Play a game online or solo and experience a strong informative and competitive environment that will exercise your ability to think.

Answer the tough questions and remember that win or lose one will always end up with knowledge in the end.

Compete in various events online with your friends and others with the option of using the board game as an alternative for a more personal touch.



There are many reasons why a lot of people play Trivia Games. Aside from being fun and in many instances socially motivational, this genre of gaming offers several potential advantages for those who engage in them. The popularity of Trivia gaming, traces all the way back to the 1960s when college students of the day needed a way to pass their free time and ended up trading questions and answers about the popular culture of the times. Questions varied among different categories and the practice became so popular that it ended up being classed as a casual parlor game and was formally labeled as "Trivia" in a Columbia Daily Spectator column published in 1965.

Trivia Games regardless of the term trivial doesn't mean that the categories of questions used are simply taken from common cultural and current knowledge of the day. As students and ordinary everyday folks started to engage in this pastime, categories like History, Science, Technology, and many more were employed in the games and the questions became more important and serious if not competitively difficult to answer. Trivia then became a game for the mind. Not only was it quite informative (though usually in a corrective sense) but it allowed the common folk the opportunity to use the random pieces of knowledge they have accumulated over the years to experience a similar form of a competitive and heightened sense of victory common in athletic sports and competitions, and (of course) the agony of defeat. The difference is that even if you lose, you learn and the activity contributes to exercising one's cognitive and decision-making faculties. Simply put, it exercises your brain to think. Besides, it does beat being called an idiot and a tiny-whinny brain for the rest of your life. Well, you could always climb up a tree and eat Eucalyptus leaves when you get hungry, plus you get to sleep 20hrs a day...but then, you still wouldn’t be that cute.

With all these in mind, let us now move on to a game called Trivia Crack. Developed by an Argentinean game company called Etermax and released in 2013 for the then mobile gaming market, the game has gained popularity through the years and today is quite a huge sensation with several versions of the game available for all Trivia players online. As iterations of the game progressed from the day it came out, Etermax had established development teams in other countries as well like Mexico, Germany, Uruguay, and Brazil, to continually develop the game. In 2015, a board game version of Trivia Crack was released and became quite popular as well. Taken directly from the original mobile game, the board game comes with a board, two dice, six pawns (for the players), 600 questions, and a bunch of power-up cards. Question categories include History, Science, Geography, Art, Sports, and Entertainment. You get to the questions using a spin-wheel (that looks like a color wheel for ye artistic types out there). From these, one can summarize the look and play of the original game.

Of course for us electronic gamers, the mobile game is way more fun (unless you really want to have your close friends around for a more personal touch). Also, even if you play alone, you can still get quite an enjoyable if not informative competition since the games AI will hit you with enough tough questions to make you re-think your scholastic standing which you may have probably placed too much faith in. The video game is bigger with more categories and questions that you may be hearing (or reading) for the first time as it pertains to places, things, people, or events coming from the farthest origins of the world. What’s more, the game has a question factory for you to add some extra spices to an already eye-tearing mix (if you get my drift).

Trivia Crack has its own resident characters that interact with the players in their own entertaining way. Of course Willy the color wheel will always be there to greet you and the others, you will find about as you play the game and the other versions of it too. For those who love Trivia Games, Trivia Crack is one game that is worth playing since you will really learn from the question and answer activities a player will have to go through. Whether in single play or an online competition, the game will always have questions for almost everybody. Unfortunately, to be honest, the game today seems to have been muddled with a lot of online ads as part of the free2play platform and has become quite irksome for a lot of gamers playing the game. Nevertheless, Trivia Crack holds strong on its own since its first release in 2013 and continues its popularity today.