I got my first cell phone when I was in fifth grade. Over the next two years, I upgraded from a flip phone to a slider phone with a keyboard and eventually an iPhone when I was in seventh grade.

When I got my first iPhone, social media wasn't really a thing so I had a ton of games like Temple Run and Froggy Jump on my phone. As I grew up, I traded games for social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like. It wasn't until recently that I downloaded my first game in years.

I was at dinner with my family a few weeks ago when my uncle and cousin pulled out their phones at exactly 9 p.m. and said "It's HQ time!" After asking a few questions about the game, I downloaded it myself and played along. I was instantly hooked.

For those who don't know, HQ is a trivia game app that was released in 2017. The host, usually Scott Rogowsky, asks a series of questions, typically ranging from eight to fifteen questions in a session, and players have ten seconds to answer each question. The questions start out easy and get harder as the host gets further into the list of questions. Hundreds of thousands of people and sometimes millions of people play during each session, 3 p.m. during the week and 9 p.m. every day.

You're probably wondering why so many people play this trivia game every day, right? They play for money! People play HQ for free and whoever answers every question right splits the money, with the total ranging from $3,000 to its highest at $400,000. A majority of the time, so many people win that each person only receives like $0.12, but other times they split hundreds of dollars! I'm still vying for my $0.12 share but I'm obsessed with this game for so many reasons.

If you're looking for something to do in your free time, want to learn random things you never knew you needed to know, want to win money or just want to have a laugh with Scott Rogowsky, download HQ. You won't regret it.

As Scott Rogowsky would say, play on HQ-ties!