Why this beats every store-bought party game
A trivia deck knows nothing about the time Dana missed her own flight to Rome or that she orders the same dish at every restaurant. A quiz about the person is instantly funnier than any generic game because every question comes with a story, and the person the stories are about is sitting right there, correcting the details. Guests play on their own phones, so it works for eight people around a table or forty in a rented hall.
Step one: collect the material
You do not need to write questions. You need to write what you know, as plain notes. Ten minutes of typing, or a group chat with three friends, usually produces more than enough:
- Favorites. Foods, songs, artists, shows, the coffee order, the team they suffer for.
- Habits and quirks. What they always say, always lose, never arrive on time to.
- Big moments. First job, the wedding story, the legendary vacation disaster, childhood nicknames.
- Numbers. Years in their city, number of siblings, age they got their driver's license.
Step two: one prompt, whole quiz
Paste your notes into Sheelon's AI quiz generator as one free-form prompt, with a line of instructions on top. A real example:
Example prompt for Maya's 30th
"Make a fun 12-question party quiz about Maya for her 30th birthday. Mix multiple choice and true/false. Keep it warm, not embarrassing. Facts: her go-to karaoke song is Dancing Queen; she has eaten shakshuka for breakfast almost every day since 2019; she once got locked out on her own balcony for four hours; her first pet was a goldfish named Steve; she has lived in three cities: Haifa, Berlin, and Tel Aviv; she cries at every airport reunion video."
The AI turns each fact into a question with plausible wrong answers, which is the part that takes forever to write by hand. Guests who know her will laugh at the distractors; guests who guess will learn who Steve was.
Step three: edit, then add their photos
Read the draft and cut anything the birthday person would not enjoy hearing read aloud; the goal is roasted lightly, celebrated fully. Then attach photos to questions straight from Google Photos: connect it once from the question editor, pick the pictures, done. A question like "Where was this taken?" over a blurry 2014 photo is reliably the loudest moment of the game.
Write the prompt
Paste your collected facts with a short instruction line, like the Maya example above, and generate.
Review and edit
Reword, delete, and reorder freely. Save the embarrassing-but-loving question for last.
Add photos from Google Photos
In the question editor, choose Google Photos, connect your account once, and attach a photo to any question.
Host it at the party
Click Host Game and put the 6-digit PIN on the TV. Guests join at sheelon.me/join on their phones, pick nicknames, and the leaderboard does the rest.
Party-tested tips
- 12 to 15 questions is the sweet spot: long enough for drama, short enough to finish before the cake.
- Let the birthday person play too. Watching them get a question about themselves wrong is the content the group chat needs.
- Mix difficulty. A few gimmes everyone gets, a few only the childhood friend knows.
- Do a sound check. Cast the host screen to the TV before guests arrive, not during.
Can guests join on their phones?
Does it cost anything?
Can I keep the quiz private?
What if some guests do not speak English?
Can we play in teams?
Their life, in quiz form
Write what you know about them, let AI make it a game, and add the photos. Free for up to 50 players.
Make the birthday quizFree plan, no credit card. Guests join with a PIN, no accounts.