September was the busiest month Neegma has had. Two new games joined the library, hosting from a single screen opened to everyone, and partners started getting paid automatically. Here's everything that shipped, and one thing from August we should have told you about sooner.
Two new games about how the room thinks
Telepathy
In Telepathy, everyone answers the same prompt in secret, and the aim is to write what most of the room will write. The biggest matching group takes the points. It's one of the gentlest icebreakers we have, because nobody has to share anything personal. Read the Telepathy announcement, or our guide to games like Herd Mentality with 30 prompts to try.
Concentration
Concentration is Telepathy turned inside out. Same prompt, same secret answers, but now the rarer your answer, the more you score. Every group of matching answers shares 1000 points, so a unique answer takes the lot. Play the two back to back and watch the room change its mind. There's more in the Concentration announcement and our post on games like Pointless.
Host from one screen, with no player phones
One-host sessions for every host
One-host sessions are now open to everyone. Choose One host when you create a session and the whole game show runs from your screen: no join link, no player phones, and only your device needs a connection. Set a headcount of up to 10 players or 2 to 5 teams, switch Track scores on or off, and tap what happened as the room plays out loud. Eleven games work this way, and templates do too. See the One-host sessions page or our guide to party games without phones.
Hot Seat pacing
In a One-host session, Odd One Out, Missing Letter and Unscramble now play Hot Seat. Each question goes to one player or team in turn. You start the clock, reveal the answer and tap Got It or Missed. A right answer is worth 1000 points, and with Track scores on, the leaderboard shows between rounds. It's fairer than shouting, and much more dramatic on a big screen.
Loop a question set
Sometimes you just want the questions on screen. In a One-host session, Trivia cycles through your own set until you end it, ready for a read-aloud pub quiz or a revision round on the classroom board. Missing Letter, Odd One Out and Unscramble can do the same with a custom set: turn on Skip adding players and it loops with no scores to keep.
Better hosting, round by round
- Preview a prompt, or skip it. Telepathy, Who Said It and Concentration now wait for you at the start of every round. With a question set, you see the prompt first and nothing reaches the room until you tap Share the prompt. Don't like it? Skip it, and a spare from your set takes its place.
- Bonus Round is a setting. The steal in Song Association and Word Art now has a name and a switch. With it on, a missed turn gives the next team five seconds to steal for 500 points. Turn it off for straight turn-by-turn play.
- Create with AI for Who Said It. Who Said It now works with AI generation in the Playground. Describe your group, preview the questions, and keep the ones that fit.
- Sub-Words scores against the room. In Sub-Words, whoever finds the most in a round, with longer words counting for more, takes the 1000 points, and everyone else scores in proportion.
- A beat before the next question. Auto Next now plays a short 3, 2, 1 on the host screen and every phone before the next round, and it now covers Crack the Code, Two Truths and a Lie, and Find the Mole too.
Plan ahead for your event
Schedule a session
Choose Schedule for later when you create a session, pick a date and time, and share the link or a printable poster with its QR code before the day. Guests who scan early see a countdown, and the doors open 30 minutes before the start. You can still start early whenever you're ready. A scheduled One-host session gets a poster too, just without the QR code, since nobody needs to join.
The Event Playbook
The new Event Playbook walks through running Neegma at an event from start to finish: creating the session, choosing Live or One host, scheduling, sharing the poster, and the small things that keep a room playing. There's an event-day checklist at the end, and it now opens with a short walkthrough film if you'd rather watch than read. It sits alongside new pages explaining Live sessions and One-host sessions side by side.
Find games by how you host
The games page now has All games, One-host session games and Live session games filters, so you can see at a glance which games run from a single screen and which need player phones. The One-host filter is a quick way to plan a phone-free night.
For partners: paid every Monday
- Connect Stripe. Approved partners can now connect a Stripe account from their partner dashboard, with Stripe's own onboarding and a status card that shows when you're ready to be paid. Partners in the UK, the US, Canada, Switzerland and most of the EEA can connect.
- Automatic weekly payouts. Every Monday, template earnings that have cleared a short refund-protection hold are paid straight to your Stripe account, with an email when each payout goes out. No Withdraw button, nothing to request.
- Priced for UK and US buyers. Templates now show in pounds for UK buyers and US dollars everywhere else. Your earnings are recorded and paid out in the currency the buyer paid, never converted.
- A marketplace for storefronts. The Partners page is now a marketplace where buyers can browse every storefront and buy a session in a few taps.
The full story is in Sell quizzes online: Neegma partners now get paid every week.
Prices in pounds or dollars
Neegma now shows prices in pounds in the UK and US dollars everywhere else, and checkout charges exactly what you saw. The Party Pass starts at £7.99 ($10.99) for 50 guests and 24 hours, and Pro is £18.99 ($25.99) a month. See yours on the pricing page.
One we missed in August: Letter boxes for Trivia
We shipped this in August and never gave it a proper mention. In Trivia's settings, choose Letter boxes for typed answers and players get one box per letter or digit, with spaces and punctuation already in place. "Home Alone" shows up as four boxes, a gap and five more. It shows the shape of the answer without giving it away, and it cuts down on spelling arguments. Choice questions keep their options, answers longer than 18 boxes keep the usual text box, and every answer is still checked against the one you saved.
It's a small change that makes a quiz night run a lot smoother. Our new guide to hosting a quiz night shows where it fits.
What's next
Every update, big and small, lives on the releases page. If there's something you'd like us to build next, tell us on the feedback page.