HQ Trivia is the game millions play flawlessly, multiple times a day. After weeks or months of being ready to click that push notification to head into some early afternoon trivia action, it becomes a routine. We see our bubbly hosts like Scott Rogowsky smile brightly at our frustrating-in-retrospect guesses at sub-atomic particle classifications and Wu-Tang Clan name generators and forgive them because a chance at a cash payout every day is something you can never hold against someone.
But sadly, there are glitches in any technically-impressive app such as HQ. They don’t happen often, but tonight, over a million people gathered to be eliminated by the first question: Which of the following is the color of an apple. The answer — Red Delicious — sent a good half-mil home, and they weren’t happy.
https://twitter.com/michellevisage/status/994020517769199616
— HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) May 9, 2018
It kicked me out on Q1 even though I got it right! What happened?
— Jade (@jade_westover) May 9, 2018
Quick refresher, the first five answers are:
RED DELICIOUS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
AUTO-TUNE
UNO
BUTTERFLYMy referral code is: PaperSpock
— PaperSpock (@PaperSpock) May 9, 2018
Retweet if @hqtrivia eliminated you when u put the right answrr #Hqtrivia
— ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cuck (@5starcuck) May 9, 2018
Scott glitchgowsky
— Ethan W (@8watty8) May 9, 2018
Thankfully, Mr. Rogowsky noticed what the issue was about four questions into the 9PM Eastern game, and ran everything back, promising to start everyone over with the same questions as before.
Hey! We see many of you were wrongfully Eliminated on Q1. That’s not fair so we are going to restart. We will let you know with a push notification. Thank you and see you soon :)
— HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) May 9, 2018
The questions will be the same too so hopefully you remember what a Red Delicious Apple is
— HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) May 9, 2018
The game started over with roughly 1.2 million participants, all with the knowledge that the first answer to the game would be “Red Delicious,” and then… About 800 thousand people were eliminated again.
We're sorry for technical difficulties again tonight! We're working hard to figure out what's going wrong and will post updates here. pic.twitter.com/iS2MA6NaM3
— HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) May 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/ohhighelena/status/994030496341471232
https://twitter.com/lepasse/status/994031853773447173
Everyone at @hqtrivia rn including @ScottRogowsky #HQ pic.twitter.com/d2yaLkqozf
— Vanessa Galan (@banessabaredes) May 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/emilyisbright/status/994032022099189760
Is this your IT department?? pic.twitter.com/lE5vs3A1eG
— Diana (@Huffenhausen) May 9, 2018
And now millions wait for attempt number three, in which the Red Delicious apple will possibly poison them again.
Found the problem pic.twitter.com/i8ssW9Qc5d
— JKF1897 joe f (@JKF1897) May 9, 2018
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/notHQTrivia/status/994033352180158467