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Hen party quiz: 7 rounds about the bride, played on a TV with phones
A rented cottage in the Peak District, Saturday, half past six. Fourteen women in matching sashes, a TV bolted slightly too high above the wood burner, and a laptop balanced on the ironing board because it was the only flat surface near the socket. On screen, the groom, filmed in his car at lunchtime last Tuesday, is answering the question "What's her worst habit?" The bride has her hands over her face. Her mum is crying with laughter.
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Most hen dos I get asked about aren't run by a professional host. They're run by a maid of honor with a spreadsheet, a group chat of twenty people and a lot of pressure to make the Saturday night feel like something. A quiz about the bride is the easiest win you can plan: everyone has something to contribute, and you can build it from your sofa over a few evenings.
On PULTEVENT you run it from a laptop plugged into the TV. The hens scan a QR code and answer on their own phones, no app to download, and the scores go up on screen. Their phones need internet, which in a country cottage is worth checking before you book the menu. The quiz itself you write in the quiz builder, in plain English, about one person.
7 rounds for a hen do, from warm-up to the tearjerker
1 How well do you know the bride
Her first job, her go-to karaoke song, the name of the childhood hamster, the drink she orders when she's pretending to be sensible. Four answers each.
How to run it. Collect facts from her mum and sister as well as from friends. They know the things friends don't.
It gets every hen tapping in the first two minutes, including the ones who only know her from work.
2 The Mr and Mrs round, on video
You ask the bride a question about the groom, she answers, then you play his filmed answer to the same question. Match or no match.
How to run it. Send the groom the questions a fortnight out and ask for one short clip per answer, filmed landscape in a quiet room. Name each file with the question number.
His face on the big screen does more than any printed answer card, and the bride's reaction is the photo of the weekend.
3 Which baby is the bride
Childhood photos of the bride mixed with photos of three or four hens. The room guesses who's who, you reveal the names one click at a time.
How to run it. Ask the hens privately for their photos and don't post anything in the group chat, or the round is over before it starts.
A few soft minutes between the louder rounds, and everybody gets to be a bit famous.
4 Fake karaoke
The bride, or a volunteer who will definitely laugh about it, sings along to a backing track. Without telling her, the program records her voice, and afterwards you play it back through the speakers with no music under it.
How to run it. Pick someone who loves being the center of attention. Never spring it on a hen who hates singing in public.
Hearing your own voice solo is funny to nearly everyone. It's the round people describe the next morning.
5 Most likely to
The hens vote from their phones: most likely to lose a shoe tonight, to cry at the ceremony, to text the groom something she regrets. Bars grow on the TV, the winner is shown when you close the vote.
How to run it. Keep it anonymous. You'll get truer answers and fewer sulks.
It shifts the spotlight from the bride to the whole group for a few minutes, which the bride usually welcomes.
6 The friend-group podium
If school, uni and work friends have been playing as teams, the scoreboard ends with an awards ceremony: special awards first, then third, second and the winners with confetti on screen.
How to run it. Rename the special awards after hens' in-jokes. The ones the bride would recognize work best.
It closes the quiz properly, so the night can move on to dinner or the taxi into town.
7 Messages from the ones who couldn't come
A best friend in Sydney, a pregnant cousin who stayed home, a grandmother who'd rather not do the cottage stairs. Their short clips play on the TV, one after another.
How to run it. Ask for thirty seconds each. Play them last, before the prosecco toast, not in the middle of a loud round.
Everyone the bride loves ends up in the room, even the ones who couldn't travel.
The groom answers on video
Film his answers in advance. On the night you play each clip right after the bride gives her answer.
Everyone answers from her phone
No pens, no scraps of paper under the sofa. Scores appear on the TV as you go.
Friend groups as teams
School friends, uni friends, work friends. Each group plays as a team and the scoreboard keeps count.
Built on a laptop and a TV
An HDMI cable and a living room are all the stage you need.
Before you book the cottage
Check the listing for a TV, and ask the owner whether it has a free HDMI port you can reach. Bring your own cable, three meters at least. Many holiday lets hide the TV inside a cabinet or bolt it to the wall above the fire, so a long cable saves you from standing on a chair.
Then ask about the Wi-Fi. The hens' phones need internet to answer, and rural lets are famous for one bar of signal and a router in the attic. If the connection is weak, you can still play the video rounds and the baby photos from the laptop and have everyone shout their answers.
Getting the groom on camera
Send him ten questions, not twenty. He'll film them in one go on his lunch break, and that's fine. Ask for landscape, a quiet room and one clip per answer, and tell him to say the question out loud before he answers so the clip makes sense on its own.
Watch every clip before the weekend. Occasionally a groom gets carried away. You're the one who decides what the bride's mum sees.
When the mums are there too
Plenty of hen dos have a mixed crowd: school friends, the bride's mum, the groom's sister, an aunt. Write the quiz for the most conservative person in the room, and save the wild questions for the later part of the night after the mums have gone to bed.
"Is that one alright for Sandra?"
"Sandra suggested it."
If it's a bachelorette in the US
Same quiz, different vocabulary. The Mr and Mrs round is usually called the newlywed game, and the friend groups might be sorority sisters instead of uni friends. The mechanics don't change: a TV, a laptop, phones in hand.
Where it fits in the weekend
The best slot is early evening on the Saturday: after the afternoon activity, before dinner or before heading out. People are awake, nobody has lost their phone yet, and the quiz sets up in-jokes for the rest of the night. Allow forty-five minutes for all seven rounds, or pick four for a shorter version.
If half the group can't make the weekend, share the stage window in a video call. They see the TV screen and can answer from their own phones through the QR code.
Testing it at home first
The free 3-day demo needs no card, which is enough to build the quiz, load the groom's clips and run it once on your own TV. After that the full version is a one-time license with no subscription. The price is on pultevent.ru/en.
About the author
PULTEVENT was built by Ruslan Barashkin, who has hosted weddings, birthdays and office parties since 2014: over 500 events, best host of Moscow 2024 and of Saint Petersburg 2023 at the TOP 100 Awards. He made it for his own nights first. The rest is at pultevent.ru/en.
How to run a hen party quiz on the TV
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Two weeks out, send the groom his questions and ask absent friends for short video messages.
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Collect bride facts from her family and friends, and baby photos privately from the hens.
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Build the quiz rounds and load the clips and photos into the laptop.
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At the cottage, connect the laptop to the TV and check the Wi-Fi on a phone.
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Split the hens into friend-group teams and put the QR code on screen.
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Play the rounds, finish on the podium, then the messages from absent friends.
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