What are the games and the Arcade Room?

The games are interactive blocks built automatically from your own show. They give visitors a reason to stay, come back, and dig into your back catalog, because every game is drawn from your episodes and transcripts and links back to the real episode. There are four games, plus a hub called the Arcade Room that gathers them in one place.

The Monthly Quiz is a short set of questions drawn from what was said across your episodes, played right on the page with answers and explanations after each one. A new quiz arrives every month, written mostly from that month's episodes and skipping the ones the last few quizzes already asked about, so it is a gentle reason for people to check back and it does not keep circling the same episodes.

Guess the Episode is a daily game: one of your episode thumbnails appears heavily blurred and sharpens a little with each wrong guess. Naming it in fewer guesses scores more points (300, then 200, then 100). Everyone gets the same puzzle each day and a new one arrives at midnight, so there is a reason to come back tomorrow.

Who Said It? is endless: a real line from one of your transcripts appears and the player guesses which episode it came from. Right answers build a streak, one miss ends the run, and the best streak is saved. Every reveal links to the exact moment in the episode.

Higher or Lower is an endless timeline game: one episode shows its release date, a mystery episode hides its own, and the player calls whether it came out before or after. A right call keeps the streak going; one wrong call ends the run.

The Arcade Room is the hub. It shows an optional scoreboard on top (day streak and high scores, which you can turn off with the Show Scoreboard option) plus a grid of all four games. Visitors open one at a time, so the page stays short, and Columns sets how many game fronts sit per row. Drop the Arcade Room on a page to offer everything at once, or add any single game on its own.

Every game and the whole Arcade Room come in two looks, set by the Style option: Classic (the default) is a calm, clean card that matches your site's theme colors, and Arcade is a retro neon cabinet with a glowing marquee and press start. The game plays the same either way, so pick whichever fits your site.

The games run on your Podspun data, so connect a channel and publish your site. On an unpublished preview each game shows a short "coming soon" placeholder until Podspun has pulled in your episodes and transcripts. Add any of them with Add block in the page editor, under the Podspun Dataweaver Integration section.

Where each one lives. The Monthly Quiz belongs to a show, because its questions are about that show. Guess the Episode, Who Said It and Higher or Lower belong to a website: each website gets one pool per game covering every show on it, so a website with six shows has three pools rather than eighteen. Set a game block to a single show and it plays that show's part of the pool. The pools are only built for a website that has one of these games on a page, so nothing is generated for a game you have not used yet. Everything is listed and editable in Quizzes & Games.