How to use Wacky Stream Boards

1What this is

When you rip packs on a live stream, people want to see who owns which spot. They want to see the chase card. They want to see the hits.

Wacky Stream Boards puts all of that on a big screen behind you. It looks clean on a phone, even from far away.

Here's the best part. You never touch the board. You only type in a Google Sheet, like a simple spreadsheet. The board reads the sheet every few seconds and updates by itself.

2What you need

You don't need fancy gear. Here's what matters most, in order.

3The 10 minute setup

1. Get your game sheet. Open the sheet link from the Downloads page. Click File > Make a copy so you have your own. Then click Share, set General access to Anyone with the link, and set it to Viewer. The board can't read a private sheet.
2. Make your board link. On the computer hooked up to your TV, go to boards.wackymclovin.com. Scroll to Using your own copy of a sheet. Paste your sheet link, pick your game, and click Make my link.
3. Open your board. Click Open. Bookmark that page so you never have to do this again. Press F11 (Windows) or Control + Command + F (Mac) to make it full screen.
4. Test it. On your phone or laptop, open your sheet. Type a name next to spot 1. Look at the TV. The name shows up in about 5 seconds. That's it. It works.
5. Set up your shot. Put the TV behind where you sit. Put your phone on the tripod in front of you, about chest high. Make sure the whole board fits in the shot above your shoulders.
6. Fix the glare. Turn the TV brightness down to about 60%. Turn off room lights that bounce off the screen. On iPhone, tap and hold on the TV in your camera to lock the focus.
7. Go live. Open TikTok, tap the + button, swipe to LIVE, add a title, and go. Keep your sheet open on your second screen.

4Running a game night

Filling spots

Your main sheet has three game tabs: AUCTION, $10, and $30. Each one has spots 1 to 24.

• Type the buyer's name in column B next to their spot.
• On the auction board, type their bid in column C. The board shows the high bidder with a gold crown.
• Type FREE in column C for a free spot. Type winner in column D to tag a winner.

Setting the chase card

Each game tab has a matching _CHASE tab (like $10_CHASE). Only change the yellow boxes.

• Chase Image URL: a picture link. See Adding prize pictures.
• Chase Name: what the card is.
• Chase Value: the prize or what it's worth.
• Title, Price, Box, Banner: the words on the board. Change them any time.

When you change the chase, the board plays a reveal animation. Fans love it.

Starting a fresh game (without losing the last one)

1. Right-click the $10 tab at the bottom and pick Duplicate.
2. Rename the copy with the date, like 9_20_26_$10. Clear the names in column B.
3. Open the LIVE tab. Type the new tab name next to $10 in column B.

The board switches to the new game in a few seconds. Your old game stays saved. If you spell a tab name wrong, the board just keeps showing the last good game.

5The games

Every game has its own board. The four extra games each have their own Google Sheet, so make a copy of each one you want and make a board link for it (step 2 of the setup). Only type in the yellow boxes and the rows under the gold headers.

6Adding prize pictures

The board needs a direct picture link. The easy way:

1. Open the Picture Link Maker.
2. Drag the product photo onto it from any website. Or paste a link.
3. If the picture shows up with a green check, click Copy link.
4. Paste it in the picture box in your sheet.

Using your own photo? Upload it to Google Drive. Click Share, set it to Anyone with the link, copy the link, and paste it in. The board fixes Drive links for you.

7Shop orders and labels

You can sell spots as products in your shop. When someone buys one, this all happens by itself:

1. The order comes in (TikTok Shop orders show up in Shopify too).
2. The buyer gets the next open spot on the right board.
3. A line is added to the LABELS tab.
4. The Print Station prints a spot label with the spot number, the buyer, and the order number.

You just rip and read the label. No typing.

Set it up once

1. Make a product for each game you sell, like Wacky $10 Spot. Turn on inventory tracking and set it to 24 so you never sell more spots than the board has.
2. Open the SHOP tab in your main sheet. Type part of the product name in column A and the board in column B (AUCTION, $10, $30, TYPES, CASE, or RTYH). Type YES in the ON column.
3. For Pick Your Type, make the product options match your types (Fire, Water...). The buyer lands on the type they picked.
4. On the computer with your label printer, open the Print Station. Pick your label size. Click Print a test label.
5. Type YES next to Test Order in the SHOP tab. In about a minute a pretend order lands on the board and a label prints. Delete the test name when you're done.

8Best settings

9Play by the rules

Each app has its own rules for breaks. Rules change, so check them before you run a new game.

• TikTok Shop allows breaks like personal breaks, pick your team or type, pull till you win, and case breaks. It bans things like bounties, pull games, King of the Hill, random teams, drafts, and points breaks.
• Whatnot doesn't allow prizes that depend on what gets pulled. Bonus items are fine when everyone who buys is guaranteed to get them, and you say so up front.
• Always show what's in the box, what a spot gets, and the price before anyone buys.

10Fixing problems