Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions below. If you can't find what you're looking for, contact us at support@picksyprops.com.
General
“Prop” is short for “proposition.” It's a question about how one part of an event will play out. The term comes from “proposition bet,” a wager on one aspect of an event rather than its overall result. For example: “Who will shoot the best round of golf?” at a bachelor party, or “How many speeches will there be?” at a wedding.
No! Everything is done through your phone (or computer's) web browser. No downloads required.
Picksy doesn't collect buy-ins or pay out winnings. Organizers handle those themselves.
Yes. You can create and publish an event for free with up to 10 entries. If you need more room later, you can upgrade the same event.
Your Picksy event is either $0, $15, or $60 depending on the number of players you expect to have. See the pricing details for more information.
No. Participants open your event link, enter their name and email, and make their picks. They do not need an account, a download, or payment information.
Event
Yes! You can set an optional password that participants must enter in order to access your event.
You can still add, delete, and update questions up until the first person submits their picks.
Currently you can only have a single event. However you can create and publish a new event after the current one is deleted.
As long as you keep using it. Adding props, grading, resetting for the next round, or a guest submitting picks all restart a 90-day clock. If nothing happens for those 90 days we remove the event and free the name up for a new one, so a pool you run week after week sticks around for as long as you need it.
Open your dashboard, go to Manage, and select "Delete event." This removes the event and its data.
No. Picks are final once submitted. Before grading starts, the organizer can delete an entry from the dashboard so that person can submit again. New picks are closed while any prop has a grade (for obvious reasons, since the correct answer would be known!)
Yes. You can delete an entry in the Entries list on your dashboard.
Share your event link, or download a QR code from your dashboard for people to scan. Participants open it in their browser, enter their name and email, and make their picks.
Yes, once they've submitted their own picks. Until then, the leaderboard shows names, scores, ranks, and tiebreaker answers, but hides individual picks so nobody can copy another player's card. After submitting, participants can tap another player's name to see all of that player's picks, including props that haven't been graded yet.
Props
You can have up to 21 props for your event, plus a tiebreaker question.
No. Once someone submits picks, props are locked. To edit them, delete all submitted entries from the dashboard, or reset the event. Resetting clears all entries and grades but keeps your props.
Grading
Grading is the process of selecting the correct answer for a question/prop.
Your published event has a grading page where you can mark the correct answer to each prop. You can open it while signed in; someone else needs the grading link and passphrase.
You can grade the props yourself, or share the grading page and passphrase with a friend and have them grade for you.
No! You can grade questions one at a time as they happen. This provides the best experience for participants as they can see the leaderboard update as things progress.
Yes! You can change a grading result if you've made a mistake or need to make an amendment.
There's no deadline. Grading counts as using your event, so every result you record restarts the 90-day clock we use to remove events nobody touches.
Each correct pick earns 10 points, and the leaderboard updates as props are graded. Tied players share a rank. If you added a tiebreaker, everyone's answer appears on the leaderboard so you can decide the winner; Picksy does not score tiebreakers automatically.