Total Trivia



I've been told that I'm a walking encyclopedia of useless knowledge. I love trivia. Those are my favorite games to play, and we have an entire closet of trivia games, most of them being music trivia. My love for trivia is so bad, that my family and friends refuse to play with me because, once again, I'm a walking encyclopedia of useless knowledge. 

So imagine my joy when I was scrolling through Facebook one day and discovered an ad for an app called Total Trivia. It's a trivia game where you compete with others to win prizes and discounts on some rather excellent merchandise. We are talking things in the hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. Obviously I downloaded it!



It has a visually appealing look to it, and you can choose your genres, some with images, making a lot of the genres quite easy if you are a trivia nut like me. 


When you first play, they give you enough tickets to play one game. That, honestly, was slightly disappointing, because there is no way you can get very far with one ticket. You can purchase more, of course, for real money. The amount of tickets you get when you purchase them seems like a pretty good deal initially. but as you advance farther up the leaderboard and the more you play, the more tickets each round costs you. For example, at the end of the night, after only playing for two hours, I ended up spending 600 tickets. Basically, $30 worth. I was also playing for a really nice clock that's retail value was well over $200, so $30 worth of tickets didn't really phase me. If I won, that would be one heck of a deal. You can also purchase "boosts" which will either bring your points up to the leader's points (for a massive amount of tickets), or give you 3X the points per right answer (also a massive ton of tickets). There are daily challenges that give you tickets as well. The particular challenge for this day was 5 tickets for getting so many right in a row. Naturally, I nailed that on the first go. 


Since I know right off hand that this game is exactly like bidding on eBay, I know a lot of people will let you hold the top position straight up until the last 2 or 3 minutes and then swoop in and take it out from under you. I expected that. So I used that tactic as well. I had managed to reach the winning position in the last half hour of the game and sat there for quite some time. Within the last 10 minutes, my position had been taken over, not once, not twice, but three times and I sat in 4th place. I had some tickets left, so I let the timer run down to 2 minutes. Given the length of one round, I figured I could hold the top position if I started a game with a minute or so to spare. I was wrong.


If someone new takes the top position with less than 3 minutes left to the game, it goes into over time and adds 2 extra minutes. I managed the top spot, it added two extra minutes, and then someone swooped in and took the top spot, also adding 2 more minutes. It was then it became clear that this game could go on, literally, forever with this "overtime" feature, and you could easily spend more than the amount of the object on tickets until someone finally gives up and lets the timer run out. Which is what I did. 

After the game, if you don't win the item, you can cash in your discount that you accumulate towards that item. In my case, it was $53 off this $290 clock. I mean, that's still a pretty good deal, but had I not been mindful about buying tickets, I would have spent that much on the tickets and then still lost the clock. Which hit me, at that point, I may as well just buy the stinkin' clock outright. 

So what are my thoughts on this game?
It's a lot of fun! 

Would I play specifically to win prizes?
Negative. Too frustrating, and it takes the fun out of it for me.

People HAVE won. One lady on their Facebook page posted that she's won 70 different items. I imagine she's probably spent thousands of dollars, but she still won. I also did read that there's no cap on winning. What I mean by this, is there are some people who will win an item, the same item, multiple times in a row, and obviously resell them online for the original retail price. This seems to be a common complaint, and if they put something in place that stipulates you are ineligible to win that same object for 30 days, this may cut back on that, although I really doubt it, because after 30 days they can still get the same thing and resell it. 

So, yes, there are some things that can be a little irritating, but if you just love trivia, it's still a fun game to play. I would play this even without other people, just to sharpen my mind and my skills. 


Comments

  1. It's was fun until they closed this man's account for leaving a negative review: https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/totaltrivia.com#1843


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    1. I'm not one bit surprised. This game seemed like a scam from the start and I actually questioned if people actually won those items or if the "winners" were associates of the app that were paid to appear like they were real players. A company that hides their reviews and tries to keep everything hush-hush is definitely a scam.

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    2. I have learned to PASS on reading any positive reviews for Total Trivia or its sister companies!! The reason I say this is because this company actively solicits positive reviews from its customers by offering them incentives to do so!! How can you trust a review by anyone that was Incentivized to do it?? ...

      Incentivizing customers to leave positive reviews on the internet is considered an unfair and deceptive practice by the FTC. Even giving discounts to reviewers count as giving them incentives. Just this week, the FTC cracked down on an auto shipment broker called AmeriFreight for misrepresenting its online reviews. According to the FTC’s press release, the company failed to disclose the fact that it gave rewards (in the form of $50 discounts) to customers who posted reviews, and was thus guilty of deceptively representing that its glowing reputation and great reviews were based on the unbiased opinions of its customers.

      Hopefully Deal Dash and their sister company Total Trivia get their day in the spotlight with the FTC very soon!!

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    3. I have learned to PASS on reading any positive reviews for Total Trivia or its sister companies!! The reason I say this is because this company actively solicits positive reviews from its customers by offering them incentives to do so!! How can you trust a review by anyone that was Incentivized to do it?? ...

      Incentivizing customers to leave positive reviews on the internet is considered an unfair and deceptive practice by the FTC. Even giving discounts to reviewers count as giving them incentives. Just this week, the FTC cracked down on an auto shipment broker called AmeriFreight for misrepresenting its online reviews. According to the FTC’s press release, the company failed to disclose the fact that it gave rewards (in the form of $50 discounts) to customers who posted reviews, and was thus guilty of deceptively representing that its glowing reputation and great reviews were based on the unbiased opinions of its customers.

      Hopefully Deal Dash and their sister company Total Trivia get their day in the spotlight with the FTC very soon!!

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  2. honeslty, I habe spent about $20 in tickets, and won twice. one item.work $218 and another $165. I don't feel it is unfair at all. maybe some people playing it, but the appl itself is real and legit because NO i am not getting paid to say anything (though wish i was!) but, I am happy with it and there IS a high possibility for winning, you just have to see how much time.is left and what the points are at, howmany people have boosters, and monitor to see if a lot are fightinf like crazy or it is slowing down. You can also use the free ads etc to play to get a certain amt of points free, where it can put you in a place to win free tickets, which is what I do often. say you can use your free plays and get to 8,200 tickets, and its a more expensive item and you are in 5th place...you may get 1,000 tickets free without spendinging any. a good way too save them up and build IQ for the trophies as well.

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  3. I think it's a scam.
    I sent a message to support accusing them of rigging tournaments, and they closed my account. The same two users (casnbella and Johnnyconect) are always winning tournaments, day in and day out. Either they go through money like water (because you can't win that many tournaments in a day without buying discount coupons), or they're being given free discount coupons as an incentive to play and keep tournaments running, so other players have to buy more coupons to play. Total scam!

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    1. I just beat johnnyconnect for a meat grinder worth 600...spend 70 on tickets tho...

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  4. If you play daily and do all the bonuses you can build up a lot of discount tickets for free. I have a little ovee 40,000 now and came across this review while trying to find advice on how many tickets I'd need to actually win an item. (I have won a gift card from Deal Dash and one of their other sites, but those were practically giveaways to anyone who was just willing to play.)

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