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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guide so the latest fad to hit the mean streets of the Google Play Store is a game called quiz up is this the game with longevity or is it just flappy bird with words in this video we're gonna find out okay so if you've ever played a quiz game in your lifetime you pretty much know how quiz up is going to work it is a competitive quiz game which means you and another person or asked a number of questions and the person who can answer the most questions correctly the fastest wins before each match are paired with a real person and the two of you go head-to-head in a quiz there are a number of categories ranging from pop culture to history mathematics to business and even video games and Android one of the major draws of quiz up is to engage in quizzes on topics that you actually know as opposed to the more classic set up where you just get asked random questions therefore you can stick to topics you know and it helps you enjoy yourself a little bit more they don't have topics on everything but they do add new topics every single week outside of the quiz aspect there are other things you can do you can message opponents start discussions follow people challenge your friends earn achievements and link your device to both Facebook and Google+ once you get into the game and start using all of these features it offers a reasonably rich experience there is also a Settings menu where you can tinker with things like notifications and sounds the design for this application is surprisingly good the app is bright and colorful but also organized an ergonomic player should have no trouble navigating the application finding the topics they like or engaging in gameplay during quizzes the screen is appropriately designed with minimal distractions all you can see are the questions the score and the answers along with each gamers name and profile picture this really helps the player immerse themselves into the game the only real minor issue we had was with navigation using the pop out menu you can navigate to any part of the application the only problem is that the pop up menu is the only way to navigate through the app half of the time for example if you're checking messages and you want to go to the topics you have to open the menu and switch the extra screen presses aren't bad per se but they do eventually get tedious and that gets a little bit annoying okay so here's what we liked there are a lots of quizzes to take in a lot of categories it would have been easy to just do pop culture or just history or just math or something like but quizup goes the whole nine yards here and you can take quizzes on dozens of subjects they add new quizzes weekly so it takes much longer than normal for the app to start to feel stale aside from the navigation issue we talked about earlier the app is incredibly well designed it's easy to find your way around the app and everything looks colorful and modern the extra features are a huge plus messaging opponents the discussions the achievements challenging your friends and connecting to Google+ and Facebook add some much-needed depth to this game the quizzes start and end very quickly most are done in about two to two-and-a-half minutes if you want to play longer you can simply start another quiz but the short timeframe allows people to play the game without getting into too much of a commitment and here's what we didn't like so much the matchmaking system says that it's looking for the quote best match for you unquote in reality it's simply looking for the next available player and that is often not the best match for you so prepare yourself to face people who have been playing the same category for so long that all of the questions are repeats for them and then they get them alright it doesn't happen very often but some questions are either entirely wrong poorly categorized or have multiple correct answers I was asked in the Android quiz which OAM made an Android based smart watch with two of the answers being Samsung and Sony the problem is they both made Android based smart watches and the answer they wanted was Sony but guessing Samsung still makes you wrong somehow in the punk-rock quiz it asked me a question where the answer was the band ministry ministry plays industrial metal not punk rock it has also been reported that there are numerous grammar and spelling mistakes we didn't run into any but this still doesn't inspire any confidence especially when you get a question with words spelled wrong and multiple right answers it is way too easy for you to fake your win-loss record the game doesn't count losing connection as a win or a loss and I've run into entirely too many players whose connections just happen to go out when I'm winning by like 70 points going into the fifth question finally a lot of the questions are insanely difficult for no other reason other than for the sake of being insanely difficult it's usually stuff that no reasonable person should know like the exact number of hit points for a random Boston an RPG or the exact weight of Leonard Nimoy's prosthetic ears in Star Trek I was once asked the address of the dentist office in Finding Nemo who knows this stuff being delightfully obscure can be a lot of fun but being absurd ly obscure can make you feel stupid and feeling stupid is kind of the opposite of enjoyable if I had to equate playing quiz up to a real-life experience it would be taking a glorious cross-country road trip from New York to California with four days of perfect weather and no traffic only to be rear-ended by a drunk driver one block from my destination the game looks nice it plays well and there are a metric ton of questions and categories to test your smarts the in-game social dynamics are truly enjoyable and the frequent updates bring new content which helps the game feel fresh in these areas quizup excels more than most games I've played on Android however between the questions with no right answers questions with multiple right answers questions that are impossible for normal people to answer and consistently facing opponents either 40 levels above or below you you end up with experiences that are either not challenging and therefore boring or way too challenging and therefore frustrating it's hard not to recommend it because it is free and some people have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it just be aware that there are a few issues that still need to be fixed once again I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to our You Tube channel and if you want to follow Android Authority or the rest of our awesome YouTube team including myself you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of awesome videos for you to watch right over there including Kevin others review of the West Stone w10 earbuds and Chris books review of the Bose 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