Mobile quiz competitions the latest fad in Vizag

Visakhapatnam: Mobile quiz competition is now trending in the Visakhapatnam city. No one knows exactly who started this competition, but there are several gaming groups which involve a number of people in the quiz game and offering good money to the winners. Large number of youth and housewives are getting attracted to this mobile quiz.

According to the game plan, the team leaders are collecting participation fee starting from Rs.10, 20, 50 and 100 per one show and registering the participant's smart phone. The team leader will inform the quiz time around 11 am to 3 pm and again from 7 pm to 10 pm. The team leaders are joining the participants at least 50 members in each game slot. After collecting the money, 20 percent of the amount is taking by the team leaders. The team leaders are allocating the rest of 80 percent money to some question mostly 10. 

The questions are being posted in the group and the participant should post the answer within 15 seconds. Whoever sending the answers at an earliest time will be the winner of the question. The team leaders are announcing the name of the winners and amount they gain. The prize money is being paid to the winners on the next day.

“It is nothing but a housie game. Like in the housie game we are collecting money and sharing the same to each question. In housie, collected money allocates to the first, second and third lines, quick five and full housie. This game is also similar and we are asking the questions selecting from various sectors. There is a big response to the game,” one of the team leaders said. 

Attracting with each other, the people are forming as a group playing the same. The housewives have also forming groups and playing the mobile quiz. “As it is a knowledge and intelligence- based quiz programme, it is not crime. If, the game is based on the chance or lottery based it will be a crime. As the participants are playing with small amounts, it is not a crime," Assistant Commissioner of Police, City Task Force Mahendra Mathe opined.