🎵 Music Bingo — Host guide
A YouTube playlist turns into bingo for the whole room: the host plays clips, guests mark numbers on their ticket and shout BINGO.
How it works
Paste a YouTube playlist link, type a song list or pick a ready-made pack.
Open the Big Screen on the TV — guests join by scanning the QR with their phones.
Hit “Next track” — guests mark numbers and shout BINGO, and with the buzzer on they race to name the track too.
Host guide
A music bingo night takes ten minutes to set up and runs for an hour. Here is the whole path from an empty room to the podium.
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✨ Create the room
Pick the “Music Bingo” card, type any nickname and hit create. The room gets a 4-character code — the TV and your guests will both need it.
Where to tap:✨ Create New Game💡 TipNo sign-up needed: a nickname is enough. An account only matters if you want to keep your own song packs. -
🎧 Get the music in
There are three ways to fill the room with tracks. YouTube playlist — paste the link and hit “Import”: artists, titles and years are parsed for you. Song list as text — one line per song, “Artist — Title (year)”, then “Build pack”. Ready-made packs — the built-in demo pack of world hits lets you start right now. And if one theme is not enough, switch to “🎛 Theme mix” and tick 2–6 packs: the platform blends them into a single game list in equal shares.
Where to tap:🎧 YouTube playlistImport📝 Song list as textBuild pack🎁 Ready-made packs💡 TipThe “🎵 Tracks: N” counter shows what you have. A 3×3 grid needs at least 9 tracks; 20 or more feels comfortable. -
🎟️ Set up tickets and rounds
“Ticket grid” sets the size from 3×3 up to 10×10, with a “Free centre ★” toggle next to it. “Clip” is how many seconds each track plays (20–30). “Rounds” is the classic “Line → Two lines → Full house”, or a single round when time is short.
Where to tap:🎟️ Ticket grid⏱ Clip🏁 Rounds⚠️ ImportantThe free tier covers 3×3 and 4×4 grids and up to 30 tracks per game. Bigger grids and unlimited tracks come with ticket 🎟 S. -
📺 Hook up the Big Screen
Press “Big Screen” to get a link and a QR code. On a TV the easy way is playparty.live/tv plus the room code — a long URL is painful on a remote. On the screen itself press “Turn on sound”: browsers only let YouTube play audio after a real tap. After that the screen stays awake on its own. Playing over a video call? Turn on “📱 Sound on guest phones” — the same clip plays on every guest’s phone (you still need the call itself for voices).
Where to tap:📺 Big Screen▶ Turn on sound💡 TipNo TV around? Run the audio from your phone instead: the console has “🔊 Sound on this device”. -
👥 Invite the guests
“Guests” opens the QR code and the room code: a guest points the camera, types a name, and the ticket is on their phone. You can also drop the link into a chat with “Link”. Need paper? “Tickets to print” opens a print page with a Save-as-PDF button.
Where to tap:👥 Guests🔗 Link🖨️ Tickets to print⚠️ ImportantThe free tier lets 5 guests into the room. More seats come with a 🎟 ticket — see the last step. -
▶ Start the game
Once people are in, hit “Start Game”. Everyone gets their own ticket, and latecomers get one mid-game — nobody has to wait.
Where to tap:Start Game -
🎶 Run the game
“Next track” plays a clip: the number lights up on the screen with a countdown. When the room has guessed it, “Reveal track” shows artist, title and year. The “Track numbers” list lets you tap a specific number and play exactly that one. With the buzzer on, guests press “🔔 I know it!” and the queue appears in your console.
Where to tap:▶ Next track🔎 Reveal trackTrack numbers💡 Tip“🙈 Hidden track” plays a 30-second preview with no video, so the title never spoils on the big screen. -
🔔 Buzzer: name that track
A guess-the-track mini-game rides on top of the bingo. In the lobby switch on “🔔 Buzzer: first to name the track” and pick what an answer is worth — +1, +3 or +5 points. From then on, while a clip is playing, guests hit “🔔 I know it!”: the queue builds in the order they pressed and you see all of it in your console — first in line shown large, with “✅ Approve” and “❌ Reject” right next to them. Give that person the floor: artist and title correct — tap “✅”, the points are theirs and the Big Screen pops up “🔔 Anna got it right +3” with the fresh leaders. Wrong — tap “❌” and the floor moves straight to the next in the queue. The queue resets on every new track and after “Reveal track”. Ticket and points are two separate scores: the buzzer never touches a BINGO claim and a BINGO never touches track points — the final table simply adds them up.
Where to tap:🔔 Buzzer: first to name the track🔔 Buzzer points✅ Approve❌ Reject💡 TipTurn the buzzer on together with “🙈 Hidden track”: otherwise the title sits right there in the player on the big screen and there is nothing left to guess. -
🔔 Check the BINGO claims
The moment a guest closes the pattern, “BINGO claims” lights up in your console. Open a claim and the whole ticket unfolds: correct marks in green, wrong ones in red — no arguments. Hit “Approve” or “Reject” and move on to the next round.
Where to tap:🔔 BINGO claims✅ Approve❌ Reject -
🏁 Wrap up
“Finish” shows the results and the winners table. From there you can deal fresh tickets to the same crowd with “New game”, or leave the room.
Where to tap:🏁 Finish🔁 New gameExit -
🎟 Tickets and limits
Free: up to 5 guests, 30 tracks, 3×3 and 4×4 grids. Ticket S — up to 20 guests, unlimited tracks, every grid and theme. Ticket M — up to 50 guests plus all the paid official packs. Ticket L — a full room of 150. Buy them from the home page in “Shop”, tab “🎵 HitLoto & Karaoke”, or straight from the room with “Buy a ticket”.
Where to tap:🛒 Shop🎵 HitLoto & Karaoke🎟 Buy a ticket⚠️ ImportantA ticket covers a night in one room — music bingo and karaoke — and is spent when the room closes (12 h max). HitLoto is paid separately from the site subscription.
Guest guide
Nothing to install — it all happens in your phone browser.
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📱 Join
Point your camera at the QR on the big screen and the game opens itself. Or go to playparty.live and type the 4-character room code.
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✍️ Type your name
Any name, no registration. Hit “Join →” and you are in the room.
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🎟️ Get your ticket
When the game starts, “Ticket #N” appears — a grid of track numbers. Before that you see “Your ticket arrives when the game starts”.
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🎵 Mark the numbers
A clip plays and its number lights up on the screen. Got that number on your ticket? Tap the cell. Tapped the wrong one — “↩ Undo”.
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🔔 Know the track? Buzz!
If the host turned the buzzer on, a “🔔 I know it!” button shows up under your ticket. Recognised the song? Be the first to press it: you join the queue and see what place you got. The host gives the floor to whoever is first — say the artist and the title out loud. Right: the host approves, the points (+1, +3 or +5, whatever was set) are yours and your name flies onto the TV among the leaders. Wrong: the floor moves to the next person and nothing happens to your ticket.
Where to tap:🔔 I know it!💡 TipThe buzzer and BINGO run in parallel: track points pile up on the leaderboard while the ticket is still closed with marks. -
🎉 Shout BINGO
Closed a line (or the whole ticket — watch the “To the pattern” hint)? Hit “BINGO!” and the host will check your ticket. If the buzzer is on, you can also be first to name the track with “🔔 I know it!”.
Where to tap:BINGO!🔔 I know it! -
🔌 If you lose connection
Just reload the page: your ticket and every mark come back and you are in the room again. The ticket is tied to your phone — nobody else can take it.
Common problems
No sound on the TV
Press “Turn on sound” on the Big Screen itself: browsers refuse to let YouTube play audio without a human tap. If the console says “Big Screen not connected”, re-check the room code on playparty.live/tv. You can move the audio to your phone at any time with the “Sound: on this device” switch.
A clip is unavailable or won't play
Some YouTube videos are blocked from embedding — those tracks are flagged “unavailable” already in the list. Hit “Reveal track” and name the song yourself, or switch on “🙈 Hidden track”: it plays a 30-second preview instead of YouTube.
A guest can't get in
Make sure they type the 4-character room code, not the code shown on the TV. If they see “Room is full”, you hit the seat limit: it's 5 for free, and tickets 🎟 S/M/L raise it to 20/50/150. The easiest way to share the invite is the “🔗 Link” button.
“Not enough tracks for this grid”
An N×N grid needs at least N×N tracks. Import another playlist, paste more lines as text — or pick a smaller grid.
A guest reloaded and lost their marks
They didn't: the ticket is bound to the device and comes back with every mark after a reload. Same browser, same phone is all it takes.
What is the buzzer and how do I turn it on?
It is a mini-game on top of the bingo: while a clip plays, guests press “🔔 I know it!”, you give the floor to the first in the queue and hit “✅ Approve” or “❌ Reject”. Switch it on in the lobby with the “🔔 Buzzer” toggle; right next to it you pick what a correct answer is worth (+1, +3, +5). Turn it on together with “🙈 Hidden track” — otherwise the title is visible in the player. It does not affect BINGO: the final table simply adds track points to the ticket points.
A room takes 10 seconds — no install, no sign-up
🔗 About the game: HitLoto music bingo · Guides: Karaoke Party
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