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Online quiz HQ Trivia is back to give out money, take your mind off COVID-19
Updated 03/30/2020 – If you’re looking for fun ways to pass time during this coronavirus pandemic, there’s good news. The once-popular HQ Trivia app that closed shop in February is back online with new investors. Its most recent host, Matt Richards, announced the trivia app is back this weekend on Twitter and said if you’ve been waiting to cash out, you’ll be able to this week.
“A lethal cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, short-sightedness and sociopathic delusion” — that’s not exactly a description you’d expect to be associated with a popular trivia app, but it is now.
HQ Trivia hit the scene only a few short years ago and immediately became a viral hit. Millions of people across the globe were obsessed with the game, taking a couple of shots every day to try and win cash prizes. Tap or click here to find out what all the buzz was about.
Success for the app was fast and furious. But sadly, the app’s creators just couldn’t sustain its momentum and had to shut it down for good over the weekend — though not before hosts went out in a blaze of glory with one final drunken broadcast.
HQ Trivia app back from the ashes
Yo. You heard??!? @hqtrivia is back tonight at 9pm eastern! Download the app now! Also if you been waiting to cash out, you’ll be able to this week! 💵💵💵💵
— Matt Richards (@mattwasfunny) March 30, 2020
HQ Trivia launched in 2017 and it didn’t take long to attract a major fan base. Millions of people played the game every single day.
The company became an overnight sensation, and by March 2018 had a valuation of $100 million. The app brought in millions of dollars in revenue with in-app purchases and brand partnerships.
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Unfortunately, the company wasn’t able to keep it going. It started losing steam in 2019 and ended up laying off employees to save money.
Now, HQ Trivia has ceased operations altogether. CNN Business was able to get a copy of an email sent by HQ Trivia’s CEO and co-founder Rus Yusupov to employees.
Here’s what Yusupov said in the email: “Unfortunately, our lead investors are no longer willing to fund the company and so, effective today, HQ will cease operations and move to dissolution.”
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