When your players have scored enough bingos and/or you would like to end your Bingo Game, you should Finish and finalize it. This will update all crowd Participant Views and the Presentation View with a message that the Bingo Game Has Ended.
Finishing your Bingo Game is useful when you no longer want your crowd to use the Bingo Game and you want them to focus their attention back on your presentation, another topic, etc.
After your Bingo Game is finished, you can still enable the Show Live Rankings (R) view if you want to review the final rankings of your Bingo Game and/or leave the Show Live Rankings (R) view on for your crowd to view in the background.
When you want to clear out any test games and reset your Bingo Game for your actual live event, you must first Finish your Bingo Game. Once you finish a Bingo Game, you have the option of resetting it, which we'll do now.
Finishing Your Bingo Game
To finish your Bingo Game, simply click the smaller circular red Stop button under the Playback Controls heading on the Experience Dashboard. Clicking the Stop button will stop all interaction from your crowd.
Finish Bingo Game confirmation on the Experience Dashboard
Experiences never run out! Feel free to start, pause, stop, restart, or reset your Experiences as many times as you want since Experiences never "run out." You have 30 days of access under all Premium Plans to design and test your Experiences. Your Experience Limit simply refers to how many unique Experiences you can have created on your account at the same time.
Your Bingo Game is now Finished and your crowd can no longer answer questions. All Participant Views will now show a Game Finished screen like below:
Participant View displays for a finished Bingo Game
Resetting Your Bingo Game
Now that your Bingo Game is finished, you would just need to reset it to clear out all the test players and scores to play through it again as a "dry run" for testing purposes or your actual live event. You wouldn't want your test scores mixing up with your actual event players and scores.
Resetting will set your game back to the Ready To Start state and will update all crowd Participant Views and the Presentation View to a Bingo Game Will Begin Shortly message. Below, we'll learn about options for handling existing crowd responses.
To reset your Bingo Game, simply click on the circular blue Reset button under the Playback Controls heading on the Experience Dashboard.
The Reset Experience button under Playback Control
This will open the blue Reset Bingo Game dialog where you'll have two button options:
Reset Bingo Game confirmation module
Clear Crowd Responses
Click the red Clear Crowd Responses button if you want to clear out all the current crowd responses. If you want to reset your Bingo Game to a clean state so it can be run again as a "fresh" game, click on this option. It will also set your game's state to Ready To Start. This is the most common type of reset.
Clearing crowd responses is permanent! Before you select Clear Crowd Responses, make sure you don't need this data. If you were just testing your Bingo Game, then selecting Clear Crowd Responses is fine. However, if you ran an actual live event Bingo Game and need your Crowd Responses (e.g. scores, players, rankings, etc.) make sure you first export this information as a spreadsheet before resetting your Bingo Game by selecting Clear Crowd Responses.
To learn more about exporting Bingo Game data, check out Exporting Bingo Game Scores, Rankings & Data to a Spreadsheet
Remove Participant Accounts
Along with clearing out the Crowd Responses, you can also enable the Remove Participant Accounts setting. When this option is toggled On, selecting the Clear Crowd Responses option will also remove the participant accounts tied to the Experience. Participants will be required to sign in again and create a new participant account.
Optional Remove Participant Accounts setting
Please note, enabling the Remove Participant Accounts setting will also remove any data that the current Experience's list of participants has submitted for any of your Crowdpurr Experiences.
Keep Crowd Responses
Click the purple Keep Crowd Responses button if you want to reset the game back to the Ready To Start state but still want to keep the existing game results and Crowd Responses.
After clicking on one of the above buttons, your Bingo Game is now reset. To start it again, you'll need to click the green Play button.
Does resetting remove my questions and answers? No, resetting your Bingo Game only removes your existing Crowd Responses (if you choose that option) and sets your game's status back to Ready To Start. Your Bingo Squares and their content all remain so your game can be played again.