There is no doubt that our world has been revolutionized since allowing the internet to enter our lives. In the less than two decades since the internet was first introduced to the general public (it was first used by military individuals to pass high-security information to one another from distant locations) we have seen it become a significant element in almost every element of our lives. We can now order movie tickets, book flights, pay our credit card bills, chat with a friend across the globe within seconds and now…even play our favorite trivia games- online!

There are currently hundreds, if not thousands of options for playing trivia online. All of them perform generally the same service: they allow users to go head-to-head against other players around the world in displaying their knowledge- all in real time, of course. Contestants compete against one another in various stages (or rounds) of trivia questioning and score points by answering questions quickly and correctly. Whoever succeeds in doing this more quickly and accurately secures a place at the top of the games leader board.

We’ve gotten used to many different trivia games throughout our years growing up and online trivia games offer us that very nostalgia online. There is a wide variety of game channels from which a player can choose from. Each one of these channels is devoted to a specific category of knowledge, themes, or difficulty levels and the player can choose his accordingly by his or her own skills and talents. “What are the opening hours" you ask? You guessed it: twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. From sports trivia, to movie questions, to television challenges, anyone can try their luck at every given moment of the day.

In order to get started and start collecting winnings (hopefully), a player is usually asked to register a new account with a chosen trivia game provider and give several personal details. Certain sites including www.triviaonnet.com also offer an experimental function which allows a first-time player to enter as a guest and take part in their game “community" as a guest to get a feel for the “new neighborhood" surroundings.

“So how exactly do I collect my winning?" you ask, “How do I show the other players and eventually the whole world my intellectual superiority and prove once and for all that I am the smartest person alive"? Well, I’m glad you asked. After you toured and surfed the web a bit and found a few sites that struck your interest, either by their design or by the types of trivia categories they offered (movies, sports, entertainment, etc), and after you entered as a guest and played a round or two to get a feel for a particular trivia community, you’ve decided that you found your playing ground. You were then asked to give your details and pick a user ID and a username (something scary and intimidating to the other player, like “Smarty McReadstoomuch").

This official registration allows the trivia host to track all the trivia points you rack along the way throughout your intellectual sweeping. Most sites will give you a promise that they will not use your e-mail or any other information for any other marketing purposes and will keep all information you gave confidential.

Many sites have some sort of limit on how many times you may play a specific category and will request that you move on to another category after a certain amount of rounds in the same place. Each site will provides upwards of several thousands trivia questions on their database in various categories and these are being updated and inflated every day, so there is an unlimited time you can spend with one host.

Once you’ve picked a category (and a difficulty level if applicable) you want to find a player who will be a worthy match for your genius wits. By clicking on the contest link on the game’s menu and challenging another player to a head on trivia contest, you’ve opened the game. You choose a bet amount that you want to start with and the games have begun! At the completion of the game, the two players’ scored are logged and the trivia host notifies the two players by e-mail which one of them is the winner.

Believe it or not, some sites even welcome the players to suggest some of their own trivia questions for the site (no, you can’t be tested on your own questions). All in the efforts of making you a part of the larger online trivia community. So next time you feel like showing the world your intellectual supremacy, don’t take it outside, take it online!