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griphus — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:45:06 -0800

Anyone playing trivi.al on iOS?

I'm "griphus." NB: For some reason the paid version comes up before the free(mium) version in the App Store, but it exists.

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:52:25 -0800

But I don't want to play against family and friends, or mefites. I want to play against, say, redditors or people in country/western bars or who otherwise deserve to be mercilessly beaten into trivial submission.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:58:41 -0800

NO STOP IT you horrible enabler

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:00:11 -0800

NOOOOOOOO now this is a thing I have to do.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:03:01 -0800

Anyone playing trivi.al on iOS?

I'm plain trivial on any OS.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:16:32 -0800

I have started a game against you.

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:22:59 -0800

I am winna!

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:26:30 -0800

I am Sara C.!

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:29:51 -0800

I'll play! yellowbinder!

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:36:59 -0800

I have thoroughly shamed myself in my game with Sara - I couldn't tell you what garment Smokey will not remove.

Incidentally, the game seems quite Smokey and the Bandit centric.

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:47:51 -0800

Also advertising slogan centric.

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:50:13 -0800

Requires iOS 5. :(

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:54:41 -0800

Wow I have absolutely no idea how I managed to get almost every single question wrong in one round.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:02:41 -0800

Also Jim Carrey-centric.

By: Sara C.

Sara C. — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:06:03 -0800

It's OK, griphus, I missed the Shark Week question due to skimming.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:08:54 -0800

Yeah, I've only played about 4 rounds and I already got that top chef question twice.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:11:33 -0800

I think I've played two identical rounds. The amount of questions in this may not be as large as I initially thought.

By: box

box — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:21:44 -0800

I'm box there too. I'll give it a shot.

By: MoonOrb

MoonOrb — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:41:11 -0800

I'm in. MoonOrb.

By: DigDoug

DigDoug — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:47:04 -0800

I used facebook, so I'm just a "Doug"

By: DigDoug

DigDoug — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:50:56 -0800

I might be digdoug now. It let me set a username up tied to my cellphone number. What's the worst that can happen?

By: box

box — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:13:49 -0800

They're making me wait until I have more coins to start another game? Why won't they just let me play a round without power ups?

Oh, right, it's because they want my money.

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:18:35 -0800

That's why I'm skipping getting power ups. I am cheap!

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:42:46 -0800

I'm playing! I'm MaryEllen!

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:47:44 -0800

It says you are not found! Are you sure you are MaryEllen?

By: jbickers

jbickers — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:53:01 -0800

OK, I'm in, I'm jbickers. Looks like fun!

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:53:26 -0800

tomorrow, when my brain is working again, I'll trash all of you!

By: MoonOrb

MoonOrb — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:56:49 -0800

The constant drain on my coin account reminds me too much of real life.

Also, I can't find MaryEllen. I spent all last night staying up waiting to learn why nickrussell wanted his font small. I guess I'll spend tonight searching for the mythical MaryEllen.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:07:13 -0800

As much as I love this game and everything it represents ... after spending about 20 minutes with it, doesn't it seem like there are a disproportionate number of questions about "Smokey and the Bandit"? Or have I not yet unlocked the "use all the questions" feature?

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:11:07 -0800

Yeah, I've learned more about Smokey and the Bandit tonight than I ever have before.

By: jenny76

jenny76 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:12:58 -0800

Ooh, fun! jenny76

By: Flashman

Flashman — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:40:41 -0800

I've been played for a bit (Flashman) tonight, but yeah, half the questions are about Smokey and the Bandit or the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, half of the rest are about American ads, the other half of the rest are about C-list celebrities that only 50-50 gets me through, I was getting multiple repetitions of the same question, and none of the 'random' people I was playing against were actually playing. Meh.

By: topoisomerase

topoisomerase — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:58:26 -0800

I'm topoisomerase. Why are there so many questions about ads from the 80s?

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:00:45 -0800

Who is muta? She keeps destroying me by shocking margins!

By: muta

muta — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:06:26 -0800

I'm playing as muta. so far only winna has played me back. also, one of the questions was wrong. it said Brett Helquist wrote the lemony snikett books.

By: winna

winna — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:11:50 -0800

Sorry for saying she, muta. I don't know why I thought it was a female name, except that mine ends in an a, too.

Incidentally, it keeps crashing when I try to go into the lightning round, so I'm going to concede and start a new game.

By: tayknight

tayknight — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:17:00 -0800

'tayknight' there. tayknight here :)

By: MoonOrb

MoonOrb — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:21:14 -0800

Mine is crashing too, so I guess with nothing better to do I'll watch Smokey and the Bandit.

By: dumbland

dumbland — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:00:55 -0800

It used to be I went to the arcade and the machines asked me to insert a coin to play because it actually wanted me to insert a coin to play.

Actually no, I only went to lock-in sessions where everything was on free-play. Facts ruin everything, however.

Then I got games on my Amiga 500 and occasionally either as an amusing holdover or because of laziness some arcade ports still had an "insert coin" option. I thought it was cute and cool.

Now games once again ask me to insert more coins all the time. I don't find it as cute anymore. :(

Anyway I'm on this as djr.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:49:47 -0800

I will download this tomorrow and join up. My Twitter username (in my profile).

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:53:54 -0800

I'm villanelles, but I'm pretty useless at this.

By: jontyjago

jontyjago — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:02:13 -0800

I'm jontyjago - just started a game against griphus, but it seems very US-centric with some obscure (to me) questions about US advertising slogans from the 80s.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:11:45 -0800

Just signed up. I'm phunniemee.

By: soelo

soelo — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:00:33 -0800

I am soelo there as well.

By: Doleful Creature

Doleful Creature — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:07:29 -0800

I'm in, logged as DolefulC

By: Doleful Creature

Doleful Creature — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:12:30 -0800

Or possibly just 'James'

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:59:18 -0800

I'll play. I'm emelenjr.

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:21:26 -0800

I think I just figured out why no one could find me, and actually set my username as MaryEllen. I hope!

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:18:16 -0800

My username is madcaptenor.

By: booksherpa

booksherpa — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:27:18 -0800

I haven't seen a single Smokey question, but I've had 3 Legend of Zelda questions, about which I know nothing.

I logged on via Facebook, so I'm just Jen.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:07:48 -0800

cjorgensen there.

By: healthytext

healthytext — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:31:16 -0800

...none of the 'random' people I was playing against were actually playing.

Yeah, that's really weird. I started six or seven games and none of my opponents have completed their turn.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:39:57 -0800

Same here.

By: box

box — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:58:21 -0800

I'm playing on my iPad, and there seems to be some kind of glitch where it won't give me any more coins. If it's not just me, that might be part of the reason that people aren't taking their turns.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:03:39 -0800

I'm taking my turns and playing games, but I often run out of coins. They do seem to replenish though. When I try to replay after finishing a game it always crashes and I have no way to rematch. Bleh.

By: Weeping_angel

Weeping_angel — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:17:33 -0800

I think I'm Greta. (I mean, I am Greta, but I think it set my username as Greta)

By: mullacc

mullacc — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:13:45 -0800

just installed it. mullacc there too.

By: inturnaround

inturnaround — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:28:52 -0800

I'm "inturnaround" there. :)

By: griphus

griphus — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:04:33 -0800

I haven't seen a single Smokey question, but I've had 3 Legend of Zelda questions, about which I know nothing.

The answers are "triforce," "gold," and "1986."

By: zippy

zippy — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:54:44 -0800

Now I am. Thanks a lot.

By: zippy

zippy — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:04:17 -0800

zippy was taken, so I'm adm (or possibly 'adm gornblower,' the horatio didn't fit, and I wanted to work in the Trek Slashfic Troll angle)

By: soelo

soelo — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:03:48 -0800

It has been pretty buggy for me, from crashing to games just disappearing, etc. Maybe we should also play Quizboard, which seems more stable. I am soelo there, too.

By: zippy

zippy — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:34:33 -0800

I'm zippy on quiz board (and out of coins on trivial. Really, dudes, you're gating enthusiastic players and preventing them from getting into it?)

By: box

box — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:46:41 -0800

Just created a Quizboard account as box.

By: zippy

zippy — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:23:51 -0800

Quizboard has better (non-'trash') questions and playability than trivi.al. Very nice.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:07:01 -0800

Just FYI to Sara C and winna and whoever else I was playing --- this keeps crashing on me when I try to load it and everytime it does load I have too few coins to actually start my round. I'm going to have to forfeit, I'm sorry.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:15:45 -0800

Just signed up for quizboard--same name there.

By: youcancallmeal

youcancallmeal — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:42:26 -0800

I'm audoff on both

By: bethnull

bethnull — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:49:37 -0800

I just signed up as bethnull on both games.

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:11:02 -0800

I've been having problems with Trivi.al, so I signed up for Quizboard. I'm MaryEllen there, too.

By: muta

muta — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:58:48 -0800

I'm up on quizboard too, muta. trivi.al is no good.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:39:04 -0800

I'm on quizboard now too, still jbickers.

By: box

box — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:21:10 -0800

Yeah, what Diablevert said. I like the feel of Trivi.al, more bar-trivia than Trivial Pursuit (don't get it twisted, though, I love Trivial Pursuit), but it just doesn't work very well. I might check in when they release version 1.2 or whatever, but, for now, Trivi.al and I are going to take a little break.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:53:03 -0800

Just popping back in here to say OMIGOD QUIZBOARD IS FUN.

By: mbd1mbd1

mbd1mbd1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:09 -0800

I like the quizboard gameplay. It's a nice mix of strategy and trivia. Although those with detailed knowledge of the UK rail system will be at a distinct advantage.

My username is mbd1mbd1.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:16:36 -0800

Quizboard is the first game I've felt strongly enough about to actually pay for, so you guys better keep playing.

By: zippy

zippy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:17:48 -0800

For this of you on trivi.al who are coin-starved, I sent them an email and they know about the game mechanics issue. I got a personal reply from one of the people who work there. I believe they are reconsidering how coins get doled out.

By: zippy

zippy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:31:43 -0800

I want phunniemee on my College Bowl team.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:40:24 -0800

I'm playing my mom on there, too, and she's kicking my butt.

By: Heart_on_Sleeve

Heart_on_Sleeve — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:12:23 -0800

I'm joining in on Quizboard fun, I'm KateH

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:04:54 -0800

Signed up on Trivial and Quizboard using my Twitter username (check profile).

Let's play the new With Friends game, Matching. Same username.

By: mismatched

mismatched — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:02:45 -0800

I'm mismatched on Quizboard, in case anyone's still checking this thread for opponents.

By: winna

winna — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:19:03 -0800

I gave up on trivial and am now winna in quiz board too!