Trivia Crack Reviews

by Screw You Good Sir

Like pretty much everyone, I had this game a long time ago and re-downloaded it with some friends. The depths this game has sunk to is astounding. First of all, the amount of ads is shameful. I've never seen an app sell out this hard. Every missed question, every screen change, pretty much anything you do results in an ad, and a lot of them are 30 seconds long. On top of this, I've experienced ads that appear in the middle of a timed game, and some that even make me exit TriviaCrack , resulting in an automatic loss. It'a really disappointing to think that these developers care about their customers as little as these developers apparently do. They have no pride in their work, no loyalty to fans, all they care about is money. Speaking of loyalty, the developers are trying to fein interest in the desires of their fans when you look at TriviaCrack 's reviews. Many reviews apparently have feedback from developers, but if you dig a bit deeper, you find that it's only a few responses, copied and pasted over and over again. All in all, the game was good and fun at the beginning, but it got corrupted and monetized by the creators somewhere along the way. At this point they might as well be EA. Honestly I feel stupid giving such a pathetic development staff my time by playing the game, and writing such a long review.

by Jcmcwill

I love playing this game. I actually purchased the full version which you would think would eliminate ads. If anything they got worse. Every single thing you do pops up an ad (if not two) in between each game. If I paid for it I shouldn’t have to endure all of these ads trying to sell me more upgrades, etc. or at least give me the option to disable them. It is ridiculous and I want my money back. Shame on you Etermax for getting people to pay for this and still bombard us with advertisements.
Don’t believe me? Keep reading the reviews here on TriviaCrack Store. You will see this complaint all the way back three + years…they don’t care about you. The very few times that they reply to a complaint on TriviaCrack Store, they use the same cut and paste response telling you to email their support to tell them your problem. Etermax, why can’t you answer our questions and complaints here on TriviaCrack Store reviews? Everyone should be able to see your lame explaination. You want us to email you because you don’t want potential new players to see your answer about the ads you force us to endure throughout the games. Whatever executive at Etermax made the decision to blast us with ads should be fired for ruining a great game solely for the purpose of fattening the paychecks of him/herself and those who sit on the board.
Do your self a favor people of planet earth…do NOT pay for this game!

Shame. Shame. Shame.

by Mddue

I used to have trivia crack a long time ago and recently began playing again. There’s new forms of gameplay which are fun, but honestly the amount of ads in TriviaCrack is just horrifying. Usually I’m not bothered by ads, but I am done playing trivia crack because they are so awful. I can’t stand it. This was great game that has been ruined by the constant stream of banners or pop ups. It may seem like I a exaggerating, but an ad pops up every time you navigate to a different page in TriviaCrack , begin to play a new round or begin a turn where you play for an icon. You also get the option to watch an add for a bonus almost every turn. When you answer a question wrong and your turn ends, a pop up comes up with the option to watch a video to save your turn, and when your turn is officially over, you are forced to watch two adds play, THEN you are asked TWICE to pay or watch another ad in order to spin a wheel. So that’s five things to navigate through when you lose a turn.

Read through a few reviews and you’ll realize how bad it is, and that people are not happy about it... I just am sad to see that a great game has come to this, and I’m honestly so disappointed that it has turned into such actual garbage...

by I Just Want Trivia

The game in general is fine. You get friends, learn new stuff, and be proud when you get a question right or be the top survivor in survival. But seriously, the ads are redundant, ridiculous, and just so annoying. You get a question right? Here’s an ad. You get a question wrong? Here’s an ad! You literally scroll down the page? HERE’S AN AD. And it’s all for the same people too. Wordscapes, Toon blast, Wordscapes, Toon blast, All. The. Time. I get that you have to make money, but I can usually only play for about five minutes before having to close it because I’ve watched six ads in a row and it’s glitching form them. One time, I watched an ad (cuz I had to) but the screen from before from when it offered me stuff to watch another video had frozen, but the timer was still on. So when I tried to answer the question, woah, big surprise, A ONE MINUTE AD. I get so sick and tired of it that I usually don’t play it, also because there’s no premium that I’m aware of, so there’s no avoiding them, and the game requires WiFi so you can’t just turn off your WiFi and get no ads. Really disappointed, great actual game, but out of all the time I’ve spent on the game, over 70% has just been watching ads.

by Fjgdnjuuu

I gotta say that if you love ads, lots and LOTS of ads, then you are going to absolutely soil your under shorts waiting to play this game. If you get a question wrong, there’s an ad. If you get a question correct, there’s an ad. If you are the loser in any contest, there’s an ad. If you are the winner, there’s an ad. Download this game and I swear that for the time you are logged on to it, you will spend at least 1/2 that time waiting for ads to complete. Maybe if I changed my perspective so I started seeing the ads as gameplay and the trivia questions as small, interruptive annoyances, perhaps then I wouldn’t mind so much, but since I downloaded Trivia Crack because I like to play games involving trivia, I’m unable to reverse my perspective in this way. I understand Etermax is a business and, thus, must turn a profit, but I don’t understand how the powers that be consider such an extraordinarily high amount of ad placement between every loading screen, every response to a question (right or wrong), and after every multiplayer contest like Survival (win or lose) to be a path to long-term users. I do spend money on this game. Not much, but some. Yet eventually, no matter how much I build up my mastery level, one day, SOON, an ad will pop up, push me to the brink, and I’ll double click, swipe right, and delete the game. That time is approaching. Too bad Quiz Up has been discontinued...... ☹️

by Imhungryandaproblem

Constantly glitching. I wear headphones and listen to music while I play, and the audio is often distorted. It doesn’t do that on other apps. There’s also no way to mute in game audio like sound effects. Not to mention the ads. I know you have to make money, but can you not show so many awful ads? I get one all the time for this “foot doctor” app that’s just someone popping a bunch of disgustingly animated zits on a disembodied foot. It makes me want to throw up. I’m not sure who controls which ads I get shown, but I would appreciate a way to block or report specific ads.

The game just really wants you to spend money all the time. They introduced a pet recently, and if you don’t feed it cookies it gets sad and runs away. How do you get cookies? You play the game, or you can spend some in game currency which is basically impossible to get without paying. The pet is designed to be adorable, and it just comes off as emotional manipulation. Beyond that, so many of the questions are low quality. I get that they’re community submitted, but there should be some way to report that a question has a typo, is written poorly, or is in the wrong category.

On a positive note, I do like the minigames. Most of them boil down to “the main game with a twist”, though. I enjoy this game, but I wish TriviaCrack wasn’t awful.

by Frustrated_student72

absolutely incessant ads. Probably the worst case of ads i’ve ever seen in an app. It’s not even the length or anything. Every time I click the screen there’s an ad. Whether it’s for another app or product or within the game it’s self there is no escape. There’s not a single break from ads. Even when I’m winning I get an ad. At the very least you should only get an ad after you’ve lost the point or when your streak is over. But they even happen between points. I had TriviaCrack a few years ago and I do not remember it being this infuriating. I want to use TriviaCrack because it has the most amount of users and reach so I trust it. But it’s not even that good. There are too many game options it’s so confusing. Also i wish there was a mode where you had more time to answer so that I could read the question out loud to others and discuss. A non competitive option so you could just challenge yourself and friends to answer trivia questions. Also the questions themselves are pretty inconsistent with super dumb questions and very advanced questions. There should be a better way to pick the level and age group of trivia questions you get. The ads make me literally scream and I suggest not putting yourself through the agony of having to press x 5 times in a row just to get to the next page.

by The_Game_Tester

Once you play a certain amount of games (a very low amount) you run out of lives. Then, you have to wait an hour until your lives refill. Dumbest thing ever!!!! You need to get rid of that. I’m thinking about deleting app now. If it’s not fixed soon, I’m done. DO NOT PLAY IF YOU DON’T LIKE WAITING!!!!!!!! Also the ads are terribly long and often. The game is fun itself, 5 stars when you take out the non-trivial stuff like ads and lives. It ruins the game. Good trivia and categories. Good design. I like this game but all these problems makes it fun but annoying. Please fix it. We all know you’re going to say “thanks for the feedback” but you’re not thankful for it at all. As the “I need space” review says in its last paragraph, you ignore/delete the bad reviews and keep the good ones. You don’t care what we say. It is pretty much a scam, yeah, because all you do is fire an ad at us every question. “Buy TriviaCrack”, “go to this store”, “buy this item”. Uh, no thanks. Sorry, but, we bought TriviaCrack to play games, not to buy stuff. So stop asking us to. We don’t care. DUMB STUFF. Actually, forget what I said before. Even if you like waiting, don’t download. You’re gonna end up deleting it right away anyway. You’re going to end up leaving a bad review.

by Mobilista

The game is great, but what’s up with the ads that just sit there with “Install Now” on the screen and never go away. I left it up for 5 minutes and no X ever showed up, it just sits there and I have to close the game out just to get rid of it. The 30 second ads are bad enough, but this is ridiculous. Im uninstalling this game.

Responding to Developer Response:
Thanks for the generic response that you guys will do nothing to improve gameplay for free players. Eventually, people will get tired of the long ads and you will maintain a base set of paid players, which will in itself dwindle after so long because for every paid player, you have at least five free players. I understand ads help keep a game going that the majority of players it has are free playing. But your ads are longer, and more annoying than any other game out there. You give similar responses to anyone who complains, basically stating that you will change nothing and focus solely on pleasing advertising instead of customers. You pull wiki questions and answers, giving all of us, both paid and non-players a mediocre set of questions in an attempt to provide good content but toss it all away for a few quarters of pestering ads. Lowering my rating to two stars based off your uncaring response.

by Yamx5

I used to love this game 5-6 years ago. But hadn’t played it since then. I recently re-downloaded it excited to get back into it, only to wind up extremely disappointed. TriviaCrack takes forever to load when I open it. 70% of the time I have to exit and reopen several time before it finally loads. Also, you know only have 24h to make a play (or was that always the case? I don’t remember)
But the worst part is the ADVERTISEMENTS. A literal bombardment of them. It’s nice that you can watch an ad if you miss a question (up to the 3rd miss) or watch an ad to spin again so you get a different category, or watch an ad for a “power up”, but it also makes each turn take so much longer. Of course, you could elect not to watch the ads, but that would be horrible strategy unless you know for certain your opponent is doing the same.
Thus, if you have any sense of competition, you have to watch several ads just to make it through one turn. Otherwise, you essentially forfeit.
Trivia crack used to be a game that was quick and entertaining. But the advertisements make it feel like utter chaos and honestly make me delay my turns because it’s such a chore.

by Nateggy

Overall this game is extremely fun and very informative. If you like trivia, this game is for you! I enjoy the variety of questions for each category and the challenges the game has to offer. TriviaCrack would’ve gotten 5 stars from me had it not been for the ads popping up every 2.2 seconds. Also, if you run out of lives, after every game played this obnoxious tab pops up and says “buy more lives”!!! I don’t want to. I said no. I shouldn’t have to close the tab requesting money for lives after every game played. I’m aware that I’m out of lives, I just used them all. Quit asking for money every 5 seconds. You know, this would be a great app if you’d just remove HALF OF THE ADS and make it more about being an entertaining trivia game for people all over the world rather than a money making machine. Don’t you make enough money as is or do y’all just insist on being greedy? I get it, ads bring in money. So what? Doesn’t need to be overdone. Also, the price for purchasing TriviaCrack to get rid of the obnoxious amount of ads is a little overpriced in my opinion. Especially for what the game has to offer. Like I said, the game itself is 5/5 stars but the ads make it 1/5 in my book. So, if you’re into trivia games and a buttload of obnoxious ads I’d download this game and have a blast!

by Updated Without My Permiss

TriviaCrack goes up-and-down in quality. Some days you get free videos to give you extra chances on questions but it seems to be hot and cold. But that ‘is what it is’, they’re free chances. The annoying part is when you get the ads, some of them lock up TriviaCrack completely & you lose your chance to answer the question when the reason you got the ad in the first place was because you ‘won’ an extra chance to answer a question by watching an ad. Also, (and the advertisers are gonna love this) if you EVER actually buy something from one of those ads you’ll never get back to the game w/o closing it out. So you respond to the ad by buying something & you lose your place in the game, potentially lose the game & lose your chance for bonus coins or chances to answer. Game also changes for no reason. A few weeks ago you had a chance to get extra coins at the end of the game I watching a short video & then you got an extra chance by watching a 32nd video. Now you watch the short video, get nothing & then have to watch the 32nd video to get a one time chance that extra coins. Very hot & cold & glitchy but sort of fun.

by Astro3425

I like Trivia Crack, I think it’s a cool app, but there are some things that hinder it from getting five stars. I understand people need to make money through adds. I’m not saying there are too many adds, there are just adds where there shouldn’t be. When playing Triviathon you answer questions non STOP within 10 seconds and if you answer a question wrong or didn’t answer it in time you start again. Seems pretty legit to me, so when playing you shouldn’t be interrupted by adds that make you lose your streak and keep you from getting a higher score and high rewards right? I’m fine with adds but when they pop up and make me lose a round that shouldn’t have been lost, that makes me upset. Please don’t show me adds when I’m in a middle of a game, I’m sure no one wants that. Show me adds when I lose or before I even play. Don’t have pop up adds that take 15 seconds to show and get rid of when I only have 10 seconds to answer a question. This is very frustrating and almost makes me want to delete TriviaCrack , again! I gave y’all another chance but it seems like things still need to be fixed. Please take this into consideration, I believe it’ll make TriviaCrack a lot better and will reward itself 5 stars.

by Peteart

Trivia Crack used to be fun. About 3 years ago it was great. Then...so called ”progress”. The format changes and in came the ads. Relentlessly so. It’s still fun but only somewhat. The coin usage makes little sense since there is no longer any explanation of how many you are spending if you skip a question or use “second chance.” In the earlier version you could count on three coins per use. Now...who knows. You could have a total of 180 coins and after 3 or 4 times of spending them for an advantage find out you don’t have any remaining. And the free spins - even though they allow for you to possible win coins, the other “wins” are absolutely useless. Yet, they are presented as though you actually won something. It’s too bad that this once very good game has devolved into a blatantly crass exercise in getting its players to watch as many ads as possible.

After having played over 5k games of Trivia Crack, I’ve been noticing a pattern whenever the wheel spins for the chance at a free prize. Literally 14 times IN A ROW, the wheel goes past the 500 coin slot into a 1 heart. Chance? No way. This game has become fixed. Soon to delete what was once a good game. I certainly won’t miss the avalanche of ads either.

by GrEEnAPPleZ

I enjoy doing trivia so I can learn new facts. I thought this game would be satisfactory, but there are a never-ending string of ads that appear throughout the game. There will be an ad if you guess the incorrect answer. I know there is a version of this game that does not include ads. However, it is not free and I honestly don’t want to spend money on some pixels. Many people cannot buy the “No ads” version either. I think that this is a major complaint and problem. I have read many of these complaints that have been posted a year or so ago, but apparently, the people that made this game are not doing anything about banning adds. I think that the ads should be eradicated in the free version of Trivia Crack because there are many complaints about it and it is frustrating for some people. I might delete TriviaCrack soon and find a better trivia game to play that is free, and has a few ads or none of them. To be honest, I am a patient person. However, I do think that this game has too many ads. If there were fewer ads, I think this game would be even more awesome. Thank you for taking your time to read all of this is you did. I hope you have a nice day :)

by Brynford

So when I do the survival mode, it will show me my opponents and I’ll just sit there for quite a while and it will just show the question then and I ran out of time because I couldn’t even be on the page with the question on it and it only loads at 0 almost every time! :( it’s sort of frustrating cuz I will get pretty far sometimes and then that glitch will happen. The ads are annoying too, one I’ve seen only twice in like 3 months was certainly not child friendly! It was a slot game ad and had practically naked people in it! ~_~ it was gross nobody wants to see that sort of ad! Please remove those kind of ads!!! And most other ads that you see are very repetitive like homescapes and the weird matchington thing, and they are both like, 45 seconds long, and if you get like maybe five six or seven questions right in trivia-thon you get one of those ads, and when you get a question wrong you can watch an ad to continue, when you get another wrong you get another pop up ad. I like the game but, I don’t like the long ads or inappropriate ads, as for the glitches hopefully you guys can fix them. Thank you for reading this long review. :)

by Gspark27

I understand the game needs ads to fund making new features and to play the people that produce it. Trust me, I want the people who made this game to make all the money they worked so hard for and more, however, there are so many ads that pop up in the middle of you playing. One of the biggest issues is that I'll answer a question and an ad will pop up!! I just want to play uninterrupted. If the adds only happened once you lost I think this would be a lot better. To clarify, I'm not opposed to ads at all. In fact, I'd be willing to watch ads for advantages like coins, "right answers", or even just hearts (although Imm at a surplus at the moment and don't need more). Another of the biggest problems for me is that sometimes when I press " watch an ad to get another chance" and I actually WILLINGLY sit there and watch an ad, IT DOESNT GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE!! I'm sure this is a glitch, but its one that makes me want to stop playing. I love this game. Ive played it off and on for years, same with my mom and a few other family relatives, but with the constant bombardment of ads and the annoying glitches, I can't imagine my interest will be kept. Please fix these issues!! I want to keep playing this game! Again I commend everyone who's worked on this game and I sincerely hope it lasts a long time.

by Justinhasnolife

Overall I like trivia crack. It speaks to my inner random knowledge and it’s fun to go head to head with other players. But it kind of ticks me off at some parts of the game. For example: I had notifications on for some of the time I’ve had this, and this is not an understatement but it’s really messed up. First off, if anything at all happens it will notify you. For everyone you’re playing against, if an update comes, whatever the situation is. I think that they could rework it to make the notifications different so it groups everyone who you’re playing against. Also, every notification shows up twice. I don’t know if it’s only me or if it’s something that happens to everyone but devs it could be an easy patch. There are a couple other things, for instance a lot of it is pay to play, and they don’t write a lot of their own questions and rather use a lot of user based questions. With these things implemented, I’m going to leave it at 4 stars. But overall fun game if you’re okay with constant ads and purchases.

by Nickname That I Am Making0274

Trivia Crack is a great game. I've had it for about two (2) years now. Throughout this time they've added many amazing features such as cards, triviathon, and trivia rush. They're all great additions to the game that make it thrilling to play. However there's a bug in trivia rush that makes it far from thrilling. In some tournaments in trivia rush, more than often my app will freeze. I was forgiving and thought it was just me or my wifi and it wouldn't happen later. However once I finished one round, the next round it would freeze again. I found out that this happened with my other friends who played the game as well. Now normally if something like this happened I would brush it off and play just for fun and refresh TriviaCrack and continue to play. However, if I'm paying coins to play the tournament, then it's extremely frustrating when it freezes. I don't have the most coins to start off with. If I have to pay 800 coins to play a tournament and it freezes every round, soon I'll have no coins. Please fix this bug as it is causing me to possess an extreme dislike towards the trivia rush game feature.

by Wolfgirl_1304

I loved TriviaCrack so much!! I had so much fun with it to begin with, I mean I played with all my friends and it also taught me new things that I had never knew! I thought it was an awesome app and I think u will to the only problem I’ve had from the start is... AD’s!!! They are so annoying and popped up all the time like when I was trying to click on a game then once I got on the game before I would spin, after and if I answered a question wrong one would pop up(so basically I was already watching an ad to spin!), it really was annoying because then it would ask if I wanted to pay for no ads which yeah would be great but I’m not gonna pay for no ads it’s not fare in my opinion!!! But worst of all I thought the new update was so cool until I noticed instead of getting that “free” spin to boost up whatever u landed on u now have to watch another ad just to spin!!!!! That is totally not right because now I have to watch 2 ads to spin! I know this may sound super petty and stupid but ads can be very frustrating especially since my iPad would start lagging afterwards I loveeeeeeee TriviaCrack just not the ads! 😉😑😂

by Primer315

First off, the ads are outrageous on this game. It was never like this in the past, but I understand it needs to be funded somehow. Secondly, there are some ads that pop up that are kind of inappropriate for younger crowds, and being that this is a game, I am sure there is quite a handful of youngins playing. Third, the thing that bugs me the most is that I will have my phone on silent and somehow, some way, the ad will start playing and the sound will start up (loud as h*ll - and catches me off guard) only to see that the “speaker” button has already been muted on the ad.. which makes absolutely zero sense.
Finally, the thing about the ads in this game that happens to be the strangest thing in the world is that for some reason the length of the ad is just abnormally Long.. even though the time is the same as ads on the other games. It really doesn’t make sense how that even works, but I assure you others have noticed it too..
To wrap things up, I gave it a 2-Star instead of a 1-Star because I actually enjoy the game as a whole. It’s fun, and easy to use (minus the constant ads getting in the way). I believe for now, that is all I have to say. Would love to see some improvements in the future though.

by Dudley Man

This games is pretty good but their are two major problems that honestly make me want to hang myself by my wanker. First off, unlike in trivia crack 2 where I have not experienced this problem, the opponents that I get matched up with never play me back a lot of the time which is rather frustrating. I realize that this may not be etermax’s fault but it is still very annoying. The second problem is the god forsaken piggy bank!!! I don’t want to buy the thing dad gummit! The stupid little icon for the piggy bank is constantly in the bottom right of the screen in the way, and there is absolutely no way to get it to go away no matter how many times you tell the game you don’t want it. I am insanely ocd as well, so the little red 1 icon that pops up on the piggy bank logo that is intended to indicate that there is something new to view, absolutely kills me because it comes back after you leave the home screen and come back. Overall, I really enjoy playing this game and it is without a doubt the best trivia game in TriviaCrack Store, and I understand that there are going to be a problem or two with every game, but is just so happens that the ones on this particular game are super annoying. If you could somehow find a way to address the problems I have mentioned in this review, this game would be one of the best of all time. Anyway, thanks for reading.

by Lori Simon Gray

The game overall, it’s good. But you know what makes this game worse? The ads. For starters, it feels like if I click one button and a 30 second advertisement turns on which makes me lose my turn. This especially happens during a triviathon. It’s EXTREMELY annoying. Once I had a really good score on a triviathon and guess what happened next? A 30 second ad turns on making me lose my score. Secondly, some of the ads are inappropriate especially for young children. Now this statement was inspired by another review I saw earlier, so don’t think I’m copying anyone. Now I don’t want to get into details but let’s just say some of the ads are unnecessarily...gross. If I owned TriviaCrack, I would reduce the ads just by a LOT. And I would actually care about the people who play this game and not the money. This is just sad. I read some other reviews and the game owners replies and all the reply’s basically say is “ oh we will try to help” or something other. And I haven’t seen a difference. AT ALL. Yes, I am saying what other reviews are saying but all I’m trying to do is spread the message. Remove the ads! In conclusion, the game overall is good but the ads are very unnecessary. Especially the 30 second ones. Please reply to this review I would like to see your response and if you really remove at least some of the ads. I have only seen you reply to two reviews. So again, remove the ads!

by Kurtis Bake

This is a fun game where you can play against your friends or other people. The only thing are THE ADS! The amount of ads is ridiculously annoying and can sometimes ruin the experience or the game overall. It seems like after every other button I click on, an ad pops up. As of now, all the ads are of other games. But still I would love to play a GREAT game without the constant amount of ads being shown. I just wish I didn’t have to pay to play this game. Now what I have recently discovered is that Trivia Crack 2, is so much better than the first game. It has pretty much all the same features on the first game but more. You can do more single games that are really fun. There are ads but they’re not popping up as much as the first game. The first trivia crack is really fun to play, but it seems that I’m watching ads more than actually playing a good game that I wanted to play.