Guess the Phrase hire · a big-screen game
A hidden phrase on the big screen, lit up one letter at a time. Teams call letters to reveal the board and race to solve the phrase before the wrong-guess lamps run out, the format everyone recognises from the telly, hosted live in your room.
Your own phrases on the board: the mission statement, the running joke, the product name everyone will spot.
How a round plays
The phrases can be famous sayings, film and TV titles, or lines pulled straight from your company, a mission statement, a running joke, the phrase everyone in the office will spot instantly.
The board shows a blanked-out phrase with its topic and a row of wrong-guess lamps.
Teams call letters in turn. Every match flips alight everywhere it appears in the phrase.
A wrong letter lights a lamp with a flash. Fill all six and the round is lost.
Any team can call the whole phrase at any moment to take the round outright.
On the big screen
Every screen on this page is my own software running live, captured at the size a projector throws. It is one of nine big-screen games in the same app, run from a phone in my hand at the microphone, with the sound, the strikes and the scores built in.
Three ways to play
Every game I run can be played three ways, and I pick the way that suits the room, the timings and the layout on the night: as a show at the front, table against table, or with every single guest playing on their own phone. Mix them across an evening and nobody spends the night watching.
As a show
Up to five teams at the front call letters in turn and race to solve the phrase before the six wrong-guess lamps fill. Anyone can call the whole phrase at any moment, which is where the brave teams win and the cautious ones watch it happen.
Best for: awards nights with a stageAt the tables
Tables call letters in rotation and every table can buzz to solve. A wrong solve costs a lamp, so the argument at each table about whether to go for it is half the entertainment. Scores by table on the leaderboard.
Best for: conference dinners and Christmas partiesOn the app
On phones the whole room types its guess at the phrase as the letters light up, and the first hundred to get it score by speed through the Play Along engine. A half-revealed company slogan with three hundred people typing is a very loud room.
Best for: whole-company nightsBuilt for the room
I customise every game for the audience in front of me: the questions, the answers, and the way I present them. The same format is a completely different show for a room of graduates in their twenties and a room of chief executives, and it should be. I write for the people who will actually be there, then I speak into the listening on the night: I read what the room is giving back and change gear to match it.
Send me the year’s stories, the in-jokes, the departments and the industry. The rounds are built from them, so the answers land in a way no off-the-shelf pack ever can.
The words on the screen are half of it. How I present them is the rest, and I pitch the pace, the teasing and the tone to the room that has turned up, not the one on the brief.
Eight hundred events across festivals, awards, conferences and dinners means I have hosted every kind of room. If the mood is not what anyone expected, I change the style on the spot, and often the questions too.
In the running order
Between courses, or as the change of pace after a knockout game.
A couple of minutes a phrase. Five phrases is a neat ten-minute block.
Pair it with What the Blank for a word-game double bill, or use one phrase as the reveal before the awards.
“A half-revealed phrase has the entire room guessing under its breath. When your own company’s phrase drops, it gets the biggest cheer of the night.”
All sixteen games
Five rounds the whole room plays on their phones, nine big-screen games with teams at the board, and two that need no screen at all: a phone on a forehead, and a coin. The screen games are all my own software, run from one screen, so I can switch format the moment the room needs a lift. Tap any game to see exactly how it plays.
Vote with the room, score for matching it
How it plays →On your phone
Three stories, one true, the room decides
How it plays →On your phone
A knockout quiz down to the last few standing
How it plays →On your phone
Play money on what happens next on stage
How it plays →On your phone
Everyone answers, the lowest scores are cut
How it plays →Big screen
Two teams, one survey board, three strikes
How it plays →Big screen
Categories, buzzers and picture rounds
How it plays →Big screen
Higher or lower on a row of giant cards
How it plays →Big screen
Fill the gap, match the room’s funniest answers
How it plays →Big screenThis pageA hidden phrase, one letter at a time
You are hereBig screen
Describe it without saying it, against the clock
How it plays →Big screen
The whole room up, hunting and mixing
How it plays →Big screen
The conveyor belt of prizes to remember
How it plays →Big screen
Rave bingo with dance breaks and forfeits
How it plays →No screen needed
Charades with a phone on your forehead, table against table
How it plays →No screen needed
One coin, the whole room on its feet, one winner
How it plays →Almost all of these can be played as a show, at the tables or on the app, and the questions are written around your company before the night. Not sure which mix suits your event? Tell me the room and I will suggest a running order.
What’s included
It builds real suspense from almost nothing, a few lit tiles and a lamp count, and it is endlessly customisable, so it doubles as a sneaky way to land a company message. It pairs well with What the Blank for a word-game double bill.
What clients say
Kevin recently hosted a company corporate event and proved to be the consummate professional throughout the evening. He has the unique ability to read a room and keep everyone happy.
Kevin hosted our staff conference event this year which was fantastic. He brought an energy and enthusiasm with him and played a really important part in getting people engaged in the day.
Thank you Kevin for hosting our Christmas party in December 2025. The team had an amazing time. We really liked the intertwining of awards and the game. Everyone had a brilliant time and Kevin was fantastic.
Good to know
Yes, company sayings, product names or in-jokes make the best rounds, alongside a bank of British sayings, film and TV titles.
Up to five teams head to head, with the whole room chipping in.
Yes, six wrong letters ends the round, which is exactly what keeps it tense.
A couple of minutes each, long enough to build the tension, short enough to keep the night moving.
Yes. Every game I run can be played three ways: as a show with teams at the front, table against table, or with every guest on their own phone through Play Along. I pick the mix that suits your room and the running order, and I often use all three in one night.
Fees are quoted individually for the date, the venue and the length of the show. Send the numbers and the running order and I will send a quote.
Enquiries
Tell me the room and I will run Guess The Phrase for your crowd. Hosted right across the UK.
