Trivia Crack: #1 App in the App Store

Lion Tales endorses your newest addiction, Trivia Crack.
Nikola Zivkovic
Lion Tales endorses your newest addiction, Trivia Crack.

Do you have all the knowledge on history or enjoy answering questions about sports? Do you want to challenge your friends or other people all around the world? Well, then Trivia Crack is just the app for you.

Trivia Crack is an international smash game that pits friend against friend or just against a random person in different categories to determine who has the most trivia knowledge. The best part is that this app is free!

The game questions you in six different categories: science, geography, entertainment, art, sports, and history.

When you play someone, you see a wheel. You spin the wheel and land on a category. Then, you answer the question of that category. For example, if you land on the history, you may have to answer a question about George Washington.

Each category has a character and you win characters by answering three questions in a row correctly or getting a “crown.” A crown can also be achieved if you land on the crown character when you spin the wheel.

The objective of the game is to answer trivia questions and collect each category’s character. Once you collect all six characters, you win. However, that is not the only way to win. Regardless of the number of characters, someone wins after 25 rounds.

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The Trivia Crack “wheel.”

There are two game modes. One is “classic,” which is played one-on-one, and the other is “challenge” which is played by a total of ten people. If you are playing one-on-one, each person has two days to answer a question for a total of 25 rounds or until someone wins all the characters. However in the challenge, there is only one round. In that one round, you have to answer a total of twelve questions taken from all the different categories.

In the game, there are coins that are used to buy power-ups, a timer which adds more time, and a bomb that takes off two answers so you have a 50-50 chance of getting the correct answer. There is also a feature that gives you the option of answering another question from the same topic, and a “re-do”, which gives you an extra chance to get the question right.

The power-ups help a lot but obtaining the coins to buy power-ups is a hassle because the only way you can obtain them is by buying them with your own money or by winning classic games.

My opinion on this game is that it is a great and challenging one — it shows your knowledge. I especially like the sports questions because I know a lot of sports. However, I find the history category extremely difficult. I only have twenty-six percent correct on that topic.
Often, I lose my coins because I use power-ups all the time.

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A student plays Trivia Crack during journalism class.

Another reason I like this game is because it is very productive. Many kids spend their time after or in between studying on social media. However, now with Trivia Crack kids can take breaks and still do something productive. Instead of looking at pictures of actresses on Instagram, you can answer entertainment questions. Instead of tweeting about your favorite football team, you can answer sports questions. Now, Trivia Crack will keep people busy and thinking.

Some people do not like the game because they repeatedly get questions wrong and lose all the time. However, by losing you are still winning. Every time you lose, you are learning a new fact. In the end it is a win-win situation.

The game is thought to be created by a single person but it was actually the work of a company, Etermax. Etermax has also made other apps such as Word Crack, in which you have to find the most words in a four by four square in 2 minutes. Another game they made was F.C Barcelona Trivia Fans, in which you have to answer questions about the soccer team.

Without a doubt, this game deserves to be number one in the App Store. You should try it out. I am pretty sure that you will enjoy playing this game.