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Title: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: CajoleJuice on November 15, 2013, 09:59:46 PM: Trivia categories out the asshole, a great interface, leveling up, achievements, and it's free. Add me.

(http://www.insidemobileapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/quizup-650.png)
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on November 16, 2013, 05:33:44 PM: BTW, this vanilla-app (pun-intended) is not available on iPad; you have to use the iPhone specific store to purchase it if you're on an iPad.

The iPad versions are Math, Nat'l Geo, and TWILIGHT. :lol
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Himu on November 16, 2013, 07:54:14 PM: Play store options are Nat Geo and Math.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Positive Touch on November 16, 2013, 09:18:02 PM: oh hell yeah cant wait to play a quiz game about math
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: cool breeze on November 16, 2013, 09:51:44 PM: thanks. this is pretty cool.

went up against a level 9 guy at batman trivia. kicked his ass. couldn't figure out how to tell him to be family man.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: CajoleJuice on November 16, 2013, 10:17:12 PM: well at least someone else appreciates it
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Post by: king of the internet on November 16, 2013, 10:58:44 PM: Yeah, I'm addicted to this. The thesaurus catagory is my shit.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on November 17, 2013, 12:02:53 AM: Yeah i played this the other day on my bud's iphone, it's amazing. I'm all over it when it comes to android.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 17, 2013, 12:52:34 AM: I'm level 15 in buffy

. . .

fml
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on November 19, 2013, 12:52:14 AM: The math QuizUp is actually pretty darned fun!
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: brawndolicious on November 19, 2013, 01:09:30 AM: I thought the math one would be conceptual questions or permutations or something but it's a lot of arithmetic. I'm pretty sure a lot of players are using a calculator.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on November 19, 2013, 01:09:38 AM: Stop bumping this till it's on Android whores :maf
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: brawndolicious on November 19, 2013, 01:20:16 AM: Math and national geographic is on Android.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: CajoleJuice on November 19, 2013, 01:21:14 AM: the regular app is the one all the cool kids are on, am nintenho
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on November 19, 2013, 02:36:23 AM: Quote from: am nintenho on November 19, 2013, 01:20:16 AM
Math and national geographic is on Android.
Those are the peasant apps made for peasants, by poverty companies. We need to wait till the real thing gets on android
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on November 19, 2013, 03:01:20 AM: Quote from: am nintenho on November 19, 2013, 01:09:30 AM
I thought the math one would be conceptual questions or permutations or something but it's a lot of arithmetic. I'm pretty sure a lot of players are using a calculator.

I don't use a calculator! I won my first three games. I think this is going to put my brain back into a more active mode! FIGHT THE SENILITY WHICH I SEE AROUND EVERY CORNER.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: brawndolicious on November 19, 2013, 05:01:53 AM: Okay yeah, but when I see someone answer (7 X 88) +11 in five seconds, I'm probably dealing with a cheater.

Granted the other national geographic one us peasants get has a lot of repeat questions so it's just memorization but remembering stupid facts is funner than arithmetic.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on November 19, 2013, 05:14:35 AM: Quote from: am nintenho on November 19, 2013, 05:01:53 AM
Okay yeah, but when I see someone answer (7 X 88) +11 in five seconds, I'm probably dealing with a cheater.

Granted the other national geographic one us peasants get has a lot of repeat questions so it's just memorization but remembering stupid facts is funner than arithmetic.

When I see those, I do "(7 x 8) + (7 x 80) + 11" which becomes "56 + 560 + 11" at which point my brain panics a bit trying to offset the decimal place while adding 56+560, and I lose a few seconds. :-\

It's also multiple choice answers, so sometimes they're obvious when there's only one answer close to where I was heading.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on November 19, 2013, 06:19:38 AM: It saddens me that my android bros are reduced to playing sub par jurrasic era shitware, hold out bros :fbm
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: G The Resurrected on November 19, 2013, 06:25:05 AM: Quote from: Momo on November 19, 2013, 06:19:38 AM
It saddens me that my android bros are reduced to playing sub par jurrasic era shitware, hold out bros :fbm

I heard this will be out for android in time for the next ipad to come out. So sometime in june next year. The app looks like a lot of fun though thats for sure.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on November 19, 2013, 08:01:05 AM: fuck this earth
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: CajoleJuice on November 19, 2013, 12:04:23 PM: Quote from: am nintenho on November 19, 2013, 05:01:53 AM
Okay yeah, but when I see someone answer (7 X 88) +11 in five seconds, I'm probably dealing with a cheater.

Granted the other national geographic one us peasants get has a lot of repeat questions so it's just memorization but remembering stupid facts is funner than arithmetic.

a lot of those questions, you can just go by the last digit (7)
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on August 05, 2014, 04:10:33 AM: I'm getting back into this again. I've got Lager and a couple more of you boritos on my GameCenter f-list, but who all is playing it?
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on August 05, 2014, 04:19:05 AM: It's on Android now too. My username in game is momo i believe
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: G The Resurrected on August 05, 2014, 04:31:16 AM: You can find me as Garrett McFarland I've got the picture with the purple stuff going on it. Challenge me fools!!!
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 05, 2014, 10:00:45 AM: Adding Momo I Believe to my friendlist.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: king of the internet on August 05, 2014, 10:15:33 AM: Still play this pretty often. More than anything I think I'm just addicted to building my win to loss ratio. Almost to 2.5-1, would be way higher if I didn't let me ex-GF play the app on my phone and fuck my stats up. :maf
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on August 05, 2014, 10:49:15 AM: Firing this up on my tablet
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Momo on August 05, 2014, 10:52:13 AM: Joe you added someone else :'(
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 08, 2014, 07:26:24 PM: In 30 minutes I became one of the top 10 best players in both Arizona and California in the flags category. At last recognition for my horrible, burdensome talent. :rejoice

When I get matched against some scrub I bet they get hella intimidated by my skull avatar and TOP TEN IN ARIZONA - AUGUST 2014 banner. They know no quarter will be given. :lawd

I'm going to be #1 in the world one day. :whew

:usacry :auscry :swisscry :gbcry :cancry :chinacry :japancry :ussrcry
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: ToxicAdam on August 08, 2014, 09:55:36 PM: I am the god of logos. Come (on) at me Borebros.

Name: Ben Lohse
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 08, 2014, 09:56:50 PM: Shit brehs, they put me at the international big kids table now. I had to beat someone who was level 35 in flags. :whew

I beat some other big kid by knowing about the Red Cross' red lozenge flag. Every match comes down to the wire now and the minutiae upon minutiae. :lawd
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 08, 2014, 10:11:56 PM: QUIZ RPG: world of mystical wiz
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 08, 2014, 11:58:30 PM: One of the questions in flags was "Which of these flags does not have a star on it?"

3 of the choices had stars on them, the other choice was FYR Macedonia, which I hope you don't know has the sun on its flag.

So all 4 choices had a star on them. :beli

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Someone please end me. :stahp
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Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on August 09, 2014, 12:11:49 AM: Karakand knows his logos. :lol
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 12:12:33 AM: Did I just throw down on logos with someone from here?

Fucking apps.

Fucking Visa.

FUCKING GREEN LANTERN AND GREEN ARROW BOTH BEING OPTIONS.

e: That answers that! GGWP etc.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on August 09, 2014, 12:19:05 AM: WTF was with that last one? They softball us a bunch of common logos, and then ended with "What international NPO was founded with the intent of..." ??? I was still trying to figure out the question when I panic-punched before the countdown ended. :-\
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: PlayDat on August 09, 2014, 12:24:43 AM: Played about a half hour of this earlier this morning. Have you guys noticed questions repeating already? Got up to level 6 in the hip-hop category and I've come across the Vanilla Ice real name question multiple times already.

Those were the only set of questions I was able to consistently win in so I went back to it a lot more than the others I tried. I wonder if other more popular categories are more fleshed out.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 12:28:18 AM: I see a lot of repeat questions in flags. Eurotrash can never get Mexico's flag right. Viva la Raza (and ez points). :rejoice

Quote from: chronovore on August 09, 2014, 12:19:05 AM
WTF was with that last one? They softball us a bunch of common logos, and then ended with "What international NPO was founded with the intent of..." ??? I was still trying to figure out the question when I panic-punched before the countdown ended. :-\

:lol Yeah that one was a real back breaker.

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I only knew what it was because I know the al-Thani family rules Qatar.
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Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: chronovore on August 09, 2014, 12:43:30 AM: I thought Qatar was Kal-El's cousin who likes Hostess Fruit Pies.

Man, I miss enjoying fried fruit pies.

Quote from: PlayDat on August 09, 2014, 12:24:43 AM
Played about a half hour of this earlier this morning. Have you guys noticed questions repeating already? Got up to level 6 in the hip-hop category and I've come across the Vanilla Ice real name question multiple times already.

Those were the only set of questions I was able to consistently win in so I went back to it a lot more than the others I tried. I wonder if other more popular categories are more fleshed out.
Vanilla Ice probably uses QuizUp as a paid promotion to try and drum up interest in a comeback.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: PlayDat on August 09, 2014, 01:10:31 AM: lol. I honestly quit playing the logo questions because I got suspicious that the companies might be using the game to self-promote. Either way the game is helping to raise brand awareness and I felt kind of gross being rewarded for that. :larry
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 01:15:59 AM: Related: http://monthlyreview.org/2012/10/01/privatization-of-consciousness/

Big ups if you can plow through a Monthly Review article cold turkey.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: G The Resurrected on August 09, 2014, 01:48:42 AM: I forgot how fun this game can be at times.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 02:09:29 AM: G smoked me in gadgets. :whew

A lot of these categories are actually pretty hard. :leon
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: G The Resurrected on August 09, 2014, 02:24:04 AM: You got me with the flags though! And damn your right some of them are really hard.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 02:51:12 PM: Lost to a level 135 on one Q. (How many flags in the world are exactly red and white.) :stahp

Made some breh so :umad that they challenged me to a rematch 6 times and lost every one.

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3 of them I won 160-159. :umad :umad :umad :umad :umad
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Already top 25 in the USA. Top 100 in the world. :obama Gonna be the very best, like no one ever was.

e: Played against a top 10 player in Brazil and Turkey. Beat the Brazilian 2-0 and split with the Turk 1-1 (plus 2 ties). :whew

The Brazilian accepted my friend request, the Turk didn't. :umad
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: Kara on August 09, 2014, 06:21:24 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/sCRQz9Y.png)

No more bumps until I'm top 10 in the world, I promise.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 09, 2014, 07:23:50 PM: :obama
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Post by: brawndolicious on August 09, 2014, 09:29:31 PM: Add me: Sarmad Moalem.

G is crazy good at name the gadget.
Title: Re: QuizUp is the best iOS app
Post by: king of the internet on August 09, 2014, 09:39:45 PM: I've got a few state top ten's under my belt.

:jawalrus