Custom Scoreboard
Build the board you need - trivia, fundraiser, esports, church games, classroom - and put it on the big screen by link.
How to use
- Step 1Open “Build your board”: give it a title, name the teams — one to six of them — and pick a color for each.
- Step 2Write your own score buttons: a label and how many points it adds, up to six of them, negative numbers included. Add a count-down or count-up timer and a round counter if the format needs one.
- Step 3Press Display for full screen on the TV, or share the view link and open that on the projector laptop. You keep scoring from your phone; the screen follows.
What people build with it
The board has no sport in it, so the settings are the whole tool. These five are the setups this page was designed around; all of them are a minute of typing.
| What you are running | On the board | Buttons | Timer and rounds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trivia night | One entry per table, up to six | +10, +20, −5 for a wrong answer | Count down 1 min per question, rounds called “Round” |
| Fundraiser or pledge drive | Two or three rooms or classes, rows layout | +25, +100, +500 | No timer, no rounds |
| Esports or console match | Two teams, columns layout | +1 | Rounds called “Map” |
| Church or youth group games | Four teams, rows layout | +5, +10, +25 | Count up, so you can see how long a game ran |
| Classroom competition | One entry per table group | +1, +5, −1 | Count down 5 min, rounds called “Question” |
Getting it onto a TV or a projector
- The simplest setup: share the board, open the view link in the TV's own browser or on a laptop plugged into the HDMI port, and press the full-screen button. The view link is read-only, so nobody can change the score by touching the screen.
- Keep the controls on your phone. The edit link is a separate page; scoring there updates the TV in about as long as the network takes.
- The display keeps the screen awake while it is open, where the browser supports it. Turn the TV's own screensaver off as well — that one is out of a web page's reach.
- Columns suit two or three entries: the numbers get the full height of the screen. Switch to rows at four or more, where a list reads better than six narrow columns.
- Hide what you are not using. The title, the round counter and the crown each take space; without them the scores grow to fill it.
- Check it from the back of the room before people arrive, not from the laptop. If it is hard to read, remove an entry, shorten the names or switch the layout.
Custom board or a scoreboard made for the sport
A sport page on this site knows the sport: basketball has quarters, team fouls and a 24-second shot clock; hockey has penalty timers that run with the game clock; volleyball knows that a set ends at 25 and has to be won by two. None of that can be typed into a custom board, and you would not want to.
This page is the opposite trade. It knows nothing, so it takes any word and any number: a “+25” button, an entry called “Room 4”, a round called “Map”. Use it when nothing on the site matches what you are running, when the categories are yours, or when you simply need something big and legible on a screen.
If your game does have a rule book, start from the sports scorekeeper page or the page for your sport — the clock and the counters are already right there.
Questions and answers
How many teams can the board hold?
Six. That is a limit of the screen rather than the code: past six entries the numbers are too small to read across a room. If you need more, run two boards, or use the score spreadsheet page, which is built as a list.
Can a button take points away?
Yes. Type a negative number in the points field — “−5” for a wrong answer, “−1” for a penalty — and the button subtracts. Scores can go below zero.
Can I use it as just a big timer?
Yes. Set the timer to count down, switch the title off and keep one entry: you get a full-screen clock with a horn at zero. The count-up setting is for the other case, when you want to know how long something has been running.
Can two of us score at the same time?
Anyone with the edit link can score, from as many devices as you like, and every viewer sees the result. If two people tap at the same moment the board keeps whichever change arrived last, so it is still worth agreeing who is in charge of the score.
Does the horn work on a phone?
It needs one tap on the page first — browsers do not let a page make noise before you have touched it. Press Start once and the horn works for the rest of the session. You can switch it off in the settings; it only ever sounds on the device you are scoring from, never on the TV.