Guessroo Stream Mode: How to Play a Guessing Game With Your Chat

Stream mode at a glance

Stream mode is a play-along version of Guessroo's five daily guessing games, built for Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, TikTok Live and Discord streams, as well as classrooms, office calls and big family gatherings. The streamer (or host) opens a room, shares one link, and plays on screen while the audience plays on their own phones and computers.

What you need

• A browser on the device you stream from. Most streamers use a computer and capture the browser window or tab in OBS Studio or Streamlabs. A phone works too, for mobile streams.
• A chat. Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok Live, Discord, a Zoom or Google Meet chat, or simply a TV screen in a living room where people read the link.
• Viewers with a phone or computer. They open the link in any browser. Nothing to install and no account.

How to start a Stream mode room, step by step

These screenshots come from a real room in Weighroo, the weight guessing game. The streamer, Zippy Galah 84, played on a laptop; one viewer, Witty Numbat 70, played on a phone; 14 more players filled the board.

Step 1: Open the menu and choose Stream mode

On guessroo.com or in any game, tap the menu button (☰) at the top right, then Stream mode. Pick the game for your first match: Sizeroo, Farroo, Weighroo, Speedroo or Yearroo.

Step 2: Put the short link in your chat

Your room opens with a box at the top: Put this in your chat: guessroo.com/p/CODE, with a Copy button. Paste it in chat and, if you can, pin it or add it to a chat command so latecomers find it. The link shows a preview that invites people to play live with your stream.

Step 3: Viewers open the link and play along

Everyone who opens the link lands in your room on the current match. Their bar shows the match number, their own score and place (for example "You 158 · #15 of 16") and the streamer against the chat. Each viewer answers at their own pace: there is no waiting for the slowest player, which keeps a big chat moving.

Step 4: Play on screen while the board fills up

Play your 5 questions on stream like a normal game, and talk your guesses through: chat loves to argue about whether a whale shark weighs 2 tons or 20. Your screen refreshes about every 4 seconds and your viewers' every 8 seconds, so the board stays close to live without anyone pressing anything.

Step 5: Show the live leaderboard

When you finish, the Live leaderboard shows how many people are playing, your score against the chat's average, how many viewers you beat, and the top 10 with each finished player's time. Your own row is outlined and marked 📺. Viewers who finish see the same board, with their own row highlighted.

Step 6: Start the next match

Only the streamer can start the next match. Tap Start match 2: 5 new questions, or pick another game under Or switch game. Everyone who has finished is moved to the new match automatically. Anyone still answering gets a note, "The streamer started match 2", and can join right away or finish their match first.

The official rules

1. One host, many players. The person who opens the room is the streamer. Up to 3,000 players can join the room with its link.
2. Five questions per match. Everyone in the room gets the same 5 questions in the same order, picked at random for the room from the game's 600 questions.
3. Own pace. Each player answers when they are ready. Nobody waits for anyone else.
4. Up to 100 points per question. The closer the guess, the more points, with the same scoring as the daily games (see below). A perfect match is 500.
5. The board ranks by points, then progress, then time. More points first; on equal points, the player who has answered more questions; then the faster total time over the questions answered. Players equal on all three share a place.
6. Time is a tie-break only. Each question's clock runs from when it appears until the player locks in, capped at 10 minutes. Time never changes a score.
7. Streamer vs chat. The chat average counts only viewers who finished all 5 questions. "You beat 10 of 13" counts the finished viewers who scored fewer points than the streamer.
8. The streamer runs the room. Only the streamer starts the next match and chooses its game. Finished players follow automatically; players mid-match can finish first.
9. Friendly play. Stream matches never count toward anyone's streak, statistics or the daily leaderboard.
10. Rooms last two days. A room closes two days after the last answer, so you can reuse the link for a stream the next day.
11. No typed names. Everyone gets a random animal name, so there is nothing to moderate.

How points work

Every question rewards how close you get. For sizes, weights and speeds, the score depends on how many times too big or too small the guess is, so a guess 3 times off loses about half the points, whatever the units.

A sample stream: the streamer against 15 players

Here is match 1 from the screenshots: the streamer and the top viewer, question by question. Guesses are rounded; the points are what the game gave.

The streamer was the fastest player in the room but finished 4th: speed only matters when points are level. That happened just above, where Sharp Cockatoo 63 and Happy Wombat 69 both scored 424. Sharp Cockatoo 63 took 0:54 and Happy Wombat 69 took 1:14, so Sharp Cockatoo 63 ranks 2nd.

Who Stream mode is for

Twitch, YouTube, Kick and TikTok streamers

Stream mode is an easy interactive stream game: no bot to install, no extension for viewers, and it works on any platform with a chat. It suits Just Chatting segments, a warm-up before the main game, a break between rounds or an end-of-stream closer. Five questions take about a minute, so you can run 3 to 10 matches in a segment, and the "streamer vs chat" line gives you a running storyline: can chat beat you?

Discord servers and community nights

Share your screen in a voice channel, post the link in the text channel, and the whole server plays at once. Rotate games each match and keep score of who tops the board most often.

Classrooms

Teachers can run it on a projector or smartboard while students play on school Chromebooks, tablets or phones. Every question is an estimation exercise in orders of magnitude, there are no accounts or student emails to collect, and the animal names keep it anonymous. After each match, open an answer page to discuss the real number.

Family gatherings and holiday parties

At Thanksgiving, Christmas or a New Year's Eve party, put the room on the TV and let everyone play on their own phone, from grandkids to grandparents. It works as a family trivia game for big groups because nobody needs to know the exact answer, and a close guess from a 10-year-old can beat an adult.

Office parties and team meetings

On Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, share your screen and drop the link in the meeting chat. One or two matches make a five-minute icebreaker for a team meeting or a remote office party.

Bars, clubs and events

Run a number-guessing round at a trivia night or club meeting: the host plays on the big screen and the room plays along on their phones.

Only two of you?

For a head-to-head game with one friend, where you play each question together and see each other's answers live, use 1 vs 1 live instead.

Tips for streamers

1. Make the link easy to find. Pin the guessroo.com/p/ link, add it to a chat command such as !play, and put it in an on-screen text box for viewers who watch on TV.
2. Capture the browser at a large size. On a laptop, the room box, the question and the slider fit side by side, which reads well on stream.
3. Give chat a head start. Read the question out, then wait a few seconds before you lock in, so viewers who joined late can catch up on the same question.
4. Leave the board up. After your fifth answer, keep the leaderboard on screen for 20 to 30 seconds while late finishers come in, then start the next match.
5. Switch games. Rotate Weighroo, Sizeroo, Speedroo, Farroo and Yearroo so different viewers get their moment.
6. Shout out the top three. The animal names are funny to read out, and players who make the top 10 tend to stay for the next match.

Problems and fixes

Stream mode and the other ways to play