WTF: Live Game Show

This version of online trivia for cash is more mature and less convenient than some others out there. Live online game shows have picked up steam over the last year, with exciting tales of players rumored to have won tens of thousands of dollars. More realistically, people tend to win $10 to $20, but winning even these more modest prizes requires two things: the ability to drop what you're doing every weekday at 6 p.m. (or whatever 6 p.m. Eastern time is in your time zone) and an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture. Though missing questions is frustrating, the app's limited functionality is worse. Teams must be formed well before the broadcast starts because the app won't let you add members during the three-minute pre-game countdown. And unless your weekday schedule's wide open, the app's once-daily broadcast can also be problematic. Though kids are more likely than adults to have time for WTF: Live Game Show, questions are not meant for kids and often include nudity, comic violence, and crude internet memes. Game show hosts also tend to pepper their banter with profanity (words like "f--k" and "goddamn"). Parents could be reassured that kids can form teams only with people they have in their email contacts and that communication happens only among team members. Still, they should be aware that online wallets require users to be above the age of 18, and the promise of cash prizes could encourage kids to spend too much time "studying" pop culture. In any case, even for adults, WTF: Live Game Show isn't a means of turning trivia knowledge into riches. It is, however, a modestly entertaining diversion for pop culture fans over 18.