Everything that decides a result, in one place.
Thirty questions in a paid competition, ten in the daily free quiz. Every participant in the room sees the same question at the same second.
Each question opens at 1,000 points and loses 50 points a second. Answer at four seconds and you score 800. A wrong answer scores zero, with no penalty, a guess costs you nothing but the seconds you spent on it. After twenty seconds the question closes and scores zero.
Each tier opens with the easier block so you can find your rhythm before it bites.
Two competitions a night, currently 20:00 and 21:00 UK, with Easy and Medium usually at 20:00 and Hard and Expert usually at 21:00, Easy paired with Hard one night and Medium with Expert the next. Times, tiers and pairings can change, and we sometimes run one-off special or themed competitions outside this pattern, the calendar always shows exactly what's on and when.
Entry uses one competition from your monthly plan. You have until 5 minutes before start to sign up or withdraw, after that the room's locked and the prize pool is fixed. Already signed up? You can still jump in and answer whatever's live even if you're running late. Confirm fair play each time before you're entered.
Paid competitions are entered through a monthly plan (see Plans) that renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time from your account page, you keep your access and any competitions left on your plan until the end of the period you've already paid for, and nothing more is charged after that. If you cancel within 14 days of first subscribing and haven't yet entered a paid competition, we refund that payment in full instead, and your access ends immediately rather than running to the end of the month. See the Terms & Conditions, clause 8, for the full wording. Your plan is paid by card and renews on the same date each month. If a renewal payment fails, we email you and try again over the next few days. A discount code shows at checkout exactly which months it covers and what you pay after that.
The prize pool is £1 from every paid entry in that competition, plus an optional guaranteed top-up we as organizers can add ourselves before the competition starts, a boosted pool is never funded by taking more from participants. How many places get paid scales with how many participants are in the room, not a fixed eleven. Under 100 entries, the top 10% of the field is paid, rounded to the nearest place (minimum one), 10 participants pays 1 place, 88 pays 9. Once a competition reaches 100 entries, the full eleven-place ladder pays out. Ties split the combined cash of the places they span, evenly. Final standings are locked and published within 60 seconds of the last question.
A paid place always requires scoring at least 1 point, a 0-point finish is never prize-eligible, even if it happens to land top of the leaderboard. If every participant in a competition scores 0, that competition's places go unclaimed and the pool isn't paid out.
Winnings land in your prize wallet balance, not straight to your bank account. From there you can either spend it on one extra competition entry outside your monthly plan, balance can never be put towards a subscription, or request a withdrawal to your own bank account once your balance reaches £1.00. We pay by international bank transfer for now, so you add your IBAN (and BIC or SWIFT code if you have it), and we cover all transfer fees. The first time you request a withdrawal you'll also be asked to verify a GB address and confirm your phone number by SMS. None of that is needed just to sign up and take part. We send withdrawals within 72 hours (excluding bank holidays) unless the account is under an active fraud review, and your bank may take a few more working days to credit it. Your balance never expires and is never forfeited for inactivity.
If you win a paid place, your display name (chosen username, or first name and last initial if you haven't set one), score and the competition date may appear on our Latest winners page and in our own marketing, see the Terms & Conditions for the full publicity clause and how to opt out.
Spotted a wrong question or answer in your competition report? Email hello@livequizarena.com within 1 hour of receiving that report and we'll review it, every competition report carries this same reminder. Report it later than that hour and we may still fix or retire the question so it doesn't come up again, but that specific competition's results are final and won't be reopened.
If we agree within the hour that a question - or its answer key - was actually wrong, we void it for the specific competition it appeared in. Voiding takes it out of scoring completely for everyone in that room: it counts as neither right nor wrong for anyone, and the competition is then scored out of one fewer question (a 30-question competition becomes 29). It doesn't change how the question was actually served or timed while the competition was live, only its contribution to your score. We'll email everyone in that competition an updated report explaining what changed, within 24 hours.
This can happen even once prizes have already been paid. If recalculating the standings without the voided question means you're owed more than you got, the difference is added to your prize wallet balance automatically. If it means you were originally paid more than you should have been, we don't take anything back from you - that's on us, not you.
Your own knowledge only. No search engines, no AI assistants, no second device, no help from another person, and no sharing answers with other participants during a live competition. You also can't: register more than one account, use a bot or script to enter competitions or answer questions, exploit a bug or platform error for advantage, scrape or reverse-engineer the question bank, or take the free quiz more than once a day (for example under another email, browser or device). Every competition is screened for a handful of signals: multiple accounts entering from the same device or network, answer timing that doesn't look human, identical answer patterns between participants, and payout details that already belong to another account. Confirmed cheating means forfeited winnings and a permanent ban. Employees, contractors and officers of SIA "CEglu2", and their immediate family or household members, aren't eligible to enter paid competitions or win a cash prize.
A paid place shared by 3 or more participants tied on exactly the same score is also held for a quick manual check before the money moves, most ties are entirely innocent (see Prizes above), this is just an extra pair of eyes on the ones big enough to be worth a look, not an accusation. A 2-way tie is common enough that it isn't held.
If a competition comes back clean, your result report, your points, your answers, everything, lands in your inbox usually within seconds of the last question. If a competition trips one of those checks, its reports are held while we look into it by hand; nothing goes out to anyone until we're satisfied, but yours isn't dropped either, it follows as soon as the review clears.
Before your first paid competition we ask once for your name, date of birth and Great Britain postcode, and for you to confirm you live in Great Britain. Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands aren't eligible for paid competitions.
If a material technical failure affects a competition, we may suspend, restart, continue, or void the affected competition where reasonably necessary to preserve fairness. Where a competition is voided, affected paid entries will be refunded.
If we void a paid competition, we will restore the affected participants, insofar as it is reasonably practicable, to the position they were in before entering, which may include refunding the entry price, restoring an amount deducted from the participant's wallet or recrediting a competition entry to the participant's subscription allowance.
We are not responsible for issues caused by your device, internet connection, mobile network, hardware, software or any third party service outside our reasonable control.
Every free quiz score counts towards three leaderboards: today, this week (Monday to Sunday) and this month, all on UK time. Points add up across the days you take part. Correct answers are shown out of every question asked in the period so far, so a missed day counts as 0. Ties go to more correct answers, then the faster average answer time. Your score is shown straight away. To see where you rank and review every answer, confirm your email with a 6 digit code. We may publish leaderboard winners and give shout outs on our website and social media. One attempt per person per day counts.
This page is a plain-English summary of how the competitions work. The Terms & Conditions are the full legal terms and take precedence if the two ever disagree.