A few weeks ago at a family event, my cousin made everyone pull out their phones just before 8:00 p.m. to download an app. I had never heard of “HQ” before, but it sounded fun, so I joined in.

This app seemed to spring up overnight, and, as most fads do, within a week it seemed as if everybody was playing the game.

I’ve only played the game a couple of times myself—I usually join in too late and just watch—but it was a lot more fun than I was expecting it to be. I thought it would be more similar to “Trivia Crack,” where I would be playing against one friend, but instead I was playing against thousands of people.

Every weekday at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm, more than 750,000 “HQties” compete in a live, 12 question trivia game in hopes of winning money that the winners will spilt. The host, Scott Rogowsky, reads a question and provides three multiple choice answers, and the competitors have 10 seconds to pick an answer. In between some of the cringiest puns I’ve ever heard, Rogowsky reveals the correct answer.

HQ has only been out for a little over four months, and I have seen many students around the Parker community playing the game, though only one person out of 51 students who took a survey about the game has won the game. They won $15.

For as many questions that get answered during the course of the game, it still leaves me wondering where the prize money comes from. The app, not yet available on Android devices, is free to download, and there is no sponsored content (at least not yet–HQ co-founder Rus Yusupov says he may be looking into it, but they want to do so in a way that doesn’t interfere with the original layout of the game). For now, the company is backed by venture-capital money, according to a Time magazine article. This means that the money comes from the app’s Silicon Valley investors, who currently do not profit from the app.

Winners can cash out their money through PayPal only once they’ve gotten $20+ worth of winnings.

Yusupov and co-founder Colin Kroll, who are also responsible for the former social media app Vine, created HQ using Intermedia Labs, an app developer the two started after they left Vine.

Though there is still some mystery with regards to the game’s behind the scenes workings, for now, it’s just a fun game to play and, who knows, you might even learn something new and make a few extra dollars while you’re at it.