How to make a quiz for friends, step by step

Decide what kind of quiz you are making

Before you write a single question, pick the kind of quiz. It changes what you write and what your friends get at the end.

If you want a ready-made version of the first kind, Best Friend Test has a friend answer about themselves while you prove you know them, and Know Your Person does the same for couples. Our post on the how well do you know me quiz has question ideas.

Step 1: open Make a game

Go to Make a game and choose how you want to start. There are three ways in, and you can mix them: start with one and finish in the editor.

• Describe it in a sentence. Letternerd builds a playable game from your description.
• Turn notes, a document or a link into a quiz. Letternerd reads what you give it and writes questions from it.
• Start from a template. Pick how the game plays and write every word yourself.

Your first game built from a description needs no account. After that, building with AI uses AI credits, which come with a free account and top up each month. Writing or editing a game by hand is always free.

Step 2: describe your quiz in a sentence

The quickest way to make your own quiz online free is to say what it is. Tap one of these to start from it, then change whatever you like:

• A quiz about our friend group
• How well do you know me? A birthday quiz
• Which character from our favourite show are you?
• A quiz about my city that only locals can pass

A good description says who the quiz is for, what it is about and the tone you want. “A quiz for my university friends about our first year, funny, ten questions” gives the builder far more to work with than “friends quiz”.

Step 3: or start from a template

Templates are ready-made ways a game can play: questions with one right answer, putting a list in order, matching two columns, sorting cards into bins, a personality test, anonymous answers and more. You pick how it plays and only write the words. This is the best route if you already have every question in your head, or if you want to make something that plays like a built-in game you enjoyed, such as Order Up or Perfect Pairs.

Step 4: check and edit everything in the editor

Whichever way you started, you end up in the game editor, where you can change the questions, the answers, the rounds and the wording until it sounds like your group. Read every question, even ones the builder wrote. Check that:

• Every right answer is actually right. A quiz made from notes is only as good as the notes and the model reading them.
• The wrong options are believable. Three silly options and one sensible one makes the question too easy.
• Nothing would embarrass a friend in front of the group. Keep the in-jokes kind.
• There are enough questions for the rounds you set, so nothing repeats.

Then play it through once yourself, as a player would, before you send it to anyone.

How to make a personality quiz online

A personality quiz works differently from a scored quiz. There are no right answers. Instead, you set up a few results, such as five characters from a show, and each answer leans towards one or more of them.

In the editor, every answer to a question has a small number for each result: leave it empty for no lean, or set it from 1 to 10 for how strongly that answer points to that result. A player’s result is whichever one their answers add up to most. That means you can make a quiz where choosing “stay in with a book” counts a lot towards the quiet character and a little towards the clever one.

• Keep the results balanced. If one result scores from most answers, almost everyone will get it.
• Write each result as if you were describing a friend: warm, specific and a little teasing.
• Eight questions is plenty. The built-in What’s your villain era? and What’s your red flag? use eight each.

For more ready-made ones to learn from, browse the personality quizzes. If you are used to dedicated personality quiz makers, our uQuiz alternative and BuzzFeed quizzes alternative pages compare the options.

Step 5: play your quiz with friends

1. Choose to host a room from your game.
2. Share the room code, link or QR code in your chat.
3. Friends join as guests in their browser, on any phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
4. Choose live, with countdowns, or over several days, so each person answers when they are free.

Everyone sees the questions on their own screen, so it works on a video call, at a party or across a group chat. A quiz about one person is also fun to send one friend at a time and compare scores.

Step 6: keep it, share it or publish it

Your quiz is yours to keep private. You can also share it by link, so only people you send it to can play, or publish it so anyone can find it, play it and remix it.

When you publish, you set the title, a short description, tags and a cover, and choose whether others may remix it. Letternerd checks the game first and points out problems such as a missing description or fewer questions than rounds, so you can fix them before it goes out.

Remixing a quiz someone else made

If you find a published quiz you like, and its maker allows it, you can remix it: Letternerd gives you your own copy to change. It is a quick way to make a version for your own group, such as swapping the questions about one city for questions about yours.

Tips for writing quiz questions friends will love

• Mix easy and hard. Start with a question everyone gets right so nobody feels lost, and save the hardest for the middle.
• Ask about stories, not data. “Where did we get lost on the school trip?” is more fun than “What is my middle name?”.
• Use numbers. “How many cups of tea do I drink a day?” makes people guess, and close guesses are funny.
• Keep options short. Long answers are hard to read on a phone.
• End on a good one. The last question is the one people talk about afterwards.

Want to quiz your friends on a subject instead? Our guide to hosting an online quiz night plans a whole evening around rounds like these.

Play the games from this post

Free in your browser. Share the room code and everyone joins from their own phone, no signup.

• Best Friend Test2–6 players · 10 minThey answer about themselves. Prove you know your friend.
• Know Your Person2–6 players · 10 minThey answer about themselves. You predict what they said.
• What’s your villain era?1–12 players · 4 minEveryone has a villain era. Eight questions to find out exactly what kind yours is.
• What’s your red flag?1–12 players · 4 minEveryone has one. Eight honest answers and we’ll tell you yours. Your friends already know.
• Order Up2–12 players · 9 minPut the list in the right order. Exact spots and the closest full answer score.
• Perfect Pairs1–12 players · 6 minTwo columns, one right match for everything. Link them all before the clock runs out.

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