Host guide: video game

1. 1

   Prepare your scorecards

   Print the scorecards. Each A4 sheet holds two A5 cards, so cut them down the middle. Hand out one per player or pair, with a pen or marker. Print a few spares for latecomers.

2. 2

   Get set up

   Download your game pack from the customer portal: four quick fire games as video files, plus the scorecards, the call list and the answer key. Print the call list and answer key and keep them within reach. Connect the laptop to your speakers and TVs, and test the sound at playing volume before the doors open.

3. 3

   Welcome the room

   Explain the game in under a minute. Say what the prizes are and what your phone rule is. Here's a welcome you can borrow.

4. 4

   Name the way to win and press play

   Before each game, tell the room the winning pattern, like 1 line or the X, and whether you're playing on to Blackout. Then press play and sing along. It's half the fun.

   Play the games one at a time, in order. Use play and pause on your laptop to run each game.

5. 5

   When someone calls BINGO!

   Pause the game. Check their card number on the answer key (here's how) and read their song titles out on the microphone, so the whole room is in on it. If the card checks out, award the prize. Then end the game there, or resume and play on to Blackout.

6. 6

   Break between games

   Give people time to order food and drinks, and run a crowd game. Start the next quick fire game when everyone is set. Before the first game, between games and after the show, keep music playing: a silent room loses its energy fast.

Customers: the full Quick Fire host guide, with prize ideas and 35 crowd game prompts, is in your customer portal, ready to print.