Trivia for Slack, built around your team
Pick the topics, set the difficulty and post it to any channel. Everyone plays on their own time, and the results land back in Slack.
Free for your whole workspace. No accounts to create.
Question 1/5 - In Ireland, what were the first jack-o'-lanterns carved from?
Category: History·Difficulty: Medium
👆Pick an answer to play the Halloween round
Gordo, Tracey and Fitz have played this week. Gordo leads on 8 points.
Everything happens in Slack
No links out and nothing for your team to install. Games post to a channel, people play when it suits them, and the results come back to the same place.
Start a game with /trivia
Pick the topics, the length and the difficulty. The game posts straight into the channel, ready to play.
Three ways to play
Compete head to head, answer as a channel, or play solo in your DMs.
🏆 Head to Head Trivia
Everyone answers privately, scored by difficulty.
🏁 Completed: @gordo, @kiki
Everyone plays on their own clock
Games stay open, so a teammate in Melbourne and one in Miami can play the same game hours apart.
Points, streaks and bragging rights
Harder questions score more, and a run of right answers lights up.
The podium lands in the channel
When the game ends, everyone sees who won. The thread does the rest.
🏆 Results
🥇 @gordo (19 points)
🥈 @tracey (17 points)
🥉 @fitz (16 points)
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Build a quiz around what your team is into
Choose the categories, set the difficulty and decide how long it runs. Try it: the stack and the game post update as you go.
Categories
3 picked
Difficulty
Length
10 questions
🏆 Head to Head Trivia
Number of Questions: 10·Difficulty: All·Categories: Film & TV, Geography, Music
🙇♂️ Participating: @gordo, @moose
🏆 Head to Head Trivia
Number of Questions: 10·Difficulty: All·Categories: Film & TV, Geography, Music
🙇♂️ Participating: @gordo, @moose
Set it once and it runs itself
Put trivia on a schedule and it becomes part of the week, without anyone having to remember to start it.
Scheduled Trivia
Schedule trivia to begin at a specified time each day.
Your Schedules
Only visible to you.
2 Schedules
🏆 Head to Head Trivia - #trivia
Starts: 09:00 AM - America/New York
Repeats: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
🎲 Custom Quiz · 10 Questions · Difficulty: All · Categories: All
🎉 Team Trivia - #design-team
Starts: 04:00 PM - Europe/London
Repeats: Friday
🎲 Custom Quiz · 15 Questions · Difficulty: Medium · Categories: Film & TV, Music
🛟 Help & Support
Run into an issue? Contact us anytime at support@triviastack.com and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
🏆 Head to Head Trivia
🗞️ The Daily Stack #128·10 Questions
🙇♂️ Participating: @dougie, @rocco
Next edition in --:--:--
The Daily Stack
Ten fresh questions, every single morning
Hand-picked from the week's biggest stories and the best of classic trivia, and fact-checked before it goes out. Schedule it once and there's something new to talk about every day.
Ten questions from recent editions. Have a go.
- Out at 8:55 AM ET
- A new edition every morning, ready for a schedule or a quick /trivia.
- Three easy, four medium, three hard
- Balanced so everyone gets a few and nobody gets them all.
- The same ten for every team
- Every workspace plays the same set, so a good score means something.
Photo credits›
- A ticker-tape parade, New York: NASA, public domain
- TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain
- A honeybee at work: Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0
- MetLife Stadium, New Jersey: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0
- Lionel Messi: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Earth from orbit: NASA, public domain
- Taylor Swift: Paolo V, CC BY 2.0
- Pluto, seen by New Horizons: NASA, public domain
- The Federal Reserve, Washington: Federal Reserve, public domain
- Chris Martin: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0
Via Wikimedia Commons.
Happier teams get more done
It's one of the better-studied ideas in workplace research. People do their best work when they feel connected to the people around them, and TriviaStack gives a team a few minutes together, a few times a week.
The coffee-break study
A Bank of America call centre put every team on the same break. Call handling time fell by 8%, and by more than 20% for the weakest teams.
MIT researchers had found that the best predictor of a team's productivity was how much its members talked to each other outside formal meetings. The manager acted on it by changing nothing but the break schedule.
Pentland, Harvard Business Review, 2012How the break schedule changed
Before: breaks are staggered so the phones stay covered, and people rarely overlap.
Staff made about 13% more sales in the weeks they were happy
Researchers followed around 1,800 BT call-centre workers for six months, and used the weather to check that the happiness came first.
Bellet, De Neve & Ward, Management Science, 2024The most engaged teams are 23% more profitable than the least
Gallup's meta-analysis of 183,806 teams across 53 industries, comparing the top quarter for engagement with the bottom quarter.
Gallup Q12 meta-analysis, 2024Taking part has to be a choice
In a field experiment, a workplace game lifted how salespeople felt about work, but only among those who opted in. That's why every TriviaStack game is optional.
Mollick & Rothbard, Wharton
Your conversations stay yours
TriviaStack asks Slack for what it needs to run a game, and nothing that would let it read your team's chat. Here's everything it asks for when you install, in plain English.
- Your channels stay private
- TriviaStack has no permission to read channel history. It only sees messages sent to the bot.
- Deleted when you ask
- Email privacy@triviastack.com and your workspace's data is deleted within 30 days.
- Cleaned up after you leave
- Uninstall and identifying data is removed automatically after 12 months, sooner on request.
- Not sold, not shared
- Your workspace data is only used to run TriviaStack. Every sub-processor is listed publicly.
Read the privacy policy and the list of sub-processors.
TriviaStack is requesting permission to access the Acme Slack workspace
What will TriviaStack be able to view?
- Basic details of public channels, and private ones it's added to
- Messages that mention @TriviaStack
- Its own direct messages
- People's names and email addresses
What will TriviaStack be able to do?
- Post games and results as @TriviaStack, in any public channel
- Start direct messages for solo games
- Add the /trivia slash command
- Add emoji reactions
Not requested: reading messages in your channels
Questions teams ask before installing
Can't see yours? Email support@triviastack.com and you'll hear back from the person who built it.
Is TriviaStack free?
Yes. Your whole workspace can play, with no player cap, no per-seat pricing and no trial clock. If that ever changes, workspaces already using TriviaStack keep what they have.
Where do the questions come from?
Every question is hand-picked and fact-checked before it's published. Custom games draw on a library across ten categories, and the Daily Stack adds ten new questions each morning, written from current news.
Can we choose the topics and difficulty?
Yes. Pick any of the ten categories, set the difficulty to easy, medium, hard or a mix, and choose anywhere from 3 to 20 questions. Every channel can play the trivia it wants.
Does it work across time zones?
Yes. A game stays open while people play, so teammates in Sydney and New York can play the same game hours apart. Schedules run in whichever time zone you choose.
Do my teammates need to create accounts?
No. Anyone in your Slack workspace can play straight away. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing for each person to install.
How often will TriviaStack post in my channels?
Only when you ask it to. A game starts when someone runs /trivia or when a schedule you set comes around. You choose the channel, the days and the time.
What data does TriviaStack access?
Only what it needs to run games: workspace, channel and player identifiers. It has no permission to read message history, so it can't see your conversations. It only receives messages sent to the bot. Full details are in the privacy policy.
Your first game is a minute away
Add TriviaStack, type /trivia in any channel and you're playing before your next meeting.
Free for your whole workspace. No accounts to create.









