This new trivia app lets you win money for free

There’s a buzz growing🃏 in offices across the country each afternoon — and i🌟t has nothing to do with work.

The buzz surrounds HQ Tꦍrivia, a new app from thꦕe co-creators of Vine, which has grown since its Aug. 26 debut from a couple of hundred players per game to more than 90,000 on Nov. 12.

Along with the increased participation, the prize money also has growꦏn from around $100 per game to $7,500.

So far, no one has gotten rich, with the top HQ player t🤡aking home a total of $560.

Although theoretically one person could win the single-game grand prize, most proceeds are shared with many winners. If nobody 🐻wins, the prize rolls over into the next game’s pot.

But HQ Trivia, a free app, does amount to being a game that gives real money for nothing — other than answering 1🐽2 trivia questions correctly❀.

The money awarded is currently bankrolled by the several million dollars raised in a funding rꦉound from Lightspeed Venture Partners — an amount HQ Trivia co-founder Rus Yusupov would not reveal.

The ulti✃mate plan is for HQ Trivia to eventually bring aboard sponsors. Now, though, the app is in its brand-building phase.

Eventually, Yusupov and bu꧑siness partner Colin Kr🐈oll, who together founded the now-defunct Vine app, said the goal is to offer a $1 million prize.

“We’ve created a new category here,” Yusupov said. “For us, it’s about making the best possible game. These live synchronous experiences — we want to make the game as bi🐈g as we can.”

The twice-daily live trivia game — a⛦t 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. daily and 9 p.m. on weekends — is a mash-up of the multiple-choice Q&A of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and the multi-player competitiveness of “Jeopardy.”

The questions, dished ou🍷t by hosts, either comedian Scott Rogowsky ඣor British TV personality Sharon Carpenter, range from embarrassingly easy to completely bedeviling.

“It’s all the winning elements of the TV world,” Yusupov toওld The Post in an interview last week. “We have an energetic, funny host. There’s music, there’s jokes. The questions are really interesting. It’s scheduled programmin🐎g at the same time every day.”

Yusupov and Kroll scheduled the games to take maximum advantage of office workers at lunch or immediately after work.
The game consists of 1♔2 multiple-choice questions, each of which must be answered within 10 seconds — long enough to ponder but fast enough to keep things moving and keep folks from Googling the answer.

If yo𒀰u get a question wrong, you’re eliminated and can try your luck next time✱.

A counter in the upper-left corner of your iPhone screen — HQ Trivia is not yet available on Android — keep🅷s track of the number of players still in the game.

Yusupov said his team of writers aims to crafꦕt questions that don’t lend themselves to cheating.

“We tr💃y to write the questions in a way that’s not easy to Google,” he said. “If you can find the answer on Google, it’s just not fun.”