ENTERTAINMENT: A new trivia application becomes popular among students.
By Michelle Boulos, Staff Writer
In this day and age, parents and adults complain about how we, as teenagers, are wasting time. We are glued to our phones, when instead, we could be “doing something useful.” Popular applications like Candy Crush, Words with Friends, Tumblr and Twitter are taking up storage on our phones and time from our days, with little benefit. With the creation of the new must-have application Trivia Crack, however, there may finally be a counterargument that we are, in fact, doing something useful with our time.
Trivia Crack is a free application that allows people of all ages to answer various questions from six categories: geography, science, history, art, sports and entertainment. The goal is to earn crowns. After spinning a wheel with each category on it, the player has to answer the question from that randomly selected category. To receive a crown, players can either correctly answer three questions in a row, steal a crown from their opponent in a challenge or land on the crown when they first spin the wheel. The player who reaches six crowns—one from each topic—first is the champion. The goal is to correctly answer as many questions in a row as possible. Depending on the amount of questions one has answered correctly from a certain category, achievements can be added to one’s profile.
Friend challenges can be created as well, where an individual customly selects who he or she wants to play with, and those players battle it out to see who answers the most questions correctly in the shortest amount of time. Additionally, one can connect his or her Facebook and Twitter to the game and chat with other players. A certain feature even allows you to create questions to be published and rate others’ questions, deeming them either “boring” or “fun.”
What was initially meant to be just another fun game downloaded to our phones ended up becoming a fun way to learn new, trivial, random facts and test previously-learned knowledge. “You actually get to learn a bunch of facts that you would’ve never known otherwise,” Cassidy Ballard (10), avid Trivia Crack player said. Not only is it educational, but the game creates a sense of fun competitiveness amongst its players. After all, the winner does get bragging rights.
Even teachers on Poly’s campus play Trivia Crack. “Some questions are really easy and some are really difficult,” AP Psychology teacher, Mr. Peter Cherniss admitted.
The rage over Trivia Crack should not be something for adults to worry about. Not only is it fun, but players have the ability to learn new facts in a competitive environment. The app Trivia Crack might as well be referred to as the good kind of crack.