By now, you've probably heard of HQ Trivia [Free], it's growing at a rate that reminds me of the rise and fall of Draw Something [$2.99 / Free] in that I have friends of mine who I know don't care at all about mobile gaming asking me if I've played it. Like HQ Trivia, Qriket [Free] is another live stream game show anyone can play through an app. They're like something out of an episode of Black Mirror on Netflix, and as soon as I first saw HQ Trivia, I thought to myself, "This is neat but man this format is going to open up so many possibilities."
Interestingly enough, Qriket actually hit the App Store before HQ Trivia. It's been running for well over a year now and is the brainchild of apparent internet celebrity Jonny Comparelli who also uses Qriket to funnel followers into his various social media accounts. To play, you download the Qriket app and register for games using spin tokens. (You earn more tokens by viewing ads and doing other things you're super used to if you've played a freemium game.) Just like HQ Trivia, games are scheduled throughout the day and they've got a number of different hosts.
Actually playing the game is sort of hilarious, in that super low-fi indie Wayne's World basement public access show kind of way. While HQ Trivia has big prizes and is filmed all on a green screen with all kinds of fancy overlays, Qriket is filmed in a tiny studio with a couple screens, a host, and a spinning prize wheel like the one you might spin to figure ou...