Booth engagement ideas that fill the stall and the sheet

A live scoreboard for HITEX day three with five ranked players and a 'Top ten by 5 pm wins' badge. — A prize rule on the board gives the 90 seconds a reason, and brings the morning's players back.

Booth engagement ideas that survive day three

A leaderboard on the stall TV. Movement on a screen is what makes people slow down in an aisle. A board that reacts to every answer, not just at the end, always has something changing on it, and a visitor who has just played stands there to watch their name climb. It runs on any TV, laptop or tablet with a browser and keeps itself awake.
A prize draw at a fixed time. Announce a draw at 1 pm and 5 pm. Everyone who finishes the quiz is in it, the draw skips people who have already won, and the winner's name pops on the board for 90 seconds so the whole row sees it. That brings the morning's players back in the afternoon.
A top-ten prize. The leaderboard gives you a fair #1 at the end of the day: highest score, then the faster finisher, then the earlier one. Hand the prize over at the stall and take the photo; a read-only results page with a Share button is ready for the LinkedIn post.
A question the visitor wants answered. The explanation after each question is your soft pitch. Fictional example: Lumeric Payments asks which settlement window most UPI merchants get, then explains its own in one line. Eight of those and the visitor has read your brochure without being handed one.
Hindi on the phone. At a show with distributors and dealers on the floor, the Hindi player screens double the number of people who will scan.

The 90-second rule

A visitor in an aisle at BEC Mumbai or Pragati Maidan will give a stall about as long as it takes to decide whether to walk in. A quiz that takes ten minutes is a seminar, and people skip seminars. Five to eight timed questions, a short explanation after each, a score and a live rank: about 90 seconds, then they look up at the TV. Short plays also mean the board changes constantly, which is what draws the next person.

Set the per-question timer and the reveal time in the event settings, and draw a fixed number of questions from a larger pool if you want repeat visitors to see different ones.

Staffing: one person can run it, and often nobody has to

The activity that needs a host stops when the host is busy, and at a good show everyone is busy. A self-paced QR quiz needs nobody. The QR and the event code stay on the board so a visitor can start without asking. Registration is the first screen; consent is ticked there; the score and time land in your dashboard on their own.

What one person should do, when free: point at the board, say "top ten by five o'clock wins", and open Live Ops on their phone to see who just finished and start a conversation with the name at the top. Live Ops also has award and undo for the prize, a reset if someone's phone died mid-quiz, and a wa.me button per lead for a WhatsApp follow-up before they leave the hall.

Set-up the night before

Create the event and paste your questions, or drop in the brochure PDF and let the AI builder write them in English and Hindi.
Choose the registration fields: name and work email at least, plus role, city or product of interest if sales wants them. Turn on the work-email rule if personal addresses are noise.
Print the QR onto a standee and a table tent. Open the board link on the TV in the morning and press F11.
Set the draw times, brief the team on the prize rule, and make the event live. That spends one Event Pass (₹9,999 plus GST) and covers the show for 30 days.

What you walk out with

A ranked CSV with name, company, email, mobile, your custom fields, score, time, consent time and wording version, and survey answers. Or connect a Google Sheet or a webhook so each lead lands in your CRM the moment they register. Everyone who played gets a result email with your call-to-action button, and opt-ins get a thank-you email when you stop the event.

Questions stall managers ask

What if nobody is at the stall to explain the game?

The board shows the QR and the code, the phone explains the rest. The registration screen and the first question are all the instruction most people need. It is designed for a stall where everyone is in a conversation.

How do we stop the same person playing five times for the prize?

One attempt per email. A second scan with the same address shows the earlier result instead of a new quiz. Staff can reset an attempt from Live Ops if a phone genuinely died.

Can we change the questions between show days?

Yes. Edit questions or add new ones from the dashboard; players who scan afterwards see the new set. Scores already on the board are kept.

Do visitors need our Wi-Fi?

No. They play on their own mobile data. Only the TV needs a connection and a phone hotspot is enough, because the board fetches a small update every few seconds.

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