Trivia Crack – The Perfect Name for an Addicting Phone Game

Have you been caught up in the Trivia Crack craze? If not, just wait - it's coming to a smartphone near you!

Below you can read how the game works, but to illustrate just how addicting this game is, here's the scene at 7 p.m. at a bar downtown: two men, sitting next to each other with a beer in front of them, silent for more than five minutes and they go back-and-forth playing Trivia Crack against each other. Two men who usually PLENTY to say.

Here's an in-depth description of how the game works from Wikipedia:

The game's questions are based on 6 knowledge categories: Entertainment, Art, History, Science, Geography, and Sports.^[4] The game has 6 cartoonish iconic characters, one to represent each category (for example, a test tube to represent the Science category, or a globe to represent the Geography category). The objective of a Classic-mode game is to answer questions correctly, and in doing so, obtain all 6 characters before one's opponent does.

A player may start a new game by pressing the New Game button on the app. They can choose to play against one of their Facebook friends, or they can play against a random opponent. The player starts with 6 empty slots, one to store each of the characters, and an empty 3-slot "crown gauge." The player tries to populate the crown gauge by spinning a wheel and correctly answering the presented question. The player will repeat this as long as he/she answers questions correctly or obtains all 6 characters and wins the game. If the player answers a question incorrectly, their turn is over and control of the game is passed to their opponent.

The wheel consists of 7 slots: 6 category slots (one for each knowledge category), and a 7th special "crown" slot. The player spins the wheel and is then presented with a 4-choice question that is based on the category the wheel lands on. Each time the player answers a question correctly, one slot in the crown gauge is filled. The player has a chance to obtain a character anytime the 3-slot crown gauge is filled by either landing on categories and answering questions correctly 3 times, or by landing on the "crown" slot, which automatically fills the crown gauge and immediately grants the opportunity to obtain a character.

Each time the player gains the opportunity to obtain a character, they are asked which way they wish to try for it: the "crown" method or the "challenge" method. If the player chooses the crown method, he is asked to choose which category-based character to try for from a list of characters he has not yet obtained. The player will be presented with a question from the category associated with the character. If the question is answered correctly, the player wins that character and either continues trying for the remaining unattained characters, or wins the game after obtaining all 6 characters. The player can also choose the "challenge" method, which gives him an opportunity to steal a character from his opponent, but in doing so must bet one of his own characters. In challenge mode, the player is given a series of 6 questions in a row to answer (correctly or incorrectly), then his opponent is given the same questions. If the challenger answers the most questions correctly, he is able to steal a character from his opponent. If the challenger loses the challenge, he also loses the character he bet.

A game is over after either one of the players obtains all 6 characters, making them the winner, or a total of 25 rounds have been played. A round is completed each time both players play their turns until they answer a question incorrectly. If 25 rounds are played and neither player has obtained all 6 characters, the player with the most characters will be the winner. If both players have the same number of characters, a 6-question challenge will be presented to each player, and the winner will be the one that answers the most questions. If both players tie the challenge, the player that initially started the game will be the winner.