move them.
OpenRound marker
The round and the phase in type you can read across a room, with your own phase names and a back step.
OpenScore tokens
Points drawn as stacks of tokens, a tray for every player, with change made for you when a take needs it.
OpenPower-up tokens
Give everybody a few abilities with a limited number of uses, and a token that flips face down when it is spent.
OpenScoreboard
Teams, points, positions and prizes, big enough to read across the room and saved through a refresh.
OpenRace track
An oval track with laps, a car for every player, and the running order worked out from the distance covered.
OpenLeader token
One token passed round the table, at random or by hand, with a round counter and a tally of who has led.
OpenFirst player token
Draw who starts a round, at random with no repeats, round the table, or by your own house rule.
OpenRound modifiers
One rule a round, drawn from a party, classroom or board game set and left on screen until the next one.
OpenWeather modifier
Conditions that change as the game goes on, each one carrying its own rules, on a timer or each round.
OpenKeeping count in public
A score kept on a scrap of paper in one person's handwriting is a score three people are quietly recalculating. Put it on a screen everybody can see and the arguing stops, because the arithmetic is no longer anybody's private business. That is the job of this whole family: not to add up faster than a person can, but to add up where the room can watch.
Thirteen tools here, and they divide neatly into what they are counting. Quantities that go up and down: points, lives, hit points, energy, tokens, limited abilities. Positions along something: a winding track, an oval with laps. And the shape of the game itself: whose round it is, who starts, which round and phase you are on, what rule is in force. Most nights need one from the first group and one from the third, open side by side.
Which one counts what
The scoreboard is the anchor for teams and points, and score tokens is the same thing drawn as stacks of discs for a table that reads a shape faster than a number. Lives counts hearts down to elimination, health bars add a band in words as they drop, and the energy meter is the one that moves on its own while a round runs. Power-ups tracks limited abilities rather than a quantity.
For position rather than quantity there are two: the progress track, a path with labelled spaces and an end, and the race track, an oval with laps and a running order. For the shape of the game, the round marker counts rounds and phases with nobody in it at all, the leader token holds a role across a round, and who goes first draws a starter from a hat that empties before it refills. Round modifiers and the weather both lay a rule over the round, one from a shuffled deck and one from a chart that makes rain likelier than snow.
Names stay on the device
The names you type are the names of people in the room, so they are treated as such. They are held in the browser on that device and nowhere else. They are never uploaded, never put into a share link and never attached to an account, because there is no account to attach them to. A link you share carries settings: how long the track is, how many laps, how the token moves, never who is playing.
The practical consequence is worth knowing before a quiz night rather than during one: a board belongs to one browser on one device. It will not follow you to another laptop, and clearing your site data for this site clears it. Everything here also works on the one device in front of you, passed around or propped where everybody can see it. There are no rooms and no codes, because there is no server behind this site for any of that to run through.
Questions
- Does a tracker survive a refresh?
- Yes. Every tool in this family writes its state into your browser as it changes, so a closed tab, a locked phone or an accidental reload brings the same game back. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your site data clears it.
- Do I have to type names into each one?
- No. There is one shared list of players. Type it into any tool with people in it and every other one already has it, because the list lives in this browser rather than inside a single page.
- Can I put these on a classroom screen?
- Yes. The type scales to the screen it is on, so the same page works on a phone propped against a jug and on a board at the front of a room. The round marker and the weather need no names at all, so they are the two to leave running on a spare screen.
Other families
Collect and unlock
Trays, sets, recipes, pieces, keys and locks, for games where gathering things is the point.
See themTimers and timed games
Countdowns and stopwatches you can start in one tap and read from the back of the room.
See themTabletop and role-play
Dice you roll on the screen for the nights when the real ones are nowhere to be found.
See themEvery family is listed on the tools page.