Everyone answers first. Then you turn the cards over.
Ask the room a question and watch nothing happen. Every answer lands face down on the big screen and stays there until you flip it — one at a time for the slow reveal, or all at once. Nobody's answer gets to set the tone for everybody else's.
Most likely to reply at midnight?
3 answered, 0 revealed
How it works
- 01
Ask, and let the room answer in silence
The question goes up and the answers do not. The screen shows a count of how many have arrived and nothing else, and no other participant can read an answer before you reveal it. You can, on your own device, so you can drop something before it reaches the wall.
- 02
Turn the cards over
Flip them one at a time when you want the room to react to each one, or all at once when you want the shape of the whole answer in a single beat.
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Names on, or names off
Run it named and every card says who wrote it. Run it anonymous and no name is stored against an answer anywhere — not in the session, not in the report.
Why the silence before the reveal is the whole activity
Ask a question out loud and the first confident answer becomes the frame every later answer sits inside. The second person adjusts to the first, the third adjusts to both, and by the fifth you are no longer collecting opinions — you are collecting agreement with the person who happened to be quickest. In a hierarchy it is worse, because the quickest person is usually the one everyone is watching.
Holding every answer until they are all in costs you nothing and changes what you get back. The same room, the same question, thirty seconds later: answers that disagree with each other, because none of them knew what the others were going to say.
Then the reveal gives you the second half, which is the part a written survey never has. Turning cards over one at a time in front of everyone is a small piece of theatre, and the room reacts to each one — which is exactly what you want at the start of an all-hands, in the last five minutes of a lesson, or on the retro question nobody wants to answer first.
FAQ
Reveal, explained
What is a reveal poll?
An open question where every answer is collected before any answer is seen. Everyone types into their phone, nothing appears on the big screen, and then you turn the cards over — one by one, or all at once. It is the difference between asking a room what it thinks and asking a room to agree with whoever spoke first.
Can I run a most-likely-to round with it?
That is the round it was built for. Ask “most likely to reply at midnight” or “most likely to still be talking after the meeting ends”, everyone answers at once with nobody able to see who is being named, and then you reveal one card at a time and let the room react. Turn attribution on if you want each card to say who wrote it.
Does it work for never-have-I-ever style questions?
Yes, and anonymously is the way to run it. Set it to anonymous, ask everyone for the thing they have never done, and reveal the answers as a set. No name is attached to an anonymous answer, and none is shown to the room, on the screen or in the report afterwards.
Can one person submit more than one answer?
Yes. You set how many answers each person may send, so “give me one word” and “give me your three biggest risks for next quarter” are the same activity with a different number in it.
Is the anonymous mode actually anonymous?
On an anonymous poll no name is ever stored against an answer, so there is nothing to leak afterwards — the report shows the answers and cannot show the authors, because it never had them.
How do I know when everyone has finished?
The big screen counts the answers as they arrive, and that count is the only thing it will tell you before the reveal. It is enough to know when to stop waiting and it gives away nothing about what anybody said.
Do participants need an app or an account?
No. They scan a QR code or open a link and answer in their phone's browser. Nothing to install and no sign-up.
How many people can join?
The Free plan supports up to 50 participants per live activity, Pro raises that to 150, and Badass supports up to 300 — enough for a full classroom or an all-hands.
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