The pool then drops to 500 people, and then to 250 people, and so on and so forth, until you’re down to the final four and the final two. If you lose your battle, you’re out of the tournament.
The final question in the battle is worth double points. The faster you answer the question, the more points you get. Each battle includes five questions that go from easy to more difficult, with 10 seconds to answer each question. It starts with 1,000 people who are matched into one-on-one battles around general trivia. But the real draw of the mobile game is Trivia Royale. Like QuizUp, players can choose to do one-to-one Trivia matches based on categories in a casual way. It’s a 1,000-person head-to-head Trivia tournament. Trivia Royale is, like it sounds, a trivia game in the genre of Battle Royale. Today, Fridriksson is launching Trivia Royale, the latest game out of Iceland-based TeaTime Games. In fact, the lessons he learned the first time around have led him to this very moment. Plain Vanilla Games, the parent company of QuizUp, eventually sold to GluMobile for $7.5 million.īut that doesn’t mean Fridriksson is hanging up his hat on trivia. The tech entrepreneur founded QuizUp, one of the hottest mobile games of the early aughts, which attracted more than 100 million downloads, a deal with NBC and had raised more than $40 million from notable investors. Thor Fridriksson is no stranger to trivia.
